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All About the Empath
When you tell someone that you are an empath, it’s often met with curiosity and a “You mean you have empathy?” But being an empath is different than having empathy. Empathy is the capacity to feel or understand another’s feelings. Someone might share they lost a loved one, and someone with empathy shows their compassion with words or even a hug as a sign that they understand the emotion the other person is experiencing. Although an empath has empathy, anyone can be empathic. An empath is someone who was born with the ability to feel the mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical state of others. The empath is a psychic sponge. If someone has a headache, some empaths can feel that headache too. Some may feel the physical pain of the headache as their own, while others may feel the emotional pain that the headache is causing or the emotional pain that may have caused the headache. If someone shares a loss, an empath will feel that loss as if they themselves are experiencing it through some or all the senses of the person with the loss. 7