Empaths are the realest people

I see you feel really special.
As long as you can enjoy that, I'm happy for you!

Now, leave me be me.
I am that I am.
Thank you.

I think my problem was my naivety along with being an empath. I thought everyone had a heart

Placing yourself in the shoes of Someone else . That's empathy. However, empaths can never ever think rationally or logically. Even when faced with emotional or physically abuse. I despise that from them. They are the last person to deserve that but they easily fall victim.

Placing yourself in the shoes of Someone else . That's empathy. However, empaths can never ever think rationally or logically. Even when faced with emotional or physically abuse. I despise that from them. They are the last person to deserve that but they easily fall victim.

In your experience, does God care about the empath? People who have no heart take care of themselves and dont even pray ...empaths dont usually think about themselves at all. And they are usually treated as if they aren't there

You can see what "you" feels? Or is that your feeling in your gut there, or perhaps your chest? Is it a reaction to feeling like a fool after you realize the Christians had bamboozled you into sending them your energy?

Me is me, true. You is you, true.
"I am that..." means a speaker objectifies their self.

I am WHO I am.
Thank Me.

I used to be an empath myself, but it was a burden and it was known to be a dysfunction rather than a blessing within myself. It felt like I didn't exist and like I had little to no control over my own life, feelings, thoughts, etc. It all stemmed from my abusive childhood. For instance, I used to have to know within a couple seconds of entering a room if it was safe to stay there or not by noticing exactly how my father was breathing while he was sitting in his chair and how the room felt emotionally. Certain breathing patterns meant it was safe and I could stay while others meant it was safe to stay as long as I acted a certain way and others meant that he was looking for someone to dump all his issues onto so it was best to leave immediately.

Being highly skilled at reading a room or reading the emotions of a person was a learned skill born out of necessity for me. My mother used to take on everyone's pain as her own and then act as if she was basically a victim just like the other person the event was actually happening to. She tried to train me to be like her and she has always acted as if not being tied to the whims of my emotions was evidence that I was heartless and thus she was godly and pure because she didn't do that.

I have slowly let most of my empathic abilities go naturally as I have healed from the traumas of my chidhood. I now find comfort in my own mind, thoughts, faith, etc. I still feel empathy for myself and others, but only in situations where I feel like God wants me to do something. In other situations, I feel very little connection, and that enables me to live a much more balanced and healthy feeling life. Everyone else's problems are not my problems and that's the way it should be. When I need to be able to get something done in a emergency situation, I can now also shut off my emotions completely and focus on the task at hand and save any emotional processing I will need to do for a later time when it is no longer an emergency. When I was younger I would just absorb and feel the same pain that everyone around me felt and it would largely hamstring me from being of any use to the emergency situation at all.

I think many if not most empaths are deeply traumatized people that instead of working to heal that brokenness and trauma have instead chosen to convince themselves that they are actually a special group of superior people that others should aspire to be more like and if that happens the world will be a better place. It wouldn't. There is almost always a ego aspect to empaths, where they want others to look up to them. I consider empaths to be the emotional equivalent of the arrogant intellectual, that thinks he is better and wiser than everyone else because he has three degrees even though he can't even change a flat tire, get along with normal people, or do much of anything himself in the real world.

Yet in the OP, you deliberately discard all people that don't belong to your cult- people who "don't pray"- by categorizing them as "heartless".

Well done. You deserved the "I'm-a-pathetic-narcissist" Award:

You misunderstood. I'm asking if God looks after empathetic peopl. Most empathetic people I know pray. It's people who go through life bullying others that dont need God or the universe to work in their lives.

Of course, the narc always blames the other.
So that's exactly what you did.

This is very helpful and insightful. I agree with you.

I do not. That last paragraph is a total generalization, and obviously this poster has had an issue with someone, and decided to 'damn the lot.'

You are not that perceptive if you cling to generalities.

(Not @ you, OP.)

You just made a couple blanket statements yourself. Read your sentences again. A perceptive individual will notice quickly that your statements are more of a logic box than anything I said. Pot meet kettle. Based on your own statements you have just labeled yourself as not being very perceptive. Do you even realize that?

To put it another way, you are basically ignoring everything I said because it doesn't meet your predetermined qualifications for validity. You are mentally "damning the lot" of people that don't think the same way you do. Your post pretty much proved the exact point I was making in my last paragraph and you can't even see it. That pretty much ensures nothing will ever change for you unless you first change how you think.

I said that I believe, "many if not most empaths are deeply traumatized people..." I never said "all", and I never said that my belief structure was based on a sample level of one. I only told you about one or two particular people/examples to make points.

Man, some people on this forum are so dense. You can see the sliver in the eye of everyone but yourself. I am not being stern here to belittle you or knock you down, I am doing it to try and shock you out of your thought box so you can learn something new and grow. Some people need an outside force to irritate them before they can find the next level of growth they are looking for within themselves. My attempt might work, and it might not, but I felt like giving it a try so I did.

You have to be willing to accept that there is truth, learning, and understanding outside of what you already think you know, before anything in your life can ever change.

By the way, "I am that I am" is from among the Christian dogmas. It doesn't matter who used it first. The Christians own it now.