DWQA QuestionsCategory: Non-Local ConsciousnessA practitioner writes: “I TAKE ON THE ILLNESSES OF MY CLIENTS!!!! I suffer so much! Currently I am in agony with a horrible toothache that I have taken on from my friend!!! Ugh!! This has happened dozens of times, and it truly is a nightmare!!! I eventually get their energy released off me, but it usually takes several months!!! A year ago, I took on my brother-in-law’s dental problems/root canals, crowns, etc., and I wasn’t even doing any healing on him at all. Can you strengthen my aura/energy field/shield? Why am I doing this?”
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
This is happening automatically because of your highly empathic nature. It is the way your non‑local consciousness operates, that you send it out to sample what is around you and you take that in, and by importing it into your energy it begins to manifest some of the consequences that it represents, so it becomes more than an idea. In a sense, you are taking in the venom, the toxicity, the pain, the suffering, the torment of those around you and it can begin to go to work on your own body and mimic the symptoms they experience, and this puts you at risk certainly of feeling bad if not having worse consequences. This is common to empaths. It is how they operate. They must take in what they wish to observe, to taste it, to feel it, to experience it for themselves. This is a way of operating that is extremely difficult to circumvent because it is so natural. It is not something that we can block from outside of you because you are doing it yourself and therefore it becomes your free will choice to put yourself at risk. It is no different with anything else people do of a risky nature. Asking for help, protection, and safety when one decides to go rock climbing with no protective gear is taking a risk pure and simple. The best course of action here is to ask on a regular basis for divine support and healing to minimize the consequence of these encounters and the outcome for you in being at their mercy. This is difficult to arrange because each time you sample something from beyond yourself, it is an act of free will. We cannot simply jump in and slap you and make you stop. What we can attempt to do is create greater awareness for the deeper levels of your mind to work on making a habit of observation without experiencing, without sampling or tasting the energy, but settle for a once removed inspection. This will depend on having a more visual orientation rather than kinesthetic, and this is not easy for many people and will cause some inner consternation and conflict because it will be asking for the mind to do something beyond its capability, but we are trying to be as thorough and helpful as we can here and, as we have said already, this is not an easy problem to solve. It is most unfortunate but it is the cards you were dealt. It is no different than the plight of someone who cannot sense anything intuitively whatsoever and longs for having psychic ability and would give their eyeteeth to be gifted. It is very difficult to awaken and develop capability in someone who is not configured in a way to support those activities given their current makeup. People simply vary in how they are outfitted for their life journey. The empath has extra capability, but that comes with a downside. So you will simply have to decide to what degree you want to be involved in looking for trouble in people given your proclivity to absorb it yourself. You can always ask for divine help in advance and divine protection in advance, and divine assistance should anything happen that you sense is coming into your energy but is unwanted and potentially harmful, and that can hasten the healing and recovery. There are some people who struggle so mightily with this issue they find it is better to not engage and to do all they can to shut down this awareness. That is a personal choice, not that that is easy and straightforward either. In a sense, it is like trying to decide to be blind. So there are skills that can be developed if you work at it and you will be given divine assistance if you request help to bring this about, to make things more manageable and maintain a kind of middle ground where you may feel things to a greater degree and with greater intensity than you wish, but they may not become a permanent consequence that you cannot break free from. We will do what we can to help you here if you ask us.