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Although, it definitely may not seem so for the young medium, who constantly has ghosts around him, or even for the young clairvoyant, who is constantly seeing negative images, gifts are just that – gifts, and are never, ever a curse.
The law of attraction intensely applies to those who have spiritual gifts of any nature. It is extremely important, that you stay positive, if you want to be able to help others in a positive way. When the metaphysically gifted person becomes negative, all that can be seen or felt is negative.
Staying positive does not mean, however, that you will never see, experience, feel, or otherwise receive negative information, as we are given information in order to help. This is why learning the arts of grounding and detachment are essential to the well being of those who find themselves with gifts seemingly beyond their control. Learning techniques that help one ground themselves and detach themselves from the stream of information they receive is what brings more control.
Fear is the number one negative emotion that must be worked through. Being fearful, brings more to fear, as any other emotion constantly felt brings more of the same. Learning detachment and grounding will help in this area, but most important is to realize there is nothing to fear. The visions and feelings do not belong to you, and the ghosts are not here to frighten you. Compassion is the key.
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Taken from my upcoming ebook, Coping Strategies for Empaths.
A wide variety of vibrations are projected through the wide variety of creative outlets through which empaths release their emotions into the world. The emotion that the empath projects through their creative works, words, and, ultimately their vibration level, either helps to raise the total consciousness of our world, or keep it lower. There are those who are at all levels and stages within their awareness of their abilities as an empath. This “imbalance” actually helps to maintain balance in the vibration levels of our planet. All things and people are connected, therefore, as the higher vibrations rise, so do the lower vibrations rise.
If you are an empath, there is no doubt, that you are ultimately here for light work in some form. There are huge numbers of empaths on our planet during these times. We have literally come together as a team to bring the vibration levels of our planet to a higher state of consciousness.
Some empaths may have come into this lifetime, highly aware, and may have known from early ages the power of their emotion. Others may have “awakened” to what it all means at many different stages of life.
Typically the empath first comes into awareness, not by realizing the power of their own emotion through their own projection of it, but by realizing they are feeling the emotion of others around them. In cases where the gift of empathy is accompanied by the gift of mediumship, the empath may have realized they could feel the emotion of those who are no longer living, even before they may have realized they were also absorbing emotion from the living around them.
Many, though, even with the gift of empathy and mediumship combined, may still have taken a while to realize they were literally feeling the emotions of others. In this time of “sleeping” the risk for addictions for the empath is high. The risk is also high among those who are aware of this part of the gift of empathy, but see it as a curse with no escape, as they empath may look for ways to make it go away.
We have seen many, many empaths on our world stages, create, and reach massive audiences with whatever vibration they were projecting through their release of the emotion contained within them, and we have also watched many drug their way straight out of this world before our eyes. Beautiful, spirited, entertainers, who turned to drugs during some part of their path, and many, even though they may have been later more aware, found themselves still struggling with the addiction long after.
The absolute clearest I can be on this issue is, you can’t make it go away. You have it because you are to learn to work with it, and master the flow of your energy to join with others to help raise the consciousness of our world. As we wake up, we help others wake up.
There are many different coping strategies throughout your early levels of learning about your gift, and how to effectively cope with it, and do what you have ultimately come here to do with it. It is not a curse. It is, however, a great responsibility to have the gift of empathy, and very important that empaths learn to cope with and grow with the gift in a positive and healthy manner.
The emotion the empath absorbs must be released. The gift of empathy is always combined with a creative gift as well, as a means to cope with, and release emotions, but more importantly, with the empath who is aware, to help raise the vibration levels by reaching an audience with any and all of those creative gifts, and projecting positive emotion.
Here are a few pointers for keeping addiction at bay if you are an empath:
Remember this: Positive is the key to the happy empath. The happy empath projects positive emotion.
It is absolutely essential to keep in a positive environment, keep your mind positive, and deal with your emotion at the root level thereby turning it into a lesson rather than being reactive.
Let yourself be open and feel, and be aware of the reasons within you behind the feelings. This will lesson their power over you.
Be aware of when your emotion changes with your environment, and is not stemming from within you. Learn to follow the source of emotion through observation.
Meditate daily.
Practice deep breathing.
Stay away from negative people.
Find something to be grateful for in everything, everywhere.
Know what calms you and partake in it when you start to feel stressed or anxious.
Spend time in nature and often.
Use your creative outlets and flow from your passions. Do what you love.
And finally, realize that the emotion that is your own, within you, is a beautiful gift given to you as a guiding point to learn and grow from. Rather than resist it, be open to it and let it flow through you. What we resist, strengthens, so if you are resisting negative emotion, then it is only bringing more negative to you. Examine it, and get to the root source within you about why you feel the emotion, and work through it from there. Through this learning and growth process, the cause for the emotion is healed rather than given strength to continue to reoccur.
I am honored to have had a tweet caught in Chad Lilly‘s twitter stream that he invited to be a part of this beautiful book filled with art, poetry, tweets, and many avenues and genres of Random Acts of Awareness. He is currently accepting submissions for this project, through his company, Inner Circle Publishing, and I am so looking forward to seeing this beautiful book all put together.
If you are an artist, poet, writer, microblogger, video artists, or have other creative gifts, and you are aware, please be sure to submit your work and join with many like minds to be a part of this blessed opportunity.
Messages come through to mediums in various different ways from the other side. They tend to come through in the best way to get the messages through the messenger. They will use whatever means available through the medium in order to either validate themselves, or in other cases, get specific messages through. For instance, one may see symbols that have specific meaning to him/her, and know to automatically say a certain thing, one may actually hear the spirits, or see them in the mind’s eye, or even as if they are standing before them. What we see/hear/feel, we describe, therefore allowing you to be able to validate the spirits who are coming through. Many times we are given specific information that only the person the message was intended for knows. In those cases, the validation is powerful, but it doesn’t mean any other means or information that comes through should not allow you to validate the spirit.
