Module 2- The Empath
Sensitivity Translations in the Physical and Nonphysical
Very often we don’t realize that something we’ve regularly experienced for years is actually a message from the physical or nonphysical body until someone else shares their own specific experience and what it’s connected to for them.
I don’t know how many times I’ve been talking with a client doing bodywork or Spiritual Counseling and described a sensation or feeling when getting something and they’ll say, “Oh! I’ve seen that!” or “I think I’ve had that!” or “Wait…does that not happen to everybody?”
I believe so many of us have spent years trying to “unblock” or “open” certain abilities when really… they’ve been there all along we just didn’t know what to look for or how it might show up in us personally.
Sometimes it’s just so plain and simple we miss it because we’re looking for something out of the norm rather than in it.
So! Below is a list of multiple sensations and ways that our sensitivities can show up, how I’ve experienced them personally, and how they’ve shown up for others as well.
You can use this list to recognize and validate your own sensitivities as well as spark additional recognitions and translations in yourself— I hope you enjoy it and have some moments of, “Oh shit! Yes! I get that all the time!”
Tingles and feelings of electricity running along the scalp
1.Oh man the insight I'm getting right now is on point!
2.I am speaking truth straight from the source right now, I can trust this.
3.This is literally the feeling of a lightbulb lighting up in my skull.
4.This is when I'm in communication with my higher self and receiving insight that needs to be
trusted and shared.
5. I'm opening this channel to receive wisdom without it first being pasteurized and filtered
through my conscious mind.
Headaches or feelings of tightness and congestion in the head
1. There's a mental intruder digging through my files with ill intent. It could be someone else, or
it could be me being self-critical.
2. I'm fighting over what I feel and trying to twist it into reasoning from fears in my own mind.
3. I'm allowing someone to put a vice of self-doubt around what I know to be true.
4. I'm feeling the infiltration of negative self-talk or outside opinions and it's toxic to my mental
state.
5. I'm not currently hydrated enough for the highways of information to receive and flow
without tension and stagnation in my head
Dizziness or lightheadedness
1. This person I'm presently with is spinning off their axis. Some people literally feel like wobbly
tornadoes. They're going very fast but trying not to fall over, they could be in a manic state or
about to crash from a period of avoidance.
2. A strong vortex of energy is in a location left by repetitive focused intention, or from heavy
emotions left by painful events.
3.The person talking to me is trying to take me for a ride, mentally running circles to disorient
me from clearly seeing their actual intentions and feelings.
4. I'm disassociating from my body to get a perspective from another person's. There's a very
palpable feeling of melding with another reality. This can be another person's or of my higher
self's.
Eyes going fuzzy and vision blurring during conversation
1. The real conversation between us is happening in another plane and the audible dialogue is
serving as a filler
2. This person's persona and true nature is not syncing up
3. I have more important information to bring through than what is being discussed presently, it’s becoming very intense
Pressure on the third eye center
1. I'm receiving insight and images that I'm not willing or trusting myself to perceive or may be
difficult to see or share with others.
2. I'm depleted in other areas of my life and intuitively know if I receive this insight it could
exhaust me
3. My third eye hasn't been exercised lately, I haven't been allowing my imagination and
intuitive mind to play and stay in motion
4. The person I'm with or thinking about is afraid to express themselves truthfully but still
wishes to be understood and seen for who they are.
Gritting teeth or tight sore jaw
1. Nonbeneficial self-corrective statements of, "Just smile. Be nice. Don't say anything. Be
agreeable and accommodating."
2. My body is expressing frustration or anger
3.Biting down and bracing for impact, for pain, for the unknown.
4.Locking my jaw so I don't scream
Skin eruptions or breakouts1. Wearing shame and self-criticism on my skin
2. "I need you to see I'm imperfect, please don't praise me."
3. My emotional highways of lymph have become overwhelmed.
4. Emotional and mental breakthroughs that are begging to be expressed
5. The body is telling me, "This is where I needed to express myself a thousand times but couldn't. This is where I wanted to be seen but you thought being seen meant being shamed or put in danger.
