Written by Mathew Naismith
As I wrote in my last post about empath's
and empathic, there is a difference between being an empath and empathic,
however, one can be an empath and empathic as well. Most often this is the case
due to our conditioning which means that our environment as a whole will condition
us to feel and think in a certain ways. Basically, being empathic as well means
that our environment will condition us in certain ways which will influence the
way we feel and think.
Being primarily an empath is different to
being also empathic or just simply empathic. Being an empath is primarily to do
with vibrations with no emotional involvement where's being empathic is all to
do with emotional involvement. A good example of this is my reactions to what
has occurred in London
recently, my reactions are totally empathic because I am emotionally involved
to the point in writing a post about this occurrence, however.
When I bypass the emotions involved in
incidences or occurrences like this, I then become the empath, a person who is
no longer emotionally involved to the point of just pointing the finger at one
cause of the problem, the point of the problem being religious extremism in
this case. How many of us have just pointed the finger at religious extremism
being the problem here due to being also empathic? How many of us primarily look at our own
governments as being the primary source of extremism today?
Because of our empathic feelings/biases, we
only look and feel that the primary problem of extremism and terrorism is
religiously based, in actuality we are conditioned to think like this so that
we don't become aware or feel the real root cause of today's extremism and
terrorism. No one joins an extremist group or starts up an extremist group for
no reason, most of the times extremist groups are in retaliation to other forms
of extremisms or terrorism.
Extract: Given these complexities, the
psychology of terrorism is marked more by theory and opinion than by good
science, researchers admit. But a number of psychologists are starting to put
together reliable data. They're finding it is generally more useful to view
terrorism in terms of political and group dynamics and processes than
individual ones, and that universal psychological principles—such as our
subconscious fear of death and our desire for meaning and personal
significance—may help to explain some aspects of terrorist actions and our
reactions to them.
Ask yourself, why is it that we have more
terrorist acts acted out against Western people these days? Now ask yourself
this, why has the destabilisation by the coalition forces of the Middle East resulted in more terrorist acts? When you
have been abused and have had your country pilfered by another culture for
centuries, what would the result be of a people psychologically and
spiritually?
Now, how many empaths, who are also
empathic, feel the vibrations of what is truly going on in the world today? Our
empathic feelings are based on the conditioning of our environment, we then
allow this conditioning to influence how we pick up on other people's
vibrations, especially other groups of people who seem to be extremist in
nature.
Now, it might be said that I have no idea
how an empath picks up on the vibrations within the environment around them.
I was once at a point that I picked up on
the vibrations of the victim and the perpetrator in a number of crimes that
actually occurred, I always felt what the victim was feeling first, at no time
did this influence me in the way I also picked up on the perpetrators
vibrations. In saying this, I was often emotionally sickened by the vibrations
expressed by the perpetrators; these emotional feelings at no time stop me from
really feeling the person was behind the perpetrator. This is of course in line
with the people behind the terrorist acts and the reason these people are the
way they are today.
Too often can empaths with empathic
feelings feel in accordance with their conditionings and go no further. The
reason I know this isn't just to do with my own observations but in how many
empaths have judged people like me incorrectly. I have had a chronic injury
since I was six years old, in conjunction with the rest of my early years that
were quite turbulent, especially family wise, my own vibrations can seem
discordant to some people not aware or wise enough to know any better. This
again is very much inline with extremists if you like, were empaths only feel
the extremist vibrations, not the real vibrations behind the extremism!! I
however have had certain empaths who have felt beyond the boundaries of these
kinds of conditionings but this is very rare.
It's actually not the empath side of us
that is influenced by the conditionings of our environment; it is always the
empathic side of us that is influenced in this way. This is because the empath
will feel vibrations void of bad or good, negative or positive, black or white;
there is no bias or partiality involved. On the other hand, it is wise to be
aware that there is always partiality involved in empathic emotions, especially
when we prefer not to be aware or accepting of this. Yes, people like me
express empathy but we do it knowing that our empathic emotions can influence
in a bias way, giving us a false representation of the vibrations we pick up
on.
The following empath test to find out if
you are an empath or not is just for fun, please do not take it seriously.