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Table of Contents
First words ........................................................................................................................................ 6
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 9
When empathy is taken to the next level... .................................................................................... 9
Empaths and awareness ............................................................................................................... 10
Ignorance is a curse ................................................................................................................... 10
Traits of an empath ....................................................................................................................... 11
Permission to be different............................................................................................................. 12
The empathic instrument .................................................................................................................. 13
Models for Emotional Empathy .................................................................................................... 14
A Mechanical Model.................................................................................................................. 14
The Chakra Model ..................................................................................................................... 14
The Huna Model ........................................................................................................................ 16
Empaths and shielding ...................................................................................................................... 17
Empaths and crowds ..................................................................................................................... 17
Why Empaths and HSP need to shield .......................................................................................... 18
How Empaths can shield ............................................................................................................... 18
Bubbles and cloaks .................................................................................................................... 18
Crystals ...................................................................................................................................... 19
Aromas ...................................................................................................................................... 19
Empaths and Flushing ....................................................................................................................... 20
Empaths and distress... ................................................................................................................. 20
Recovering the balance ................................................................................................................. 21
Simple Flushing Techniques .......................................................................................................... 21
Light Meditation Flushing Techniques .......................................................................................... 22
The tree technique .................................................................................................................... 22
Root chakra flushing .................................................................................................................. 22
Whirlpool effect ........................................................................................................................ 23
Salt Lamps and Flushing ................................................................................................................ 23
Empaths and grounding .................................................................................................................... 25
Empaths and expectations ............................................................................................................ 25
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The power of grounding ................................................................................................................ 26
Grounding, Flushing and Myths .................................................................................................... 26
Grounding Techniques .................................................................................................................. 27
Spend time in Nature ................................................................................................................ 27
Yoga greeting technique ........................................................................................................... 28
Walk barefoot............................................................................................................................ 28
Grounding with Crystals ................................................................................................................ 28
Some Black and Gray Stones for Grounding ............................................................................. 29
Some Red Stones used for grounding ....................................................................................... 29
How to Ground with Crystals .................................................................................................... 29
Working with energy ......................................................................................................................... 30
How to balance energy ................................................................................................................. 30
The two energies ....................................................................................................................... 30
The chakra model ...................................................................................................................... 31
Cleaning the chakras ................................................................................................................. 31
Cleaning the chakra channel ..................................................................................................... 32
How to know if we are where we are supposed to be ............................................................. 32
Cutting the cords ........................................................................................................................... 33
My personal method to cut the cords ...................................................................................... 33
How do you know it is working? ............................................................................................... 34
Cutting thicker cords ................................................................................................................. 34
What can you expect after cutting the cords? .......................................................................... 35
Dealing with parasites ................................................................................................................... 35
What is a psy-vamp? ................................................................................................................. 35
Getting rid of unwilling vamps .................................................................................................. 36
Getting rid of willing vamps ...................................................................................................... 36
Staying away from trouble ........................................................................................................ 37
Filling the contradiction gap ...................................................................................................... 37
Final Words: The Empathic Epidemics .............................................................................................. 39
Appendix 1:Joining an Empath Community ...................................................................................... 40
I know Im an empath... now what? ............................................................................................. 40
The three main empath communities ........................................................................................... 40
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When empaths gather... ............................................................................................................... 41
Goodies and problems you might find ...................................................................................... 41
Communities personalities .......................................................................................................... 42
Appendix 2: Empath Resources ......................................................................................................... 45
Squidoo Lenses about Empaths .................................................................................................... 45
Empaths links ................................................................................................................................ 45
Some readings ............................................................................................................................... 46
About ................................................................................................................................................. 48


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First words
If you are reading this, it is probably because you know or you think you are an empath. And if you
know or you think you are an empath, you might have gone through some emotional turmoil in
your life. And one day, you had that aha moment and realized that some emotions were foreign.
There is a fancy name for an empaths skills: clairsentience. It is a clair ability, and many people
who have one, have more than one
So without having the slightest idea of who you are, I can tell you that there have been some very
rough days where you felt completely overwhelmed for no reason whatsoever, you had a
childhood where you didnt fit in, you have been used or abused at some point, and maybe youve
had some weird illnesses becoming one of those cases that leave the doctors scratching their
heads
But it does get better. For example, maybe you also understand animals, have precognitions, feel
presences here and there (or see them), or intuitively know the answers for questions.
Ah those days... confusion, pain, feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Do you want to hear the
news? You are not doomed; you CAN be a happy empath.
Empathy is a gift, and a wonderful one indeed. It is the ability to feel with the other, but not only
with those suffering. We feel the good emotions, too. This makes our internal life richer and
deeper. We have the first seat in the theater of life and we are able to understand at a much
deeper level what is going on, or at least have the ability to do so.
You can be a happy empath, but does take some work. What does it take? Knowledge and
practice, there is no way around it. We are born with a built-in tool that is a power tool plugged in,
working by itself. If we dont learn to use it, we can hurt others, we can hurt ourselves, we can be
messed up big time. If we do take the time to learn to use it, we can have a normal life, and use
this tool whenever we want (instead of being used by it). And yes, we can choose to lock the tool
in a socket when we dont need it. It even comes with a dial so we can put the volume down. It
will be working nonetheless, but it will whisper instead of yelling.
What do we have to learn? Where? These are the questions Im trying to answer in this ebook. I
am giving you a set of tools to deal with everyday life. Is this all there is? Not at all. But you cant
chew an elephant all at once.
In my previous life- that is before motherhood- I used to be a researcher and teacher at the
university. One of the subjects I taught was Calculus. I was teaching it for the toughest careers -
like Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Geophysics so it was the toughest version you can imagine
(actually the toughest we were able to create). The way I found to help the kids to actually get
through it was to teach it thinking as if it were an onion. Each layer covers the whole, but at a
different level of awareness.
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The process in each layer is:
What -> Why -> How
This ebook deals with the first layer, the most pressing issues. In practical terms you are going to
find:
Introduction: the tool. What you could do with it, basic maintenance instructions (a dont put the
tv inside the bathtub sort of thing).
The empathic instrument: how it works. Three different models.
Think about models as a lets pretend game. You dont need to believe or not believe to follow
the game. Do the same here. Each model is a different game with a different set of rules, and
different consequences. By playing pretend, you will start to perceive emotional reactions and
your own awareness waking up, your own truths (for this layer) coming to you. That is the
practical purpose of the information I present here: to help you know who you really are, to get to
see your own truths. That exercise will let you access the empathic muscle so to speak and start
working out.
Back to the ebook organization:
Everything can be reduced to energy movement (another model). That is the scope. When dealing
with the external world, there are seven very basic actions we need to master. And those are
covered in the ebook one by one:
Shielding: strengthening your aura. A strong aura can break apart undesirable external energies,
before they get to your perception areas.
Flushing: moving energy along the chakras from Sky toward Earth. Here you put your own names,
depending on your main spiritual beliefs. It is a yin->yang movement.
Grounding: moving energy along the chakras from Earth toward Sky. It is a yang -> yin movement.
Balancing: attaining the best possible energy state for your situation.
Cleaning the chakras: to move energy through the meridians, they need to be clean. The chakras
are the main pumps along the way; make friends with the concept and keep them clean.
Cutting cords: cords are created every time we emotionally interact with someone. They can
become draining points.
Stopping psy-vamp attacks: people have the bad habit of stealing energy from others, instead of
creating their own or gathering it from the environment. And we are usually easy targets.

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This ebook is born out of collective knowledge, time and effort of an outstanding group of people,
the members of Empath Zone community. This is not a single persons act. I am just the librarian,
as Im just the gatekeeper of the community. Thanks to all.


