Intuitives: Are you a psychic sponge? Micara Link offers her suggestions…
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein
Lots of folks are working on being more sensitive, more aware, more empathic…and after a while, it works. Now comes a new thing – how do you handle picking up energy all around you?
Suddenly, it feels like everyone you pass on the street has left their psychic (and more, sometimes) energy with you. What can you do?
To check on this, we checked in with intuitive Micara Link for her suggestions:
Do you FEEL everything? Welcome to the club of Empaths! You are not alone.
Recently, I received an email from a lady who shared her concern for her sensitivities and how they can totally consume her. She tends to feel the energy and emotions of those around her and isn’t sure how to manage these sensitivities.
I can totally relate and I know many of you can, too, so I thought I’d share our conversation with you in hopes that it helps you navigate and cope with your own empathic sensitivities.
Hi Micara,
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this thing where when I look at people (strangers for the most part) I feel like I’m taking all the sadness that they have ever experienced in life and I feel it as though I’m going through the same thing. I’ve also noticed that I’m SUPER sensitive when it comes to sad news stories, sad movies etc…like the one about the lady in Utah that killed all of the 8 babies that she gave birth to that has been in the news that past couple of days. It seems to be getting worse and every time i hear something sad, I internalize it and it takes away from my concentration and I get this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
I hope this all makes sense because I’m kinda babbling.
Anyways, I’m wondering if you have any insight on it. It has really been bothering me over the past year and I’m just not sure what to do with it. I look forward to hearing back and thanks in advance!
My reply:
I can definitely relate and understand what you are going through. Your experiences are showing you how empathic you are. Empathic sensitivities can be difficult to handle at times, because they can be so intense and consuming. We have our own emotions to feel! So add on other people’s and it’s totally overwhelming.
Empathic sensitivities and clairsentience (clear-feeling) are intuitive abilities that allow you to pick up on and experience the energy of emotions and feelings in the people around you, places, and situations. In short: You’re a feeler or psychic sponge.
One of the things that many people don’t realize is that those who are highly empathic are usually very gifted healers. Your empathy gifts you the ability to truly feel and experience what the other person is going through so that you know best how to help them.
Although being empathic is a gift, I know it doesn’t always feel like that. Here are a few suggestions to help cope with your sensitivities:
1) When you notice yourself start to feel another person’s emotions, let them go. This all starts with awareness. When you become aware that you’re tuning into someone’s energy, pull back and remind yourself to let go of their energy.
(note: We don’t always know when we are feeling someone else’s energy, in this case, whenever you are feeling a strong emotion or energy and you are not sure where it’s coming from, practice letting it go. Even if it is yours, you don’t need to hold on to it.)
2) Imagine a protective bubble of energy around you throughout the day. Some people like to visualize a color that they love (like blue) or an image of a shield around their energy field. This thought and intention allows you to protect your own energy so you don’t pick up as much of the energy around you
3) Ask your Angels and Spirit Guides to clear and cleanse your body, mind, and spirit. Do this throughout the day, especially before bed and on your way home from work.
4) Don’t subject yourself to the news (or any other negative energy). The news is like a constant horror story! So much of that stuff we don’t even need to know. Did we ALL need to know about that lady in Utah killing her babies?! No, it is not helpful to anyone to know that stuff. I personally have quit watching the news because it is just too much for me to handle every day. It’s toxic. As sensitives, we need to keep our distance from that stuff.
Awareness is always the first and most helpful step. With the awareness you have about your sensitivities, you will find ways to help yourself move through it. Try some of the techniques above to see if they help. I know it can be hard! Stay aware and remember that you’re in control of your own energy.
Blessings ~
Micara
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You can get to know intuitive & mother & writer & teacher Micara Link & her work at her website at www.micaralink.com. Based in Kansas City in the States, Micara offers her services there and online.
Thanks, Micara, for your thoughts today!
Writings: When Douglas Preston & the Dalai Lama took a ski trip
This is one of those “made my day” stories that crossed the brothers’ and sisters’ desks, and we agreed you would probably dig it, especially at the end.
Thanks for a good one, Douglas!
Here’s the post, from Slate.com.
Intuitives: Remember, in that other life time?
Those of you who have been following me know I’ve explored a number of ways the world works (and sometimes doesn’t work, the way we expect), and know that I’ve had past life regression sessions off & on since 1984.
So, it was exciting to run into Jane Jackson (here’s her website). Besides offering reiki (she worked with me to loosen up a hand/muscle problem…it was good!) and a host of other services, she also conducts sessions so that folks can review events in lives past. So I called her up. I hope you get a chance to do this, sometime.
This session was especially helpful for me, as it showed a group of folks I was with 150 years ago that includes family members and friends now. This has thrown a new (and positive) light on my connections with them then, and gives me ideas for connections this time around, including laughing about “you’re still doing THAT?” with a person who may have been a soul-mate (not in the usual present-day romantic sense, but in the traveling companion sense.)
The biggest difference between this and other sessions I’ve had was the depth of prior experience, and how I could feel it & know it. I’ll be interested to hear your experiences, too…in this session, when I would see or be around a person (from back then), I knew the whole backstory.
What I mean by that is I didn’t just feel, “Oh, that’s Bob,” but more, like looking at pictures in your school yearbook. So I would see and recognize Bob, but have all those memories and feelings and experiences with Bob, as well (which is why we keep those yearbooks, right?) The result was a deeper experience in the session, as I could feel why I was sad or glad to see someone, and what the story was, behind those feelings. It was pretty amazing, and I’m pretty sure the way Jane conducts the session contributes to that.
