posted April 19, 2014 10:21 AM            

In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation. It also is influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol and GABA. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative. An alternative definition of emotion is a "positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity."

Empathy: Is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be socializing people into becoming more individualistic rather than empathic, research has uncovered the existence of "mirror neurons," which react to emotions expressed by others and then reproduce them.

Humans experience affective empathy from infancy, physically sensing their caregivers’ emotions and often mirroring those emotions. Cognitive empathy emerges later in development, around three to four years of age, roughly when children start to develop an elementary “theory of mind”—that is, the understanding that other people experience the world differently than they do.

Psychic Empathy: Is the ability to sense the feelings and emotions of others, without their telling us, verbally, what they are thinking and feeling.

The psychic form of empathy should not be confused with the basic human emotion of empathy - most people can feel empathy for another person without necessarily being a psychic empath. The main difference, however, is that someone who is a psychic empath often picks up non-visual, non-verbal cues that another individual is feeling pain, fear, or joy. Sometimes this is a matter of detecting energy fields or auras, other times, it may be simply a case of "knowing" that the person is feeling a certain way, despite no obvious clues to that effect.

I was an extremely emotional child and would have my heart completely broken over the simplest of reasons. As I aged into my pre-teen years, I had realized that these emotions in me were very intense and very unknown. I would feel complete heartbreak and not even know why I was. I had began to dislike the fact that I was, or so I had believed, so much different then everyone else and started to force these emotions away. I would bottle them up, shove them deep within my heart, and then just ignore my heart's cries.

For the next 36 years years I would do this because I was affraid of being differnet, affraid of being judged, and affraid of being laughed at. I was a man, I should not have all of this emotion swirling around inside me, so I had demanded that this emotion leave my heart and demanded my heart be normal.

A few months ago I woke up one morning with an odd thought in my mind. It was a very silly thought but it was so intense that I couldn't ignore it and so I went with it. I know now where the thought came from; my heart. For years it had been ignored, made dorment, but it had woken up and would be ignored no more.

I had always used logic and my mind to discard certain feelings, these instantanious thoughts I would suddenly have of knowing how someone was feeling or how something was going to turn out. I would have ignored this thought too but this time the heart was far to strong for the mind to overpower.

I see now that it's my heart I should be following because it seems to know what is best for me and where I need to go. From that day on I have started listening to my heart over my mind and I somehow know that it's going to take me somewhere, somewhere big.

I just know that it is.

posted April 19, 2014 11:09 AM            

There is an awesome book I'm reading teaching how to really learn to pay attention to your instincts which is your heart connecting to your higher self..."Trust Your Vibes" by Sonia Choquette

posted April 19, 2014 12:55 PM            

It was great to read this especially after the weeks I've had. I've been picking up on feelings and thoughts more than usually.

I'm a psychic empath. I pick up thoughts and feelings of others but very often it leaves me feeling confused and depressed because I can't always tell exactly what I'm picking up on (mercury conjunct Neptune).

When you described the way you were as a child it really pulled on my heart strings. I was an extremely emotional child and would so often (almost daily) break down in tears and feel like you said, heartbroken. The smallest thing would trigger it. My parents didn't understand me at all and I was left feeling like there was something wrong with me. I really hope that psychic empathy becomes a more accepted and understood concept so that people can be aware of it and know how to handle it better with children.

The most confusing part for me is that, like you, I think very logically and so discard feelings and instincts I get about people and situations initially. Then I find out I was right in the first place. Maybe I should take a leaf out of your book and trust my intuition a lot more.

According to a list I found the following aspects in my chart could all be contributors:

8th house moon conj Mars.
Sun conjunct Uranus.
Uranus conjunct Jupiter.
Neptune conjunct Jupiter.
Neptune sextile Pluto.
All of above except moon and mars are part of a Sag stellium along with having a chart ruler in 9th house.

posted April 19, 2014 12:55 PM            

It was great to read this especially after the weeks I've had. I've been picking up on feelings and thoughts more than usually.

I'm a psychic empath. I pick up thoughts and feelings of others but very often it leaves me feeling confused and depressed because I can't always tell exactly what I'm picking up on (mercury conjunct Neptune).

When you described the way you were as a child it really pulled on my heart strings. I was an extremely emotional child and would so often (almost daily) break down in tears and feel like you said, heartbroken. The smallest thing would trigger it. My parents didn't understand me at all and I was left feeling like there was something wrong with me. I really hope that psychic empathy becomes a more accepted and understood concept so that people can be aware of it and know how to handle it better with children.

The most confusing part for me is that, like you, I think very logically and so discard feelings and instincts I get about people and situations initially. Then I find out I was right in the first place. Maybe I should take a leaf out of your book and trust my intuition a lot more.

According to a list I found the following aspects in my chart could all be contributors:

8th house moon conj Mars.
Sun conjunct Uranus.
Uranus conjunct Jupiter.
Neptune conjunct Jupiter.
Neptune sextile Pluto.
All of above except moon and mars are part of a Sag stellium along with having a chart ruler in 9th house.

posted April 19, 2014 02:05 PM            

I got on the internet and started looking. I had never looked at astrology before and was quite clueless of it. I did some exploring and learned about doing a Birth Natal Chart, which I did. I was shocked at the accuracy of it, actually, I was very amazed at the accuracy of it. However, when I learned about my Moon in Pisces placement and read up on it, that brought tears to my eyes because for the first time in my life, I found a reason to why I was different and this absolutely changed everything.

I have been studying it relentlessly ever since and I now have a very strong knowledge of it, which I feel has helped my heart wake up even more.

I did a yearly horoscope of me at astro.com 2 weeks ago and this is the start of what it said to me:

The dominant energy

Because your world is, to a large extent, an intangible one, rooted in feeling and imagination and a sense of life's unity, the mysterious energies and processes at work within you over the next year are likely to be understood and welcomed rather than feared. This does not mean that you will not experience difficult challenges, and perhaps also some unhappiness or disillusionment. But the loosening of personal boundaries which underpins your development during this time is something with which you have the resources to cope, because of your essential openness to the invisible currents of life. Beneath the surface of external events and emotional ups and downs is a subtle awakening of the imagination and the heart. This may require a breaking down of old structures and attitudes, as well as a willingness to place your faith in what you cannot see. You cannot afford to dispense with common sense, but don't dispense with your belief in the magic of life. As long as you can avoid identifying with either the victim or the redeemer, you are likely to experience a deep inner confirmation of your fundamental belief that you are part of a greater whole. You may be affirmed in your sense that reality is far more complex and multi-layered than the material world in which you live.

Shaky foundations

posted April 19, 2014 08:09 PM            

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Originally posted by Gabby:
I have had such a similar experience years ago with my heart awakening....now I allow my heart to rule me and my vibes and the intentions of my heart are priority!
I have an unaspected virgo moon in my 12th house, much like a pisces moon!

There is an awesome book I'm reading teaching how to really learn to pay attention to your instincts which is your heart connecting to your higher self..."Trust Your Vibes" by Sonia Choquette

It gives a rational way to teach yourself how to focus in on your what your heart is saying and how to stop the ego/mind from ignoring or being so loud that you can't hear your heart. I'm really enjoying the book!

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