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Introduction
When empathy is taken to the next level...

Picture this...Sally wakes up dizzy, her head is
too light and she doesnt feel quite herself. Her
stomach feels bad too.
Not this morning, she thinks. She has an
appointment with a new client and wants to be
at her best. The client seems like a nice person.
She tries to eat something, but everything smells
weird this morning. Finally, she settles for some
fruit and goes to work.
While she drives to work, things get better when she crosses her favorite wooden area. It is a
beautiful morning; she can see the trees and some birds and squirrels playing around. The sun is
already up and the feeling of the place is just wonderful. Her window is closed, but she could
swear she knows how the place sounds and smells too.
She arrives at work, grabs some coffee, and gets ready to start the day.
At about 10, the new client arrives. She is a lady in her early thirties with fine completion. Sally
sees her arriving and has an aha moment... so that was it! The lady has the "pregnancy halo". Sally
cant explain very well how it works, but she can always tell when someone is pregnant. She just
feels it.
Sally calls her secretary: Please bring some coffee for me and some chamomile tea for the lady,
she is expecting... The ladys eyes open wide...

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Empaths and awareness

Ignorance is a curse
Life is full of choices, and we are all the time looking
for reasons and patterns to explain what happens
around us. We just cant help it - it is part of human
nature.
See Sallys case for example... she woke up with
pregnancy symptoms. She purposely decided to go
on with her life and go to work that morning. She
purposely drove through a place that uplifts her and
"cleans her aura". She could have called in sick. She
could have made an appointment with a doctor.
She could have taken over the counter medication.
She could have rushed to the pharmacy and buy a
pregnancy test, as she was clearly having all the
pregnancy symptoms. But Sally was not pregnant, she is a physical empath.
She could have interpreted the situation in many different ways, as the situation actually had
many possible causes.
What made her take the decisions that leaded to the best outcome? Self knowledge and
awareness.
Awareness is so important for an empath that there is a before and after - a qualitative
change in a persons life - when that person realizes that some feelings or physical states
are foreign.

For some it is a hard bone to chew, while some take it easier.
Physical empaths are among the empaths that have it harder, as they suffer all kind of ghost pains
and aches. But once acknowledge hits, the physical pain is unattached from the emotional pain it
usually brings. At that point is when the curse becomes a blessing.


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Traits of an empath

The most common definition of an empath is
someone who can feel with the other. That is,
an empath feels the physical or emotional
state of other person as if it were his or her
own.

This is only the tip of the iceberg though.
Empaths have their neuro-system in tune with
incoming waves of any type so to speak. And
there are as many types of empaths as
empaths themselves.
So, some can feel emotions, but others can feel animals, and yet others can feel atmospheric
disturbances. Some will process them as emotions, others as physical disturbances. Some will
acknowledge the source, some cant. Some can feel remnant emotions in places (for example
where battles took place), some can feel electromagnetic waves.
Some can tell the emotional state of the writer when reading a text. Some transport themselves so
easily when they see images, tv, or movies that they just cant see thrillers, terror movies... or the
6 o clock news.
And to make things even more interesting, the traits are not set in stone. They change and evolve
depending of the emotional state of the empath and the life he or she chooses.


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Permission to be different


Blue eyes can be beautiful, but they dont tolerate the tropical sun too well. Dark skin can be
under the sun without getting burned, but the cold... that is a different story. A poet in an artists
family is very welcome; a poet in the war is dangerous.
Each special trait has a particular environment where it flourishes and other environments where
it suffers. Empathy is no different.
An empath is blessed with the ability to feel with the other. A trait like this can make a difference
in many cases, but empaths need protection from emotional overload or it can destroy them.
Needless to say, a poisoned and super-populated planet is a challenge for empathic people, and
this is probably one of the reasons why so many are waking up.
After the wake up call, it is the empaths job to take care of his or her health. An overloaded
empath is of no use. Sometimes this simple fact becomes a challenge, but the challenge has to be
taken and embraced nonetheless.

As people with blue eyes need sunglasses even in winter, empaths need emotionally
uncluttered moments on a daily basis. Yes, Im talking about being alone.

This is something that kids and hubbies dont take happily, so be it.


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The empathic instrument
Everyone (or almost everyone) has a certain
degree of empathy - the ability to feel with
the other. Empathy is the target of
advertising and art. In the theatre or a
movie, the viewer feels to certain extent
what the characters feel. That identification
is empathy. In advertising they trigger the
identification to an ideal situation, and force
a connection with the product.
So what is an emotional empath? Lets say it
is someone who has the "empathic
instrument" a couple of notches better tuned.
Where do we draw the line? That is a tough question and brings much debate among sensitives.
Draw the line in the awareness. Sometimes quantitative changes induce qualitative changes. So
that better tuning of the empathy instrument will have consequences. When empathy is strong
enough to make itself apparent repeatedly (usually crossing the pain threshold), we come to
realize that some of those feeling are foreign.
Before that moment of awareness, the sensitive person will be in a very messy situation, like a leaf
in the wind floating around and moved by other peoples wants and desires. In that second of
awareness is when we start recovering the power.
In this chapter we are going to explore different models that explain emotional empathy from
different perspectives.

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Models for Emotional Empathy

A Mechanical Model
Lets assume that the body can work as a tuning
fork. In fact it does. If youve ever gone to see live
music, you know that it is more than the ears at
play. We feel it with the whole body.
If we feel the vibrations around us at a physical
level, and all those "waves" travel around the body
and get together "somewhere" (the assembly
point
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for example), then the initial signal is
reconstructed. Now suppose you are in front of a
person that is highly upset for any reason. Unsettling emotions drain us because we emit tons of
energy to release them. Those emotions travel in electromagnetic wave form and arrive to your
body in different places. They travel in your body electromagnetic field and get together
somewhere for some is around the heart chakra and for others the third chakra (the gut). At
the moment of getting together, you reconstruct the wave and feel exactly or almost exactly what
the emitter felt.
Imagine it as a membrane similar to the tympanum; an empath would be the emotional
equivalent of someone with absolute ear. On the other hand, "normal" people have high
boundaries. They have natural shields created by their own thoughts and emotions. So the
external signals get "absorbed" and changed by the person's fields. This way, the amplitude of the
signal has to be very strong, or the environment needs to be setup in a way to lower the
boundaries (turn off the lights in the theatre and require silence for example) to trigger empathy.

The Chakra Model
The Chakra model has been around for a couple of thousands of years. The image you see here
corresponds to the Indian model of seven chakras. Chakras are the energetic pumps that move the
energy flow around the body and work as broadcasting centers with the environment. They can be
closed, open or awake. And you have specific colors and sounds associated with them.
Each chakra has a function where the open/close switch is connected with your relationships. Each
chakra also has another function when it is awaken - this is where the clair abilities and other
fancy stuff come from.

