When people ask me what I do, I say that I’m a writer, researcher, and empath. This last title often makes people ask “What?” but it’s simple, really. An empath is a person who knows that they read emotions.
You’re an empath, too; you also read emotions – we all do, because empathy is our nonverbal and preverbal language. We all use our empathic skills when we socialize, listen to music, work with animals and babies, appreciate art, laugh at physical comedy, and read body language. We also use our empathic skills when we speak and when we decipher spoken language, because we actually can’t make sense of the world if we can’t use our emotions. The logical, mathematical, and linguistic parts of our brains are extremely important, but without the emotions, they simply can’t work properly. The emotions and the intellect are a boxed set. Empaths know how to look inside and outside of the box!
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