HEALTH
• They had done a large amount of selfgrowth and healing work, yet nothing
had permanently shifted their emotional or physical pain or illness;
• They had an inflated sense of responsibility; and
• They were all highly sensitive, intuitive,
or empathic.
My job? To teach them what I had not yet
understood myself.
Fortunately, my intuitive abilities let me clearly
hear and share what I now call The Five Steps to
Healing the Highly Sensitive Person.
While some people can do these and get
spectacular results quickly, others need more
time and patience. If you don›t get immediate
results, think about it as if you’re learning a new
language. The e ffects are cumulative; just do
your best each day!
Here is a short summary of the steps I›ve been
working with for the last four years. They›ve
raised awareness of empathic illness and have
helped thousands of people when all else has
failed.
1. Determine True
Responsibility
Too many HSPs feel responsible for healing the
emotional or physical pain of others – either a
loved one, a social issue, or the world. This is
the metaphysical equivalent of carrying a loved
one (or several!) on your back. How long can
you do that without getting fatigued?
When an HSP operates from this paradigm of
responsibility—and its associated guilt, fear, and
shame—(s)he becomes resentful, as it is against
the HSP’s higher knowing. In turn, resentment
closes down your energy field, leaving you more
susceptible to other people’s pain and illness. It
is important to know that even if you are being
paid to be a healer, your responsibility is not
“to heal” others (by absorbing what’s not yours)
but to love them unconditionally. This is what
leads to healing—for them and for you.
30 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
While you may take on another person’s issues
with the best of intentions, it is actually a power
trip disguised as a good deed. Even worse,
perhaps, it’s a missed opportunity for the other
person. Our job is to be compassionate but not
take on other’s stuff—to embrace each person
wherever they are on their journey, guiding
them from a higher place than our own egoic
needs.
Others need what is theirs; their soul signed
up for it. Metaphysically speaking, you are not
responsible for the soul path of anyone besides
yourself.
2. The Keyhole
A trained empath’s gift lies in their ability to
tune in so that they can see what is needed in
a particular situation, elevating their awareness
of and compassion for the other person. That is
why HSPs make the best healers! This is your divine gift! But many HSPs block incoming energy
out of fear of empathic overwhelm. This blocks
the good as well as the bad, because it’s very
difficult to allow one while denying the other.
If you’ve been wondering, “Why have I not yet
healed?” or “What is my right livelihood?” or
“Where is my soulmate?” trust that the answers
are just on the other side of the very wall you’ve
put up for protection. Opening up to this information, while effectively letting other people’s
negative energy go through you, is the difference between a skilled empath and a walking
sponge.
3. The Body Scan
I’ve broken down energetic blockages into
two categories for the Highly Sensitive Person:
what’s yours and what’s not yours. You can’t get
Metaphysically speaking,
you are not responsible
for the soul path of
anyone besides yourself.