**Warning: These are just my opinions** Empathy is the ability to feel the emotions of another.  In order to feel the emotions of the energy of something/someone else you first need to establish a connection with it/them.  Perhaps finding something in common or imagining a thread going from your energy to its/theirs.  Imagine the two of you as being part of each other in some way.  Kind of like how a mother and her child know they are linked because the same blood flows through their veins.  Well, if you can see, believe, and allow yourself to be open then you will find and notice that the same energy runs through you as runs through another.  Once you see yourself as part of the same whole as this object or being then you have established a connection.  With the connection you can allow their energy to send vibrations, emotions, thoughts into you.  This takes a lot of trust in yourself and most times a lot of trust in the person or object.  Please be careful with this gift. Magic is in a baby's smile The call of the wind It is in the smell of the rain And the ache from pain This is not a simple concept for most  They want it all  Telekinesis and telepathy  Headed for a downfall To hear the call from within, Takes a great soul, Time is what you have, Love is what you need. Magic is not good or bad.  What makes a thought, vibration, orwill negative or positive is the intentions of the person who is putting that call out into the universe.  If you intend good then it will be good.  If you intend harm then it will harm.  This is a time to recall the Wiccan Rede and the Wiccan Three Fold "Anything you do good or bane shall return to you times three" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author's Note: I personally try my best not to harm people.  I do follow the rede "An it harm none do as ye will" and the three fold "Anything you do good or bane shall return to you three fold."  Do I ever yell at people?  Yes.  I'm not perfect, but I do try to be the best I can. Empathy to me starts with understanding where magic comes from.  I don't look for magic in a book or a bottle of herbs or a candle or some magic potion.  I look for it in the three best things in my life-- Love, Light, and Laughter.  Okay so I believe there are certain... things about just about EVERYONE that are the same.  Things like how we all look in the mirror and sometimes despise what we see or turn to walk away.  How we sing to ourselves as we drive and are listening to the radio and smile even if only for a minute because we feel good.  And how we get lonely at night and feel like crying but can't most nights and we just sit there in our own loneliness until we fall asleep.  And how there are times when the wind blows, the trees sway, and the wind is at our back that we feel like putting out our arms and spinning.  We are emotional creatures, humans, and we thrive or fall off of those emotions.  And the best thing is that we have a choice everyday what emotions we will have that day.  Love & Light, ~Snowden~

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