ARE YOU Empathy?

GIFT AND A CURSE    I feel at times this can and is a curse     ive been told your too sentive you are just taking things mom says too sentivesly , thats why your hurt by what she said or you take things wrong that she says. iam learing no matter what some people will never be in the wrong by what they do so i eccept it. i dont  understand her or him but its ok .. i still will smile ... and go on with my day aint like she would really be borothered by hurting me , and it dont really matter iam just too sentivetive . some are so blinded by the way they have been trained , just like i couldnt see just how abusive my ex was till i got away from him . some times people just cant empathsize with you becalse they are too clost to things maybe when we move out he will be a little more empathy to me , any ways i dont need to be around her any way becalse she just cant see how her words and actions do hurt us both .... i wished i could break my empathy butten and not give a d amn like some people . like she and is was talking about people being homeless and i was being empathic to the homeless i agreed and i said i know what thats like being homeless , mother in law relpys being in a womans shelters not homeless living in a box is. she has a point but who is she to make that comment like i dont know what suffering is like ..she acts like she knows more than any one suffred more than any one , one day iam gona have the back bone to tell her you havent suffered any thing compaired to JESUS! IAM  just so sick of MOTHER TREASA THE ALL KNOWING  she also does this to my husband and my daughter . oneday she will wake up and all her controle is gone  shes just some one i dont want a relationship with it will only be on the surface .deep down i really would love  a mother and daughter relationship with her but its not what she wants ....  IT JUST GETS OLD BEING ALWAYS PUT IN MY PLACE FOR WHAT?     The natural ability to understand the emotions and feelings of others is the meaning of human empathy. mpathy is Inherited?    What is Empathy?

Empathy is the ability to read and understand people and be in-tune with or resonate with others, voluntarily or involuntarily of one's empath capacity.

Empaths have the ability to scan another's psyche for thoughts and feelings or for past, present, and future life occurrences. Many empaths are unaware of how this actually works, and have long accepted that they were sensitive to others.

Empaths Sense Deep Emotions

Empathy is a feeling of another's true emotions to a point where an empath can relate to that person by sensing true feelings that run deeper than those portrayed on the surface. People commonly put on a show of expression. This is a learned trait of hiding authentic expression in an increasingly demanding society.

An empath can sense the truth behind the cover and will act compassionately to help that person express him/herself, thus making them feel at ease and not so desperately alone.

Empaths experience empathy towards family, children, friends, close associates, complete strangers, pets, plants and inanimate objects.

Empathy is genetic, inherent in our DNA, and passed from generation to generation. It is studied both by traditional science and alternative healing practitioners.

Empathy has both biological/genetic and spiritual aspects.

Empaths often possess the ability to sense others on many different levels. From their position in observing what another is saying, feeling and thinking, they come to understand another. They can become very proficient at reading another personís body language and/or study intently the eye movements. While this in itself is not empathy, it is a side-shoot that comes from being observant of others. In a sense, empaths have a complete communication package.

How Empathy Works

While there is much we don't yet understand about how empathy works, we do have some information. Everything has an energetic vibration or frequency and an empath is able to sense these vibrations and recognize even the subtlest changes undetectable to the naked eye or the five senses.

Words of expression hold an energetic pattern that originates from the speaker. They have a specific meaning particular to the speaker. Behind that expression is a power or force-field, better known as energy. For example, hate often brings about an intense feeling that immediately accompanies the word. The word hate becomes strengthened with the speaker's feeling. It is that person's feelings (energy) that are picked up by empaths, whether the words are spoken, thought or just felt without verbal or bodily expression.

To understand what another is feeling does not necessarily mean that one is impelled to act in a supportive way. In fact, taking the above example, if the context was fictional, even though your empathetic response was genuine, it would never occur to you to rush off to offer the woman help. Empathy is not to be confused with pity, sympathy or compassion. These feelings are secondary, and cannot emerge without empathy first taking place. That is why sociopaths, whose mental architecture lacks a sense of empathy, are also deficient in pity, sympathy and compassion. These emotions have no empathetic soil in which to grow.

Humans are not alone in having a sense of empathy, although it is very rare in the animal world. Chimpanzees seem to have it to a degree, and possibly gorillas, but not the lesser primates. The observations of dolphins and whales assisting an injured pod-mate also might indicate empathy, but other factors could explain it. Human empathy, however, we know exists.