Hello everyone! Over the past few months, I have become aware of feeling concentrated energy in certain parts of my body when I have my hands on another person. At first, I only noticed it when touching my boyfriend and being able to then rub his back specifically where he was hurting the most. But then last night I laid my hands on my daughter and was just 'quiet' in my thoughts when I began to feel this same type energy across my hips. My daughter has had three hip surgeries. I could tell the difference between the two 'feelings' in my body--one with my boyfriend was concentrated and more intense. The feeling with my daughter was more dull, like it was an older pain, not a current one. So I began experimenting with this new sensation with my co-workers and I was able to feel with them the same sense of where their pain or discomfort was. The duller feelings I experienced were ones they described feeling pain at the beginning of the week.

So what is this? What do I do now? Any help and insight would be very much appreciated! Take care everyone!
~jules

Mangosun,

Sounds like empathy. Practicing with people helps. I also like working with nature, gems, and minerals.  As to what you can do with it, this I am still learning.  Some go on into medical professions, holistic healers, or councelors.  Because they have their empathy turned on and can sense where the problems lie.  And I say empathy turned on because I believe we are all empaths, just some still are dormate.

I find that weddings or other joyous occassions help with giving a possitive charge.  Sometimes it can become overwhelming to be an empath.  Learning to shut it down was the hardest thing for me. I used to get headaches if someone else had a head ache.  Just like you described having that sensation reguarding your daughter's hip.  You were picking up on that pain.

In these years I didn't know that it went both ways.  Took me a while to figure out that joy part. To feel bliss around certain company.  This too is empathy.

Practice, noticing those ques like you do, will help you strengthen your gift.  Take care!

Safe Journey

It sounds as tho you can be a gifted healer doing energy work.  Develop that talent, but caustion....ALWAYS remember to 'clear' yourself after doing healing energy work with people.   Find a way that works for you so that you feel cleansed.  Perhaps take  a big deep breath that  a wave of your hand over your own body while saying "Clear"..But do what feels natural to you.

Thank you both for your input! I am a very empathetic person and this energy flow is adding a new layer to it. I just heard from a friend that I did a feeling experiment on and I was amazed! She said yesterday her legs below the knee became extremely swollen, with the left leg being the worst. Well just the day before, on Friday,  I had felt her pain in my lower left leg. When I told her about the feeling in my leg, she said she wasn't hurting there. I thought I was wrong...guess u wasnt after all! I did feel another area of energy and that was in my throat. When I told her this, she said earlier in the week she had swollen glands in her neck and had begun taking antibiotic for it. This sensation I felt was that dull type again, not a sharp feeling like I felt in the legs. I do feel my energy leaving me when I do these practice sessions so I will concentrate on clearing myself in the future. Any other ideas or advice is appreciated and requested. Take care!

What you can do at this point while you are developing, is simple....When  you feel yourself focusing on a place of pain or discomfort in another....take whatever color comes first to your mind, and place it in there...in a 'healing ball of color".  Then leave.  Clear yourself of the energy with whatever practice you've developed for clearing yourself. The point of all this is to do it quickly.  Don't dwell on it.  Dwelling is what makes you absorb their energy and get tired (feeling your energy leave).

As time goes on, you may be able to start focusing on what specific ailment it is, and come up with a further recommendation for healing, but for now...in the beginning, keep it simple.  Don't 'fear' this...accept it, work with it, practice it, embrace it....and then you'll be able to move forward to the next step.

When the student is ready, the teacher will apear...so you will find the teacher or next step rather quickly after that.

Best of Luck.