People of the Heart – Part 2

If there is a problem for Empaths, it is they take on others people’s “junk” without getting permission from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so. When they do get His permission it can be a transcendent experience for them, letting them feel a small part of what He does for us through His Atonement.

“It wasn’t until I was into my forty’s that I learned that the gift which I have even had a name and that the subject matter was very old and well documented. I knew that I wasn’t alone but never had any idea how prevalent it was. I was so overjoyed to learn this. To define what was really going on in my life and help things make more sense is treasure indeed.

“An Empath has the ability to walk into a room and immediately ‘feel’ what emotions exist. If there is sadness, anger, pain, fear, sorrow, guilt, etc., they can take on these emotions, pull them into themselves as if these were their own and begin to ‘work’ on them.

“In a nut shell, to work on them means that they begin by Coming to the Lord in the sincerity of their whole heart. They ask His blessing on the struggle of emotions that they feel and express great sorrow for any loss that may have occurred. They humbly ask if the Savior’s suffering and sacrifice might be used to take away this stain, with the assurance that it has made a place in our memory so as not to repeat the offense to the best of our ability. As we plead the cause, we ask Him if these emotions can be taken and cleared away. You can begin to feel if they will be granted or if greater repentance, more work is required. If it is granted and this begins to take place, you can feel it happening. It begins to lift and grow lighter; gravitationally, energetically, and spiritually. The sincerest gratitude is offered for the opportunity to experience these and for the new wisdom and knowledge acquired. A tremendous feeling of Love and Peace is what gets restored as you humbly recognize the debtor who so graciously came to your aid. Sometimes you can feel Him turn it around or flip it upside down, so to speak, which releases these and you can watch them disintegrate into a fine mist and just float away which makes it possible for the Love and Light of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ to fill a whole physical area. This is always the goal. Empaths are given the ability to take what is there and offer it up to the Savior which is what the use of His atoning sacrifice was meant to do.

“Charity, for some is a bestowed Gift from God, it can and should be exercised by all. Charity is a choice. Described by Paul as a more excellent Way, Charity is not only a noun but also an action word. Charity is the Pure Love of Christ. It is the love He has for the children of men and that which His children are seeking for one another. It is the strongest, highest, noblest love that defines God Himself and the most joyous to the soul. (1 Nephi 11:23). Charity is the desire to lift your fellow man. In this thought you open your Heart, and that is where the use of the Atonement comes into use. You can act as a savior, take things into yourself, and let them quickly pass through as you then offer it up to the Savior of all. You can let them affect as it passes through your spiritual being and sometimes learn from the lessons contained therein. It can greatly increase, not only your knowledge, but grant you pieces of the wisdom from the experiences. The rewards that are received from the Lord make this a joy to participate in. For one, you feel the heavens open and smile upon you as you are showered with blessing and helped in times of need. Your mind and Heart are greatly expanded for the doing.

“The Lord taught me how to pray. He was very specific. He put me into school, as it were, and taught me about what things ‘pleased Him’ and what things, ‘did not please Him.’ These were the terms used. In the Masters’ School, He taught me a process of clearing that I have used throughout my life. Not only for myself, but for the ‘work’ that came to me. It involved deep prayer and often all-encompassing meditation, and all of the Love energy that I could muster which, of course, was not my own in the first place. It came from the Master. All life comes from the Master. It is all His work. He is the author and finisher of it all; which work is us! I was learning how to use His atonement and work in a sort of partnership with Him. Of course, He does what only He knows how to do. But firstly, it always seemed that He wanted me to give my all, or be pushed to my limits before He took it. In doing such things, I felt I was expanding the love in my Heart, increasing my awareness on different levels and gaining different kinds of knowledge of the world around me, seen and unseen; comprehended or not. And that is worth it all right there. He was showing me His world.

“An Empath’s physical body acts as a barometer, if you will. It becomes a tool which helps them to ‘feel’ in their body for the answers that they are seeking to find. It has only been the last year that I have been made aware of how this works in men and have known others who learned this in their youth. I began to notice certain habits that I had formed that would happen only in certain circumstances or when I was thinking certain thoughts. I began to see that my body was acting out the clue or answer. ‘Oh, I see that it is pointing me to know that….’ These were big aha moments and I made it a point to pay attention to my ‘whole’ self and amazing new insights have come.

“When our Savior was in the Garden of Gethsemane, we read that He suffered for the sins of the world and that so great was His pain that He bled from every pore. (Mosiah 2:7, D&C 19:18-19) Can you imagine! He took upon Himself, Empathically, not only the conditions of our mortality, our sins and iniquities, but our transgressions which defined is our actions of evil wrongdoing. And every sorrow and sadness of everyone involved in our lives, because for everything which we do surely effects our loved ones as well, He took. The aches and pains we physically feel when we suffer from sickness and infirmities, He took and takes! His suffering was certainly equal and exceeded any of the depths of our guilt, our grief, all of these negative attributes that keep us from experiencing peace.

“Acting as an Empath used to take place without my knowing from whence any of these emotions came. They can be very subtle and for all I know they might have come from Italy! Not knowing if it was someone present, or at a great distance away. Perhaps it was someone already passed on from this life. I have never even considered ‘who’ or concerned myself with those details in the slightest. It simply hasn’t mattered. For many years, the reality for me had been that I thought these emotions were my own and no matter how much Heart I gave to them, they kept coming back. I thought that my own ‘repentances’ were not being somehow complete and so I prayed all the more earnestly.

“If an Empath is helping to take their neighbors burdens as their own and exercises what they are given to do, at the Saviors request, one must give pause to wonder at the tremendous way and means that He has provided for mankind to be blessed anew and we hardly knew it. What a strange act! I think there is so much more to our existence here and His Atoning Sacrifice than we can scratch off the surface.

I do believe my friend is right, there is so much more to our existence here than we are aware of. Next we will take a look at how the Savior’s atoning sacrifice combined with the gifts of an empath can be a tremendous blessing to our ancestors that have passed on and are stuck where they are, unable to progress.