BTW, I found this link:

Empathic Suffering

Tim, case in point. If you worked with a violent sex offender, would you want to know? I mean if you had no “evidence” other than intuition?

Like say, you were the black guy in the “green mile” and you touched a guy and felt all the evil inside him, and there was nothing you could do about it, would you really want to know?

This kind of thing happens to me. Most people are normal people. The feedback I get is pretty sensitive, but normal people are just that.

Really serioulsy evil people, and they are fairly rare, really broadcast themselves to me. Its oppressive to be around them.

Enjoy it, that’s one thing. It’s a gift to be that open to people.

One insight I have is that its related to the second chakra. It’s called “sponging” I read this in a book on chakras. I think it was somtjing like “Chakras: The owners manual” or somthing like that. There are “sponge healers” that take on peoples bad energies and get burned out.

I know a little about why it might happen but not enough. With me its not so much a problem with people I care about, but with random people I don’t know.

it happens in movie theaters, coffee shops, bookstores, anywhere I have to be in close proximity to people I don’t know and am not interacting with. Not everyone but certian people.

I guess if I was a cop or somthing it might be an advantage, because I can pick out violent people, I can tell who is up to no good. I guess everyone gets “bad Vibes” but I think for me the frequency is turned way up too high or somthing. If I am in Barnes and Noble reading a book near another guy reading a book, and he is in a bad mood or feels like the type of person I wouldn’t get along with, I can’t relax. Other times I try to fight their energy and get worn out.

I’ll be looking forward to your insights.

Like really dark things about their psyche.

Yes, this tends to happen to me as well. But it tends to be exacerbated by my own psyche not being “cleaned”. That is, these insights may be technically real and meaningful, or you may be creating them through your observation. When these insights are of the darker variety it’s more likely that you’re projecting or accidentally reflecting elements of yourself through the lens of the other person. It’s a matter of focusing on the “wrong aspects” which I think I touched on a while back. You can focus on them and they may be real. Or you can focus on the best possible and cause *that* to become real by observing it and devoting the energy of your attention to it.

I am hyper aware of all the energy signatures of all the people. Sometimes, often, our energies don’t mix and I feel really uncomfortable.

This has been a huge problem for me in my life, and especially in close relationships. A point seems to occur where I parachute inside of the other person somehow and “take on” their problems as though they were my own. This is fine to a point - until you forget that you are doing that and that you can STOP doing that just like you started doing that.

I tend to think this relates to what you said above about perceiving dark insights into people. Not really sure what the solution is as I’m still reeling from having this happen to me. It’s a great topic though and extremely important so I will add it to my databank for the next few days and see if I can come up with something more useful to say maybe.

I noticed a lot of the same things with the posture and the breathing. I tend not to drink often though. I drink rarely but get drunk when I drink.

I think it does catch up to you though, a lot of people my age that have been drinking regularly (36) are beginning to look like shit. I smoked pot for a few weeks, and began to get really disturbing penetrating insights to my friends and family. Like really dark things about their psyche. So i quit.

I wrote an article about this posture and breathing stuff a while back

reformatting my neural hard drive

I have a question. We seem similarly empathic. whenever I am in cafes or bookstores, I am hyper aware of all the energy signatures of all the people. Sometimes, often, our energies don’t mix and I feel really uncomfortable.

Any insights on that? Its such I weird thing I feel like no one can relate. But anyway, I can totally relate to this post.