An empath, a psychic, or just plain zany?
Of course psychics are not the same as empaths. Let’s continue with this little series about differences between being a psychic, or intuitive, versus being an empath, or simply considering yourself to be energy sensitive.
Choice Is a Big Difference, for Starters
Being an empath is not a choice. You are born that way. Without exception, all empaths are born as empaths. That could mean you, since 1 in 20 people was born as an empath.
Also not a choice? Until a born empath gets effective skills, there will be suffering. Because every empath is born as an unskilled empath.
Every day, that unskilled empath will pick up Imported STUFF, astral level garbage that detracts from quality of life.
That’s why, IMHO, it is so wise for every empath to choose to develop empath skills. I recommend this as a priority for any empath, at any stage of education in mind-body-spirit.
Well, what if you’re born with talent as a psychic. You have noticed energies or seen energies or had flashes of knowing the future?
Whether or not you pursue that IS a choice.
Psychic Talent Does Not Mean a Big Cosmic SHOULD
You just have a talent. Not a mandate from God.
Many of the people on my Enlightenment Life List, people from this informal online community, have decided not to pursue that kind of talent.
They prefer to Capture the Fort. And this helped them to move into Enlightenment.
Many religions and spiritual paths actually warn against pursuing psychic development. It can become a distraction, an end in itself.
As I call it, for people living in today’s Age of Awakening, too much interest in psychic development can be addictive.
But-But-But
Maybe you’re thinking, “But that’s not me. I can keep my psychic interests in balance with the rest of my life.”
Then more power to you.
One easy way to do this is to keep to 20 Daily Minutes of Technique Time, Tops. If you choose to do techniques related to psychic development — that’s how you spend your Technique Time — fine.
Keep office hours.
Any spirit guides or angels who help you are working for YOU, right?
Don’t let it be the other way around.
Be Smart and Factor THIS Into Your Choice…
What can help you decide?
Will you empath skills or psychic development or make your own signature mishmash (as so many are doing today, and calling it being “energy sensitive”)?
Get yourself information as a smart Post-New-Age Consumer.
I just wanted to say that I loved the line, “Keep office hours”. That really drove the point home for me, Rose!
I like this topic Rose. I never thought about it before, but I appreciate you bringing my attention to this point.
This reminds me of the power that is inherent in where I place my attention. I enjoy having my attention in objective reality. And even if one does have psychic talent, they have the choice of when and if they give it their attention.
This is a great reminder for me that I am in charge of keeping me in objective reality.
VALERIE, it is just lovely to hear from you at the blog today.
And there you went, effortlessly summing up the most important part of the whole blog post in one easy paragraph:
“This reminds me of the power that is inherent in where I place my attention. I enjoy having my attention in objective reality. And even if one does have psychic talent, they have the choice of when and if they give it their attention.”
As with so many things in my life, I lucked into figuring this out. I started learning about psychic development before I knew I was an empath, and long before I had ever heard of any of Rose’s books.
Others in my group used to mention being reminded in various ways to work with their spirit guides and power animals. Mine don’t do this. I asked them about it once, and one of them told me the amount of time I spent working with them was fine the way it was.
After learning about doing only 20 minutes of Technique Time per day, I asked that guide about it again and she confirmed that the amount of time I was spending was fine because I was the one who chose it, not because there’s some required amount of time.