438. Are We Not Empathizing Correctly?
From a metaphysical perspective, empathy or even sympathy is typically measured by the sight, sound, feeling or knowing of something (typically negative) existing outside of your own energetic body. Upon receiving this impression, in a way, it “triggers” an energy inside our own energetic body which is filtered through our own perception value. In a way, we put two and two together. This process of triggering, almost as if two energetic “orbs” coming together, typically releases energy, even slightly. This is the “feeling” which occurs.
One may think that the more trauma and pain you’ve been through, the more likely you are to be triggered by empathy. This is somewhat of a fallacy, however you’re likely to be triggered… often. Just perhaps not in the same way. Since this process of energetic orbs coming together requires a person to be open, understanding and “surrender” enough for both of these orbs to meet, it’s really an exercise in releasing one’s blocks or boundaries in order to “feel” this empathy. So it really… depends.
We typically note that someone’s emotional reaction to these impressions or stimulus’ is how empathetic they are. But the truth is… it may just signal how unhealed we are, related to a particular concept or theme. For example, if you’re fresh out of a breakup and you’re constantly seeing breakup movies, you will likely be more substantially and triggered. This doesn’t necessarily mean you’re more empathetic. It just means that you have resonance at a point/place in time, and that you “allow” one or more feelings to interact with each other. There’s a misunderstanding that feeling sad because you receive sad impressions or stimulus means that you have a larger amount of empathy. It just means that you have an association with this sadness. And again, it may likely be unhealed.
So what is empathy? From my point of view, empathy is the willingness and ability to connect on a deeper level which involves consciousness, or feelings. It doesn’t mean that you have to illicit an emotional reaction. In fact, that may actually not be as good as you think it is. See, if you do have an overly emotional reaction, it means that there’s so much energy already inhabited inside of you, hat it’s almost “dying” to come out. It’s likely waiting for triggers to come along so that you can express, and ultimately purge it.
If we can reframe empathy in more of a cognizant way and less in an emotionally reactive way, we’ll actually be more productive with our empathy. Why? If we become triggered by sadness, pain or otherwise and it hits us in a way which is only simply enhancing our own discomfort and pain, we ultimately actually reject and repress this old, negative or stagnant energy even more. There’s no release, and again, there’s no purge.
The most effective thing you can do is going through transmission of energy process (posted at the top of my articles) in order to allow yourself to be the “clearest” channel you can be. In other words, a machine with processing energy. There’s limited fears, negativity, traumas, etc.
So why is this important? It allows you to not just process your own energy, raising your vibration, but it also allows you to process the energy of others more effectively. Think of it like a therapist. If a therapist is an extremely powerful and efficient processor, they’re able to show up every single day with a high vibration, a good attitude, unconditional love, and more. If they are over-burdened by not just the emotions and pains of others, but also their own, they will ultimately become so over-inundated and over-burdened they will likely become more biased, more selfish and be able to reach out or hold space in a less effective way. This is essentially how it works with people, places and things everywhere. On top of that, having a high vibration allows you to do work, make progress, advocate for others properly and make change, rather than simply just being sad for someone else. Of course everyone needs someone to simply “listen”, but when thinking of empathy, aim to be strong enough to only temporarily carry the energetic burdens of others, and to be sure to leave them as they are so you can move forward, unencumbered as an advocate of what other people truly and deeply need.
The value of empathy is taking what’s wrong with the universe and the world, and transmuting it into passion and motivation to change it. Not to take it on for yourself, ultimately leading in self-sabotage, stagnancy, anger, hatred and quite frankly… selfishness altogether.
Be sure to focus on acceptance, and not just acknowledgment as a whole in order to prioritize focus in this area.
