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    Empathic Sensitivity: Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving For People Who Feel
    Empathic Sensitivity: Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving For People Who Feel
    Empathic Sensitivity: Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving For People Who Feel
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    Empathic Sensitivity: Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving For People Who Feel

    By Janice Carlin, Ph.D.

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    If you feel and experience more physical and/or emotional pain than other people you very well may be an empath. You are not, however, a hypochondriac or neurotic, crazy person because you feel so much unpleasantness. In this book, you will discover that your ability to feel so much is truly a gift that you can use to your advantage in your life to help yourself and even others, if you so choose. You will learn ways to stop the cycles of pain that you experience and to move into a more gentle and honoring way of living. Uniquely addressed by this empathic author, discover a deep, authentic meaning of what it is to be an empath; what you need to now about how energy works in order to live with health and peace; how to effectively clear toxic energies away from you; all about maintaining boundaries on multiple levels; tools for healing and balance; how to use your empathic gifts and intuition for good; how to be grounded as an empath.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanice Carlin, Ph.D.
    Release dateMar 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310463334
    Empathic Sensitivity: Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving For People Who Feel
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    Janice Carlin, Ph.D.

    Janice Carlin, Ph.D. is a spiritual author, Holistic Health Practitioner and Holistic Nutrition Practitioner.

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    Empathic Sensitivity - Janice Carlin, Ph.D.

    EMPATHIC SENSITIVITY

    Powerful Tools for Coping and Thriving for People Who Feel

    by Janice Carlin, Ph.D.

    Copyright 2014, 2016 Janice Carlin

    3rd Edition Copyright 2019 Janice Carlin

    Distributed by Smashwords

    All Rights Reserved. Copyright under Berne Copyright Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, and Pan-American Copyright Convention. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author.

    The information provided in this book is designed to provide helpful information on the subjects discussed. This book is not meant to be used, nor should it be used, to diagnose or treat any medical condition. The author and publisher are not responsible for any specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision and are not liable for any damages or negative consequences from any treatment, action, application or preparation, to any person reading or following the information in this book. References are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute endorsement of any websites or other sources.

    Electronic ISBN: 978-0-9974798-9-8

    This book is available in print at most online retailers.

    DEDICATION:

    To the sensitive people of the world.

    May you remember who you are so that you may do what you need in order to thrive.

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

    Thank you to my husband for going with the flow as we learned together about what it means to be an empath. Thank you to my son for being in my life and reminding me that there is more to reality than what I can see.

    Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION

    CHAPTER 1 ABOUT EMPATHIC SENSITIVITY: Science and Feeling

    CHAPTER 2 BOUNDARIES

    Multi-level Toxins Reference List

    CHAPTER 3 TOOLS

    Physical Tools

    Mental Tools

    Emotional Tools

    Etheric and Spiritual Tools

    CHAPTER 4 ALIGNING TO YOUR PURPOSE

    CHAPTER 5 REAL LIFE APPLICATION

    Using Empathic Intuition to Receive Answers

    Applying Boundaries with Your Tools

    RESOURCES

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    ENDNOTES

    INTRODUCTION

    Do you feel and experience more physical and/or emotional pain than other people? If so, you very well may be an empath. You are not, however, a hypochondriac or a neurotic, crazy person because you feel so much unpleasantness. In this book, you will discover that your ability to feel so much is truly a gift that you can use to your advantage in your life to help yourself, and even others, if you so choose. You will learn ways to stop the cycles of pain that you experience and to move into a gentler way of living that is honoring of yourself.

    Being empathic is feeling energy sensitively. In order to truly know what it is to be an empath and how to live a healthy, productive life as one, a knowledge base about sensitivity and how energy works in relation to yourself and the world is necessary.

    Everything in our universe is made of energy. Science tells us that what we can see with our physical eyes comprises only 5 percent of all that actually exists. This leaves another 95 percent that we cannot see! What is happening on a non-physical, energetic level in terms of what you are experiencing relates to how you feel on an emotional or physical level. This is the foundation of one of the most empowering and fascinating concepts you will learn about in this book that sheds a light on the truth about how empaths experience life.

    Sensitivity means a reaction to stimuli that comes from either within or outside of you. The more sensitive you are energy, the more reactive you will be. People have different sensitivities to different energies. However, a person who is highly sensitive will be reactive to multiple sources of stimuli on multiple levels. It is important to know this meaning of sensitivity, because when we add the word empathic to it, we are specifying the way that some of these reactions are experienced. You can experience reactions to any form of energy—physical or non-physical. This book will empower you to know how to recognize what energies to avoid and how to work with all forms of energy to create a space of well-being for yourself.

    Sensitive, empathic people need knowledge and tools to work with energy on multiple levels, because we react to and feel energy this way. For empaths, there is no separation between something that exists on a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual level—we can feel all of it. I have spent the last twelve years researching, learning, and developing tools to help sensitive empaths understand and work with their empathic gifts so they can be empowered to live healthy, productive lives.

