Here-To-Help answered Friday January 9 2004, 9:09 pm: Get someone who you can really connect with, and sit down with them and focus. See if you feel all their emotions. It's possible that you may be an empath now...but just focus and see if you feel strange emotions that aren't coming from you. [ Here-To-Help's advice column | Ask Here-To-Help A Question ]
Invisible_Kate answered Friday November 7 2003, 9:39 pm: actually empaths can use psychic power to help them feel the emotions of other people. There are basically 3 kinds of empaths- normal people who are sensitive to the feelings of others and basically are compassionate, those who are not out of the ordinary or psychic.
True empaths of a psychic nature do not just sense the emotions of others but feel them as your own. For example, if someone was under great psychological pain from the actions of others, they would feel that pain as well when in a close proximity, connected, or the like. This is very different from recognizing someone elses pain and feeling anger towards the one who caused it, etc. Some empaths are stronger than others, but generally this is something that may have caused problems throughout childhood. Unless of course one was able to 'tune' the emotions out.
This is the part I'm not quite so sure on but I believe one can train their mind to become like the 'natural' empaths.
Anyway if you really have a strong empathy I'd say you would have known before, or you'd at least be able to look back and see other situations that would give evidence for this. I'm no expert in this area but I'd recommend [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) for info. [ Invisible_Kate's advice column | Ask Invisible_Kate A Question ]
trailer_dan answered Thursday October 30 2003, 9:20 pm: i'm sure that i am not phychic cause this one time i went to some furtune teller at some fair or sometin, and she looked at my eyes and said "YOU ARE DA UGLIEST SON OF A BITCH I EVER SEEN!!!" and i gess she couldnt tell me about my furture because i hurt the sprits around her, dat's what she told me. caus i didnt get fancy or wash wit soap or sometin. i dunno, tem phychic spirit things are damn picky bout who they talk wit. [ trailer_dan's advice column | Ask trailer_dan A Question ]
Draak answered Monday October 27 2003, 9:17 am: I believe the word you are looking for is psychic. Being psychic and being empathic are two totally different things. Psychics are able to read minds and sometimes future events. Where empaths read peoples emotions and/or feel what other people are feeling. [ Draak's advice column | Ask Draak A Question ]
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