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The assembly point is on the chest, pretty much over the heart chakra, it is the point where all the
electromagnetic currents of the body converge.
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El Collie was a very special lady who was subject
of a spontaneous Kundalini process. A Kundalini
awakening happens when the chakras undergo
awakening - not the most common of processes,
but it is getting more common now.
She says that Clairsentience (the sound name for
what empaths do) comes with the awakening of
the third chakra. Have a close look at what she
says, it might ring a bell:
"The awakened Chakras are more complex. An
awakened 3rd chakra produces clairsentience -- the ability to feel within oneself the physical and
emotional state of others. This is a "no-boundary" condition in which one becomes like a psychic
sponge, taking on every sensation and emotion in the vicinity. If the heart or upper Chakras are not
also awakened, this can present great difficulties. Without awareness that these physical and
emotional feelings are not all our own, we can
become overwhelmed, confused and panicky.
An awakened 3rd chakra also makes one
extremely sensitive to any manipulative,
dishonest or malevolent intent from others. The
awakened individual will feel queasiness,
stomach pains, nausea or may even vomit in the
presence of such people. These stomach
disturbances -- which can include tightness or
pressure in the solar plexus region -- are an
instant barometer which allows the awakened
3rd chakra person to know when she is being
deceived or imposed upon.
Sometimes these 3rd chakra disturbances are a reaction to collective atmospheric energy rather
than to a specific individual. I have felt nausea and tension in my solar plexus during periods of
strong public controversy, i.e., the week preceding the California execution of Robert Anton Harris
and the weeks leading up to the U.S. presidential election. A person with an awakened 3rd chakra
simply cannot afford to tolerate abuses of power. The instant and often severe visceral reaction
mandates resolution of conflict. Likewise, when one's own 3rd chakra is fully open, ruthless
competition is no longer a viable avenue for establishing one's own uniqueness. It becomes too
painful to lie, cheat or dominate others. A person with an active 3rd chakra can be the worst kind
of power-monger, but a person with an awakened 3rd chakra is forced to learn to use his will only
in the healthiest and most life-affirming ways. (Failure to recognize this lesson brings much
suffering to the individual in terms of chronic, serious physical and emotional disturbance.) "

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The Huna Model

Hawaii is very well known for its paradisiacal beaches and waterfalls, the hula dance, and the
coconut drinks. But Hawaii is also the home of an ancient culture with traces going further back
than the Egyptian era.
The Huna culture is not completely known. However, Max Freedom Long provides light over it in
his book The secret science behind miracles; thanks to his research we have access to this
culture that wisely mixes practical spirituality and psychology.
How does this connect with the building of an empath?
The Huna culture believes the soul is created of three parts: the high self (the drop of God in us),
the middle self (what we think as we), the low self (similar to the subconscious, takes care of
automatic behavior and holds memories and structures, in other models it is called the inner child,
it is the part easier to hypnotize). It actually goes further and considers them different spirits - in
the sense that they work as a team but can be separated in special occasions.
The literal translation for the low self is "sticky." It is believed that it is made out of a substance
that can be imprinted in things. It is also believed to replicate all the organs and cells of the body
at an ethereal level. This spirit has the ability of creating cords as well. Cords are created and reach
out connecting the person with his/her environment. So information is retrieved and replicated in
the inner system.
Under this model, empaths have a very nosy low self that rambles around spreading cords and
getting feedback of the surrounding (I usually call it to let the antenna roam lose), and a mid self
developed enough to gain awareness of the meaning if the retrieved information.
This model actually explains in a very simple way all the clair abilities, which is more than modern
psychology has done so far. And it has been validated by hypnotists working at the deepest levels.

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Empaths and shielding
Empaths and crowds

Lets think of a typical day at the mall. Some
people hurrying around, some just having a
good time, some bored employees, and some
worried business owners. Some guilty because
they bought something they cant afford, some
upset because they want to buy something they
cant afford. Some feeling really good about
themselves and their new acquisitions... some
anxious about what that special person will
think of the present.
And there goes Mary to do some shopping.
Mary is wise and kind, she has those deep eyes
that can read your soul; she has a bit of a
healing aura, it feels good to be around her. She is the kind of person you feel compelled to share
your secrets with, even being total strangers. You can see how kids and animals gravitate toward
her.
But Mary has a little problem. When she enters the mall, her heart pounds and her emotions
swing wildly. You could say she is having a panic attack. It doesnt really make sense and she
doesnt understand why, but big crowds are an issue for her.
Do you want to know what is going on? Mary is an empath and she is not shielding. Shielding is a
process used to create a protective energetic skin in empaths and HSP (Highly Sensitive People).
This allows them to move normally in highly emotional places without feeling overwhelmed.
In this chapter Im going to explore some of the methods and shortcuts used to shield. This is
knowledge developed by the contribution of many members of the Empath Zone Community.


Here's my favorite link:
Shielding talk at Empath Zone Community


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Why Empaths and HSP need to shield

Highly Sensitive People are highly sensitive for a reason

Of course none of this is set in stone, so take my words for what they are: an opinion. Or better
said, the result of a debate and cross of opinions of several people who not only want to cope with
the gifts, but own them.
Before an empath trains the gifts, empathy works like a
passive sense - think hearing. You cant avoid hearing
everything around you and loud noises can drive you
crazy. This is how empaths and HSP perceive the
emotional fields around them. And this explains Marys
panic attack in the mall. You can actually drive an empath
crazy by emotional overload.
After training, empathy can develop into a sense more
similar to sight. It is not completely passive, but active. At
this stage an empath can actually identify the source of the emotion, choose to put the antenna
inward and not be bothered (unless the emotions run too high), and do all kind of neat tricks.
You can say that with shielding, you put a headset on to lower the noise. With training, you gain
control of the remote control to choose the radio station you want to hear.

How Empaths can shield

Most Shielding techniques include visualization
of some kind. Some say visualization
is just training wheels, but it is a good starting
point. Other methods include external help, like
crystals and essential oils.

Bubbles and cloaks
The most broadly used shield is the bubble. You
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picture a bubble surrounding you that repels unwanted energies. This is easier to say than do, as
to keep the image in the mind for long periods of time is daunting. But, for short periods of time it
is pretty easy to do and efficient.
Some go further and create a full featured cloak
under the bubble. They start with a golden skin,
and then add different layers with the different
colors of the rainbow. The big finale is a white light
bubble. This is a good shield for those interested in
leaving an impression in others. It is mostly used
by some professional psychics or speakers.
There are different cloaks: some use mirror cloaks,
invisibility cloaks, smoke cloaks; whatever you can
imagine works.
Most empaths are crystal consciousness and able
to condense reality
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; so this is more than a silly game, it does affect reality it will not affect the
way people see us, but the way what they perceive us at an emotional level. And as a
consequence, it will affect our relationships further than it was intended.
Just make sure you understand or have your awareness very high when experimenting with
shields and cloaks. People might get a wrong impression about you and act consequently.

Crystals
Some crystals, like zirconite, have a shielding effect. It is not very strong, but it helps. A zirconite
pendant can be used as an extra layer of protection.

Aromas
The sense of smell can be a good shielding helper. Essential oils can be carried around in oil
pendants and smell every time we feel overwhelmed. Blends that contain minty elements will help
with dizziness, and blends with bergamot have an uplifting effect.


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Reality condensation has been widely explained by Abraham-Hicks as the Law of attraction in its simpler
form, for empaths it can have some interesting side effects
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Empaths and Flushing
Empaths and distress...

Picture this... it is 3 am and the phone rings. Paula
wakes up and sees whos calling. The name in the
phone is Sharon; she answers.
Her best friend, Sharon, is having a very hard time
with her hubby. A call at 3 AM means something
bad happened. Sharon and her husband had a
horrible fight and she asked him to leave, which he
did. Now, four hours later he hasnt come back.
Sharon is very upset, anxious and worried about
him.
Sharon dedicates the next hour and a half to tell Paula about all the issues with her hubby (again),
plus her fears, reasons why he should not return, reasons why he should be home by now, what
she plans to do when he comes back, and what she is going to do if he doesnt.
The monologue ends as abruptly as it started when he actually gets home. He is here, I have to
go, bye.
Paula looks at her clock, it is 4:30 am, and now she is feeling noxious. She did more than just
lending an ear. She absorbed a lot of the energy her friend was releasing and now all that distress
is in her system roaming around and causing damage.
This can happen to anyone, but empaths seem to attract relationships where they are something
like walking emotional dumpsters and Paula is no exception.
The question is: what to do next? How can she release all that energy that is clogging her system?
The answer is flushing.

