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The
Empath Connection Newsletter
Information for
Empaths and Highly
Sensitive People.
AUGUST 2008
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It's your friend Michael Smith, and
welcome to the August 2008 issue
- which is packed with information
and ideas to make your life easier as an
energetically sensitive individual.
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FLYING THROUGH THE NIGHT
WITH MESSAGES FROM
YOUR DREAMS!
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If you're interested in learning
more about yourself and how your
Spiritual and energetic antenna
operates, focusing on your dreams is an
excellent place to start. The
messages contained in the Dreamworld
will help you decode and demystify the
language of Spirit and help you make
sense of the often curious energy you
experience in waking life.
As an empath or sensitive person, you're
probably already a huge dreamer!
Empaths tend to be the mystics, sages,
philosophers, and tend to have an
intuitive understanding and natural
connection to Spirit.
The language of Spirit speaks in energy
and feelings, not words. It speaks
to us in wispy images, vague impressions,
and little snippets of feelings and
sensory perceptions.
Do you want to heighten your dream
awareness? The answer that I hear
consistently from my inner
power coaching clients is a strong
yes!
If that is the case for you, then it may
be helpful to realize that Dream
Wisdom is something that comes
directly proportional to a) the strength
of your intention and b) the strength of
your actions.
if you already are able to remember your
dreams, give yourself a pat on the back!
Only about 5 percent of individuals
regularly remember their dreams.
For the rest of us, it's a skill
that takes perserverance and hard work.
Your dream "muscle" will get
stronger with intention and especially
with action.
Every night we have an opportunity to
connect with our Highest Selves, our
Guides, & our Guardians. In
order to connect with those sources of
information, we need to make an effort
and show Spirit that we mean business!
Over the last 15 years of dream
study, I've discovered some effective
and simple techniques for helping to
cultivate Dream Wisdom. You
may want to try some or all of these
suggestions. With that in mind,
here are some concrete action steps and
behaviors that will help you on your
quest.
1) Just before sleep, voice your
intention to remember dreams. It
is helpful to repeat the mantra out loud
with your voice. Using the voice
helps to energetically program your
cells to carry out your wishes.
This is one of the most effective ways
to "program" your mind to
remember dreams.
2) Create a dream altar on a table near
your bed. On the dream altar,
place a dedicated dream notebook,
several pens, and have a flashlight or
convenient lighting source. I have
found that placing a quartz crystal on
the altar will help raise the vibration
and help you tune in to the Dream
frequency.
3) Date your dream journal entry before
you fall asleep each night, as this will
help produce an expectation to remember.
4) If you do not mind the
intrusion into sleep, you may want to
set your alarm clock to wake you at a
specified point during the night.
If you are worried about waking a
partner, drinking several large glasses
of water prior to bed may be another way
to assure you will awake (and help you
to remember).
5) Establish regular sleep routines.
This means starting your night of sleep
in the same position every night, as
well as going to bed and waking at the
same time. Do not eat heavy meals
before bed as this will interfere with
your sleep cycle.
6) Upon waking, gently probe your mind
and pay attention to bodily sensations.
If you don't immediately remember, stay
with a feeling, and follow it
deeper by asking the feeling to be
amplified. Specific
recollections will often be triggered by
focusing on vague feelings and
sensations. If you're in a
different physical position that you
were while dreaming, try shifting your
body back into that position. This
will often be enough to trigger recall.
If you cannot remember an image or
event, stay with even the smallest
feeling, try to make it larger, and it
often will trigger a memory.
7) When you write down your dreams,
include as much of the sensory
impressions that come to mind - colors,
images, sounds, tastes, people's
expressions, settings, feelings, and
emotions.
8) If you do remember a dream,
especially if it's in detail, make sure
to write as much as you can. If
you're sleepy or feeling lazy while
awakening (common), then just use your
willpower to bust through that.
Even though you are groggy and tired
when waking, it's worth it to write as
much as you can before you forget.
Here's some text, verbatim, from one
of my more amazing, and yet
frustrating, dream journal entries.
It sounded like I had a near death
experience. At the top of my
journal, I had written the words "I
actually died."
"I drifted away. Things were
then neutral and then sped up very fast
into a vortex of life recall.
Every memory of my life happened very
fast. I was in awe."
My current reaction to reading this past
entry is "that's it?"
WHY DIDN'T I WRITE MORE?
Probably one of the most amazing
dreamstate experiences I have had, and I
DIDN'T WRITE MORE? This
vague entry highlights the importance of
taking those few extra seconds while
still sleepy to be as specific and
detailed as possible when writing our
dream visions!
9) Some persons have reported that
certain dietary supplements (e.g.,
lecithin, melatonin) may promote memory
and dream recall. Please consult with
your health care provider before
starting any supplement or diet program.
10) Check out the International
Association for the Study of Dreams.
It is the best source on the web for the
promotion of a social/societal
focus on dreaming. I joined ASD in
1996 and have attended past conferences,
which are exceptionally fun and
stimulating!
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WAYS TO BE
POSITIVE AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT
YOURSELF
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1. Life is a process, not an
event. It's a journey, not a
destination. Acknowledge
yourself for having made it this far
and surviving all the ups and downs!
