Major Traits of an Empath

Major Traits of an Empath
This really informative article is from The Witch's Nook, who states that it was "Found on RavenStar Enchantments Spiritual Awareness Center", and as I am an empath, as many people are (some who don't even realize it), so I thought y'all might find this interesting as well.

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There are different types of empaths who employ different psychic empathic traits. These are the 10 levels of the empath:

Psychometry - the empathic ability to receive energy, information and impressions from objects, photographs or places.

Telepathy - the empathic ability to read people's thoughts.

Mediumship - the empathic ability to feel the presence and energies of spirits.

Physical Healing - the empathic ability to feel other people's physical symptoms in your own body (and often the ability to heal, transform or transmute them).

Emotional Healing - the empathic ability to feel another person's emotions.

Animal Communication - the empathic ability to hear, feel and communicate with animals.

Nature - the empathic ability to read, feel and communicate with nature and with plants.

Geomancy - the empathic ability to read the energy of places and of the land - geomancers can feel the energies of the Earth, such as Ley lines. They can also get headaches, pain or anxiety before earthquakes or other disasters occur anywhere on the planet.

Precognition - the empathic ability to feel when something important is about to happen (often this can be a feeling of inexplicable dread or doom).

Claircognizance or Knowing - the empathic ability to feel what needs to be done in any given circumstance, often accompanied by a feeling of peace and calm, even in the midst of a crisis.

Symptoms of being an Empath:
•Acute senses – i.e. sense of smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing etc.
•Acute awareness of the feelings of those around them and feeling deeply for those in pain or suffering
•Often easily hurt
•Avoidance of conflict where possible preferring to keep things harmonious
•Easily startled by noise
•Easily moved to tears because of deep feeling
•Nervous in crowded situations
•People feel safe around them and able to talk to them easily. Even complete strangers will talk to them about personal things without consciously intending to do so
•Animals and children love and are attracted to them
•Easily affected by the weather
•Their greatest gift is to perceive with the heart
•They are usually a blessing to be around as they are nurturing and caring
•Music and harmony are very important to them. They can lose themselves completely while listening to music that resonates with them.
•Water is very beneficial and therapeutic to the empath
 
Having psychic empathic traits can be extremely challenging, and even painful. The definition of empathic understanding is to be able to feel what another person feels (sometimes both emotionally and physically). Even under normal circumstances, having psychic empathic traits can be confusing and difficult to manage or understand, but in times of global chaos, emotional tidal waves that rip through the collective consciousness can be utterly overwhelming. This is why an empath feels anxiety at these times.

Some people consider being an empath to be a paranormal trait, but it is more normal than we realize. Many, many people have psychic empathic traits, but they are usually labeled as being "overly sensitive". Empaths have a heightened sensitivity, and parapsychologists often refer to them as being "Psi Sensitives".

Some of the characteristics of an empath include being "moody", or having mood swings for no apparent reason. This is because empaths pick up on the energies and emotions from other people, places, animals, and even things around them. An empath can be feeling fine one moment, then suddenly become depressed or sad or angry, or even develop physical pain and headaches "out of the blue". Many empaths can feel like they are going crazy, especially empathic children who cannot understand what they are feeling or why they are feeling that way. An empath must learn to trace these feelings back to their origin in order to determine what triggered them. First ask yourself, "Is this mine?" - if the answer is no, then determine when and where it started, and who or what was around you at that time.

Some other characteristics of an empath can involve extreme shyness, avoidance of public places, or being overweight (especially in children). These are all ways to try to shield and protect oneself from the psychic abilities of being empathic. An empath can absorb and take on the feelings and symptoms of others just by being near them or even by speaking with them on the phone, which is why an empath feels anxiety when faced with crowds of people.