Considering yourself special and oh-so-delicate

What’s the difference between being an empath vs. being crazy?

Trust me. There IS a difference. Even if many an unskilled empath has the guilty secret of worrying, “What if I’m crazy?”

If you are an unskilled empath, you have a lifelong gift — maybe more than one gift – but not skills at the level where skills are needed to protect you.

Oh, the irony!

Without skill, you could be working plenty hard to protect yourself. You could be driving yourself crazy with setting your boundaries or putting up walls or an Invisible Shield.

You might call yourself “Co-dependent” when you aren’t really. And besides insulting yourself, the skills for healing codependency won’t help you because it is a completely different skill set from Empath Empowerment.

Similarly, you could figure out that you are a Highly Sensitive Person, so you do every single thing correctly to help an HSP, yet you still feel terrible.

There’s even the little-known wacky things that happens when a born empath looks into a mirror. If you have noticed this, but not known why, that’s another reason to fear craziness. And maybe work hard to deny it or cure it. Such a waste of time!

You might confuse being a born empath with being psychic. So you take courses in psychic development and, of course, that may help you develop talent as a psychic (if you have that) but it won’t help you the least bit at becoming a Skilled Empath.

Or you may confuse being a born empath with being psychic, get scared, and try to squish your psychic abilities. This won’t help you the least bit, either, at becoming a Skilled Empath.

What it really means, being unskilled as an empath

Your whole life will involve doing unskilled Empath Merges. (See the detailed explanation and illustrations in Become The  Most Important Person in the Room.)

The practical problem with this is that every time one happens, and it happens beyond your control (until you GET control, by getting skills), you will pick up STUFF from other people, such as:

• Fear
• Pain
• Anxiety
• Sadness
• Physical aches and pains
• Spiritual confusion

This STUFF will become part of your own aura for an indefinite period of time. It will seem like your fear, pain, anxiety, sadness, etc.

Phooey on that-ey

You may gather by my use of technical terms like “STUFF” that I don’t take these problems terribly seriously. That’s because I know some rather simple ways to stop the STUFF from accumulating, the skills of Empath Empowerment. Hint: They have nothing to do with “working on your boundaries” or putting up an Invisible Shield.

If you prefer tragedy and drama, google on “empath” or “Intuitive Empath” or “Energy Vampire.” So many sad stories! Such victimhood!

You need that like you need a hole in your head. Actually you already have several holes in your head, such as nostrils and those thingies on the side of your head. And, trust me, being an empath is just as permanent (and eventually useful) a thing as having nostrils.

So, if you have been telling yourself a sad story about your terrible delicacy, cut it out! Get skills.

Not only will your life become a lot more pleasant. If you aspire to help others, do it for their sakes. Because the help of a Skilled Empath is a thing of beauty. And claiming that is your birthright.