Tightness, swelling or pain in the throat
1. That lump in my throat from needing to cry that just never went away.
2. Swallowing what's needed to be expressed over and over.
3. Fear of drinking in the fullness of life after experiencing poisonous people and environments.
4. "My voice hurts other people. Nobody wants to hear what I have to say. If I speak truth, I put other people's character on trial."
5. My spirit's song has become a whisper
6. I feel like if I speak the life I want into existence, it will overpower people, it will be too much. I'm afraid I'm too much.
7. If I sing and people like it- they'll keep listening, and if they keep listening, I'll have to keep singing, and if I keep singing, it's gonna pull up all of these tears I haven't wanted to cry.
8. I've learned to live on very little.
9. I've been living life with someone else's judgement, shame, and ridicule wrapped around my throat.
10. I've been pleasing others and saying what I think they wanna hear so long that my own voice is drying up.
11. This channel has narrowed and calcified with time after forcing myself to speak for others and not myself.
Shoulders rolled in with head hung forward
1. I'm hiding my heart's light and protecting it from further pain
2. I don't feel safe charging into life, I'm rather weary of what could come next and I'm looking
around corners
3. I am weary on a soul level
4. Having trouble seeing life from a place of being present and centered and safe in my body
5. "You looked down on me, so I look down on myself"
6. Raises the question, what is at the end of this leash I have tugging at my neck? My phone…. The implied societal responsibility to stay up to date on other's lives and opinions. Constant messages of fear, anxiety, and glorified self-abandonment in order to please the majority. The search for another master. This is the solidified form of a people pleaser.
Pain, queasiness, or palpitations in the chest
1. Feeling seasick in my heart center. Trying to remain open to or give love as hard as I can in an
off balance and unhealthy situation.
2. "I'm not ready to put words or sound to this grief and I can feel it as pain in the walls of my heart."
3. The darkness I'm feeling is in such contrast with the light of my heart I can feel its sharp
edges.
4. My current perception of life is off rhythm with the truth of my heart
Lightness and expansion in the chest
1. I am breathing in life through a clear channel of light and released obstacles of fear!
2. This is a glimpse of who I really am in this moment! There is power in peace.
3. I am safe with this person
4. I am coming from a higher intelligence of love
5. I am living without fear
6. I am drinking in life without hesitation
7. I am in complete power and complete connection with those around me
8. Fear only exists in the spaces where I am afraid to breathe into, where I am afraid to understand. From my highest intelligence, there is truly no need to protect my heart.
9. My perception of life is in rhythm with my highest truth
10. When I shelter myself from pain, I pause myself and the world from transforming it. I am learning better, this feels better!
Tightness in the diaphragm and shallow breathing
1. There are spaces in myself I am not willing to go right now
2. There are things I don't wanna feel
3. I am stuffed to the gills with packed away emotions, avoided insight, and outdated material from myself and others
4. I'm not speaking from my own power in the center of my being, but simply repeating someone else's opinions. They only need to be memorized in the brain and regurgitated. If I speak from my own voice, from my own soul, it will rattle every cage way deep down that I've been avoiding. Best to keep things on the shallow end.
5. I can survive on very little. I really don't need much
6. I've been led to believe that I'm too much or I require too much.
7. I'm afraid I'll suck all the air out of the room, so I try to use as little as possible.
8. I'm afraid to expand
9. I don't wanna take in this energy that I'm feeling so I'm gonna take the tiniest inhales
possible as if I'm sipping air until I can get outta this.
10. I don't trust this person
11. I don't trust the universe will provide so it's best I live on rations
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, digestive disorders in general
1. Something is way off kilter here!
2. This person or situation disgusts me whether I can put my finger on it or not.
3. My body wants this out as soon as possible.
4. I'm forcing myself to digest an idea of someone or something that doesn't match the reality of the situation, past or present.
5. Someone physically near me or connected to me has poisonous intentions.
6. I can't digest one more bite of this bullshit.
7. I am no longer able to comfortably digest and assimilate nutrients because my system is so overloaded trying to make sense of and break down fake love never meant for human consumption.
