Hey hon
sorry Ive not been on lately... been really busy. Anyways, I wanted to comment first on you saying your friends are few that you trust... Thats actually a big problem with Empaths is if you are not careful you will slowly become bitter towards others as you get older. I'll give you an example... Empathy I just not long ago found out runs in my family (mostly through females, although my son also proves more and more everyday his empathic abilities). Anyways, my grandmother is a very mean and even at times spiteful woman and as my mother explained to me more about my inherited abilities she also told me that because my grandmother never had someone to teach her how to build walls to protect herself from all the overwhelming invasion of 'emotional attacks' for lack of betters words, she kept putting herself out there to help some people who very much didn't deserve it so she kept getting crapped on by people she thought where friends.
**point being... you have to be very careful of friends taking advantage of you, because of you being an Empath you feel like you need to help people radiating their need for help for various reasons, some not always worth helping ** Just a note of caution for you and again I'll say it walls walls walls!!!
Ok you also said you were interested in hearing how I manifested my walls/shields... First I started by sitting alone so I could concentrate and I pictured myself laying bricks one by one. It took some time but to this day its my strongest wall I have and use. Then, I practiced taking it up and down till I learned how to make like a door in my wall so that I could like, I don't know, a flashlight where I could put a more direct beam on what/who I wanted to sense. And I'm still working on learning to mirror emotions, thats used more for like reflecting negative emotions back to people who are purposely trying to make others around them miserable in hopes that they will
learn not to be so... hateful I guess.
Now I did do some research on whether or not its common for empaths to feel physical pain and there are about 30% of empaths that can in fact feel others' physical pain. If you want to do some research yourself you can just Google it, thats what I did.
So now to your whole manifesting like another personality... it's not crazy. Young children with abilities try to find ways to protect their selves from the hardships of coping with what they're going through, specially when they have no one to help them learn how to use them.
I do hope you figure out a way to make your bracelet stronger and everything you need it to be to help you safe guard yourself.
Thanks for the kudos dear!! Much appreciated!!
Best of luck, love, and light,
Mystikal