Myth: Empaths take on other people’s emotions and illnesses Truth: Empaths do not absorb other people’s shit. We feel it. Period. The emotions of others aren’t contagious. Any ‘taking on’ of has little to do with having a psychic gift and everything to do with being otherwise human. There are plenty of people who choose to take on the Atlean task of holding the world on their shoulders who are not empaths. And there are those who can’t bring themselves to empathize
That line comes from Dan Millman’s Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior. Here, Mama Chia is reminding Dan that really, seriously, we don’t need to do anything. Period. It annoys us humans–particularly those w/ amazing gifts, to think that we don’t need to, or in fact, should not DO something. I bring this up because as England burns amid other violence, there has been a repeated call among those of the proclaimed Lightworker (I’m really not quite sure what that means thes
The other day I was struck with a string of questions. They didn’t necessarily emerge from any real, in-depth thought. Not things I’ve been ruminating on but they just came in a burst. A rather long one but what are you gonna do? Turn it off? Methinks not. So I put pen to paper and let it flow. Here’s what came: Why is it that some have such an issue with what I’ll call “just knowing” of the instant kind? We eat like instant oatmeal, instant communications, quick meals