hi , I have always felt feelings from people whom i love.especially if they are haveing a negative feeling and it is directed at me. I have also felt love being directed at me and it is a wonderful feeling. So yes i believe that you can feel others feelings but most especially when the emotions are very strong.

You are empathic pure ententions. Have you recently started meditation or yoga etc. I go through the same thing everyday of my life and it is very difficult. Empathic abilities can feel like a curse because it is so hard to turn off. I have sought help from psychics, mediums etc. because spirits will also come around empaths and I have big problems with this.
There are many books you can read to help you learn to create psychic protection and learn how to turn it down. I have tried very hard to shut it off but not luck. I stay out of big crowds....You are like a psychic antenna picking up stuff from everyone around you because you have no barries...... You are wide open so you must learn how to turn close yourself up.....
READ UP on what an empath is and get help or you will continue to pick up peoples junk:....It's very hard to shake it too once a strong energy affects you...
I know exactly what your going through....It makes you want to become a hermit if you don't know how to deal with it....There are many good books and CD programs from empaths, websites etc...
It is a journey to understand yourself....Visualizing has helped me, NOONE in my aura and sending energy away!!

Im an empath, im sensitive to others feelings.
I can start walking down a street feeling quite happy, as im passing people my mood changes and at the end of the road i can be very angry for no reason...

I don't know if it's Ok to put titles of book and such.....I hope so


There are exercises to help you, it feels odd at first but with practice you get better and can tell that it is starting to work. Also, many empaths have spirit contact because they know you are sensitive and can communicate with you. Mediation made it worse for me because I started becoming even more connected the more I meditated so I had to stop, pretty soon it was a nightmare at my house with my husbands and kids scared every night...We started having spirits coming and going, tickling our feet (mostly me and my teen who is also empathic like me), pinching, moving the kids and dog toys, tapping on my teens window at night, door knobs wiggling, stuff in the kitchen moving, toys running without batteries in them , loud bangs, lightbulbs blowing out etc......I thought our house was just haunted until we finally called a paranormal group to come and they brought a psychic medium and shaman lady, she told me it was me.... I then started to look back at my life and childhood and realized the signs were always there but I did not know what it was......

Try to stay away from negative people, you have to clear your aura to get rid of strong energies you can not shake....


Here are some of the books that have helped me learn psychic protection:

The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron (it's all about empaths and HSP's)
The Art of Psychic Protection by Judy Hall
Becoming an Empath CD series by Karla Mclaren(not to become one, the last CD has some of the best Empath exercises for protection I have found

The closing Lotus is what the shaman lady who came to my house told me to practice. Pretend and invision your a lotus flower wide open, invision it see yourself receptive and open, then visually see the flower closing slowly and cutting off all reception. Vision yourself not feeling anything or sensing anything. It takes a few weeks of practice and it started to work for me, but if I stop doing it It all comes back quickly.

I HOPE This HELPs YOU who are struggling with this....ALSO put protective crystals by your bed where you sleep....black obsidian, etc...

I think the best help anyone can get is form a psychic development class. It dispels all the myths that some people hold too. There is really no need for protection as our guides hold that job. Also, like attracts like. It is quite easy to learn how to open up your psychic communication channels and then to close down again. Why not try the classes here? Or just come into the chat rooms and join in the discussions.

