The Darkside of Empaths that we don't want you to know
If you do a search on empaths you can find a lot of the same information, they are highly sensitive, narcissist fodder, and more; repurposed in different ways. Yet you won't see much of anything on the science or theories behind these abilities. That’s understandable, as many people lump these abilities in with esotericism, mysticism and woo-woo.
I’m going to start by taking the mysticism out of it, but I won’t leave you there.
There are different categories of empaths, along with varying intensity of those abilities. Some who associate with being an empath can be more influenced by having physiological reactions to our innate biochemistry.
What I mean by that is, the way a pet can “sense” your feelings. If you are sad they are right there by your side to comfort you.
It’s likely the same with insects such as bees, ever notice when you are afraid of them they seem to go after you even if you froze in your fight or flight state?
Much of this is due to changes in your scent, think pheromones.
Pheromones are a chemical that we secrete which influences the behavior of those around us. Even though pheromones themselves are undetectable, we cant see or smell them, we still react to them; they can still greatly affect us and our behaviors. Pheromones simplified are scent molecules that invade our bloodstream and then change our behavior in reaction to the chemical being detected in our body.
“Pheromone signals affect you subconsciously. You may not be aware of them until the effects are impossible to ignore.”
The way our bodies react to this may differ, and some people are going to be more sensitive to the influence of pheromones than others.
Moving forward with that in mind, we can also pick up on, and be influenced by, what we perceive through our other senses subconsciously. As we are ocularly, audibly, tangibly and gustatorily taking in information we can be influenced by what is received. Our brains take in and process far more stimuli than we realize, much of it gets filtered out of our conscious mind and how much much is not readily studied or revealed in the scientific field. The questions still stand of, “what happens to the rest, and what really is the extent of the data that we are taking in?” Some progress can be found by clicking here
The other theory behind empathic abilities is with what powers our bodies. Our bodies carry electricity; when someone is in cardiac arrest, a defibrillator sends an electric shock to the heart. Basically, under certain conditions you can be jump-started like a car. There is not a whole lot of information on how our bodies electrical system works and the full extent of what it's capable of but we are beginning to move in that direction “The new technology appeared in a Sony patent filing that describes how engineers in the company's Tokyo research unit developed wireless headphones that rely on electrical signals sent through the body.” - ARS Technica
This also coincides with abilities such as mirror touch synesthesia.
Given those considerations we are all biologically predisposed to being empaths on some level.
Many empaths would agree that their abilities can run on proximity, however the most interesting and unexplained is with COVID even being socially distanced there are empaths that can still perceive and there are significant overlapping similarities on the effects experienced with social distancing.
Nearly all had insomnia, feeling drained, hyper-sensitive, or advanced their capabilities. So that mostly rules out things of proximity such as electrical field or pheromone based concepts with certain groups of empaths.
Which brings up the theory that certain empathic abilities fall within the realm of consciousness, and what that is, still remains a mystery, likely one that would address subjects like psychic abilities.
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