8. The nervous system is going into survival mode, giving a clear signal that we are not safe here whether it is a mental state or current situation and company.
9. Drop everything and run
10. What am I forcing myself to ingest that my body is telling me is detrimental?
11. Who have I formed a connection with that's become competitive and/or co-dependent?
12. I'm afraid of where this is going. I'm struggling to trust the process.
13. I'll deal with it later...
14. There's a lot bubbling under the surface
15. I need to pack things away, I don't wanna burden anyone
16. I feel this person syphoning from my power center of my solar plexus and it feels as if they're turning me inside out.
17. Sometimes feeling the malignant nature of people sickens me so much I begin salivating from nausea, especially when I'm the only one that sees it. It's as if a silent scream of horror comes up from my stomach.
18. Please don't make me see this horrific side of humanity, I can't stomach it.
19. I don't wanna feel this anymore.
20. This energetic or emotional burden is so heavy I can't physically contain it without it causing me serious damage.
Feeling of dropping down floors or sinking
1. There was just an energetic recalibration
2. I stepped into an energy very different from my own
3. I'm being pulled into another perspective or place
4. There was just a palpable dimensional shift, a physical feeling of parallel realities meeting one another like laying a sheet of paper on top of another. Sometimes there's a muscle jolt with this feeling like the elevator reaching its floor or a plane changing elevation.
5. The physical feeling of a place impacted by someone living in a state of darkness, allowing themselves to sink further into fear.
6. The pull of a black hole of despair and deep sorrow. It will often pulse in such a way that I feel that I'm falling over and over from one floor to another.
Feeling of elevation or taking flight, lifting above the physical body
1. Rising above the pain of separation and judgement to get a bird's eye view of a situation
2. Stepping into my higher self to bring in transformation and necessary growth
3. Relaxing into my other bodies as they assimilate healing into the physical
4. Joining with my spirit family in meditation or journaling
5. Perceiving astral travel just before falling asleep or right before waking
6. Surrendering into wisdom rather than fixing during meditation
Feeling of stepping away or standing behind myself, disconnection or dissociation
1. "I don't wanna be here."
2. "I don't belong here."
3. "If I stay in my body right now my spirit will be shattered."
4. "This isn't who I am."
5. "I don't deserve this but I'm frozen and can't stop it."
6. "I hear myself talking, I'm keeping up with the conversation, but I'm not there. Where am I?
I'm witnessing myself..."
7. Stepping out of the line of fire
Flu like symptoms, fever, chills, severe exhaustion that lasts for less than 24hrs
1. Often hits as soon as I've finished all the days responsibilities to other people without including myself
2. Often hits after hanging up from a long draining phone call or conversation where boundaries weren't practiced
3. I'm experiencing the physical translation of picking up an energetic virus from someone
4. Not enough sustenance through diet or self care, might need a slower pace and/or heavier more filling foods
5. My energetic body is doing its best to burn off a viral load that doesn't belong to me. I need rest, hydration and time away so I can recalibrate.
Pain during menstrual cycle, ovulation, and irregular periods
1. When I'm experiencing a lot of pain and explosive emotions nearing my menstrual cycle and during, I know this is my chance to let go of these burdens I've been carrying in my womb. It's time to give birth to something new. When I fight it, it becomes locked away as cysts and scar tissue and the pain becomes even worse.
2. The lymphatic system becomes stagnant if I'm not allowing emotions to flow through me and they become built up to be released on the first day of my cycle. When this happens my skin breakouts will be worse because the sludge is pushing through the surface unable to be released efficiently.
3. Pain during ovulation lets me know I'm hesitant to plant seeds in my future. I'm struggling to believe I have what I need to bring it into fruition. Maybe I'm not giving my physical body or my own faith and mental state the nutrition and care it needs.
4. Pain in my pelvic area may also signify I am attached to someone there. I am giving away my feminine power. I've allowed someone else's perceptions of me to take root in my own beliefs of what I will be and become, of what I deserve, and what I am worth.
