"empath" readings

[FlamedLilly]

OK so we were all out eating at denny's and everyone asked me to read their palms, I don't do palms readings and told them, but they all said they wanted it done for fun, I know the three major lines on your hand and sort of very basically know how to read them, but I started getting impressions of things deeper into a palm reading that I didn't really get from their palms, but more from their energies. has anyone else experienced anything like this before?

[AmbivalentMirage]

Yes! And it's nice to know that someone else has experienced this as well.

I'm very much empathic, in the mystical sense. I can usually sense emotions, tensions, memories, etc. just by touching a person, looking at them, thinking about them, or touching an item of theirs. This is actually how most of my aleph-bet readings work! lol I see the cards, get some ideas, and then I begin to sense emotions and different things that you wouldn't normally see in the cards.

Human contact is when this "gift" is most powerful, though. If this is a new experience for you, however, I would suggest studying palmistry more so that you can build both abilities at once. After you've become comfortable and free with your empathic abilities, you'll find that they spill out into all kinds of divination and magickal workings... and general life. ;)

[Xentor]

Greetings,

Personally I'm not great on empathy, I'm more into healing. But my father is a great empath. He can tell if something hurts, where and why, and how to solve it. It's frightening sometimes to learn what he finds out about people by merely approaching them. If I were empathic only a little bit, it would enormously help focus my healing abilities. But alas, I must rely on other methods.

[WtchyChick13]

I too am an empath and many times when I'm doing a reading for someone, I get caught up more in the emotions that are stirred up than telling someone something like, "there is a guy around you..."

I've always had this ability and have been aware of it since I was a child--however, I didn't know that's what it was then. :)

I've learned to control it most of the time out of necessity. I've become so sensitive to others over the years that if I'm not careful, it will control my life. It feels as if I've absorbed another persons emotional state and when that happens, it takes some time for me to shake it. Almost like having the flu.

The worst I've ever been was after 9/11. While I go through bouts of depression myself, my resistance was down during the aftermath. I was almost paralyzed with grief and I know now, looking back that it wasn't entirely my own. I had shut off my guides and only now am I starting to get back to my psychic work.

While being empathic is a wonderful gift, it is something that really can take you over. The more you are aware of it, the more you can control it.

It's nice to know there are others out there like this. :)

[AmbivalentMirage]

I agree with WtchyChick. There are times when you MUST shut down, concentrate on yourself, center, relax, restore your energies, and then reopen your psychic abilities. I really HATE "shutting down" because I'm so used to the "presence" of others, that it feels strange being alone... but strange in a good way... like a vacation... Goddess knows I need one of those... ;) :cool:

[WtchyChick13]

Originally posted by AmbivalentMirage

I agree with WtchyChick. There are times when you MUST shut down, concentrate on yourself, center, relax, restore your energies, and then reopen your psychic abilities. I really HATE "shutting down" because I'm so used to the "presence" of others, that it feels strange being alone... but strange in a good way... like a vacation... Goddess knows I need one of those... ;) :cool:

So I'm NOT the only one! :D

It's always so hard when someone asks me what it's like to have the "others" with me. Like I could describe it. :rolleyes: :)

I've been letting "them" come back little by little and hopefully, they won't take over this time. It can get so overwhelming at times.

[Flar's Freyja]

I could draw the same runes for readings for three different people and would get three different readings. Although I take into consideration the symbolism of the runes, the messages I get seem to be specific to that person - and this also plays out when the reading answers questions that they hadn't even asked.

[FlamedLilly]

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back and read this and reply. I've been having internet access problems.

I don't think taht I'm really an empath, I think that i just have empath abilities, every once in a while, like when I walk into a building, or sometimes when I'm not expecting it like the night I described above. I don't know, I'll work on developing it more and see what happens, But for now it's a good party starter :) !!!