I have found that THESE DAYS, it does more harm than good, and all the proof I need is to witness how much we are triggered by gossip, news, entertainments and politics like never in history. Most of the things we feel are programmed, trained, and stimulated by electronic media.
Being an empath is having the ability to tune into the feelings of others, not their reasoning, and when you live in a time when feelings are highly electronically contrived, when people are at their most schizophrenic, depressed, dark, amoral, confused and blurred, you are in for a mess.
Who the fuck brags about tuning into modern societies feelings? They are the most unnatural and wrong that they have ever been. Ever notice how virtually all of them talk about and linger in the bad feelings?
Do you have any idea how many self proclaimed empaths suffer from depression/schizophrenia? Its a hell of a lot and much more than those who do not proclaim it.
Maybe people need to mind their own minds a little more, before they start taking on the feelings of others. It sounds nice, but it really isn't looking good for those who wear the badge of empath. I find that most of the ones I have met are suffering and not helping others in anything other than commiseration, which doesn't attract anything good, and only feels good in the moment because one doesn't suffer alone.
But the key is the aloneness, the battle with, the understanding, and then the acceptance of self. I find this to be the one major thing that empaths run from more than anything.
Their empathy is too often escape from their own mind. And who can say an empath is bad? Its a beautiful thing, but also an unconscious and dangerous reason for ones ignorance of self, and the issues that need attention.
With love,
Doc