Witch Stew

Being Empathic has two components: a physical/neurological one, and a supernatural one. Science has acknowledged the biological as as people with highly sensitive and evolved neurological systems. They call them HSP’s, or Highly Sensitive People. They know that we have highly evolved and highly sensitive nervous systems. Now, if you know about the human nervous system, you know it runs on electricity. The impulses begin in the SA node of the heart and spread throughout the body. The brain operates primarily on these electrical impulses, so if you have a highly evolved nervous system that is also highly sensitive, you are going to pick up on more than the average person. For example, in our brains we have something called mirror neurons. These sensitive receptors are what make us empathize with others who are physically or emotionally in pain. We see someone else cry or physically hurt themselves, and we feel their pain. This is a normal human response and we all have mirror neurons. An HSP takes it one step further. Their mirror neurons are going to be more “supercharged” than the average person, to the point where they may not only empathize (and yes, a normal person who sees a person, say, skin their knee, will feel knee pain), but will feel the pain on a deeper level. They may sense a deeper injury or even the reopening of a past injury. They may also, on the supernatural end of things, feel the emotion of the person. A true Empath can also pick up on the thought process of the person. This is because thoughts are nothing more than electrical impulses and an HSP, Empath, has a highly evolved “antennae” due to their highly sensitive and evolved nervous system, to pick up such impulses. This is only part one- there are much deeper components to this discussion. So, in essence, yes, we are all empathic- but we are not all “true Empaths.”