5. Pain in my pelvic area during sex, often also accompanied by low back pain and bloating signals my colon is inflamed. I'm holding onto so much crap that it's weighing on my feminine power, effecting my cycles and my ability to release, to birth creativity, and to accept abundance and pleasure. Where have I denied myself proper nutrition and hydration, or where have I been putting my personal necessities on hold?
Unable to reach full orgasm or feel connected during sex, mechanical or just way over the top performing
1. I connect with others by playing the role I think they need me to play
2. I don't know how to truly receive pleasure from others without embarrassment or shame
3. I feel selfish
4. I don't feel safe being fully in my body
5. I can have an orgasm, but it feels more like I'm working out a long-handed math problem...so I'm more relieved I could reach it than I am exhilarated...
6. Something inside me feels like if I admit this feels good, then I'm a disgusting person and I deserve to be ashamed
7. I just can't enjoy things for myself without feeling guilty
8. I'm gonna overcompensate in the bedroom and get real adventurous to distract you from the fact that I'm terrified of you truly seeing me
9. "I don't feel safe being seen as a powerful person."
10. "When people see me, they take advantage of me."
Connection, enjoyment and multiple orgasms during sex
1. I'm allowed to enjoy myself and just have fun for the hell of it
2. I don't need to ration out my pleasures in life, I can receive as many as I want!
3. I feel safe and present in my body
4. I actually love my body
5. My body shows me how to be present, how to follow my energy and honor my rhythms to find bliss
6. When I enjoy myself, it invites others to enjoy themselves
7. When I follow what I feel, every journey to bliss is new and the end goal becomes an after thought
8. I have so much to give, to myself and the world
9. It is safe for me to be powerful and playful
10. I am safe in my power and in expressing my power
11. I own my power and I choose who to share it with
12. It is safe for me to be seen
13. Expressing my power and playfulness allows others to step into their own power and playfulness
Stagnation and overload in the lymphatic system
1. My ears are literally congested and ringing from the racket going on internally right now.
2. I don't wanna hear another word.
3. I have so many of my own and other's emotions trying to get off exits in my lymphatic
highway that traffic is at a standstill.
4. I didn't want any other part of me to have to experience this pain, so I tucked it away right here, but I didn't realize I built a dam.
5. This is the only way I knew how to stop pain, in myself and others, was to literally pause it. I've just been packing it away and it's taking a toll on me.
6. My neck, my shoulders, my pelvis and my legs feel tender and sluggish. These are the collection centers for the gunk and it feels like they're way past capacity.
7. My skin becomes flushed and red very easily either from short sun exposure or physical touch. It physically looks the way my emotions feel- flaring easily and sending heat to my skin from even minor changes.
Pain and weakness in the hips
1. I don't trust I can hold it together
2. If I allow myself to feel my emotions, I may never regain composure
3. What if I make the wrong decision?
4. I don't trust myself
5. I need someone else to tell me what to do
6. I don't feel safe in the world right now
Poor circulation and tenderness in legs and feet
1. This part of my body is beyond my control
2. This part of my body abandoned me by freezing when it should have run away
3. I'm not sure I can get myself to the places in life that I dream of
4. It's not safe for me to be present
5. I'm afraid to move forward
6. It hurts stand on my own
Sudden tears and overwhelm of heavy emotion
1. This is most likely not mine if it's taken me by surprise and doesn't connect with a previous train of thought
2. If I don’t feel relief or lightness from expressing the emotion, it's most likely not mine
3. I honor myself and my worthiness when I allow my own emotions to be heard
4. Ironically, my emotions feel out of control when I try too hard to control them. When I let them breathe, they dissipate, and I can feel how to express them.
5. If the tears feel like exhaustion, like condensation uncontrollably gathering and running down my cheeks, I am likely overloaded with my own emotions and others and they're escaping like steam from a boiling kettle
6. Someone is reaching out to me on this plane or another
7. I may know whose emotions these are, but it doesn't mean they're comfortable addressing them
8. I may be holding the same pain as someone else and we are releasing it together
9. If I am crossing boundaries in forcing someone else to claim this emotion as their own, where am I making it my job to heal others and not myself?
