ohhh the layers, she called it
and she took them from inside her mind
and made them real, and handed them to me
i didn't look too carefully
now im looking much more closely
and what do i see?
still the mind, open the heart
thats the only way i can do my part
try to understand why you share your history
if your end goal is to let everything be
we are looking for pure love to fill up pure hearts
advertising in size 6 font somewhere 2/3 of the way through the Sunday paper
expecting the advertisement to go unnoticed by almost everyone
but still there lingers a hope
for that some one
if you followed your heart, where would you go?and if i followed mine?

Ning started running a 100 mile race about 31 hours ago.... I cannot even imagine what that boy is feeling right now. So much respect.

Empathy is the ability to read and understand people and be in-tune with or resonate with others, voluntarily or involuntarily of one's empath capacity. Empaths have the ability to scan another's psyche for thoughts and feelings or for past, present, and future life occurrences.
Empathy is a feeling of another's true emotions to a point where an empath can relate to that person by sensing true feelings that run deeper than those portrayed on the surface. People commonly put on a show of expression. This is a learned trait of hiding authentic expression in an increasingly demanding society. An empath can sense the truth behind the cover and will act compassionately to help that person express him/herself, thus making them feel at ease and not so desperately alone.
Empathy is not held by time or space. Thus, an empath can feel the emotions of people and things at a distance. Empathy is genetic, inherent in our DNA, and passed from generation to generation.

An Empath is someone who can feel other people’s emotions as their own: you litterally feel what other people feel.

Notice that this definition does not assume that you are aware of it nor that you know what to do with it. It simply describes that can experience someone else’s emotion, even if they are not in your physical presence.

Empaths find themselves in the tricky situation of being overwhelmed by the quantity of emotional information they receive. I can sense the emotions of everyone around me, even my next door neighbors. It comes to me like a scrambled radio station where I get bits and pieces from all those people. In its raw form, this emotional information is incoherent and even painful as we feel all the negative emotions from everyone around us.

The most problematic aspect of being an Empath is that most of us have no idea how to manage it. We don’t know how to turn it off. We don’t know how to use it effectively to accomplish something productive. Some of us don’t even know that we have it. We just think we’re weird and have random mood swings and tired spells.

Emotional Intelligence is defined as “the ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one’s self, of others, and of groups” (Salovey and Mayer). Developing your Emotional Intelligence means that you know what to do with the emotional information you receive and it’s not just a burden you must bear anymore.