This past summer I received a call from a woman in panic…literally.\u00a0 She was in the midst of a panic attack and called me for help.\u00a0 Susan was out west enjoying a great conference with like minded people.\u00a0 She was outside with her group when they all noticed a large herd of Elk crossing through a field making their way toward a road.\u00a0 Susan grabbed her camera and set it up on a tripod to capture the\u00a0 moment.\u00a0 For most of us, watching a herd of Elk move across a field is not a daily occurrence.\u00a0 As she looked through the camera lens she discovered a cow (female elk) that was separated from the herd.\u00a0 She looked right into the eyes of this cow and realized she had large cataracts on her eyes and was probably nearly blind.\u00a0 She could sense and feel the panic of this cow.\u00a0 And within moments she found herself in the midst of a full blown panic attack.<\/p>\n
Some of the herd waited for this less than able cow and she eventually was able to get back to the others in the herd.<\/p>\n
But for Susan, the panic was still there.\u00a0 She still felt it and did not know how to release her panic.\u00a0 That’s when she called me.\u00a0 As she explained to me what had transpired I immediately understood what happened to her.\u00a0 I talked her through a simple exercise to ground her energy and at last the feelings of panic and overwhelming fear subsided. She was able to disconnect her energy from the cow and the energy of panic left.<\/p>\n
In her book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, Martha Beck recounts a similar experience she had in the wilds of Africa.\u00a0 She witnessed the death of a young gazelle and as she explains it, she continued to feel the emotions of the gazelles that occurred in the last moments of the young ones life for a couple of days.\u00a0 Too bad she didn’t have my phone number ;-)…although I suspect Martha knows a few techniques herself.<\/p>\n
So what happened?<\/p>\n
It’ simple really.<\/p>\n
Our energy flows where our attention goes.\u00a0 Literally.<\/p>\n
When you place your attention on something or someone, as Susan did when she looked through the camera lens to the cow, or as Martha Beck did when she looked upon the scene of the young gazelle, your energy goes there too.\u00a0 When you are a highly sensitive empath<\/em>, you then connect with that energy and feel it.\u00a0 For Susan, this meant that she felt the panic of the cow.\u00a0 And she took it on.\u00a0 That’s what we highly sensitive empaths<\/em> do.\u00a0 It’s not something we do consciously and that’s what gets us in trouble.<\/p>\n I discovered this for myself many years ago when I was learning cranio-sacral therapy for horses.\u00a0 Our instructor, a woman very sensitive to energy, asked that as she worked on a horse (we were observing) that we not \u201cjoin\u201d her energetically.\u00a0 She did not want others’ energy interfering with the work she was doing.\u00a0 Of course as soon as she started working on the horse, my energy…and the other students\u2019 energy joined her.\u00a0 It happened just because we were observing.\u00a0 She let us know that she felt our energy but she didn’t tell us how not to send our energy.\u00a0 In that moment I realized that my energy followed my attention and that’s when I figured out how to withdraw my energy and still observe what she was doing.<\/p>\n As you learn to become more aware of what you are doing with your energy body you can employ techniques to protect yourself from other energies and to keep your energy from dispersing.\u00a0 The result is a much more stable emotional life and often a healthier physical life.\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s face it, we have enough of our own stuff to deal with…we don’t need to take on the troubles of the world.\u00a0 But we often do.<\/p>\n Of course there is an upside to this sensitivity.\u00a0 This ability to feel energy so intensely is also what gives us the ability to communicate with animals and with those that have crossed over into spirit.\u00a0 We can receive information on an intuitive level more deeply than others.\u00a0 It’s the gift of the highly sensitive empath<\/em>.\u00a0 All you need is some instruction on how to harness this ability so that you can take advantage of the gifts and manage the sensitivities. You can start by signing up for my list and receiving your free copy of the Energy Mastery Workbook and meditations.<\/p>\n I would be remiss to not point out \u00a0the most beautiful part of this story.\u00a0 As the rest of the herd realized the panic of the cow that was feeling stranded they slowed and a few stayed behind so that she could catch up and feel secure again.\u00a0 I never cease to be amazed by the love and kindness of \u00a0animals.\u00a0 There is so much we can learn from them, we just need to listen and observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past summer I received a call from a woman in panic…literally.\u00a0 She was in the midst of a panic attack and called me for help.\u00a0 Susan was out west enjoying a great conference with like minded people.\u00a0 She was outside with her group when they all noticed a large herd of Elk crossing through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,55],"tags":[64,89,91,96,101,110,111,131,138],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","category-animal-communication","category-highly-sensitive-empath","category-human-energy","tag-animal-communication","tag-empathic","tag-energy-body","tag-fear","tag-finding-your-way-in-a-wild-new-world","tag-highly-sensitive-empath-2","tag-highly-sensitive-person","tag-martha-beck-2","tag-panic-attack","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-even","gs-featured-content-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}