Hi,

When interacting with individuals I sometimes feel a breeze and than I feel part of my head or chest tighten up.  I use to think this was me taking on other people negative energy that got stuck to me.  However, now it appears that my body can sometime clear it without any effort on my part.  Other times I have to ask Goddess to handle it and it goes.  And other time still it just seems to sit there until it goes on its way on its way or I forget it about it.  Practicing qiqong or tai chi sometimes help with releasing the tension.  This can occur by me simply walking by a person.

Recently I've becoming more and more curious if  my habit of being reluctant to interact with groups and avoiding certain type of people (ie sick, clingy, emotionally needy, etc) has something to do with this experience of this energy exchange.

I read through one of mystress essays about empaths and it sounds like that is what I'm experiencing.  Is there a way to to reel this in?  It seems to be happening beneath my level of every day consciousness.  I don't mind it so much except when i can't release the feeling of tension or stuckness in my own body.  And also I think it holding me back in my job as I'm reluctant to lead people and work in large groups for extended period of time because it makes me feel tired.

Anyone else experience anything similar?  Any suggestions, ideas on how to handle this would be appreciated.

Thanks - Derick

  Yeah I am quite hermitlike due to much empathy, still there are things to do to make it less ouchie, and it does not rule me or I could not teach! 

  Being awakened, you have a shakti field and it pokes karma stuff in other people, which flows to you as the one who poked. This effect can be much reduced by not projecting judgments at other people, and especially by turning your energy inward, that is, giving it to your own heart chakra with an attitude that all is as Goddess Wills. Surrender creates transparency, the stuff flows through without touching you.

  This transparency also happens as a side effect of focusing on the signals of your discernment more than on the external world. This ties in with surrender because the body hears Goddess will more clearly than the mind.

  Send the foreign energy out your crown, into the sun if its sticky. Some resonant stuff of your own will go too, so its worth doing and typically part of the purpose of the empathic phase of heart opening. Take the empowering attitude that stuff does not stick unless its caught on your own stuff, reflecting the same issue in you. So the end result is a karma self diagnostic that incidentally sometimes benefits others.   

  In this way the empathy is naturally reduced as your karma fades, and there is less resonant stuff to get it caught on. You are still aware of others feelings but its not troubling.

  Trying to escape or avoid empathy just makes a blockage of part of the third eye that shows up in the body as sinus congestion behind the eyes. 

Thank you - I've been doing this the past week and it's been really helpful.   I've also try to practice the namaste meditation to be less judgmental but as most things its a work in progress.