global empathy

[weareone]

i have always been a very empathetic person, though some of the things that are happening to i really just starting to see (with some help ) when this invasion of iraq first started i could feel and hear soldiers dying, on both sides. i could feel what the woman who got raped last night in new york felt as she was taken. i can feel the confusion swirling through the stumps of the trees cut down in the rainforest. i can feel the greed that permeates the minds of people ive never seen. there is a sadness in the world that i am feeling from all corners. the hungry people who want basic freedoms in china have been crying out very strongly recently.

yet it is not all sad, there are wonderful bright spots, and these spots keep getting brighter. it is i feel that people are seeing happiness around them, which makes them realise that they are not happy, and they wish for it.

i feel so strongly for these people and want to help them, but i do not want to become overblown by these feelings, for i am not yet strong enough to help the entire world

has anyone felt similar things? any thoughts?

[lillies1978]

i feel a global sadness, however i'm not able yet to differentiate where exactly it's coming from, but at the same time there are moments that fill me with a one of a kind inner peace...reassuring me that everything has purpose, showing me the beauty of sadness and its cause, filling me with light, light so bright that it can take my breath away!

[Zen]

That guy from Finland who murdered the head teacher and seven students keeps on going over and over in my head at the moment, how someone can hate humanity so much??? To think there are such dangerous and evil people sharing our world with us, it really saddens me!

[TheRavenMother]

Suppression brings out the worse in people...

[lillies1978]

our world is what created these people, as aweful as it is what they are capable of, it's true!

[Ishtar]

Weareone- totally. I also experience similar things. I would get absolutely sudden and random 'flashes' or visions of something happening, and then find out it did happen. more prominent, though, are the voices. I've been hearing things for as long as I can remember. A lot of them I cannot relate to in a daily-life context, but a lot of it has -again- been about things that go on in the world. I can absorb energies around and then I would feel very very sick. It is certainly tedious.
But you're not alone in this.

I hope you experience more brightness than sadness. But both are a fact that is out there and so you will as an empath sense both.

Hugs dear.. When you feel the energy getting too overwhelming, bring out your painting gear and create a piece of beauty.

[weareone]

oh thank you

yes sometimes it seems there is more sadness than joy, and at these times if i am able, i just go outside and feel the love of nature

painting or creating anything has been sooo helpful to release some of these feelings for true