AMP xxxx

Hi. It's interesting to read your story. I feel like we're in the same boat. And It sounds like you are kinda Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) or empath. IMHO it's very normal to some people who have very sensitive soul. I've been this way since I was a kid. I tend picking up others' emotions, energies, thoughts, and also their problems, the atmosphere, the entities so spontanously and easily. I had no idea how to protect or ground myself from others' vibes. It often drained my energy especially when I met some negative people. Which every passing year, my sensitivity was getting intense and uncontrolled. In my teenage years I thought I had mental illness because also I began to hear some spirits talking to me. Later I knew they were the demons an evil psychic sent to me. At last, I know that I was not insane. Some experts in 'the field' told me it's only me who was not able to control my sensitivity and it had nothing to do with craziness in my brain. I thank God I was not lunatic. Now I've got a powerful prayer my spiritual healer gave to me. The prayer has been powerful to protect me from psychic vampires (people having negative energy who could drain your energy). Eventhough still I prefer to avoid being around with many people or certain person since it could be exhausted, while it may take times to make me stronger enough to deal with the unsensitive world. And I think my life is getting overwhelming since 6 years ago. When I began to see the future and see the ghosts. I couldn't sleep well because the dreams keep talking about the future and while I'm awake my intuition keeps telling me about the future again. And the entities in my house keeps trying to get my attention. I think this is not really a peaceful life for me. Well, I am bending over backwards, just learning to survive in every single day. Hopefully this sensitivity wouldn't kill me softly.

while you are waiting for medical results and thing id say that your main priority is to take control over these swings (not neccersarilly powers or extra senses yet). id say a big thing would be to test these swings. first thing would be to attempt to close your mind in my opinion.

if you really do have the ability to feel others emotions then you probably WOULD have trouble... filtering would be a good word, the emotions. im not sure exactly how to do this, but maybe you could try concentrating on one thing (possibly your OWN mood for the day) very hard and literally ignore everything else that flashes through your mind. this is similar to when you have a lot of things on your mind when you want to sleep. you could imagine a chest (this is what i do when i cant sleep) and then place everything you dont want in it. (aka other peoples feelings) then close it, lock it, and push it out of your mind. its hard to do but i have to use it quite consitently and it seems to help keep me focused.

onother thing that you can try is to only filter out the bad emotions. this may be easier. concentrate on only the happy and loving emotions and the bad ones may be pushed out.

i hope you get this under control. good luck.

I've also had this, I used to be A very active Martial Artist, Aikido, I had an episode of feeling that I was in my Sensais' teachers mind, and he was in mine, it was like a full blown Telepathic Empathic encounter, my awakening has been testing my sanity, and it has to an extent nearly distroyed me! I went to a reki teacher and spiritualist church, to listen to a female police officer, talk of exactly the same thing, only hers was with a disabled girl she went 2 see. I believe those that are more aware, who set sail in this path will find the seas to be not always clear,, if your mind is open 2 this you will more than likley exp it, I thought at times i might be suffering from multi person diss, but a yr later, it happend again, this time with a close friend, Donald, we had amoment of telepathy, my mind was at the time relaxed, and awake, no stress, he spoke with his mind and i herd his thoughts, tht instant, i sharply turned to make eye contact, and said exactly the followup to our convosation. he new, what had jusst happend, and both of us went into a state of shock!
thie thing is Donald was bourn Def, and proclames he sees auras, we clicked , thers not many peps i know thats into this, there minds are closed, or distracted. but with the association i have with thiis is i now suffer with social anxitiy, I find it difficalut to be in crowded places, the energy felt can be over welming.

Im still trying to control this, but i will persavere, and set my own sail, 2 stear 2 a calmer sea. I hope this helps.... I have had ove rthe years mutli exps that have tested me, If its not 4 you, turn that boat back, and stay out of the storm,

stay forever sceptical/ as not 2 become the fool! be rational. and look for all possible explinations, I am in a simular position. but its your space, dont let there shadows in.

hi im lorna i can sense what other people are feeling and als pick up on moods and anything, almost to the point that i wish i dont. dont know why but always been like it and it sometimes is detrimental to me anyone got any explanations overr the last year things have been occuring such as out of body experiences visions and hearng and smelling things would like to know im not off key ha

There is no reason that empaths cant turn it on or turn it off as needed. As Nat said earlier the best way to learn how to do this would be to attend classes on psychic development. I used to be quite overwhelmed with empathic feelings. So much so that it would at times interfere with my everyday life. So I have been where you all are. I have learned to turn it on or off ,there is no reason for me to have to carry the burden of others emotions. It sure has made my life a whole lot easier,,,,


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