    This book is organized into four parts. In the first chapter, I describe what empathic sensitivity means, from a basic, traditional definition to a deeper, more authentic meaning. I share with you some concepts in new science of how energy works and explain how knowing about this empowers you to understand your gift on much deeper levels. When you have this knowledge, you can maintain your boundaries so much more easily. This leads to Chapter 2, which is all about boundaries. You will read about the concept of boundaries from a larger perspective than perhaps you may have heard before. You will see how toxins exist on multiple levels that affect how you feel and your general well-being. In the third chapter, I share some powerfully effective, accessible tools with you. These are tools that you can use on multiple levels in your life to bring about peace, grounding, and vitality for yourself, including easy-to-use, gentle, and effective energy clearing techniques and holistic nutrition principles. Employing these tools can allow you to step into your power to use your gift of being empathic for the good of yourself, your family, and others in a safe and productive way. The final chapter brings into focus how you can apply all that you have learned. You will read some real-life examples, and learn information about using your empathic intuition effectively and with discernment.

    For myself, knowing about being empathic and having effective tools to work with my gift was a crucial step in my own healing journey because it allowed for me to stop believing that there was something wrong with me for feeling so much. With this realization, I was able to step away from feeling hopeless and helpless, and step into feeling empowered, strong, and capable to take the action steps I needed to be able to move forward. It also allowed me to help and empower my son to live a thriving life as a highly sensitive, empathic person. Before I understood what was really going on, we could not remain feeling stable, healthy, and grounded no matter how much I wanted us to or how hard I tried. I learned over time that being grounded is a necessary part of feeling good and being healthy in life, but for us, as empaths, being able to do it would require some extra knowledge and tools. It brings me great joy to be sharing those here with you!

    CHAPTER 1

    About Empathic Sensitivity: Science and Feeling

    Being an empath means that you can sense and feel the emotions and energy of others within yourself as if they are your own. This is different from being empathetic and feeling compassion toward someone else and what they are going through. As an empath, you can actually experience the emotions and/or physical pain of another, and it can be quite a confusing task to be able to tell what is your own and what is someone else’s. Empaths can also feel the pain of animals and can even sense the pain and imbalance of the planet. You can sense the pain, but you can also sense the joy. It is a gift, not a curse. Remember this as you read through this book. If you do not already see it in this positive light, I think you will by the end.

    Another word for empathic sensitivity is clairsentience, which means clear-feeling. Empaths often can feel sudden moments of physical or emotional pain (grief, anger, fear, etc.), which seem to come out of nowhere. When empathic people live without awareness of their sensitivity, they can experience many different, often undiagnosable ailments. They are often labeled as mentally ill, bipolar, depressed, hypochondriac, autistic, having chronic pain conditions, or ADHD. Holding onto the energies of others can eventually lead to physical disease in empathic, sensitive people.

    Empaths can also have other intuitive gifts, including clairaudience (clear-hearing), clairvoyance (clear-seeing), and/or claircognizance (clear-knowing). Clairsentience is the most misunderstood of the intuitive senses. After reading this book, you will have a much clearer understanding of this amazing gift.

    In order for me to take you deeper into a more authentic meaning of empathic sensitivity, you have to know some concepts about how energy works and how you fit in with them. Having knowledge about energy and energetic boundaries is absolutely vital for empathic people to live in a thriving, healthy, happy state.

    You may already be familiar with the concept of how energy exists in different forms and on multiple levels simultaneously. In the big picture, energy, in its different forms, comprises our universe and everything in it. All of this energy is connected to itself; it is one thing—energy. We are connected to each other and to everything in our universe because of this energy. Essentially, we are the energy ourselves. However, what does this actually mean in regard to our everyday lives and our health?

    When I was in the midst of struggling with my health years ago, I kept asking, Why is this happening? How is this happening? And if I can’t understand it, how can I explain it to anyone else? Healing practitioners I would ask would tell me that it had to do with vibrations, and I would hear the words It’s all about vibrations, in my mind whenever I would ponder about the subject. I felt a strong internal push to find deeper understanding, yet I found very little available that had been written about the connection of vibrations in regard to health, well-being, and intuition with information from actual science. As a classically trained musician and teacher, I had plenty of experience teaching about vibrations but combining what I already knew with scientific information was something different. It took me many years of reading about quantum mechanics and quantum physics, plus doing my own channeling, to be able to put everything together. Today, I can tell you how and why it really is all about vibrations.

    In this part of the chapter, I am going to explain the science you need to know in an accessible way and how it connects with the relevant concepts for empaths. It is important to have knowledge of current science, not just what you were taught in school, because, as you will see, that science is extremely limited and leads not toward solutions or empowerment, but illness, labels, and suffering for empaths. Each piece of information I share with you here is an important part of the big picture of what you need to know to be empowered. Think of each concept as a piece of a puzzle that will all come together

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