10. There is a wave of momentum opening a channeling of healing for me right now, it's safe for me to ask questions and learn more about this rather than fighting it
Sudden tears of joy and elation
1. My physical body can't contain this level of joy
2. I'm remembering who I truly am
3. I'm embracing my original family and self in body heart mind and spirit
4. I'm sitting in my highest self
5. I'm expanding beyond the limitations of my physical body and structured beliefs from fear
6. I'm witnessing God in another person
7. I'm witnessing God in myself
8. I am seeing that life, in its entirety, is indescribable in its magnificence
9. I am remembering my infinite nature
10. I am connected with myself and all beings
11. I'm acknowledging another version or lifetime of myself with love and compassion
Sudden empowering ideas, visions, thoughts, or knowing that cut into the middle of the
brains train of thought
1.This is my higher self now speaking to me
2.This is my higher vision cutting through my previous programming
3. If it's one voice that sounds like the harmony of many, it is my spirit family speaking
4. Conveyed with peaceful excitement, precision, and ingenuity. I may doubt I am worthy of
this intelligence and push it away when I'm especially attached to a state of struggle and overcomplicating things
5. I may also push these insights away when I am holding tight to separation wanting to see a winner and a loser in a situation rather than understanding and releasing control to expand
6. Void of duality, it is an all-encompassing understanding
7. Sometimes joined by a ringing in my ear as if tuning an instrument to the correct note
8. Outside noises suddenly become quieter
9. I may find myself nodding my head in agreement or slowing my pace so I can listen more intently
10. They are compassionate and without judgement, gently showing me where myself or others are not in acknowledgement of our divinity and where myself or others might find a clearer path to see it by adding another perspective
11. Always reminding me that I am learning alongside others and I can force no one to learn but myself. I only cause myself misalignment and exhaustion when I take others learning on as my responsibility
Sudden vision, feeling, or worry that brings on a state of fear
1. This is from the voice of my own fear recognizing I'm about to go into uncharted territory
2. This is from the speculations of others living from their own fear
3. These are perceptions and opinions from entities and manifestations that thrive off of fear
Nagging and persistent intrusive thoughts disguised as intuition
1. The messages are disrespectful of boundaries with time and energy
2. Feeling of being hounded by a condescending authoritative figure
3. Feeling resembles the speech of a controlling friend or family member giving unsolicited advice
4. Removes feeling of peace and replaces it with importance and urgency
5. Feels distracting and all consuming
6. Can be accompanied by a faster heart rate
7. Can cause feelings of inadequacy or stupidity and that I'm in desperate need of direction from someone more powerful and knowing than I
8. Often involves information or opinions about others that is not constructive or compassionate, but invasive and judgmental deepening the separation
9. A feeling of isolating grandiosity
10. Messages are delivered on an unhealthy wavelength of scrutiny and superiority
11. Even if messages contain truth, they are delivered wrapped in feelings of distrust and fear of the world and others
12. Simultaneously praising and belittling, forming a codependent bond with the message and the messenger
Ever present messages of support and compassion, highest intuition
1. Calm and steady stream of insight that appears when welcomed
2. A balanced back and forth conversation, never any rush
3. Even if the information is not what I'd hoped to hear, it's delivered in such a way that I feel peace and a surrender to the higher understanding of everyone involved
4. Brings compassion for myself and others
5. Calls me back to my own divine wisdom
6. Simple and profound
7. Soft and straightforward
8. Never shaming or critical whatsoever
9. Insight that comes from a higher perspective rather than good or bad, and so it brings answers I may have not yet considered when trying to fix a situation rather than understand it
10. No fear, just peace and unconditional love and safety
11. Feels like a supportive friend or family members advice whose love empowers your own freedom
12. Always in the here and now, these messages and messengers are constantly present but ask only that I invite them in, remembering they are part of me and I don't need to hurriedly search for them or earn the worthiness to communicate with them
13. Strengthens focus on my own self-worth rather than reinforcing struggle, distrust, or preoccupation with others