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The Violet Consuming Flame Visualization

Keep the attention still and concentrated, and keep feeling the Violet Consuming Flame passing through your body until the Joy and Happiness of Its Power begin to make you feel lighter and more at ease. Remain within this, and feel It is God’s Forgiving Mercy; and Its Great Loving Purity comes into you and just loves to consume every particle of substance which does not produce Perfection.

Realize that the Love in this Violet Consuming Flame loves to release all substance from you which is not qualified with Eternal Purity. Then you will love that Violet Flame more! As you love It, It will love you; and It will love away all the substance that appears as limitation.Therefore, the more you use It, the more It will bless you. The more It becomes real and the more you draw It forth for others, the more you automatically raise yourselves.

http://www.saintgermainfoundation.org/SGF_02b_VioletFlame_Visualizations.html

June 20, 2012

Are You an Empath?

By Trinity Bourne,
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
6/19/2012

Unfolding the Higher Paradigm
Imagine being able to feel and sense everything, whether positive or negative around you, 24/7. An Empath can’t turn off empathy (unlike someone who is perhaps ‘empathising’). It is possibly one of the most challenging of psychic gifts to master. I am an Empath who has spent nearly two decades, since awakening, mastering my empathic nature. It is an ongoing process. I am still not perfect and not sure that I ever will be whilst incarnated here. I am however content, despite the challenges of integration, as I see it as an incredible gift to humanity…


Empaths incarnate into this world without a manual. Some seem quite blessed in that they bring with them the memories of mastery from past lives. Even then, the remembering is often a bumpy journey in itself. To add to the confusion, most Empaths cannot tell the difference between their own energy and someone else’s. Something happened on my journey where I just ‘got’ the difference. It came from increased presence. There is a subtle vibrational difference that we can discern when we are fully present. Constantly attaining presence within spiritual evolution is a very important key to mastering empathic gifts that I cannot over emphasise.

Everything is energy
Everything is energy, pulsating particular vibrations. Since an Empath feels energy, just like a living person breaths air, it is understandable why a few issues might arise as an earth-incarnated-being. Humanity (apart from perhaps indigenous cultures), is one big confusing energetic vibrational mess! The modern world is a melting pot of fractured and frantic energies: for example, loaded emotional projection, hidden agendas (whether personal or global), wi-fi, mobile phone radiation, electric gadget emissions, multi media marketing designed to allure and captivate, highly processed foods, TV, the thudding din of consumerism… the list goes on and on.

Empaths will feel the energy in the field, feel the energy of conversation, feel body language, feel words used (or not used) without intellectual interpretation. They will intuitively know what an energy is ‘really’ about despite what is conveyed on the surface. They will also know what a person is really saying, no matter what words are being offered.
Because of the tendency for people to hide the full story, or try to control the situation, an empath will tend to feel a huge inner conflict or inability to process the enormity of the engagement. One of the main problems for Empaths is the lack of transparency and honesty in the world and the consequent resentment of having to process all the energy that is not in full view. Of course lots of of these sensitive beings struggle also with things that are in full view too.

“Make it go away!!!”
Most people who have this trait do not see it as a gift. I would more often expect to hear the pleading cries to make it stop. Initially, it often involves being so overwhelmed with feeling energy that it is challenging to function in an ordinary sense. Empaths often come across as over emotional, at times others become emotionally detached in order to cope. It wouldn’t be unusual that they might just ‘freak out’, without apparent cause. They often prefer their own company and don’t like to build many personal relationships.
In my early days I used to cry out to the universe
“I don’t want to feel all this energy – it’s not mine”…
the universe would always reply that it is a gift.
“How on earth is this a gift!!!” 
I often found it difficult to get close to people in a personal ‘every day’ sense. It would drive me nuts, so I would prefer independence or distance. Independence and contentment with only a couple of close friends still feels very natural to me. In a way, it’s a saving grace.

Powerful impetus to sort it out
The initial overwhelming intensity served a wonderful purpose for me. It evoked a powerful yearning to master my unique configuration here as an earth-being. It created the impetus for me to come to terms with my natural born empath traits and master them, eventually finding a high altitude of peace and functionability with it all.
The importance of releasing emotional attachment
Releasing emotional attachment is the main key to mastery. Most Empaths suffer needlessly because they cannot release their personal emotional attachment to feelings. If we let go of attachment, it doesn’t mean we won’t feel. It just means that we don’t get tangled in the feeling anymore. It means we can watch as things happen and really discern that ‘that isn’t us’, ‘that isn’t our own feeling’ and really begin to embrace when we are DIVINELY GIVEN to take action or not.
For me this involved years of becoming consciously aware and centred. Once I started coming from a centred place of presence, I began to discern what I was meant to do, releasing emotional attachment to both that which is not meant for me and that which was. This is a very powerful factor as it means that we can still feel the energy empathically, but it doesn’t bother us adversely any more. We are able to act of infinitely more divine service when we are not attached emotionally. In fact unless we come from this place, we would tend to make a situation worse not better. That’s the bottom line. It means we feel the energy with the deepest compassion, yet we can truly hold the space for another. In so doing, we reflect the light of benevolence, allowing true healing to take place.

