How Skilled Are You as an Empath?

Many gifted people are wondering, "What kind of an empath am I?" These empaths are just starting out on the path of becoming skilled. This quiz will give you an idea of how far you have come so far. I also wrote this quiz to help you as a consumer. If you have thought about being an empath at all, your next thought should be about who can teach you to become skilled.

Empathic talent is not like most kinds of talent, like playing the piano, where skill develops naturally as you study. Unskilled empaths experience suffering, even being a victim. Skilled, you can have an extraordinary life of personal fulfillment and service to others. Are you settling for less? Find out.

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. I think I might be an empath because:
People find me perceptive.
I feel confused about who I really am. I hope that's because I'm more special than other people.
At certain times I have a direct experience of what it is like to be someone else.
I'm either an empath, a shape-shifter, an adventurer, or some other really cool kind of space voyager. Hey, I've got to be something!
4. An empath is defined as:
A tragic figure who was born to suffer.
A thoughtful or troubled person who yearns for a better life.
Someone with at least one significant, trainable gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be another person.
A character out of science fiction.
5. Behavior boundaries with other people:
Worrying about them won't really help an empath. Instead, you need to use your consciousness to wake up inside yourself and become the most important person in the room.
Are easy, if you're smart. Repeat to yourself, "I am me."
Must be studied for years before you can be any good at them, but then you will be skilled as an empath.
Are the key to being a skilled empath. You must practice, practice, practice, but even then you are probably doomed to fail.
6. Sometimes an empath puts on a fake facade with others because:
So-called "empaths" are really self-important phonies, and they like to puff themselves up even more than normal.
It seems to helps us to feel more secure. We can feel as though we have a presence in the room because we have constructed that presence.
Someone who plays with facades isn't skilled yet, and is grasping for a way to be with others that will be authentic but safe. (I would strongly recommend the how-to book, "Empowered by Empathy" as an alternative to this kind of coping strategy.)
All people are fakes really. Most people learn this by the time they are teenagers. Empaths just take a longer time to catch up. We are so pure. But eventually we catch on to what everyone else does.
7. Walls:
Are what you must use to be skilled as an empath. Whenever you meet questionable people, put up your wall as a kind of shield to keep yourself safe.
Walls don't keep out other people's pain effectively. And, unfortunately, walls make a person feel dead inside. (A skilled aura reader can find those walls, too. They're very real. But they can be removed.) Instead of walls, learn how to wake up inside yo
Are best made of bricks, unless you want the big bad wolf to get you.
Walls are part of the constant sorrow of being gifted as an empath. You must build them high, like Rapunzel's tower.
8. To protect yourself, an empath should:
Buy special clothing or crystals, and also be sure to put on big energy shields many times a day.
Tote a gun. Actually, everybody should carry a gun. We would all be much safer.
Learn how to wake up inside yourself, and do a technique for this every morning for about two minutes. Then, during the day, use a quick first-aid technique, as needed, to move other people's stuff out of your aura. (See "Empowered by Empathy" for both te
Worry. Avoiding people might be necessary too, if you are really, really, talented as an empath.
9. Psychotherapists and psychiatrists:
Are always empaths. Certain professions have being an empath as a job requirement.
Are not always empaths. Empaths who are attracted to the mental health field often burn out quickly and drop out. Why? Their training (so far) does not include techniques designed expressly for empaths.
Are some of the only people who can understand a tortured soul like me.
May try to help me but I'm too sensitive and empathic to ever feel good for long.
10. Learning to become a skilled empath:
Should be like learning to play checkers, only faster.
Is a long and perilous journey, fraught with heartbreak.
Takes about this big an investment of time, when you're studying with a good teacher: As long as three manicure-plus-pedicures at a salon, or else wash-and-waxing your car twice.
Is a fantasy. Alas, being born as an empath means that your fate is always to cling to sanity like a cat on the high branch of a shaky tree.
11. Techniques to turn your empathic gifts on extra-strong:
Might be fun to learn, except that I'm not sure I could bear it.
Might not make much of a difference. As it is, I'm already pulled into so many different directions.
Work really powerfully, jet-propelling you into somebody else's experience. Incredible fun! To be responsible, though, first learn how to turn your empathy OFF before you experiment with turning it ON.
Only can be learned if you are visiting Neptune, where so many empath-doctors live.
12. An unskilled empath:
Picks up pain belonging to others. All empaths are born unskilled, but we can become skilled. A skilled empath keeps the talent without suffering from the random problems caused by taking on other people's pain.
Skill won't help an empath. It is a terrible, sad, way to live. We must learn to be brave.
Should talk with other unskilled empaths because only others who have been there really understand how you feel.
Skilled, unskilled, what's the difference? I don't think there's any difference.
13. Holistic healers, like Reiki healers or massage therapists, or psychics:
Are always empaths, only they are more into mind-body-spirit than psychotherapists.
Are dangerous people because they are spiritually incorrect. At death, they will probably go straight to Hell.
May try to help me but I'm too sensitive and empathic to ever feel good for long.
Are at risk for taking on pain belonging to their clients. This happens because many empaths are attracted to healing work and, so far, they do not generally receive training about how to become skilled as an empath.
14. Learning to become a skilled empath:
Should be like learning to play checkers, only faster.
Is a long and perilous journey, fraught with heartbreak.
Takes about this big an investment of time, when you're studying with a good teacher: As long as three manicure-plus-pedicures at a salon, or else wash-and-waxing your car twice.
Is a fantasy. Alas, being born as an empath means that your fate is always to cling to sanity like a cat on the high branch of a shaky tree.
15. Techniques to turn your empathic gifts on extra-strong:
Might be fun to learn, except that I'm not sure I could bear it.
Might not make much of a difference. As it is, I'm already pulled into so many different directions.
Work really powerfully, jet-propelling you into somebody else's experience. Incredible fun! To be responsible, though, first learn how to turn your empathy OFF before you experiment with turning it ON.
Only can be learned if you are visiting Neptune, where so many empath-doctors live.

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