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ENERGY WORK clients. Give permission for your internal self to send your clients' feelings back to them at the end of a session. Mental empathy. Mental empaths access data from "nowhere," intuiting others' knowledge and motivations. This perceptive sensitivity can help you intuit information about clients and their motivations. Make sure you ask clients if they want to know your perceptions before you share them so you aren't guilty of "psychic spying." Spiritual empathy. Spiritual empaths are integrity- sensitive. They can tell if others are aligned with their value system or living their spiritual purpose. If this gift isn't fully filtered, it's easy to pick up on negative energy and become depressed. Use this gift to determine a client's higher needs. If clients seem overly depressed or down, ask if there is a situation that is bothering them. Shamanic empathy. Shamans are attuned to the mystical and otherworldly, able to connect with "things that go bump in the night," such as entities, deceased people, and spirits. Shamans can also journey into other dimensions, planes, and zones. They can often tap into all the empathic abilities and often access the verbal and visual spiritual gifts as well. When working with clients, you might perceive extrasensory beings around them or receive messages from other planes. As with mental empathy, ask a client for permission to communicate this data and learn ways to establish energetic boundaries for yourself if you feel too exposed. Notes 1. Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, "Definition of Empathy," accessed November 2014, www.cultureofempathy.com/references/definitions.htm. 2. University of California, Berkeley, Greater Good Science Center, "What Is Empathy?" accessed November 2014, http:// greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/empathy/definition. Author note: This article is based on my new book, The Spiritual Power of Empathy (Llewellyn Publications, 2014). Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and intuitive consultant. Her books include the bestselling The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy (Sounds True, 2009), The Complete Book of Chakra Healing (Llewellyn Publications, 2009), and Advanced Chakra Healing (Crossing Press, 2005). To learn more about Dale and her products, services, and classes, please visit www.cyndidale.com. 5 Tips for Your Gifts How do you ensure the uplifting use of your empathic gifts in your work? I recommend taking the following steps: 1. Identify your empathic abilities. Do you relate to one of the six styles—natural, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, or shamanic—more than any of the others? 2. Embrace your gifts. After determining which empathy style best describes you, write down all the benefits you might enjoy by using each gift wisely and safely in your job. 3. Decide that you would like to screen out information that is too much for you to handle or isn't appropriate for you to sense. Ask for spiritual assistance—perhaps by praying or meditating— to help you maintain this new position. 4. Check with clients. If you are receiving empathic information, ask if your client would like your insight or not. 5. Enjoy. Your empathic abilities are spiritual gifts. They are innate and meant to be used. Embrace them, and they will enable you to more lovingly embrace the world and your work. F r e e m u s i c d o w n l o a d s f o r C e r t i f i e d m e m b e r s : w w w. a b m p . c o m / g o / c e r t i f i e d c e n t r a l 105