ENERGETIC LITERACY
pert at effective energy healing. Have sessions when you feel the need. What you might envy: HSPs often appreciate things you can’t quite compute, not if you score lower on the Sensitivity Scale. But don’t envy, please, because these folks pay a price: Often others (maybe even you, sometimes) can find HSPs to be finicky, braggy, or a certainkindof cringe-worthy. And Imeana lot of people can have that reaction. HSPs amount to just 1 in 5 people, according to Dr. Aron (and about which I’m convinced she’s right). Prevailing pop cul - ture in most countries (including the USA) favors people who score a 1 on the Sensitivity Scale—exactly the opposite of how HSPs experience life—therefore, pop culture can really grate on them. Really, howwould you like to be on the losing side of almost every popularity contest? How best to communicate with this kind of a person? Speak and act normally. Never tiptoe. Sadly, some 5s do demand spe - cial treatment, depending on whose teachings they’ve studied. If that happens, don’t let those HSPs guilt you into giving them anything fan - cier than a hearty, “Excuse me?” My recommendation? Privately you might grumble; also, you might well blame certain HSP teachers for coddling folks. But when talking to the 5s in your life, simply commu - nicate clearly. For example, “I think your demand about xyz is ridic - ulous. Being an HSP doesn’t give you the right to special treatment.” Scoring 6-19 on The Sensitivity Scale? Hooray! I’ve got a simple answer for you. Nobody scores any of these numbers; neither you nor anyone else. Why not? Regular HSPs score a 5 on the Sensitivity Scale. Empaths all score a 20. What then explains the gap in numbers, shown in hypothetical scores 6-19? That is meant to convey a considerably higher degree of sensitivity in the nervous systems (and auras) of empaths, which brings us to… Scoring 20 on the Energy Spirituality Sensitivity Scale: You’re an empath, what I call a Highly-Highly Sensitive Per - son. That means your aura behaves differently from the auras of non-empaths. Until skilled, you’ll do countless unskilled empath merges every day of your life. Arguably, the main duty of an em - path teacher is to help you to make that stop, because the result- ing aura-level stability can be a game-changer, greatly improving any empath’s quality of life. (To be clear, this teacher of Empath Empowerment® has more to teach you, such as how to do Skilled Empath Merge. Of course, I’m hardly the only empath teacher. Cur -
rently Amazon.com sells over 6,000 books for empaths.) For the most practical perspective, what if you score a 20 on the Sensitivity Scale? Expect higher risk for confusion in life, but also higher reward. What you might envy: Plenty of empath bragging goes on today that can naturally generate envy. Don’t get me started on how unfortunate I find this situation; all I can say is in my work to help empaths, I teach Empath Empowerment®, never bragging. But don’t envy, please, because these folks pay a price: Any empath who acts snooty due to being an empath has been studying with a teacher who might be accumulating some not-great karma. Wisdom seeker, it can be helpful to consid- er how any posturing is just a measure of how confused that em- path currently is. More to be pitied than fought with, surely! How best to communicate with this kind of a person? Ig- nore any bragging or requests for special treatment. Fortunately, a skilled empath will communicate naturally; likewise, so can empaths who aren’t especially skilled (for instance, they haven’t learned how to do Skilled Empath Merge, which in my humble opinion is the spir - itual purpose of being born an empath). Difficulties arise only if an empath studies with somebody who teaches “Empath Superiority,” which could be annoying until the 20 outgrows that kind of teaching. You’re not just a Wisdom Seeker. You’re a beautiful spiritual be - ing, having a human experience. Whatever your Sensitivity Score, please consider that part of the magnificence of who you are. Live and let live, and apply that to how you treat others as well as yourself. And whatever your degree of sensitivity, you can make that choice. Rose Rosetree is the founder of Energy Spirituality. Her 1,000+ media interviews include The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , USA Today , and “The View.” Recently she’s published a web- site dedicated exclusively to Empath Empowerment®. Maybe start with the videos? You’ll find it all at https://www.what-is-an-em - path.com/. Energy Spirituality has four main specialties. Discov- er them all at www.rose-rosetree.com. Join the fun at Rosetree’s popular blog: www.rose-rosetree.com/blog, recently surpassing 79,000 comments. To schedule a personal session, contact Mitch@ rose-rosetree.com. Hang out with Rose on Twitter & Facebook.
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