Feeding On Pain Options

This thread is about absorbing people's negative energies. Something I realized recently, is that I seem to automatically absorb the negative energies of people such as fueled by the emotions of loniliess, irritation, stress and others. The people whom I relieve of such stress end of feeling happier and more hopeful..

The energy I absorbed became an appetite. I developed a hunger for it, eating up peoples misery, feeding on it.
But something more recent made me aware that, though automatic, is primarily effective while people are releasing cycles of that energy.
Simply speaking - I have the hardest time absorbing negative energy caused by bad emotions when ithey are supressed.

I went out with my friends drinking and confirmed for sure that I was improving my friends experience by sapping out their negative emotions. But there was one type of energy I just couldn't grasp. It was the suppressed emotion of a man's feeling of being left out. I tried to get him to lighten up by asking him what was on his mind. He wouldn't admit that something was on his mind because he has it supressed.

This ability is something I've never heard of. Are there any documentation on this kind of thing happening?

Hence why magicians seek to repress some forces to have it's influence manifest.
they are internalized and their influence is manifested through the emotional/mental adaptations that shield + utilize them

Sometimes the universe can't help but put you in the place you need to be in order to be the most help.
judging by your posts you can 'deal' with a lot more fear and anger than most people, that give's you quite an upper-hand.
I've flipped out quite a few violent inderviduals with my shear tolerance for massive emotional flux, it's an effective tool for getting out of a situation.

Fear is an intoxicatingly powerful emotion to play with, but they all have their uses.
I did write a great big post on your other thread but i lost my internet an i can't remember it.

This post has been edited by Draw: Apr 5 2011, 10:27 AM

Barnard, that ability is well known in energy work, it's called empathic healing. Very well regarded by workers dealing with memories of trauma. When you absorb those emotions do you resonate with them (absorb anger, become angry) or drain them away? Any physical symptoms afterward?

Draw,

I don't think the ability has any influence over me though in terms of personal judgement. I would never cause dismay just to absorb it. Besides, that would be futile as the person would naturally suspress those negative feelings around me, making it harder to absorb.

You're right, I happen to be good at coping with things most people couldn't tolerate. Maybe its my cigarette smoking, lol. The tolerance you mentioned is a good trait. It's a matter of mental disclipline, which probably makes one more proficient in magick.

You said you wrote a big post on my thread. Do you mean in my thread, or about it. I'll see about looking it up.

Waterfall,

No, I don't emulate the emotion. It's actually a refreshing experience for me, like drinking a cold ice tea on a hot day. As for physical symptoms, I usually feel a little better healthwise. I tend to utilize the negative energies from others to reinforce and strengthen my own health.

Even though everyone around me has gotten sick (not unnaturally often) from the common cold, or the flu that goes around over the years, I've been immune the whole time. I'd like to see if I could use energy to heal others. I feel kind of selfish being able to consciencely control my own health while others can't.

Speaking of, I've found anger to be fairly easy to consume, even that caused by a bi-polar woman when she's out of her medicine.

The things you can learn dealing with erratic women...

I don't think the ability has any influence over me though in terms of personal judgement.

Exactly, making cool judgments while in an emotional torrent is a nifty skill, very usefull for practical magic,
from empathic healing to psycic attack/defence making use of it is a worthwhile challenge.

I wrote on the 'what am i' thread' but my internet connection spazzed out an i lost it, i will try an write a fresh but my internet is still pretty unreliable an i'm working a 48 hour week.
speaking of work, must go.

OK, you're talking about the incorrectly placed thread in the lifestyle forum. Your input would have been appreciated.

I assumed that about the efficiency of that trait, just hadn't confirmed it until you mentioned it.