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As an empath, it is highly likely that you have had less-than-pleasant experiences because of how you felt or acted because of the thoughts or emotions of someone else. This commonly happens to untrained empaths, who have not learned how to overcome negative emotions or nurture their gift.

If you are an untrained empath, then you may see your gift as more of a curse than a blessing. The truth of the matter, however, is that if you can train your gift to focus on the positives and learn to put up a safeguard from the negatives, then you will start to feel the blessing of your empathic nature.

This book has been created for people who already have an idea of what being an empath entails. I, too, am an empath and I have created this book to provide my wisdom that has been gained from speaking with other empaths, as well as what I have found to work in my own life. These ideas are true and tested. You can believe this because though the actual origin of the word empath is not yet known, the ideas behind empaths have existed for centuries. The first known writing about empathy was created by Adam Smith, in a 1759 book entitled The Theory of Moral Sentiments :

“Persons of delicate fibres and a weak constitution of body complain, that in looking on the sores and ulcers which are exposed by beggars in the streets, they are apt to feel an itching or uneasy sensation in the corresponding part of their own bodies. The horror which they conceive at the misery of those wretches affects that particular part of them more than any other; because that horror arises from conceiving what they themselves would suffer, if they really were the wretches whom they are looking upon, and if that particular part in themselves was actually affected in the same miserable man.”

It is clear from this passage that Smith was referring to empathic nature, of the way that a certain ‘delicateness’ within empaths causes them to feel the pains of others as if it was their own. While I would not necessarily call this a delicateness, I would call it an increased sensitivity. In fact, empaths are sometimes referred to as highly sensitive people. It is this sensitivity, however, that makes the way that empaths feel a blessing, once you learn how to control your abilities.

This book will be divided into two sections. In the first, you will learn about the reasons that you are an empath. Know that being an empath is not something that you have chosen to do in life. It is a gift that has chosen you, based on your biological and physiological factors. There is a science behind it and you cannot simply shut these feelings away and expect your empathic nature to disappear. To properly manage it, you first will need to understand this science and learn to accept it, so you can accept yourself as the empath that you are.

In the second section, you are going to learn how to embrace your empathic nature so that you are in control. You will find that once you learn to control your feelings and experiences as an empath, there is nothing that will limit you. Once you have embraced this nature, you will learn to control it. This includes overcoming fears or concerns that you may have about your empathetic nature. You will also learn the best ways to ground yourself and direct your feelings, so that you do not merely succeed in life, but so you thrive.