On the other side, from their perspective, their goal is to validate themselves in any way they are able to as quickly as possible. They are not able to stay for long periods of time, so there are sometimes, the energy might pull away if the spirit is not validated after several attempts.
Although most people who go to a medium for a spirit reading are hoping for a specific person to come through for them, if you are having a general spirit reading, I highly suggest coming to the reading with a very open mind. I suggest this, because if not, you may miss validating spirits that do come through. Especially because in many cases, the spirits will come through together, and the strongest energy will lead, so sometimes, there is a need to validate the “front liner” so that the others may follow.
If you are hoping for a particular person, then I highly suggest that the reading is targeted as such with a reader who will ask for something specific in order to work with the specific energy such as something that belonged to the person, a picture, or whatever the medium is able to work through and with to pull that specific energy of that specific person through. Many readers do both specific readings as well as general readings.
There are also other types of mediums who work directly with spirits who have not yet crossed to the other side, or in some cases, the spirit has crossed. The major point is the focus is different. The readings in this case are done for those who are left behind after a loved one has been a victim, or law enforcement. The medium works directly with the spirit to bring vital information to the family as well as law enforcement to bring justice, and/or closure.
You will also see mediums who work only with those who are stuck here as ghosts, in efforts to rescue them, or free them and help them cross to the other side. And, of course, there are also those who work in all the spirit realms mentioned above.
Most though, are drawn to a certain area of work with the spirit world depending on what their themes or purposes are for this life time. For instance, one who is here for healing, you will find mostly working with those left behind doing spirit readings. Those that are here for justice will feel more aligned in working with law enforcement.
Some mediums, however, do work with all realms of the spirit world. An example of a medium who does, is one who is here for rescue. You will often find these mediums in all facets, working with the spirit world and this world in any way that brings “rescue” of any type. Another example would be one who is here to validate the different realms.
What is important to remember no matter what type of reading or help you seek from a medium, is this: The messenger is never the message. The messenger is merely a channel that is able to be used in order to pass messages between here, the other side, and the space between us.
A medium or a spirit medium is a channel through which messages flow through from those who are either on the other side or stuck here as ghosts. There are many different types of mediums who channel many different variations and types of different vibration levels including those who can bring messages through from all vibration levels. Also varied are the many different ways the messages are received. Some may receive smells, symbols, hear names, words, and other information, actually see the ghost or spirit before them and/or in the mind’s eye, see scenes, or any variation of those and more, utilizing whatever means and senses available to the medium that can accomplish getting their message through.
Often the messages I receive make no sense to me whatsoever, but the important thing is, they have deep or special meaning to the person the message is for. I never question the messages I get from spirit when I am doing a spirit reading. It is not my job to understand the messages. It is my job to pass them to the person or persons they are intended for.
Involving the analytical mind in the process of receiving causes confusion, and also wastes precious time in the receiving process, especially when receiving messages from those on the other side. It takes a great deal of energy for them to come through, thus they can only stay for brief periods. For these reasons, I long ago learned to set “me” aside.
When having a spirit reading with a medium, it is important that you honor any and all messages or spirits that come through for you (even if it wasn’t the one you were hoping for), as all messages are given for the benefit of healing and growth, and are given in the highest form of love.
Many times people seek out a spirit medium to find truth in a situation involving a loved one who has passed. Often the truth may be hard to hear. Please know in these cases, the messages are still for your healing and growth, and accept them with the love in which they were sent.
My strongest gifts are those of mediumship and empathy. My work is not always easy, but is truly very gratifying. I am so grateful to be able to help in the healing processes of others, and welcome all who feel lead to me.
Have you ever thought of someone just before the phone rang, and discovered that very person is the person calling? Or perhaps, you thought of someone, and later heard some news about that person, or something similar? Think it’s just a coincidence? Think again.
The truth is, intuition is available to each and every one of us. It is part of who we are. When we brush things off as coincidences, we basically are telling ourselves we don’t need the guidance our own intuition is offering to us. On the other and, when we pay attention to such pieces of information, and honor them for what they are, in turn, more information is made available to us. What we pay attention to expands, and that includes intuition and/or psychic ability.
What that doesn’t mean, though, is if you have stronger natural psychic abilities, you can make them go away by not paying attention to them. I have often had others ask me if there is a way to make visions, voices, etc. go away. My answer to that is, no. You can indeed suppress natural clairvoyant, clairaudient, and even slight medium abilities, however, when you do so, the end result is manifestation of physical sickness.
You can, however, ask that the information you receive be only information you can use to benefit another, or ask for, in any other way for it to be more tolerable for you.
You have the gifts you have for a reason. They are part of who you came here to be. Natural abilities do have to be accepted, worked with, and further developed. If you find you have strong natural abilities, there is no doubt whatsoever you are to use them to serve in some way. Although, in the beginning, they may feel like a curse, they are indeed blessings. The more you use them to benefit others, the more you will see them as the blessings they truly are.
There are many different ways you can start work on further developing and learning to use your psychic abilities, but first and foremost, the most important aspect, is working through and releasing any fears you have associated with your gifts. Rest assured if you have these gifts, and you seek guidance for using them in service, enormous protection and help is and will further be available to you.
Meditation brings clarity, and strengthens natural gifts, as well as allows you to receive guidance and information. It is in the still space we enter through meditation where all answers lie. Those who have strong natural abilities also meditate naturally, or are able to go into a meditative state of mind naturally.
Trust that your gifts are tools you brought with you in order to serve, help others grow, and to grow with and within yourself. See it as the great honor that it is. Denying these aspects of yourself is denying who you came here to be.
