“If you feel as if you don’t fit into this world, it’s because you’re here to create a better one.”

>> Judith Orloff<<

I’ve met with Judith’s work by tiptoeing around a new territory of my inner landscape. I’d got invited by Sounds True to a program called “The Empath’s survival Guide Online Course”. It was an eight week long course and I’d learned a lot about what empath is. As I quicly defined myself as one.

An empath feels others’ emotions and physical sensation in her body. Which can be either a super power or a curse. Empaths tend to absorb the stress of other people and if an empath is lucky she can absorb the positive energies as well, however if she wouldn’t learn how to create clear boundaries and protection she may suffer exhaustion, anxiety, addictions, depression and more.

How good I know this territory of absorbing negative energies from my surrondings! This ability of mine had woken up as a young child and I remember I went over to my parents room as a 7-8 year old frightened little girl many times during bedtime, that I feel fear. My Mum asked me: “From what?” But I was never able to gave a clear answer. So she usually sent me back to my room and asked me to go to sleep. I felt ashamed and slowly learnt to numb those strange feelings of unease.

Many years went by. And after my fortieth birthday I gave birth to my daughter. This was the time when this ability which I call “feeling beyond” had started to awaken in me again. Starting with that very familiar feeling of feeling fear. But this time I felt ever so strongly that there were times I questioned that weather am I still in the normal range of human emotions or not.

Of course this was because of many transitioning was happening at the same time as well.

It was about three years of my inner journey to my personal shadow land when I’d found Judith.

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”

>> Albert Einstein<<

In the course I learnt techniques of grounding and the subtile ways of creating protection. There was journaling questions each time which I loved a lot as I usually found so much treasure in my writings. I learnt ways how to stop absorbing other people’s distress and widen the range of my capacity of surrender. I understand why sensitive people are prone to addiction. Judith shared her view on how sensitive pople can cultivate healty relationships. As she expressed the importance of learning to be able to express our needs. She also shared suggestions about how to parent empathic children. She shared the Ho’oponopono Prayer which I’d heard before but hearing from Judith I got an other layer of depth on this beautiful wisdom gem.

“The people who are sensitive in life may suffer much more than those who are insensitive, but if they understand and go beyond their suffering, they will discover extraordinary things”

>>Jiddu Krishnamurti<<

Getting to know Judith’s body of work set me on an other journey of self-discovery in which I’d met many more new people. But this is an other story which I leave for next time!

Until then, never fail to ask good questions!