Psychic Empathy - The Sense of Sensing Energy

Many people have a natural ability to detect the emotions and sensations of other people as if they were experiencing those emotions themselves. They are called empaths.

Many empaths do not realize that they have this ability which can cause a wide range of problems with their emotional balance and spiritual wellbeing as one can pick up energy at random from current, past, or possibly even future sources.

Many of the cues that an empath reads are visual and audial, an obvious example being when a friend is upset about something that has just happened to her, you can see in her body language and hear in her voice that she has a problem without her having to acknowledge that she is upset.

There are other forms of information being emitted by your friend. Her emotional state, mental state, and even subconscious processes form a certain frequency in their energetic output that empaths can feel.

Psychic Empathy Is A Natural Sense

Empathy is considered a psychic ability, but some empaths would barely consider themselves to be a psychic while others experience empathy as just one of their varying clair-abilities (psychic empathy being considered clairsentience).

Empaths who are more finely tuned, or persons who consider themselves psychic, are sometimes able to not only detect the nonvisual, energetic cues that a person projects, but either associate and decode the thought processes behind those energies or actually see, hear, or otherwise know what those thoughts are (which debatably falls under clairvoyance).

It is important to remember that all psychic abilities, however super natural sounding they may seem, are all very natural senses that are highly developed in some people. To some, psychic empathy, or the ability to feel or be effected by another person's energy is no different than standing outside and being able to feel the wind blow across your skin - it is a current of energy and you feel it.

Energy Is Everywhere

In conversation, you immediately start to loose people when you start talking about feeling and reading energy. It just sounds so supernatural and far fetched, but it is a very real, natural sensation that is familiar to all of us on some levels. Think about it like this:

You are in a cold room and there is small heater in the corner so you go and sit in front of the heater to warm up. You are not psychic, but you have the ability to "feel the energy" that the heater is producing.

Most people think in terms of feeling the heat that the heater produces, however, this is not what is actually happening. Heat is a sensation that is produced by your body - it is a reaction to the energy. When you have had enough of the energy coming into your body, you know to move away from the heater because of the way your body is reacting. You don't feel the heat, you feel the energy.

Now imagine if you could not feel energy. You would not know to sit in front of the heater to get warm. If you were sitting in front of the heater, you would not know to move when you are getting too hot, or obtaining too much energy - your clothing could possibly catch fire.

Your body naturally detects and feels energy as part of your ordinary senses. Whereas everyone can feel the energy produced by a heater or a fire, empaths simply have a sensitive sense of energy and can feel, and unfortunately absorb, the energy of most all living creatures, plant or animal, and other sources of energetic and magnetic activity.

The Typical Psychic Empath

Again, many people have empathic abilities that influence their decision making and their entire lives several times a day and they have no idea. People with empathic abilities, whether they recognize them or not, tend to be warm, friendly, free-spirited kind of people that love to talk to you about anything. They seem to be able to connect intimately with people effortlessly and in no time at all. They are genuinely concerned, rarely surprised, and incredibly non-judgmental of actions that should be considered crude, unlawful, or otherwise negative in nature.

They are able to dispense the best advice because it personalized to your specific needs. When you open up to an empath, he or she can actually feel exactly the way you feel. By swimming around in your emotions, the empath as an unbiased third party can sense what is good or bad for you in a situation and can help you determine what you need to feel better, on a spiritual, mental, emotional, or sometimes even a physical level.

Empaths, especially those who do not understand their abilities, can also be very bitter, dark people at times. Much pain and confusion comes along with accepting unseen energy from unknown sources constantly, at random times of the day. Terrible mood swings can rule the life of an empath who does not realize that the source of the darkness is just a message that is felt.

When an empath becomes aware of their abilities and learns how to manage all of the additional energy, it brings a clarity to everything that is happening transforming the empath in to powerful source of positivity.