Empowered by Empathy : 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit [Paperback]

Rose Rosetree (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2000

Stop picking up other people's pain. Learn to use the gift(s) you already have and find out what will really protect you best. To become a skilled empath will change your life. No other method for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), empaths, or intuitives can wake you up from inside and protect you like this pioneering method of Empath Empowerment(TM). This book shows you all you need to know to turn your gift(s) OFF most of the time. There are also amazing techniques to turn your gift(s) ON, for a direct empath-merge, in person or with someone in a photograph. Learn more about this book and Rose Rosetree's pioneering work at the Rose Rosetree dotcom.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Empowered by Empathy Reviewed by Cynthia Yockey If you are aware that your empathy whether for people, animals, the environment, or whatever overwhelms you from time to time, by showing you how to harness your ability so it does not run off with you, Rose Rosetree s latest book, Empowered by Empathy: 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit, could save your life. Definitely it will provide you with the knowledge you need to understand and unfold your gift. Even if you believe you are a very advanced empath, I assure you that Rosetree has a thing or three to add that not only will accelerate the growth of your abilities, but also increase your stability and joy in the process. And perhaps best of all, Rosetree s book gently and skillfully guides those who simply feel drawn to the concept of empathy through the underlying concepts of recognizing their own empathic strengths and then provides exercises to help them unfold their abilities. In a nutshell, Empowered by Empathy describes ethical ways to connect with others while maintaining your own boundaries and staying grounded. Miracles ensue, as I shall explain. If Empowered by Empathy were a pop psych book, it would plod through types of people and describe how to recognize each one, with tips on how to cope with each type as a spouse, child, boss or employee. Instead, startlingly and delightfully, Rosetree begins by turning the telescope around and defining types of empaths (!). With guidelines and little tests, she helps the reader sort out his or her own type(s) of empathy to very fine, very real, and very important levels of distinction. For example, in the chapter, Your Gifts for Empathy, Rosetree distinguishes between intuition and oneness. Thus there isn t a broad category of physical empathy; instead Rose explains that the physical intuition form of empathy involves knowing what someone else s body is feeling, while physical oneness is feeling their feelings in your body (i.e., when you put your attention on someone with a stomach ache, you feel your stomach start to hurt). Obviously it can be crazy-making to have feelings flood into you from others with no conceptual framework or off button, so many readers will find enormous validation in having their experiences explained to them, probably for the first time. And more readers will find the validation of knowing for the first time that others share their experiences. They will gain the confidence to see more powerfully what they have already been seeing. For example, one aha! came for me when Rosetree described how the faces of people and animals change in your perception as you come to know them. I have known this for a long time, but it never occurred to me to say much about it because no one else seemed to notice the phenomenon. Now I feel certain I will be able to see even more deeply into how this is so. Rosetree explains both common and rare types of empathy along with ways to recognize which of these abilities match yours. Common types of empathy include physical intuition, physical oneness, emotional intuition and emotional oneness. Less common are intellectual shape shifting, the ability to follow the maze of someone else s thought process, and spiritual oneness, the ability to experience how it is to be a completely different person. (I d like to see intellectual shape shifting get a more accurate name consistent with the others, like intellectual intuition. ) Rare forms of empathy are molecular empathy (too hard to summarize), animal empathy, medical intuitives, gardening empaths, crystal empaths, and environmental empaths. --Pathways Magazine Fall, 2004

Reviewed by C. Apell I cant deny it; I was a bit skeptical about this book at first glance. But upon delving deeper, I found Rose Rosetrees work to be an enlightening and thorough guidebook for empaths. And just who is an empath? What are the differences between Physical Intuition and Physical Oneness, Emotional Intuition and Emotional Oneness? Why do empaths need to practice grounding techniques? The answers to such questions, as well as exercises to help develop awareness of empathy can all be found here. Ms. Rosetree s easy way of putting into words concepts that I had been vaguely aware of but never thought there was any way of quantifying or describing is very refreshing. By sharing her own personal experiences with empathy she demonstrates that you, too, can recognize your own empathic gifts and learn to use them as tools to build a more balanced and joyful life. --Fearless Reviews, 2001

