Hello, Izzy,
Oh, don't I know about picking stuff of other people! That is probably the hardest thing one can experience.
Tears are a good way to get rid of this unwanted energy especially when it is events or situations that were out of your control to deal with, in other words, someone else's energy. But I do find myself at this emotional depth like a bottomless pit. Both positive and negative energy can be transmuted to positive energy. At the bottom of this pit positive and negative emotional energy are balanced, no difference between these two energies. What I do is to use prayer to transmute that energy to send it out to universe as healing energy .
Attracting grown up people, kids and animals, I love it. Grown ups feel something as well or they wouldn't be looking around trying to find where the source of what they felt was coming from. Ill come back to this one afterwards.
Children , they are just so wonderful when they feel your energy. They will come right up to you and stare at you unabashed. Same with animals birds, etc. I believe plants respond to our energy as well. I used to have an apartment full of plants of different varieties. I had them for 10 years and they simply thrived, and all I did is water them.
Grown-ups try to find where the source of what they felt was coming from after they have felt it.
Now I have discovered something through the years that I really didn't give much thought to except for in the last couple days: that with projection to other people, one many never even be aware that they are doing it and a lot of people have this ability. It's not only restricted to empaths. But it was very effective for me to project to other people what I want them to see me as.
One can project a completely different image to another person who will see exactly what they wanted that other person to see. I have not been tested as to the levels ESP that I have. But I will say that after I begin to know the people in message board like this, once I get a feel for certain persons, I can begin to know what kind of personality and what their characteristics are. I can tell especially when someone is about to blow their stack and I just make myself scarce from that thread unless I believe I can help to sort out their problem.
Some can be very deceptive, though. I can do the same thing in reality out there.
Every morning along with my devotions I do a cleansing. Like a ballerina, I hold my hands up over my head then down to below the navel and up again from both sides while drawing in a deep breath, bringing my hands up again over my head then down towards the floor. When I do this I picture in my mind that I am like an apple core, so that when I bring my hands down I picture healing energy going down the apple core all the way to the ground. I repeat this three times. It works well for me for cleansing.
Cindy