I Need Your Opinions About Empathy. =)

[elimoon19]

the way my empathy or telepathy works is that i try receiving a signal or some kind of brainwaves .. from others.
sometimes i find it hard to read emotions but at the same time,
i am able to tell between negative and positive levels of one's mind when i make this connection.
is this possible or is this something else?

and one more thing, i am a receiver nature of an empath.
is possible for me to send emotions to others?
does that comes naturally or through practice?

=)

a little help ?

[JediKaren]

yes it is possible, though not comonly heard of

[GEOvanne]

every psychic ability can come naturally and with practise

at first i wasnt able to do empathy, but when i learned about it and tried it, i began to happen naturally

[leethal]

poof! Yesterday my GF was sleeping on my lap, and then she woke up, you know the kind of waking up all scared, the panic wake-up? well, when she shook, I shook inside. That's the first empathy I've got! yay!

[JediKaren]

um well done....but beware of overloads.

[zakescythe]

I think it would also depend on ones experience becasue their different types of empaths such as those that are naturaly sensitive to the point that they can pick up bleeding emotions that poor out of people becasue they cant control it.... thats the type i have and cant stand it so ive been trying to shut it out the worst experience ive had was saturday when a HUGE fight broke out in my house my whole body was shaking as people bled

[ghost]

Some people try to fix other's problems by sending them emotions. An example can be found in the "cursed gift" thread, where jedikaren starts reciting her own diary entries. Here, she tries to heal the bird by filling it with calm. I must ask that you NEVER attempt this. A person's feelings are a sacred part of them. If you try to make others feel what you feel, you are forcing them to be influenced by you, and making them accept a part of you into themselves.
Apart from this, giving people your emotions doesn't solve anything. You receive another's feelings through empathy; fix them with psychology or healing.

[JediKaren]

I was not trying to heal the bird. I was simply trying to calm it down. At this time I had only been at psi for three years, just discovering empathy without knowing what it was and really did no harm to it.

[ghost]

I know... it is just an example. The reasons why I say this are explained in the Telepathic Suggestion Ethics thread.

[ljboy585]

is empathy only limited emotion, or can also be physical as well.