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Recovering the balance

What Paula needs to do now is to take that energy
out of her system - fast. There are two ways to solve
the problem: flushing and grounding. But grounding
implies a different type of action, so lets stick to
flushing and talk about grounding later.
Flushing is to take energy out from the body and
send it out into the material world. In particular, you
can send the energy deep into the Earth. During the
flushing process you lose energy and can be drained.
To solve this you replenish the energy by closing the
circuit bringing in white light energy from spirit.
After the flushing is done, we need to ground to recover the balance. Flushing and grounding work
as movement and counter movement in yoga.
I cant stress enough how important this is:
balance is not an accident, it is a conscious act.
An empath will never be at peace unless the
search for balance becomes a priority.
There are many methods to flush and ground. Some very simple, some more complex and some
use helping elements like crystals or essences.
In this chapter Im going to give some of the techniques, you can read the general discussion in
the Empath Zone Community.

Simple Flushing Techniques


-Have a bath
-Put your wrists under water
-Walk barefoot
-Hug a tree
-Hold a salt lamp


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Light Meditation Flushing Techniques

The tree technique
Imagine you are a tree and from your feet,
roots dive deep into the ground. Now picture
your energetic body (aura) with your third
eye (it doesn't matter if you don't really see a
thing because the fifth chakra is closed, just
picture it). Imagine or look for grey or muddy
areas -which represent the unwanted energy.
Now use intent to push that energy down
your body toward your feet. Keep pushing
through the roots until the energy gets lost
deep in the ground.
Now you can use the same exercise to
replenish yourself: dress yourself up with
strong branches full of leaves. Feel the sun
over the leaves and feel how that energy
flows through your body invigorating you.

Root chakra flushing
The root chakra is the first one, located in the base of the spine. It is the lowest one and it deals
with survival and group relationships. It is usually assigned the colour red.
Chakras are vortexes of energy, so we can channel from them. One of the channeling techniques is
via cords. To use the root chakra to flush, create a cord from the chakra and stick it in the ground.
Make it go as deep as you can.
Then picture again the dirty energy as a grey or muddy and use intent to push it down to the root
chakra and out of the body through the cord.

After you are done, release the cord.
The first time I did this, it felt as a slow moving mud river. Now that I do it regularly, it is like clear
water running fast - carrying some dirt here and there.

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Whirlpool effect
This is probably the easiest method and most efficient, because you dont need to have the chakra
canal clean to move energy and works faster in most cases.
Think about the centrifugation cycle in the dryer machine (or a tornado), that is what we are after.
Find a calm spot to center, this is light meditation, and once you get the grip of it you can do it,
even while talking with someone else.
Focus on the energy in your body and start circling it around you, if it is clockwise or
counterclockwise doesnt matter. Find the way it works better for you each time as it might
change. You should see a circle looking down from the crown of your head.
Now find the foreign unwanted energy, picture it as balls of energy carried by the stream. See how
the centrifugal effect pushes them toward the external border and out of the stream.
Now picture a wall of energy just out of the whirpool without touching it, that captures the balls
and send them to the ground so the planet can recycle them.
This method is not only efficient, it is fun.

Salt Lamps and Flushing

Empaths feel other peoples emotions, because
the chemical processes induced by the actual
feeling take place. When exposed to negative
emotions, many of those processes induce the
liberation of free radicals. Free radicals are
positively charged ions that move around the
body combining with negatively charged ions and
stopping their natural functions.
When touching a salt crystal lamp, you feel how
the unwanted vibes seem to be flushed,
generating a sense of peace and wellbeing. From
the chemical standpoint, it is related with the
presence of negatively charged ions combining
with the free radicals and taking them out of our
electromagnetic system this can be seen as grounding then.
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The ionization of the air also affects waves coming from the outside generating a soft shield, and
the ions that make it to the walls will take care of some of the stored emotions in them. So, salt
lamps can also be used for cleaning places.


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Empaths and grounding
Empaths and expectations

Meet Peter and Paul, they are brothers
and they are both empaths. Paul is two
years older than Peter. Sons of an attorney
and a yoga teacher, they inherited the
empathic predisposition from their
mother.
Paul was the first born, and their father
"claimed" him. Paul was going to follow his
fathers footsteps. When Peter was born,
they were happy, but the fathers main
expectations were already on Paul so Peter
took over the responsibility to be the
messy one, and mamas boy.
Their parents never actually talked with them about their expectations. But being both empaths,
and crystal children with the ability to condense reality, they actually grew to meet those
expectations.
Paul received straight As while Peter lived in detention. Paul hardly drank and Peter... well, his
weekends were blurry for a while...
Paul read all day long, studying and becoming informed; while Peter spent most of his days
outdoors playing with his dog, swimming in the lake or riding anything he could find.
When they finished high school, Paul went right to college, while Peter took a sabbatical year to
cross the country on his bike (and find out what he wanted to do with his life).
They met again after that year... Peter discovered his passions: he decided to become a ranger and
wild life photographer. While Paul discovered he was trapped in a life that was made out of left
over dreams.
What is the real difference between the two? Grounding.

Here's my favorite link:
Grounding techniques conversation at Empath Zone
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The power of grounding

At first glance, we can infer that the main
reason why Paul is so unhappy while Peter
found his true place is the difference in
expectations. But actually it is not. The
expectations over Peter could have led him to
gang life, drugs or who knows what. What
made Peter able to use the expectations on his
advantage while Paul fell completely in the trap
was Peters love for the outdoors, and his dog
(animal empath, maybe?).
To spend so much time outdoors gave Peter regular time away from emotional contamination and
natural grounding, while toning his body so he could hold bigger amounts of energy. Another side
effect, that is actually very important, is that he had the opportunity to hang out with himself.
That is what made the difference. If the boys had grown up in an apartment building, with no
green around, Peter might have ended up in very bad shape.

Grounding, Flushing and Myths

Grounding and flushing use similar
techniques. The main difference between
them is the direction of the flow. This is
something that took me some time to figure
out, and I actually had it all wrong for a long
time.
Still, you will find that many people make the
same mistake. They use flushing and
grounding as the same thing - that is to flush
energy toward the material world. While at
the same time you will find the term
grounded related with the process of being
in contact with Earth as a reservoir which
implies flow in both directions.
This confusion arises because grounding neutralizes some of the unwanted energies in our
system.
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I wouldnt bother about the direction of the flow if it didnt have very clear consequences. The act
of grounding brings in healthy material frequencies into our systems. They are low vibrational
frequencies and affect the health of the lower two chakras. To dismiss the importance of the
lower chakras health and these frequencies could result in lack of wealth, lack of physical health,
abusive relationships, lack of survival instinct and/or untidiness (whether this is to ourselves, our
home or our planet).
Another common misconception is to make a connection between low frequencies and distressing
patterns. There is not such connection: distress comes from frequencies out of sync. We are a big
wave package and contain a continuum of frequencies. The lower frequencies represent the
material world (chakra 1) while the higher frequencies represent the spiritual world (chakra 7). We
need both of them as we are the result of the union of both realms. To be happy and healthy we
need to have our lower frequencies synchronized with Earth, and the higher frequencies
synchronized with Source.