Jane’s work focuses on personal growth (which often means addressing old pains) and personal renewal and energy release, which comes from sorting out what’s plugging things up. Take a peek at what she offers and give her a call – I’m pretty sure you’ll be glad you did!
– Brother Ian
You can find out more about Jane Jackson on her website at Lightwork Energy, and can contact her for a free pre-consultation through the site. Besides past life regressions, she offers core cellular transformation, distance healing sessions, reiki sessions, workshops and energy circles, and group work.
Writings: If you can’t say it to his face….
There are a lot of “supposed to’s” in daily modern life, don’t you think?
It’s “supposed to” rain tomorrow, according to the rain-boss or someone, who reports to the weather channel folks….
You’re “supposed to” wear a tie to a wedding, according to the Tie Manufacturers of North America.
On Mother’s Day, you’re “supposed to” send her flowers, rather than read the reasons we have Mother’s Day. (Hint: It’s about peace; here’s the 1870 proclamation.)
One of the things you’re “supposed to” do is go to baseball games and boo people, just because. Sheesh. Never have liked that.
One of the nicest people in sports is Robinson Canó, who just got a new contract with the Seattle Mariners. As the M’s go to play the Yankees tonight, we discover that Yankee fans think they’re supposed to boo…till they look him in the eye.
I love this…and what does it remind us of, about the way we really are, when we’re not in a big, nay-saying, negative, hating crowd? I like the way we REALLY are, don’t you?
Love you,
Brother Ian
Thoughts: Getting back to nature (and getting out of nature’s! way!) with tropic cascade
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir.
I love this idea of re-wilding.
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent for nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers?
Wolves were once native to the US’ Yellowstone National Park — until hunting wiped them out. But when, in 1995, the wolves began to come back (thanks to an aggressive management program), something interesting happened: the rest of the park began to find a new, more healthful balance. In a bold thought experiment, George Monbiot imagines a wilder world in which humans work to restore the complex, lost natural food chains that once surrounded us. (Here’s his TED talk; and here’s Sustainable Man’s mixdown, below.)
Poetry: “Grief Puppet,” by Sandra Beasley
One of my new favourite poets is Sandra Beasley…in Grief Puppet she creates an image that strikes close to home for so many of us, with the ordinariness of the puppet, and the extraordinary feeling of the flock rising from our chests (at the end of the verse)…see what you think, and look at her other work below:
Grief Puppet
by Sandra Beasley
In the nearby plaza, musicians would often gather.
The eternal flame was fueled by propane tank.
An old man sold chive dumplings from a rolling cart,
while another grilled skewers of paprika beef.
Male turtledoves would puff their breasts, woo-ing,
and for a few coins, we each bought an hour with
the grief puppet. It had two eyes, enough teeth,
a black tangle of something like hair or fur,
a flexible spine that ran the length of your arm.
Flick your wrist, and at the end of long rods
it raised its hands as if conducting the weather.
Tilt the other wrist, and it nodded. No effort
was ever lost on its waiting face. It never
needed a nap or was too hungry to think straight.
You could have your conversation over and over,
past dusk when old men doused their charcoal,
into rising day when they warmed their skillets.
The puppet only asked what we could answer.
Some towns had their wall, others their well;
we never gave the stupid thing a name, nor
asked the name of the woman who took our coins.
But later, we could all remember that dank felt,
and how the last of grief’s flock lifted from our chests.
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Sandra Beasley reports her publishing history:
My first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize; my second collection, I Was the Jukebox, won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize; my third, Count the Waves, is forthcoming in 2015. My most recent book is Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales From an Allergic Life, a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. My prose has appeared in The Oxford American, the Washington Post Magazine, and theNew York Times. I teach with the University of Tampa’s low-residency MFA program.
Here is her well-written & well-thought out blog.
Thoughts: Sex & violence, sure…but there’s more, much more of what we do best
One of the pieces that’s often left out of discussions about Darwin’s thought, which often (in western society) centres on the “survival of the fittest” mantra, is that he also made the case that people, tribes, and groups that work together can thrive, not just survive.
Agustin Fuentes, an anthropology professor, says the urges to pursue sex and violence are basic parts of being human, but they are not the key to humanity’s evolutionary success.
Check this out. It’ll lift you up, about our possibilities.
Writings: Take a chance & become the first follower…
You’ll remember a few months ago, I shared with you the story of the shirtless dancer, the lone nut, who gains a first follower, who turns them into a leader (here’s the posting, with Derek Sivers.)
It’s true…every leader needs a first follower. Without him or her, the movement gets stuck, immobile, paralyzed.
I got a chance to put this in action. Here’s what happened:
I was hanging around the food court last month at SeaTac airport, waiting for a couple of hours on my way to see my parents in Tennessee in the States. There was a young woman who was singing in the food court, with perhaps a hundred people listening. She was quite good, and her voice & guitar playing were awesome, filling that great space…glad she was there!
But at the end of the first two songs I heard, no one clapped. After all, this wasn’t a tav or a bar or a stage show…what do you do? No one clapped.
So I did. After her third song, I clapped (I was in the “back”), and then someone else did, then three people, then most of the whole place. It was awesome.
We kept that up till her set was done. She was beaming. And we were, too.
All because one guy clapped.
I hope you get the chance to be a first follower this week. You’ll like how it feels.
Blessings, dear hearts –
Brother Ian
About Brother Ian
Over the centuries, Brother Ian has been collecting stories & information & discourses for the purpose of elevating the human condition as needed, dissecting it when necessary, and building the case for hope.
In the spirit of noting that organized crime, organized baseball, organized labour, and organized religion tend to engender controversy & occasional discord, I promise to be neither organized or critical of those who are.