Don, I am happy to hear that you have found solutions to your problems, and Suzanne has given a lot of good feeback, although I have another resource to suggest.

I am an empath myself, and the work of a wonderful woman named Rose Rosetree has helped me enormously. She has written a book titled Empowered by Empathy which teaches how to turn empathy off and then turn it on if desired. (An empath is a person who was born with the ability to merge his or her consciousness with other people.)

She also holds workshops that teach how to become a skilled empath, and she does phone sessions as well. I have yet to find resources for empaths comparable to what she offers. If you are not sure you are an empath, she can tell you if you are an empath by reading your aura.

I do not know anything significant about Reiki except that it requires a good amount of training. Learning how to turn empathy off probably does not need that much time and commitment.

Hi Ryan, I don't get much of a reaction anymore, I may still sigh a bit but now I just know when people have an energy shift. I will follow up on the links you gave and let you know how I go.

I also do massage as well and this is where I get the most reaction, sometimes I get an overwhelming urge to put "hands on" a certain area. This is usually an area where the client has problems but there can be no know link, I just go with it and do what I'm asked. Sometimes when this happens I go very deep ie. drop several levels of consciousness and the more it happens the more deeper I can go, it is a wonderful place to be.  

I would be very interested in knowing how to turn this on and off at will. If I am an empath as you suggest this would be an of enormous benefit to myself and my clients. Another thing I have noticed is the more this happens the stronger the intuative messages appear in an EFT session 

Gary mentions "getting yourself out of the way" many times in the DVD's and I try to practise that alot, once you do that the natural intuitiveness we all have becomes far more pronouced, from there it is just a matter of trusting the message sent and act on it.  

For 26 years I was an owner operator of a small Earth Moving business, I was my only employee and had no involvement in alternative healing in any way shape or form. Then two years ago I found EFT (or it found me) and life has now taken on a whole new journey. Only the last Thursday I was thinking how great it would be if I could control this "empath" as you call it and next thing you know your post appears in my email. God does this for everyone everyday and yet we are mostly totally oblivious to it and without EFT I would have continued to be so as well. I beleive as Gary says we are on the groundfloor of a new beginning and awareness and I feel priverlidged to being one of the pioneers to introduce it to society.             

Hi, I'm Myah and I'm new to this forum. I've been using EFT on myself for about a year.

I used to be a therapist, but quit several years ago.  I am somewhat of an empath, which I've found to be a gift as well as a curse, and have been looking for more than 20 years to find out how to not pick up others energy or be so intensly effected by it.  I'd tried the white light, and even though I'm good at visualizing it had no effect.  I tried all other visualizations that I came across.  Those didn't work either.  The only thing that ever worked was praying when I realized I was really in trouble, when I'd picked up the energy of the most disturbed person I'd ever worked with. It took me 2 weeks to figure out why I felt so doomed and downright strange before the time that I'd normally go to sleep. I prayed to have those feelings removed because they were so strange and overwhelming.  That worked.  But I only thought of it when I was feeling something so extreme that it didn't make any sense.  When they were suddenly gone I realized where I'd gotten them.

Tonight I found my answer under the"Animals" forum, the answer to the message entitled "EFT for dog with tumor" by Susanne Peach.

I'd been questioning if it was a good idea to do surrogate EFT on a pet I have with with tumors.  When I thought of it I felt anxious, like I wouldn't be able to help but pick up his health problems.  I was afraid if I was to get in (merge) I wouldn't be guaranteed a way out. As soon as I read it I knew it was right for me.  It's so obvious, do EFT on it!  Why didn't I think of that?

I'd already been considering getting back to working with people, with EFT this time, because it's the best tool I've ever found.  Now I see it as a real possiblity. Now, as a highly sensitive person I have a way to manage my sensitivity, my reactivity, and other peoples energy I pick up.

 THIS IS GREAT!

Check out the above mentioned forum if you are interested in another way of dealing with being too empathetic.

I'm so glad you all are here...Myah