Grounding Techniques



Spend time in Nature
This is the simpler and better of all techniques. Find a favorite spot where you can be in awe of the
beauty of nature. Preferably not full of manmade nature mutilations. The more authentic the
location, the better it will be.
Relax, clear your mind and let the feeling of "awe" guide you. That is the signal showing you the
energy is actually flowing and fulfilling its purpose. It is the signal of synchronization.

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Yoga greeting technique
If you put your intent into moving energy around and bringing grounding energy to your body, the
yoga greeting pose (the more basic of them all) will do the trick. I do change it a bit when
grounding is the intent and start it as low as I can (joining the tips of my fingers at belly button
height). The palms are facing down when they finish the circuit in a round movement along the
sides.

Walk barefoot
In the grass or concrete/tile floor, just take your shoes off and feel the ground. If you walk
barefoot, the Second law of Thermodynamics
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will come to the rescue and you will be flushing and
grounding naturally depending on your bodys needs (almost without any active action from your
part). Carpet or vinyl will not be good in this case. As for wood... well, it will do something, but not
as much as concrete or grass. Plus, the closest you are from Earth the better. Watch out for
buildings, grounding on floor 25 is not very efficient.
If you want to setup a scale of effectiveness from most effective to least effective:

grass (bare nature, dirt, the real thing) concrete/tile - wood - carpet/vinyl


Grounding with Crystals

The base chakra is identified with the color red.
While the second chakra is associated with the
color orange. To ground these chakras to Earth
think of red, brown and dark colors like black
and grey. Most people I talked with find the
pure black stones too strong and distressing to
be in contact with for long periods of time.

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that if you put two bodies in thermodynamic contact they will
evolve until having the same resulting values for the variables allowed to evolve. It was designed for
temperature as measure, but it applies to any other type of energy besides heat. Being the Earth an energy
reservoir, to enter in contact with her moves our ground frequencies energy to her values.
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Some Black and Gray Stones for Grounding
Black obsidian - This stone increases awareness of personal illusions, so we can push past those
illusions and be more grounded in reality.
Hematite - This stone is an iron ore that often comes as a metallic gray but can also be black and
red. It acts over emotional grounding, balancing opposing energies. It helps in focusing the mind
and bringing peace to deal with emotional situations.
Onyx - Onyx provides strength in times of turmoil. Use it to stand your ground when principles are
being threatened.
Smoky quartz - This crystal aids in grounding without losing the ability to see past physical survival
issues to more spiritual concerns.
Black Kyanite This crystal is a favorite of healers and see-ers, as works for grounding but it also
resonates with higher frequencies. It can also be used for aura repairing and chakra attunement.

Some Red Stones used for grounding
Bloodstone - Also called heliotrope, bloodstone is a form of quartz that is dark green with red
flecks. It's used for purification of the self and surroundings.
Garnet - This stone ranges in color, but red is the most popular. It has a stabilizing effect by
breaking through chaotic thoughts, behavior and surroundings.
Red jasper - Besides being a good stone for protection, red jasper provides a sense of calm and
gentle grounding. It also helps in completion of projects.
Ruby - Ruby crystals are used to release blocked energy, clean clogged chakras and for protection
against psychic attack.

How to Ground with Crystals
To ground with crystals, just have them around you, use them as jewelry, carry them on your
pocket or apply them over the skin when meditating. Be careful of keeping crystals around you
while you are sleeping. Sometimes they have way too interesting effects.
Crystals are like a little piece of Earth we can carry around. But being small in size they can
contaminate with our energies (or the energies of those around us). Leave them outside under the
full moon, the sun, wash them or use the method you feel is best to clean them up regularly.

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Working with energy
It is very common for non trained empaths to go through life in a very sad energetic state.
We get all the yucky emotions from everyone else. Our own emotions go to the roof and we
release too much of our energy processing it or releasing it ecologically. Yes, empaths except for
those who go very wrong are usually very ecological with others emotions.
And it gets even better. When we manage to be balanced, we shine bright and attract emotional
parasites. How fun is that? :D
To deal with all this, we need to learn some energy kung fu techniques: how to balance energy,
how to cut the cords, and how to deal with energy parasites.

How to balance energy

We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. This implies a balancing act, at times difficult
to keep. Im going to introduce a model here, you dont need to believe it, just play pretend and
see if the results work for you.

The two energies
Lets suppose you have a droplet of the spiritual source inside of you lets name it the highest
self. Call the spiritual source God, if you want, or whatever you prefer. And lets suppose you have
a physical body made out of material that comes from the planet (not much to argue about it,
hum?). That physical body - while alive - has an energy field (you feel the heat coming out of your
skin? That is part of the emitted radiation). Now, lets suppose the planet is alive - emotions,
spiritual self, energy field, the works. And lets suppose that our physical energy field originates
from our low self which is a drop of the planet energy field. As crazy as this might sound for
some, our brain has the same main frequency of the Earth (Schumann Resonance).
To be balanced, we need to make sure of keeping our crown chakra (the 7
th
one) vibrating in
phase with source energy and our base chakra (the first one), vibrating in phase with Earth. And
the whole energy conductor along the chakras, clean. This concept is not new, it has been stated
by Chinese medicine since the longest time, using yin/yang. But I am actually taking it a step
further.
To replenish ourselves, we use a combination of what I introduced as the complete cycle for
flushing and grounding. We flush the unwanted energy out and we complete the cycle by
introducing energy from our crown. And as a counter movement we ground bringing in energy
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from Earth and complete the circuit emitting energy from our crown. It doesnt need to be in this
order. For example if you ground first, much of the unwanted energy will dissolve and you dont
need to flush it. You still need to do the counter movement.

The chakra model
In the most basic level, the energy field resembles the physical body side by side, to the last organ.
This mirroring effect is used for healing when you dont want to pump too much energy to the
body itself.
On a more ethereal level, we have the
chakras system. The chakras are the main
energetic pumps in the body. Think about the
energetic system as resembling the blood
circulation system, but the resemblance is just
to have an image.
As with everything else, lately the chakra
model has evolved to accommodate different
ideas and facts. And by now you have systems
with a couple of dozens of chakras over the
crown chakra. Also some people add another
one between the years to explain clairaudio.
But for the sake of simplicity, I will keep the old 7 main chakras system, which works nicely for
what we are trying to accomplish. Besides the main seven chakras, this system talks about smaller
chakras all around the body in key junctures. And we also have fast lines connecting different
points of the body; this is what acupuncture and EFT techniques take advantage of.
Each chakra has a double function as pump and as connection to the environment. So those are
points where we have energy clogging, and from where we receive or release energy toward the
outside world. Besides the clogging, some chakras could be closed and cutting the flow. The
open/close state of our chakras is related with our personality, our moment in life and our
spiritual journey.
This ebook only deals with coping and understanding. So I will not give in depth information about
the meaning of chakras from the spiritual path perspective.

Cleaning the chakras
To clean the chakras we use imagery over a light meditative state. You are going to notice that this
is commonplace for all energy work.
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I dont personally do a big deal to get into that state. I just look for a comfortable place with no
interruptions, close my eyes and pretty much Im there (a great moment is in bed before sleeping
or just after waking up). Other people use chanting, music, instruments like singing bowls, dancing,
etc. How do you know when you get there? Well, you managed to cut out most of external
distractions and you are just with yourself. This is light meditation.
Once you are comfortable in your inner world, find your base chakra. It is in the base of the spine,
more or less bellow the genital level. Visualize it even if you dont see, and put the red color to it.
Now, pay attention at what your imagination brings in response. Is it a bright red? A dull red?
Wine color? Moody red? Is it swirling or still? Do you see a cord coming in or out of it? What are
the emotions you feel arising when visualizing your root chakra? Is it loving? Confident? Do you
feel fear or a suck feeling? Does it bring any memories?
Find a source of white light (it will appear as soon as you think about it), and clean your chakra
with that light as if you were cleaning a glass bowl with water. Feel it as a sphere. Feel the light
cleaning and purifying it The light comes in and out and takes anything wrong with it on the way
out. If the chakra is broken or damaged in any way, feel how the health is recovered. After
cleaning it, fill it with this loving light until it is full and healthy. It should look like a bright red ball,
and you might see it swirling or pulsing. You will probably also have physical sensations and a
feeling of joy.
Repeat the procedure with all the other chakras going up one by one, using the respective colors.

