A beautiful article came through on Facebook, and I am reblogging it here:
There are different types of empaths who employ different psychic empathic traits. These are the 10 levels of the empath:
Psychometry - the empathic ability to receive energy, information and impressions from objects, photographs or places.
Telepathy - the empathic ability to read people's thoughts.
Mediumship - the empathic ability to feel the presence and energies of spirits.
Physical Healing - the empathic ability to feel other people's physical symptoms in your own body (and often the ability to heal, transform or transmute them).
Emotional Healing - the empathic ability to feel another person's emotions.
Animal Communication - the empathic ability to hear, feel and communicate with animals.
Nature - the empathic ability to read, feel and communicate with nature and with plants.
Geomancy - the empathic ability to read the energy of places and of the land - geomancers can feel the energies of the Earth, such as Ley lines. They can also get headaches, pain or anxiety before earthquakes or other disasters occur anywhere on the planet.
Precognition - the empathic ability to feel when something important is about to happen (often this can be a feeling of inexplicable dread or doom).
Claircognizance or Knowing - the empathic ability to feel what needs to be done in any given circumstance, often accompanied by a feeling of peace and calm, even in the midst of a crisis.
Symptoms of being an Empath:
•Acute senses – i.e. sense of smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing etc.
•Acute awareness of the feelings of those around them and feeling deeply for those in pain or suffering
•Often easily hurt
•Avoidance of conflict where possible preferring to keep things harmonious
•Easily startled by noise
•Easily moved to tears because of deep feeling
•Nervous in crowded situations
•People feel safe around them and able to talk to them easily. Even complete strangers will talk to them about personal things without consciously intending to do so
•Animals and children love and are attracted to them
•Easily affected by the weather
•Their greatest gift is to perceive with the heart
•They are usually a blessing to be around as they are nurturing and caring
•Music and harmony are very important to them. They can lose themselves completely while listening to music that resonates with them.
•Water is very beneficial and therapeutic to the empath
