Or maybe this being is life and bliss, and pain is a conversation it is having with us sometimes.

I am learning. I am always learning. My words do express someone who knows, but someone who aspires to know, for peace.

It has been said that any problem in life can be solved by opening our heart a little bit more. If we are experiencing any kind of suffering, however small, then chances are our heart is opening. In this way, suffering of any kind is part of a beautiful destiny we share with every Saint.

On another note, "empath" is a very new term to me. At least, I haven't heard it for a very long time.

When people are sick, sometimes they take different kinds of medications. And the medications can cause more hurt, or do more to keep the person in hurt. Sickness is a sign that the body wants to heal. There is a tradition that says it is good to support the sickness, and thus the healing of the body.

I have a point here. Sometimes, the very thing we are trying to avoid the most is the very thing we attract, an avalanche of that which we most resist. I can help (or it has helped me) to think of God having a conversation with us and supporting and encouraging the wisdom that the pain has to give us.

When a bee stings us, it is stimulating the flow of energy through a stagnated organ, or transmuting some negativity we are better not to hold anymore. Bees are very wonderful beings. All creatures, bugs and so forth have medicine for us, whether they even touch us or not. If an ant crawls on you, watch where it crawls. If you notice, the ant will not be very much of a bother. He wants to serve you. That is his joy in life. His purpose.

My point is this. If one is in a stress, an acute shock or a longterm and sustained stress of any kind, one can form an acceptance of how we "medicate" ourselves to that subsequent shock. A sustained stress can turn into shock. For me, being a sensitive of any kind, led a peculiar kind of this shock. It is normal and quiet common I have found. What is not normal or common is for people to know they are in shock. Our whole way of life on this continent is conducive to shock, our institutions of religion and education and government, our media, but mostly our families, alcoholism, codependency and the inability to express anger or extreme stress in healthy ways. Due to war and separation from traditional ways of living going back millions of years (and due to a false history of humanity that encourages the sick modern life - and modern life is an advertisement for sickness of soul mediated greatly by dear opening hearts of self-compassion that is so dawning in all of us together).

We come from gardens of eden. We come from a world, on Earth with no divorce and no violence. We come from ages of celebration going back millions of years. The history of the world is false - it is a bare shred of truth masquerading as an improvement on barbarism.

By the time most of our eight years old, we have been faced with parents that don't know that our self is all we need, that sex is unnecessary to form lasting and divine unions with one another, conceiving our holy children in a way we have done for countless generations. We receive innoculations, which shock are bodies with poison and we play with manufactured toys while our minds strain to connect to a pristine Universe of nature in order to activate our holy brains and nervous system and read the book of life that God has written in all the living world and in the stars. This is all, needless to say, a shock. And, still, it is a conversation God is having with us, yes?

So when I hear and see people with remarkable sensitivities and think, great. But I also observe that most of the people I meet have endured sustained levels of stress in their lives. And this can lead to us adopted modes of belief (perception) of our selves or the world that are ways of medicating ourselves. Some people grow up believing they are stupid (when they are geniuses). Some people grow up believing that what makes them special is some kind of curse. And when they see their own family hurting themselves out of repressed anger (shock) and celebrating this is all part of how families are supposed to be, well, the heart knows deceit when it sees it. Every child knows the deceit that is sex. Children, today, are being conceived without sex and this creates unions that are true marriages of minds.

We are not animals. We are Man, male and female human beings. Children of the God that has created this incredible Earth for us to live on .

The world is changing back to its pristine origins. God is accelerating the energies of creation, to restore the world and bring about an even greater creation. God has kept the sun shining brighter than ever even as our hearts have faded - and sun is a reflection of our hearts, such is the light of Man: "and the light was the life of Man"

When someone is in shock, it is not uncommon to have a heightened perception of one or more channels of knowing. This is also part of spiritual transformation, along with various acute sensitivities.

I have not had much time to consider what it means to be an empath. I have spent must of my time trying to open my heart in order to step out of the way of my own healing from shock.

Often it is the protection from a love-challenged environment that maintains pain for people, on top of the original shock or trauma. The mind reverts to its desire for paradise and will set up some way to achieve that, even adopting tentative beliefs about the self being specially gifted in one way or another. It is not that we are not specially gifted, but that sometimes we can get into a way of labelling ourselves that protects us from our pain, only maintaining the pain, using our ego as medication.

Families do this all the time. It is called codependency, a shared belief in how to manage pain without having to do anything about it, usually fostered by the fear of lonliness, of being separated from the ones we love (or from God) by our own natural anger.

As a medication, it is only natural, and can also be included in the healing process, the conversation with God. There is time enough for everything.

People gathering in the spirit of sensitivity and even greatly heightened sensitivity is a culture whose time is come. And certainly I feel warmed and welcomed by a culture of people lovingly sharing in the community of sensory channels available to the human being, all of which support the healing of everyone with an infinite bliss intelligence, a healing that is inevitable and deeply valuable to every individual soul as we learn about the one thing we are all here to learn about - love.

We are responsible for our pain. The very things we do to protect ourselves from pain are the very things that cause our pain. Our immune system (our heart) can not medically be open and in protection at the same time. I hear a lot on here people talking about being very sensitive and all needing to protect themselves from others.

I can totally relate. However, I do not wish to adopt a way of believing that places me in a destiny of stress, or acculturates me to just another expression of specialized belief that maintains pain. I can already do that. I am already there.

My self is good. I am not my pain. But who I am is deeply involved in the healing process. I will not use my freedom to say my pain is me. And I am sensing that a lot of people here believe that. Pain does not make you an empath. It makes you human, at this point in our evolution. It makes you someone capable of opening your heart and balancing the Universe of this pristine Earth.

I am just a human being, like you. Everyone is sensitive. Everyone has a different response to life. And if there is a common sense of overwhelm or shock about what makes you the miracle of being that you are then by all means seek out the belief or the pattern that makes you think that it has to be this way or that being an empath or a human means that you have to be a "threatened sensitive" or a "victimized genius."

Other people are bound to get to us because we are ourselves our in protection. Mirrors are bound to scream at us and put us in places of great pain. By all means, set up the most peaceful situation in life that you can. but, please, do not say that being an empath means you have to be in pain. If you are in pain it is because you have a good heart and it is opening, just like everyone on Earth.

Shock can lead to heightened sensitivities to light, to people to sounds to "spiritual vibrations." Some people are more sensitive during certain periods of growth. But their sensitivity is not the cause of their pain, it is a symptom of it.

It is possible that some people will grasp onto the empath label while needing to heal from very human levels of emotional shock, or as a a safe harbour in families with codependency.

Attention Deficit dissorder could just be a sensitivity to hormones in meat and dairy causing thought to acccelerate too much, or to resperidol in vaccinations. It is not necessarily a sign, in itself, of being an advanced human being. It could be a sign of being an ordinary human being, just like me, just like everyone else and that there are some pains that cannot be solved right away but could use some attention.

And if that child were to wrap his ego around being special because he had attention deficit dissorder, then he is not given thought to being special just for being him, an ordinary human being who cares and loves and senses the miraculous world of God's endlessly wondrous creation.

We are all special. And we are all ordinary.

There is a lot of shock. There is a lot pain management that goes on in human culture and in human subculture and in families. The answer is the same - open the heart and trust in yourself. you are not your pain. your feelings are always valid. everyone is a highly sensitive person entraining to an emerging world of pristine origins, of new dawning truth, and of the myriad wonders of this eternal life.

Namaste