Cleaning the chakra channel
Visualize the chakra channel as a cord that connects all the chakras together. Most of the dirt and
clogging goes to the chakras, but the channel also needs to be cleaned from time to time.
Start by creating a cord from the base chakra to the Earth like we do for flushing. Actually the
flushing technique will work much more efficiently if our chakras and channel are clean. Find your
light source and start pumping energy to your second chakra, feel how the clean energy carries all
the dirt in the channel between first and second channel and release it deep into the Earth. Once
you are satisfied, repeat feeding energy to third chakra, and heart chakra. Release the cord.
Now create a cord from the crown chakra to the source.Send light to the third eye and release it
from the crown chakra. Repeat this until the you reach the heart chakra.
Finally, replenish with source and ground energies as we talked about in the two energies sections.

How to know if we are where we are supposed to be
It is actually pretty simple to know. The central point is the Heart chakra. When the chakra channel
is working right and all chakras open, both energies get together in the heart chakra. At that
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instant we feel in love with life and everything in it. We feel that everything is connected. It is the
feeling of awe for everything there is. Sometimes it is a second, or it can be our everyday life. It is a
choice and a challenge.

Cutting the cords
Every time we make emotional contact with
someone, we create a cord. Some people see it in
a different way, like a single thin cord connecting
two persons from the heart or the gut chakras...
But this is how I see it, or better said, feel it as I'm
not much of a see-er yet...
The cords have many uses. For example, they
allow us to just Know the emotional state of
someone by thinking about him/her.
Every time we share experiences with a person a
new cord is created that will reinforce the
connection.
Unfortunately, we know that people are more expansive when it comes to sharing bad emotions
than good ones. So many times we create cords and connections with people we could go
without. Or sometimes we create cords with people and there comes a time where a relationship
is no longer creating a space where two add to more than two, but it becomes less than one...
On those cases we might want to cut those cords, because they are exit points that drain our
energy. Every time we remember a certain person and a non happy emotion arises we are feeding
energy to that person (dirty energy, but energy nonetheless) and it is not good for anyone in the
equation.

My personal method to cut the cords
I usually go for a walk. A park is a good place, the more natural the better... Just make
sure you are not going to meet anyone and have to cut the line of thought.
I clear my thoughts and centre my attention in the breathing, entering is a soft
meditation state. I take a memory that joins me to this person and say:
I thank you for this memory, because it brought me to where I am now. Now I release
you... follow your path, I'll follow mine.
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Please remember: thoughts
have power.
Anything you think about will
start walking its way toward
existence
(whether you like it or not).

And imagine a thin silver cord that represents that connection. I run over it with my hand
and cut it clean. It is easy to cut, like a spider web.
I repeat it with all the memories I have that are painful about this person--letting
him/her go.
At the end I use a general statement on the form of:
Now, I release all those painful memories that I am not recalling, but that are still inside, I
thank you for your actions as they brought me to where I am today, but it is time to let
you go.
I am clean from you and your shadow. You will no longer affect me in any way in the
future. Be at peace.
At the same time, I ask your forgiveness for all the pain I might have caused you, I free
you from it. Be at peace.
May this moment be blessed and these actions be the best for the highest good of
everyone involved.

How do you know it is working?
I feel it is working when I have that blessing feeling during the process. It is the signal of a process
that is actually working. Sometimes it might not work, especially if we have unfinished business
with this person and we know the pain will go on in the future. But we always can let go of part of
the emotional burden, and strengthen ourselves for what will come.

Cutting thicker cords
It is funny how imagery works, as some cords refuse to
get cut, and you need to go heavy duty and use
scissors or even swords. Some people have asked for
angelic help to cut some particularly persistent cords.
Most cords are there by common agreement. But in
some cases the cords exist as a result of parasitic
relationships. In those cases the cords usually enter
from the back, not the front, they are darker (black most of the times) and yucky feeling.
Those cords are difficult to cut, but if you cut memory by memory, it is usually easier than trying to
cut the whole set at once. Sometimes I just change the imagery and make them evaporate, instead
of cutting. If you have any of those heavy duty cords attached, after cutting them you will need to
wrap your aura to avoid leaking.
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What can you expect after cutting the cords?
Some feelings will disappear. You will note a change in the way you relate to the other person, and
the way the other person relates to you. It is a fresh start. If the relationship implies some type of
parasitism, you can expect the other person to try to reconnect the cord one way or another.

Dealing with parasites

Picture this. Helen just found out she was an empath and she is starting to walk her way in this
new world. She is wide open while she reads everything she can to understand her gifts and to
learn how to take advantage of them instead of suffering them.
She enters in a related group and starts reading. The feeling is a bit off, like distress going high. But
she is sympathetic to those who are worse than her and keeps going. There is a post from
someone asking for help. The post includes a lot of caps and exclamation marks, really attracting
attention. Actually the caps are as if someone were yelling in her heart chakra, but she feels she
has to help if she can, so she sucks it up and opens it.
What happens when she opens it and starts reading is like walking in the twilight zone She starts
feeling dizzy and confused; her ability to think lowers; she feels numb. She reads but cant make
much sense of it after a while and she feels very weak. After reading a couple of answers she cant
do anything but look at the monitor with the eyes wide open and nothing else. After a while, her
energy reserves go so low that her alarm system sounds (yes, we have one): something is going
on, get out of there!
I need fresh air, she thinks. She goes to the bathroom, washes her face and her hands and feels
a bit better. She goes outside and as soon as she feels the wind in her hair and the sun in her face
she is herself again. What was that? That was a psy vamp attack.
Even the most unprepared empaths usually come with a natural system to cope with the
consequences of being drained (as it happens so often, sigh), so it is not such a big deal.
On the other hand, if the attack is targeted and while sleeping, things can get more complicated.
So there are some measures to be taken before going to sleep to add a layer of protection.

What is a psy-vamp?
Im not going enter in detail about what a psy-vamp is because all descriptions give them power.
Lets just say that psy-vamps are energy parasites:people who are unable to create their own
energy - or bring it in from the System - so they steal it from others. We have to treat them the
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way we treat all parasites: cut the parasitic relationship and make them understand they are
better somewhere else.
Lets classify them in two groups: unwilling and willing parasites.
Unwilling parasites are those guys or ladies that are undergoing a very distressing moment (that
sometimes extend for all their lives) and use sympathy, fear or other emotions to drain those
around them. You have probably met more than one in your life. Empaths seem to attract them as
if we had a neon sign saying: free food, come and serve yourself
Willing parasites are mostly empaths that went very wrong. They use their empathic abilities to
track, find and attack. They even use rituals and other type of jamba-bamba.

Getting rid of unwilling vamps
The easiest way to rid yourself of unwilling psy-vamps is to cut the cords and cut communication.
If that is not possible, still cut the cords (again and again if they get re-attached), and shield when
in their presence. Parasites usually dont have much patience; if the victim is not easy, they move
on. An even best form - but that takes some discipline - is to move yourself to a different main
frequency where they cant enter in sync anymore to leach. In easy world language: you need to
learn to laugh about them, you and the whole relationship. This implies spiritual growth.

