December Newsletter

Empathy vs Sympathy (December 05, 2010)


This message is devoted to all of my fellow psychic sponges out there. (A psychic sponge is an empath, someone who tends to absorb energy from people and places just from being near that person or place. This is also called clairempathy and is one of the first psychic senses to develop.)

Are you finding that you are still absorbing energy from others and are getting tired of constantly trying to stay clear? When we are prone to this it can be an uphill battle, and after we have absorbed everyone else's energy, we are way too exhausted to do our own clearing all of the time. Recently my guides saw me falling into this old pattern and staged an intervention.

They explained that it is when we are empathetic to another that our energy starts to vibrate closer to that person/place's frequency, and once we become closer to that vibrational frequency, we start to resonate and bring forth the same energies as it spreads from one to another. At this point both parties are feeling the same energy, or the original person is now free and clear and we are the ones carrying the burden.

There is no reason to have to take on someone's energy in order to help them. By doing this we deny them of the lessons that they came here to learn, and the universe will in turn bring them something else to teach them the same lesson in a different way. Or, if we are both sharing in the energy then we can make ourselves sick in the process while nothing is resolved and no one feels any relief.

The guides are saying to become sympathetic instead of empathetic. Show your compassion and offer what you can, but don't take on the energy by looking within yourself to feel their pain. Empaths tend to do this unconsciously, and once they go within they start to resonate with the emotion. Remind yourself that all things happen for a reason and there is a lesson to be learned, and know in your heart that the universe doesn't make mistakes. Their soul chose a lesson for a reason that may be beyond our knowing at the time. Consciously send the person or place love and healing energy, or ask how you can help. If someone just needs to unload, visualize all of their words going into a big golden bubble, then watch as it gets transformed to healing energy and released when the conversation comes to completion.

We are not here to fix anyone or take away their lessons, this just calls more lessons into one's life, but we can help them search for ways to heal the situation and to see the higher lesson behind things...And with that psychic kick in the pants, the guides set me straight again.

Have a Happy Holiday Season!