For fun, you know you are a sensitive and an empath. Take the quiz to find out which kind you are.

Circle in your head or write down the numbers which apply.

1. You come down with a sudden, horrible stomach ache. Logical mind says it was a bad lunch or the flu going around, but then your dog enters the room and pukes on the carpet, and looks a little green around the edges. (physical or animal empath)
2. While shopping at the nearby Walmart, you enter the frozen food section and want to burst out into tears. You feel overwhelming, deep sadness and loneliness. (emotional empath or allergy to poorly designed boxed foods)
3. While relaxing on the couch you suddenly hear words come from your dog, “I want to go for a walk now.” (animal empath or the result of smoking too many mushrooms)
4. Sitting in the backyard you feel a wave of joy come over you and a sense of peace, and you have an urge to smell the rose bush (nature empath, or the mushrooms are still doing their stuff from the day before)
5. You feel down and angry when two minutes before you felt peaceful. Your closest friend then calls and says he is feeling down and angry. (emotional empath or you just shopped at a crowded Walmart)
6. Two days before a major earthquake hits another country you have nightmares of earthquakes, anxiety or feelings of doom (mission empath or watching too many movies before bed)
7. You know that one fern plant needs more water and to be placed in a sunnier window (nature empath or you’ve read a lot of books on houseplants)
8. You receive strong messages or channelings that will help the world regarding self esteem (mission empath or still feel the effects of the mushrooms)
9. You enter a hospital and feel fear, sadness, anxiety. You walk by one room and feel a pain in your side (physical empath or fear of hospitals)

I think I spotted an Easter Beagle around here hiding her eggs. Hmmmmm. Is that one?

I’ve been interviewed for Kara’s Conduit of Joy’s “Empath R Us” series. Check it out here: http://conduitofjoy.com/2011/04/23/empaths-r-us-ronni-ann-hall/

Here is my top 10 lists why being Empathic can suck and not suck.

The 10 Reasons Why Being Empathic Can Really Suck:

1. You can feel deeply when loved-ones are in pain. Sometimes, you can confuse what they feel with what you feel.
2. The world can overwhelm you. Bad things happen like the tsunami in Japan, and you feel deep pain, sadness, ennui, and helplessness.
3. You can feel deeply intimate and close to others when it may be hard for them to return the favor.
4. You can have lots of astral and mediumship visits, hear your animals, and there are tons of voices or feelings and information coming towards you.
5. The planets moving around and the moon cycles affect you where others walk around mindless and untouched.
6. You have access to deep information which others don’t have and therefore, you feel the need to jump in all the time.
7. You feel deep responsibility.
8. Your feelings are easily hurt and wonder why others can be so cruel with their words.
9. You care about other people. A LOT.
10. And number 10, folks can look at you a little crazy because you can see the Fairy light in the bush, you hear your animals’ thoughts and you know someone is upset even when they insist they are just fine.

Empath, before you go jump off the bridge, I offer the 10 things that don’t suck about being an empath.

1. Because you feel deeply, you really experience life and all its pieces. You’re really living your life richly and thoroughly.
2. Yes, the world can be overwhelming, but you have healing and psychic abilities that others may not have and can make a big difference in healing the world.
3. Yes, you can feel closer to others, but you teach them how to really love and love themselves. What a gift that is and what a teacher you are. Plus, you can feel love from many places to fill up with.
4. Being psychic, your world is not limited. It’s expansive and filled with mystery. You don’t have to accept that a loved one is gone or that there is a separation between you. You know and feel there isn’t.
5. You are in-tuned with the earth and can better heal you and itself.
6. That deep information helps you understand other people and have compassion for them so you don’t need to judge or fall for surface stories.
7. That deep responsibility makes you a honorable and trustworthy person.
8. Your feelings get hurt easily, but this allows you to teach others that have no sensitivity at all. You have what they miss and need.
9. There’s nothing wrong with caring about other people. It’s why we are here–to help ourselves and each other along the road. How cool is that?
10. If crazy is being open to all the magic in the world, why would you want to be closed off from that?

So, you see dear empath, you are gift to the earth and what looks like something wrong is something very right.

Fairy blessings,

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Want more tools? Sign up for the Care of the Sensitive class, or Empath Skills class, or buy Help! I’m Sensitive.