YES everything is difficult before it gets easy! Like using knife and fork.

If you run your energy Linear you will find more strength and power. If you make sure you are connected to earth and grounded you will be stronger.

For Empaths our weakest points are Grounding, defining our Aura and running energy linear. Our natural tendencies and learned behaviour in early years have created bad habits.

But these are a must if we want to be strong and stop getting messed up. I have posted this many times so check out some old posts. Or I will give pointers again.

Hi Rachel,
How do you create a strong aura without visualizing? I get feelings not visuals and so I don't really relate to the aura (but I'd like to) although, I do feel myself get flutters in different chakra points if I focus my attention there.

Chrissie or ?
Does imagining/pretending work the same as visualization, if you don't see visuals? I can't do what my husband does and visualize a face when he closes his eyes but I can imagine/feel the feeling of the person and where they were standing in reference to another point. I can also usually remember everything we talked about and how they felt about it but I often don't even remember their physical face or name.

Dear Rachel,

I sense it like there is a physical body which has it's own memory of pleasures, pains, fears, and also has it's own systems to heal itself like dancing, working out, screaming, jumping up and down ietc.

Then, there is the etheric body, which just seems like a golden energy field around the physical body. Using mantra/pranayama it's energy can be increased, the stronger the etheric body the stronger the immune system, the more clear and well functioning the mind+intellect. Often professional athletes as they enter the "zone" begin to experience the etheric body.

Then, there is the emotional body, it's aura field is larger than the physical and etheric. It is rarely really kept together, it's often flying around based on memories, triggers, desires all over the place. This seems to be what you are suffering with. A fixed configuration like creating a shield is only going to make you an isolated anti-social cold/distant person. It will also stagnate your consciousness development. The lessons to learn in the emotional body is that "Only you can give yourself what you need emotionally." You must learn to give yourself Mother love, Father love, Lover love, and fulfill all your emotional desires yourself... as you learn to do this, you'll also discover as I have that no one could ever give you exactly what you needed other than yourself. As your emotional body matures (it took many many workshops on top of meditation, and lots of somatic body work spanning years), then you reach a place of feeling fulfilling, feeling overwhelmed with love within yourself, and a joy for you to share it. You no longer need someone to hug you, kiss you, give you a compliment, sleep with you, etc. Though you enjoy these things, though not from the basis of need. Often you will feel others who have these needs and as a healer you can provide them these.

After the emotional body is healed, then gradually the mental body can be realized. It's aura expands wider than the emotional. It also flies around based on your thoughts. It opens up telepathy, access to all sorts of knowledge as it gets resolved. Though healing this is quiet tough and I'm still working on it. Basically you'll find yourself getting identified with certain thoughts, like in the morning the thought that says "get up and go to work" and you must learn to retreat your attention from these thoughts and begin to learn to function from a pervasive mind-space rather than follow thoughts. As you realize this, you will feel a deep peace and great clarity about your life. Outwardly, you will resolve life responsibilities like debt, work issues, relationships, finishing school, taking care of yourself etc. And bring your outer and inner life to a balance. You will also know a sense of "I" that is beyond the ego at this stage. You will equate I with consciousness itself. I can keep writing on this... but going beyond the scope of emotional body.

I have always been aware of being invaded by energy and emotions from others, and aware of thing I have never put a face to. But normally have felt safe with distance. But since coming in contact with other sensitives and empaths, I find this is no longer works. This site is ok, but I belong to Indigo Society too, and it as been bad at times. I had to learn how to protect myself by raising Shields, which I had never before imagined or figured out how to do.

I had help from a couple loving Empathic Mentors, but that only gave me clue to shielding. As always prayer came to the for front and worked as it usually has in the past. I prayed and in a day or two, it came to me, how and that it would happen it if I did it. I knew to raise my hands above my head and move them over my head and around, all the while visualizing/ imagining pure white protective spiritual energy encircling about me. It worked, but felt like I was in sound proof room. So I talked to the mentors and they told me to modify the shield and It came to me how. I took the first one down and made a new one, thinking I want to allow it so I can sense good or neutral things and I want much of it on manual, not automatic. I did it one more time, to make for other adjustments. The third time, I made a solid shield and imagined taking my hands and cutting small holes in it, in place that I know to cut. This allowed more to feel more, and operate less filtered, but still protected, from the more negative elements coming my way.

Amazing what can happen with spiritual guidance, inspiration and faith. I guess it is like what Yoda told Luke Skywalker, Do or Do Not, There Is No Try.

David

Yoda was great...but for some reason my philosophy's always been the opposite: There is ONLY trying!

Interesting. I guess this is why he's a Jedi Master and I am not! :-)