2. Have dreams, set goals, establish
priorities. You will always
receive what you ask for. What
is it that you are asking for?
If you don't know, shouldn't you
spend some time and clarify?
3. Ask yourself how you
can be better - a better friend, a
better lover, a better son or
daughter, a better human being.
Ask yourself, even after a success,
"how could I have done that even
better?"
Risk-taking dreamers fail but never
accept it. Never quit,
never accept mediocrity.
4. Every action, and every
thought comes from one of two places:
Love or Fear. Where
are your thoughts and actions stemming
from? If they are stemming
from fear, how can you change them
into a God-based Love consciousness?
5. Don't react to anything!
If you react, that means you have
given your power away.
Neutrality is sometimes the most
helpful place to live; more
helpful than being positive or
negative. To help you find
your neutral center, imagine a strong
Light energy running from heaven down
through your body and into the Earth.
When chaos or negativity challenge
you, be like a tree, roots firmly
planted in the Ground, and sway
with the wind instead of being thrown
off your center.
And remember, you don't have to be
optimistic or happy all the time.
You can instead choose to remain
neutral. Try it the next time
you feel an obligation to be the
strong one or the happy one.
Empaths have got those skills down!
Why not take a break from all that
work! Just BE and experience
YOUR NEUTRAL CENTER.
Imagine yourself as the Buddha or
sensai - unmoving, unflinching, calmly seeing
and experiencing the world.
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Learning from
the 12 Steps:
Surrendering to Who we Are
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I just got back from a vacation out in
San Francisco. While there, I had
the awesome experience of
attending an AA meeting with a friend
who is in recovery. While I have
been to meetings before, I was again
struck by how helpful and relevant
the program of AA can be to those
with an inherent empathic nature
The first step in most 12-step
programs is "we admitted we were
powerless over the addiction -that our
lives had become unmanageable."
Looking on your own experience of
coming to terms with your empathic
nature, how relevant is the above
statement for you?
Part of my own empathic
"recovery," if you will, was
accepting that I was powerless over how
I was created. It led to a
surrender, a realization that I must stop
fighting my sensitivity, for my own
sanity. (Most of the first
lesson in the downloadable Empath Toolkit
Series talks about how this helps).
Much like an alcoholic's nervous system
craves alcohol, an empath's nervous system
is made to absorb & transmute energy.
There's nothing you can do to change that.
Acceptance that you are powerless over
your empathic nature goes a long way
toward healing, especially when you
realize most of the pain you feel is not
yours!
I would love to hear your thoughts on
12-step programs and how this may
apply to your empath nature. Do
you know of any 12-step programs being
used for empaths? What
do you think of this idea? If so,
I'm sure the rest of our readership would
love to know!
And if you've never gone to a 12-step
meeting, call and find out about an open
meeting in your area.
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TAKE AN
INTUITION RETREAT!
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My friend Max Highstein is a very good intuitive
counselor. Like myself, he works
with clients to go beyond a simple
psychic reading or intuitive
impressions. He helps you
strengthen your own inner guidance and
wisdom.
He has one of the best intuition
development programs on the market
(besides my own upcoming Toolkit
seminar releasing on Sept 3, 2008!).
It's so good, he's now featured at www.dailyom.com
as their intution expert, alongside
names such as Neale Donald Walsch.
Intuition Retreat is a great program.
Check
it out here. (I do have a
stake in this! I receive $12 for
every sale).
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THE EMPATH TOOL
KIT: Audio Seminar Lesson #2
DEBUTS ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2008!
"FULL SENSORY INTUITION:
Using your Body
as an Oracle to Connect with Spirit
and Reveal Tangible Answers to Life's
Questions."
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I am again excited about the
release of the next seminar in the
Empath Toolkit series.
Thank you all for your amazing,
amazing comments about the first
seminar. If you haven't
yet downloaded the first seminar, you've
got 2 more weeks to download before
I take it down for good. (All
seminars will eventually be available
together in one complete package -
likely in Spring 2009).
Here's a preview of
what you'll Learn in the 2nd Seminar:
* How to connect to your Guides,
Guardians, & Spirit to receive
answers to life's questions.
* Why "channeling" is not
as mysterious as it sounds.
* How to channel your Highest Self
through creative expression.
* How to tame the Ego, quiet the mind,
and eliminate mental chatter
* How to invoke and use your Body as an
Oracle.
* How to understand symbols, the
language of Spirit, and create your own
symbolic language so that your spirit
guides can better communicate with
you.
* Precognition: How to
properly ask for and receive knowledge
of the future.
Again, be watching your inbox in 2
weeks for a short announcement of the
release of this seminar along with an
abbreviated newsletter.
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SHARE YOUR
IDEAS!
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 How
do you like this newsletter?
Have you found it valuable? If
so, I would love to hear from you.
If you have something you'd like to
submit to the newsletter, a great
idea, an essay, an article, please let
me know and I'll be happy to consider
it for inclusion!
And remember, I offer INNER POWER
COACHING for an introductory fee of
just $35 for 50 minutes. Learn
more about INNER POWER coaching....
Until next time, keep smiling, keep
moving, keep praying, and KEEP
CREATING YOURSELF!
Onward!
Michael Smith, Ph.D., NCC, RPP.
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