Getting rid of willing vamps
The most difficult part of dealing with a psy-vamp attack is to identify it in time to do something
about it.
Once you identify the attack (it can be a headache, dizziness, inability to think clear, etc), the next
step is to find where you are leaking. The energy is getting out from one of the chakras, usually the
heart chakra.
At that point, enter into light meditation and cut the energy flow with your hands bringing the
energy in. Once you cut the flow, create a bubble shield or surround the attacker with an energy
bubble. If you have a guardian or you are part of a network, this is a good moment to ask for help
too.
You can use an extra boost by interlocking the fingers while creating the protection bubble. You do
it by touching together the tips of both thumbs and middle fingers to form two circles interlocked.
If you are new to the gifts or if you need it, add an affirmation: Now I am fully protected and
energized.
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There is a more advanced method that creates real transformation and healing in them (more or
less permanent, not completely). But you need to have access to your spiritual heart or another
source of energy, as you need tons and tons of energy.

Staying away from trouble
The easier way to deal with all parasites is to stay away from their reach. Empaths have the
instinctive compulsion to try to save the world single handed. This is part of the awakening of the
third chakra. We just cant help it.
But even when a person clearly needs help, it doesnt mean that you are the one to help him/her.
Dont try to help anyone that is drowning until you learn to swim. It is just common sense.
Parasites usually show themselves as very needy people with endless problems that are always
someone elses fault. Even those that do it purposely will use sympathy as one of the easiest entry
points. They knock on your heart, you open it, and they put the straw.
Other tool they use is to destroy your self-value. It is these people that make you feel like an ant in
front of them, and for some reason they seem to take as a natural part of existence that you will
comply with any request... and you buy it. Even if they never do anything in the physical world,
they are taking your energy.
Still another method is to break in with an energy bullet and make an opening in your aura. You
will feel physically attacked even if they dont lay a finger on you, like an unbearable pressure.
After the attack, you feel completely drained. This is usually related with verbal violence. You think
that the problem is the words, but the words are just a vehicle for the energy that is breaking you
up. If you are in a relationship with someone and does this one time, it is time to say good bye or
accept that there will be more.
The last one I want to talk about here is stress. Have you ever felt your schedule, activities or life in
general is managed by someone else? Have you felt there is some weird sadistic game going on
that forces you to be always beyond your possibilities? It is because you are being put in a highly
emitting regime where you never recover to find out what exactly is wrong. Unfortunately, many
employers use this as rule.
These are different tools parasites use; you might find them using more than one tool to get to
you.

Filling the contradiction gap
Most empaths have a very good intention radar, we can read emotions and know what is going
on. But we fall victims to parasites, repeatedly I might add.
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How is that possible? Well, one of the reasons is that these people have a real need. Some
parasites are so cut off from their humanity, that might even die if they dont find a victim. Like
headlice if they dont drink your blood they die. Have you ever felt sympathy for the poor
crawlers and let them live in your head because of that?
Other parasites only need to experience the distress to learn new ways and become vegetarian,
learn to take energy from the environment, or even evolve spiritually and learn the methods we
taught here to balance ground and source energies.
The bottom line is that when we comply with the parasites needs and feed them our energy, we
are robbing from them the possibility of spiritual growth. If you want to really help them, pray for
healing but stay away from their reach.





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Final Words: The Empathic Epidemics
There is an undeniable awakening--empaths and psychics are crawling out of the shadows in all
corners of the World. We are not alone. Around 4% of the population is empathic, and those
numbers are growing fast as we head toward a global awakening and a new cycle of the wheel.
This fact is twofold. It is a natural process as we get exposed to the higher frequencies of the dark
rift, but it also entails a responsibility. If you are an Empath it is because you chose it that way
before arriving here. It is because youve got it in you: the ability and need to help others.
If you are still trying to cope, the only thing I can tell you is: get over it. Yeah, I know doesnt
sound too empathic. Believe me, it is. In this ebook you have all the practical techniques to cope
and protect yourself. Use them, practice them, own them.
Once you do, there is job to do. We need to raise the general energy around us. We do it by
praying, channeling or whatever you choose to name it; and by being in contact with other people
with the antenna in emitting mode (not receiving). It is our responsibility to take care of our own
energy levels - we can take energy from any place, it is among our gifts - and redistribute it for the
highest good, it is among our jobs.
Notice that this can and should be done, no matter your situation.
I know you had it hard, I KNOW. We all have, it is part of the path. It is part of the path you chose.
We needed all the teachings we received, each one of them. So learn, own them and move on.
Believe me when I tell you this: things get much more fun after you do.

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Appendix 1:Joining an Empath
Community
I know Im an empath... now what?

The natural next step after finding out you are an
empath is to connect. Empaths are usually lonely
wolves, not exactly by choice, but to avoid the
emotional overload.
There are three communities dedicated to empaths,
that I know of. Im going to go over pros and
contraries of the three.
Please note: I own one. I will try to be as fair as
possible under the circumstances nonetheless.
There are also other types of communities that have
sections or groups for empaths. I also provide a list
of them, but cant go further as I havent been around them yet.

The three main empath communities

Empath Zone Community

It is the new kid on the block, but growing fast.
The population is around 200 members.
It gathers very spiritual people exploring empathy as a gift.



Elise Lebeaus Community

It is the biggest and the oldest Empath community.
Its population is over 4,000 members right now and growing.
It dedicates mainly to people very new to the gifts and coping.


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Empath Chat Community

It is the smallest of the three and the second one created.
The population is around 175 members.
It gathers a good mix of personalities, interesting conversations and support.



When empaths gather...
Goodies and problems you might find

The goodies
You are in a place where you are normal
for a change.
If interested in learning, the growing
process skyrockets.
Real communication.
Emotional support.

The problems
Risk of emotional overload.
Those places attract some parasites, psy-vamps and unbalanced people.


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Communities personalities

The three communities I mentioned have distinctive personalities and do their best to increase the
goodies and compensate for the problems in their own particular way. They are also careful with
monetization.

Empath Zone Community

Personality
It gathers people who walk the spiritual path. There are many developed empaths and
light workers. The system is horizontal in the sense that there are no leaders--each person
is assumed to have the potential to be the biggest authority in something--and the search
of that uniqueness is encouraged. From the same perspective, philosophical, and religious
plurality is accepted and respected (as long as they are under the light). Everyone adds
their own gifts to help others in their personal development.

Goodies
They have starting documentation (Empath basics groups and this ebook).
There are different groups actively developed for self awareness (Empath games,
Meditation room, etc)
The community is very active from the growing encouragement perspective.

Problem solving
Encourage people to enter the site in the right mindset (library or garden)
Discourage advertising
Discourage activities leading to vertical systems (leader/follower type of relationships)
Encourage respect for plurality in terms of ideas and beliefs
They have a strong set of moderators

You will get into Trouble if
You whine or vent too much, not looking for a solution (just to release stress).
You are an emotional parasite of any type.
You are using the community as platform for a business (advertising, whether it is spelled
out or hidden).
And of course...
if you spam, get into fights too often or show a disruptive behavior.

Monetization
First Store for Empaths


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Elise Lebeaus Community

Personality
The community has a maternal style. It targets mainly empaths who are new to the gifts (or
its awareness) and still trying to cope with them. There are some developed empaths and
very talented people, but growing is not encouraged from the structure.

