Written by Mathew Naismith
If you only relate being empathic to the
spiritual or spiritually aware, bare with me as this is not the case.
Psychology recognises the existence of being empathic for a very good reason
but before we go into this, I think we need to define what being empathic
is.
Empathic; showing an ability to
understand and share the feelings of another.
It
is important not confuse being empathic to being of empathy. "Empathy is
the ability to comprehend or imagine what another might be feeling. Whereas,
the Empath can literally feel what another person feeling."
It is also wise not to only relate being empathic to being spiritual, in
actuality being empathic has nothing to do with being spiritual or spiritually
aware, you are either sensitive to other people's vibrations or your not. This
is like my wife can't hear a mosquito in the room but I can, my ears are obviously
more sensitive to the vibrations of the mosquito flying than my wife. At other
times my wife can hear/feel vibrations I can't.
Look
at it this way, how many people are more sensitive to what is going on in the
world to other people, other people who are far less emotionally involved to
what is occurring in the world. Yes, I am relating being empathic to our
emotions therefore vibrations for everything that is of energy vibrates. A less
emotional person is not going to feel what is going on in the world to the same
degree as an empath. Yes, certain atheists, materialists and scientists, are
more objective, a state of mind not influenced by emotions, than spiritually
aware people. This does not mean that spirituality brings on feelings of an
empath but it can certainly help. Spirituality simply works by teaching or
conditioning a person's consciousness to be more subjective, a state of mind
influenced by emotions.
Sadly,
a lot of objectively minded people only see being empathic as a bias, a mind influenced
by our emotions giving us bias evaluations of ourselves and our environment as
a whole. You could put this another way, giving subjectively minded people a
distorted sense of reality. Yes, this is what objective people think, which is
also of a distorted reality based purely on objective thinking, one way of
thinking and being. This is while none of us are truly unemotional or unbiased
by the way we think, either it be objectively or subjectively of mind. Yes,
objective minded people think they are not biased by the way they think, even
when they primarily think objectively!!
Everything
is of energy therefore everything vibrates, so if my wife doesn't hear or feels
the mosquito's vibrations in the room, the mosquito doesn't exist? The same is
with ghosts, they don't exist because we are unable pick up on a ghosts
vibrations. Yes, some people are more sensitive to certain vibrations than
others, just because certain other people are insensitive to these vibrations,
doesn't make them unreal. The question is now, is an objective mind,
conditioned to certain vibrations only, less sensitive to other vibrations
outside of objective thinking? To a person like me who subjectively and
objectively thinks, the answer is too obvious.
Now,
how do we help a subjective mind cope better with being empathic? I should
point out our objective part of our mind copes a lot better with being
empathic.
As
the following will show, there is a psychological way of dealing with being
empathic, however, if you prefer to do it another way, my suggestion is through
a sense of unconditional love. This does not mean you have to force yourself to
love everyone and every situation you find yourself in, this is highly
impractical in a reality such as the present reality. All you have to do is
have a sense of unconditional love, in other words a general conscious
awareness of the existence of unconditional love. Of course if your mind is
conditioned to being primarily objective, even a sense of unconditional love
doesn't exist, very much like the mosquito in the room.
In a
state of unconditional love, it is impossible to feel negative or toxic
vibrations, for the love of being unconditional in your thoughts dispels,
negates or neutralises the affects of negative/toxic vibrations. Think of it
like neutralising the mosquito in the room, dispelling any vibration that is
not in tune with your own vibrations. Yes, often I have heard negative /toxic
vibrations being expressed while at the same time being expressive of the existence
of a sense of unconditional love, which of course is impossible. Make no
mistake, being aware of a sense of unconditional love doesn't dispel negative
vibration but it does take the toxicity or the ill affects away from negative
vibrations. The negative vibrations simply become nullified or neutralised, for
one has no sense of conditions. Basically, a sense of unconditional love releases
our mind from the numerous conditions we put upon ourselves and the rest of our
environment.
I
have simply lost count in how many conditions there are on being spiritually
aware these days!!
Extract: The
trademark of an empath is feeling and absorbing other people’s emotions
and/or physical symptoms because of their high sensitivities. These people filter
the world through their intuition and have a difficult time intellectualizing
their feelings.
Extract: It’s perhaps not the first accolade you would think of
when think of the UAE, but it is an accolade none the less.
A study
looking into the psychology of countries and their residents revealed that
three countries in the Middle East – the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – are three of the most
empathetic countries in the world.