[Ccddfergt]

Like you can sense vibes from people far away (like 100s or 1,000s miles away) but not as much with people close to you physically?

[Sironimoll]

As a medium, I can relate. The issue sometimes with people that are too close is that we have our biases, we know them too well, so we are in a state of confusion and we don't have the neutrality we need. That is why whenever I do readings I tell the client not to tell me anything, no names, no clues as to how a person passed, absolutley nothing.

[Ccddfergt]

That surely helped me, lol.

Anyway, I think it's weird taht I can sense vibes off of celebrities. Not neccessarily ones that have passed but current ones.

[bpejjssoe]

Yes I experienced this too while my empathy power switch was on. I figured it was for the reasons you just said connect so it doesn't surprise me.

[hubua990]

I find that I will pick up on emotions from anybody, even if they are on the television and on the other side of the world I can find myself struggling for composure because I can feel their grief.

[bpejjssoe]

Aww PirateGirl... I've gone through that too. In fact it's one of the main reasons I can't feel anything from others anymore because of such grief. One girl I was talking to online.. I was reading her, and sensed all kinds of things about her but I felt so much of her pain that my body was literally aching and I wanted to commit suicide(course I know better) and I couldn't find a way to ground myself or put up shields so I'm thinking my subconscious shut off the switch. Strangely I've forgotten most of anything I may have learned about how to ground and shield and even things I've experienced with having those abilities. I'm pretty confused but feeling better. Just telling you how bad it can get, if you don't already know this from your experience. Be careful.

[N1bNXuDb]

I do this as well. I had a client that was going to base the life of her unborn childs life on the fact if her boyfriend was coming back to her or not. In other words, if he came back in the picture the baby lives, if he doesn't the baby dies. Normally I'm nonjudgemental but I could feel the baby's soul crying out for help. I couldn't get myself grounded, and I knew it was futile , he wouldn't be coming back. I had to block the client and I'm still cleansing myself. But people next to me, (I used to work in the ER) I could handle.

I've found I can't emotionally deal with military chapels either.

[hubua990]

I have had to learn to protect myself and also be very aware of what are my emotions and what are others. I still get ambushed sometimes so do tend to cry a lot but I am more aware now of what it is and that it is not me suffering from some form of depression.

I am not good with military type stuff either, I was traveling in the USA on memorial day and there were a number of marines on our plane and it was an awful five hours.

I also find that I pick up things from places, battlefields and the like, I found South East Asia quite traumatic, places like Vietnam and Camobodia where I would start crying and feel like I wanted to vomit, this was before I really knew what I was so it was very unsettling.

But yes I aura protect, ground myself and have crystals that I wear or have around me when I am working. I carry certain crystals with me in my bag at all times.

[N1bNXuDb]

What crystals do you carry? I really need to do that because I work in health care and around alot of death.

[hubua990]

At the moment I have a double terminator clear quartz and an Apache Tear a form of obsidian which a dear friend sent me for Christmas. I am not sure if you know the legend of the Apache Tears so here it is.....it is very sad and I must admit I cried terribly the first time that I read it.

There is a haunting legend about the Apache tear drop. After the Pinal Apaches had made several raids on a settlement in Arizona, the military regulars and some volunteers trailed the tracks of the stolen cattle and waited for dawn to
attack the Apaches. The Apaches, confident in the safety of their location, were completely surprised and out-numbered in the attack. Nearly 50 of the band of 75 Apaches were killed in the first volley of shots. The rest of the tribe retreated to the cliff’s edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than die at the hands of the white men.

For years afterward those who ventured up the treacherous face of Big Pacacho in Arizona found skeletons, or could see the bleached bones wedged in the crevices of the side of the cliff.

The Apache women and the lovers of those who had died gathered a short distance from the base of the cliff where the sands were white, and for a moon they wept for their dead. They mourned greatly, for they realized that not only
had their 75 brave Apache warriors died, but with them had died the great fighting spirit of the Pinal Apaches.

Their sadness was so great, and their burden of sorrow so sincere that the Great Father imbedded into black stones the tears of the Apache women who mourned their dead. These black obsidian stones, when held to the light, reveal the
translucent tear of the Apache. The stones bring good luck to those possessing them. It is said that whoever owns an Apache tear drop will never have to cry again, for the Apache maidens have shed their tears in place of yours.

When I work shows or know that I am going to be encountering a lot of emotion I will wear and amethyst and kunzite pendant and on my table with have a larger double terminator clear quartz and some rose quartz.

[FjFHQLJQ]

Sometimes when emotion is threatening to overcome me and I realise I have let my guard down and it is external on a small scale I try to breathe deep and centre and calm myself reminding myself all the time that I don't have to take on the feelings of others and that if I am to be there for them I must be practical and push down the intensity. On the whole this helps in a situation where I would be around emotion on a large scale I tend to encase myself as it is the only way I can cope and sometimes I have to make a total withdraw from the situation. Some people who know think it strange that I pull out of some situations when they see me as outgoing but don't really understand the intensity of emotion and how it can bring you downand make you feel like you are drowning. I am now with age getting much better at coping with it but with the help of some crystals who knows it could make a massive difference.