Finding inner peace and stability
Daily centering, meditation practice, yoga, compassionate eating, conscious lifestyle, conscious choices that cleanse our energy field and promote centredness will all help big time! Being in nature serves to recentre and recharge depleted energies. Spending regular time in solitude away from idle chatter and drama can be invaluable. I would say that making sure that a bare minimum of half an hour per day consciously looking after yourself is crucial. The more the better. The above are very important. There may also be many other ways, such as swimming in the ocean, hill walking, having a bath with oils or salt, giving yourself a foot massage, listening to your favourite music, playing an instrument, conscious bodywork or massage… basically whatever it is that helps you maintain balance and build up your sense of inner peace and stability.
Another important key is ownership. If you have the trait, then to deny it just makes it worse and ensures that our spiritual evolution is dysfunctional. Our evolution will happen when we embrace our unique configuration. So we need to be 100% honest with ourselves and know that it will get much easier the more and more present with become with it. The only way out is through.
Without these practices it is very difficult (I am not sure if it is even possible) to master being an empath here. So if the motivation is a little lacking, JUST DO IT anyway until you find a rhythm to your daily life that you see working.

A true gift of benevolence
So whether you are an empath or you know one personally, hopefully this is helpful in some way.
I truly believe that, the challenges as highlighted are there to help us refine and alchemically transform this true gift of benevolence. The gifts of empathy have the power to really make a difference in this world. This is what most people who feel the call of Divine Service long for, to be able to help others in a life changing way.
An evolved Empath has the natural ability to connect on a Soul level, helping to release blocked energy with another. An Empath, if given, can also release coagulated energy within the field at large, discerning between what is benevolent and what is not. Since everything oscillates a frequency that can inadvertently influence everything around it, then a truly benevolent Empath realigning the energy field can help make a huge difference in terms of spiritual evolution.
Whether an Empath not, if we can all work together with our gifts we can allow this higher paradigm of to unfold together.

Soul to Soul
Trinity
Openhand Foundation - Catalysing our Spiritual Evolution

9 comments:

  1. Actually...everyone is an empath. The degree to which they are also spiritually developed. Not all are born fully open like this...but anyone who truly opens up on a spiritual path, will become like an empath. It cannot be avoided. But one can learn not to be overwhelmed by it, but the way to do that is different for each individual.

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    1. Indeed we acquire gifts when we are on the spiritual path. There are many mantras and techniques for this purpose only, in fact. When one is an adept in Yoga he is called a Siddha, who has achieved a very high level of control, which is called a Siddhi. But those kinds of Yogis are rare and their powers are profound. A little but of empathy is nothing for them. But gaining Siddhi is considered a temptation in the true path and the enticement of such should be controlled lest one loses one's footing on the path and begins to develop ego. The rules and regulations for a strict Yogic lifestyle is lost on modern society.

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    2. No not everyone is an empath! You are either born an empath or you are not.. if everyone was an empath this world would not be in the mess it is in.. being an empath is much more than empathy! Empaths are incarnated into this world for a reason and it is one they chose before being reincarnated. Empaths are 3 to 5% of the population and HSP are 15 to 20% of the population.. Empaths are wired that way and it's in their DNA..

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  2. Thank you thank you.
    I have been through this and have only in recent years discovered I don't hate malls and waiting in the line in the supermarket.
    Now I am enjoying the gifts of empathy most of the time. I can keep an eye on the kids, even when they are in the basement. I can find people anywhere in the World by just walking towards their signature. I can navigate using it during Shamanic Journeying. I can feel when people, animals or even Devas/Tunkasila or Mother Earth needs help in matters, where I can help. Second sight is slowly developing, in particular in the peripheral vision(one key is a couple of years of total abstinence from alcohol).
    It is a good thing but a very very difficult thing to be gifted with.
    I can only urge using it. A tuned citrine is a great teacher, wearing it and not wearing it. If nobody can tune it for you, use kyanite.
    K

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    1. You are fortunate to have and embrace your gifts. Yes, and it does come in handy with the wee ones. That's interesting that you mention citrine for I have a necklace of the same that I wear often, and in fact it just broke. It has wonderful energy. But why would someone have to tune it for me -- I can tune it myself, as can anyone for their own crystals.

      Blessings.

      Sharda

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  3. Thankyou for defining this "condition".
    We are the keepers of space, a conduit
    for energy transformation. We are the human
    crystal.

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    1. You are welcome. Yes, I think we have held the space for light, peace and harmony since childhood. I love your description of ", a conduit for energy transformation..the human crystal". That is very apt. And it feels good to acknowledge it. When it was first pointed out to me, it was a huge moment of clarity.

      Sincerely,
      Sharda

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