I AM a Healer Empath

What Does That Mean To Me Today?

Journal Entry 081014

This is an entry from my journal from 2008, that’s 16 years ago. It’s a personality test I did back then. So much of this personality test still rings true, yet the meaning today runs much deeper. I have come to learn so much in this time of my Soul’s Mission, my raison d'être, and how I can show up to bring my piece and make a difference in the world, no matter how seemingly insignificant. What Gift do you bring to the world? I would love to hear your story, please share in the comments

You are a Healer Empath. You take in the energy of others and transmute it. You trigger transformation in others and free trapped energy.** You are capable of great healing abilities. You walk between the worlds and bring waves of healing energy with your presence.

An Empath is a person who was born with unique variations in the central nervous system. This means how the brain is configured and how the nervous system works in the body. This has not yet been studied and quantified by science. Instead it is being brought forth by individuals who are becoming self-aware of these qualities and who explore this experience through creative and intuitive outlets.

A high degree of overall sensitivity is the general indicator for this type of person. All of the sensory organs of an Empath have low thresholds thereby resulting in unusual sensitivity to light, smell, and sound (as well as other subtler senses). Although underlying sensitivity is the unifying factor behind all Empaths, how this sensitivity is "managed" or "funneled" varies from person to person.

An Empath also possesses a very sensitive emotional nature, that is typically difficult to self-manage. Books have been written on "highly sensitive people" and those materials are relevant to this topic. However, being highly sensitive is only one part of the formula for Empaths.

As a result of the interaction between an extremely sensitive neural network and the concurrent emotional nature of a person with this profile, Empaths are highly intuitive. The word intuition needs to be better understood when used in communications but I will save that for a later article.

A better understanding of intuition leads to a better understanding of what actually constitutes an Empath. For now, I only want to say that Empaths are highly intuitive which means they tend to do things by feeling, by sensing, by reacting to proprioceptive queues, and by following "hunches, gut-feelings," etc. This includes critical decision making, reacting, and acting upon influences in their own lives predominately from intuitive queues. This process can lead to better or worse results depending upon the development of the Empath.

Empaths are driven by their own intuitive natures. This can be for good or bad. There is no virtue implied in the term "Empath." After nine years of studying Empaths online, and thirty in general, I have found that the majority who step forward suffer from some form of mental distress or disorder. This does not mean that the majority of Empaths suffer from mental "illness", instead it implies that the majority of Empaths encountered in my research profess to some sort of "struggle" with their own uniqueness. Since my training is in mental health counseling, I found this to be fascinating and made this area a special part of my research. My model does not supplant the medical model of mental illness but does suggest that "excess wiring" (so to speak) and "diverse thresholds" may require other interventions beyond medical treatment. I firmly believe in adhering to the standards we have established in all medical and psychological fields of science. Yet this belief does not inhibit my desire to explore and discover through, what I call, the "panheuristic" process. Ask me about the panheuristic process in my Yahoo Empaths group.

Empaths are driven by deep intuitive connections that are largely unconscious, as if sitting on top of a vast oil reserve in the ground and being a conduit (oil well) for this massive amount of energy. Most of what an Empath senses or "knows" cannot be verified immediately which creates a terrible psychic conflict for the person. (Bold italics are my own) The over abundance of real and imagined stimuli are frequently overwhelming. Sorting out the two is even more so. That is why I am a major advocate of structured training!

(from "The Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander at http://mysilentecho.com/dreamtongue1.htm

The fact that I AM a Healer, or should I rather say one who has the gift of Healing, landed firmly for me in my late 20s. Today I AM very much aware that as a conduit, a Hollow Bone, I simply guide you to your own healing.

** Being one who transmutes and releases trapped energy, this purpose has become ever more evident in my daily life, so much so that my beloved Other and I were