Goodies
They have starting documentation (Empath survival program) and EFT videos.
They provide emotional support for people in distress.

Problem solving
They discourage religious/spiritual talk in the main forum.
They prohibit mentions of parasites, psy-vamps, and attacks in the main forum.
They encourage people with strong opinions to leave.

You will get into Trouble if
You have a strong presence.
You talk too much about your personal beliefs.
You mention you have been attacked in the forum.
And of course...
if you spam, get into fights too often or show a disruptive behavior.

Monetization
Paid courses
Intuitive consultation
Gift shop

Empath Chat

I asked Tammie, Empath Chat owner, for help. These are her words

Personality
Bold for an empath community. We are not as fluffy as most empath sites. We take a very
realistic view of empathy, for day to day issues, to survival type skills. The only rule on the
site is that you have no right to tell another what faith or path they should walk. Because of
this we have a lovely blend of people that respect each others views.

Goodies
Information on nonconventional empath skills. Most use the site as a step up site, we have
very few newbies. We help each other learn and grow, sharing and trading what we have
learned. There is an online store available to everyone.

Problem solving
Because of the free thinking on the site, problems are almost tackled till a solution is
found. There is nothing over looked. There are brilliant folks that are very helpful.
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Trouble? : lol
Its hard to get into trouble, all we ask is for honesty. Unkindness is dealt with on an
individual basis.

Monetization
Community marketplace.


Visit Us!
Empath Zone Community
Empath Zone Store


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Appendix 2: Empath Resources

Squidoo Lenses about Empaths

Empaths and shielding
Lets think of a typical day at the mall. Some peop more...
The Joys and Pitfalls of Being an Empath
Can you feel what others around you are feeling? A more...
What is an empath?
Picture this...Sally wakes up dizzy, her head is t more...
Joining an Empath Community
The natural next step after finding out you are an more...
How To Thrive As An Empath
An intuitive empath, is a special individual who h more...
The Empath Next Door
The popular book 'The Sociopath Next Door' paints more...
Empaths and grounding
Picture this... it is 3 am and the phone rings. Pa more...
Online Resources for Empaths and Intuitives
We all have empathic abilities, but some of us hav more...
Emotional empaths
Everyone (or almost everyone) has a certain degree more...


Empaths links

Empath Zone - your empath friendly store
Empath Zone Store - Unique store for the empath ne more...
Empath Zone Community - A place where Empaths can be themselves :)
Join our Empath Community! Find a place of belongi more...
The complete empath toolkit
Ebook with 44 tricks to thrive as an empath.
Empathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elise Lebeau Empath Community
Join our supportive Empath community! Ask question more...
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What is an Empath? Tools and Resources for Empaths | EliseLebeau.com
Discover basic survival tools to manage your Empat more...
Empath Chat - A place to be yourself
Empaths have varied gifts, and here is a place to more...
empaths - About.com : Holistic Healing
Articles about empaths in About.
Hubs about empaths
Empaths in Hubpages: Collection of hubs about empa more...
Empath Group at Experience Project
"I am an empath" group in Experience Pro more...
The Book Of Storms | Empath 101
Rose Rosetree: Aura Reading, Empath Skills, Face Reading, Cut Cords of Attachment
A leader in the field of reading auras, Rose Roset more...
ADVICE COLUMNS: Psychic Advice by Psychic and Spiritual Healer


Some readings

Dancers Between Realms-Empath Energy, Beyond Empathy by Elisabeth Y.
Fitzhugh

The Empath. The word has found its way into our consciousness
accompanied by ideas of healing, sharing emotion and pain. Empaths are
sensitive, caring, responsive people who have at the core of their nature an
innate ability to receive energy, information and awareness from others
with a depth and intensity that is beyond our customary understanding of
empathy. Yet, this very receptivity and permeability brings its own
challenges. It is vital for empaths to recognize themselves as such and to
consciously explore, understand and address this energetic flow in their life.
The book explores in depth this receptivity, as well as tools, concepts and approaches to support
understanding and how to flourish with this heightened sensitivity. This book is a shared journey,
edited from years of workshops and sessions with Elisabeth Fitzhugh and the Orion group.
Becoming an Empath by Karla McLaren

Did you ever know that someone was upset, even when no one else
seemed to notice? Or felt that a loved one far away was in trouble, only
to learn that you were right? If so, teaches Karla McLaren, you have
already demonstrated the gifts of an empath - a person who uses the
skill of emotional intuition to understand and connect more deeply with
others. On Becoming an Empath, Karla McLaren brings together her
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thirty years of work with emotional intuition to offer this practical course for discovering and using
one's empathic abilities more effectively. In four guided training sessions, listeners will learn how
to create healthy emotional boundaries, navigate their own emotions more skillfully, and tune in
to the feelings of those around them with unprecedented depth and clarity. "Empathic
awareness," says McLaren, "is essential for psychotherapists, health care providers, teachers, and
parents - or anyone else who must rely on this instinctual power of perception every day." With
Becoming an Empath, listeners now have a way to master this vital inner skill.

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About
Hi, Im Sandra. Im supposed to give you a reason to believe that I have some authority to write
this ebook. Well, I will leave that up to you. There are many things that came together to
make this ebook happen.
For starters, I was born an empath and to make it even more fun, claircognicient. I am very lucky.
Being a second generation empath made things easier. I have no issues with the gifts or the self
esteem problems. For me, any new ability that unfolds deserves some good Champaign and a
toast!
Claircognicience is a weird gift. You almost look normal, but the gift tends to make you annoying
to others. This gift allows me to see past the emotions and have the correct answer without
knowing where it came from or being able to explain my reasoning. Imagine being 5 years old and
interrupting an adult conversation with the right answer. :-)
It does come in handy though. School is really easy from an academic perspective--and university,
too I had my Degree in Physics without buying one book (it was not that easy though). When I
was finishing my PHD, my biological clock started ticking and I dreamt that I had a talk with my
baby girl-to-be. The good news: if I had a child it would be her. The bad news: I would have to
throw my life in the toilet to make it happen. That dream started my quest to find a man with the
same face as my baby girl-to-be. It was not easy and I had to cross half the world to find him.
There went my PHD The translation of my title to the US system gave me a Master's Degree,
which is where the MS comes from.
For 6 years, I lived the typical "married-from-the-second-chakra" empath life; not good.
After my divorce, I returned home with a burning desire to create my own life. One thing led to
another and I discovered that there was a name for what I was: it was Empath.
Then things started to happen quickly. I searched for others like myself to connect to and asked for
help when the Gulf oil spill was too much for my gifts to manage alone (go figure, I was channeling
energy over there and trying to solve it all by myself :D). I succeeded in finding others like
myself but I also found certain basic issues that we all shared. The community where I found other
empaths puts the accent into coping and I am not good at coping I want to OWN it.
More things led to other things and I ended up building a new community: Empath Zone. My focus
was to take things to the next level. We work together to develop the gifts and walk the spiritual
path. We help each other to become what each one planned to be before jumping into this life.
There are no leaders or followers, just people becoming specialists.
And it is working; and it is happening. The information for this ebook was developed in less
than six months, and there is much more. If I had to do it all by myself with clients for example, it
would have taken me years. But here, we are many heads thinking together, and many hearts
feeling together, so we arrive at conclusions and clean knowledge much faster.

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I hope you liked the ebook, I tried to present the basic tools to help you deal with the main side
effects of empathy from the awareness perspective. There is much more info in the forum though;
this is only an introduction. If you have ideas, corrections, subjects you would like to see included,
or would like to join us, jump into the community and let your voice be heard.
Sandra