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I Can’t Get Inside Your Head
No matter how much we talk or spend time together I can’t get in there.
Being empathic tends to mean that you can sense how other people are feeling. It’s like they are broadcasting their emotions. Sometimes this is passive. Other times it’s very active.
I believe that everyone is capable of experiencing this. You can learn to be empathic, but it requires that you desire to be capable of doing this.
Some, like me, have an innate capability with this. With very little to no effort, I can frequently sense what someone is feeling. It’s not quite the same as the other five senses, but it’s there.
That sense, however, is still vague. It’s a really broad, largely overarching sensation. I can’t be completely specific about the how of the emotion I can sense, and my knowledge of the what is rather general.
This is because I can’t get inside your head. I can only get what I see from outside, and that is going to be colored by MY perception.
This is why, when I write about mindfulness, I refer to what and how you are feeling as a part of it. What you are feeling can be particularly unique from how you are feeling.
The what of feeling is the broadcast an empath like myself can pick-up. The how, on the other hand, is too broad and variable to be a part…