Review by Lisa Wechtenheiser Jen's upset about something, my co-worker said about our receptionist. I looked up from my paperwork and replied: How can you tell that just by how she walks down the hallway? I don't know. I just can. Can't everyone? Actually, no. Only one in twenty of us are empaths - those of us who identify with and understand another's situation, feelings, and motives (American Heritage dictionary). Rose Rosetree, teacher, author and yes, empath has written and recorded a very unique guide for those of us with these wonderful skills in Empowered by Empathy. Not only does she explain the various forms of empathic knowing (emotional oneness, intellectual shapeshifting, etc.) but she goes on to offer a variety of techniques specifically designed to assist in working with these gifts rather than being hindered by them. My co-worker, mentioned above, is exquisitely attuned to what others are feeling. Yet, she's had to all but turn that ability off in order to stay afloat emotionally. Because of her centered and calm demeanor, others are drawn to her and she often finds herself drowning in their STUFF. If you've been there, as I have, you know it's not a fun place to be. Rose teaches skills that will show you how to turn down the empathy dial so you can still be present for others but take care of yourself at the same time. She also gives you real life examples to clarify her points and shares her answers to questions the reader might have (based on her years of working with empaths). One of the things I like most about all of Rose's books is her ability to speak to different levels of the audience without losing anyone by being too technical nor boring anyone by being too basic. --Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

Will this book be for you? You're invited to read following, quoted from the dedication at the front of the book.

Poets, singers, artists: you who yearn to express the truth and yet more truth, open now to the ways you already create and create without ceasing through your spirit’s gifts.

Dancers, actors, musicians, photographers, creators of all kinds and intensities: you who fervently wish that someone, that enough someones, might give you the chance to show your talent, open now and be refreshed. Once upon this time, right here, in this room, know that wherever you are, you show forth your gifts and applause for them shakes in the air like the sound right before thunder.

Because you move as an empath, you are an awakener, not only through the skills that you cherish but in all the ways that you serve, bringing light to this world on a silver (though invisible) platter.

Even you, the hidden ones, you who keep your gifts secret, even you whose gifts are kept so far secret that you do not know them yet, stop holding back your tears. Hear the call. Awaken to the mystery of all you can know and all that you share, for our world, like you, is ready to break wide open and show forth the full joy of God.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: Women's Intuition Worldwide. (November 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965114589
• ISBN-13: 978-0965114585
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A pioneer in energetic literacy, Rose Rosetree has developed a variety of skill sets that improve quality of life in very human ways.

EMPATH EMPOWERMENT(R) is a practical system that uses consciousness to turn empath gifts OFF or ON, by choice.
* "Become the Most Important Person in the Room" is recommended as the more practical title in this growing field. Informing this quick program for empath skills, Rose Rosetree's workshops for empaths on three continents and 10 years of personal healing sessions for empaths on six continents.
* "Empowered by Empathy" is available in paperback and audiobook editions. It was the first book in English for empaths and offers powerful concepts, useful skills, and the largest collection in print of techniques for Skilled Empath Merge.

12 Steps to CUT CORDS OF ATTACHMENT(R) is the first (and, so far, only) book in English about this healing specialty. As cord-cutting has grown in popularity, this system remains uniquely effective.
* "Cut Cords of Attachment" is a book to help you develop quality healing skills. Or you can use it as a consumer for evaluating professional healers.
* For years, Rose Rosetree has done over 1,000 hours per year helping clients, an active healing and coaching practice where the majority of sessions include cutting a cord of attachment.

AURA READING through All Your Senses(R) can turn anyone into a skilled and resourceful aura reader.
* "Aura Reading Through All Your Senses" is an international bestseller.
* "Magnetize Money with Energetic Literacy" illustrates how detailed information can be read through chakra databanks. This book can help you to become more successful in ways that go clear through to your auric modeling. Also, this title helps readers identify and heal spiritual addiction, which has reached epidemic proportions within the New Age community.
*"Use Your Power of Command for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection" also produces significant results that can be researched by any fully competent aura reader. This is an empowering approach to energetic de-cluttering.

FACE READING Secrets(R) was Rosetree's first trademarked system. It has earned her the title, among professional face readers worldwide, as "The Mother of American Physiognomy."

*See "Read People Deeper: Body Language + Face Reading + Aura Reading" for details.
* "The Power of Face Reading" is now being revised, with an expanded update scheduled for 2012.

In addition to coaching clients, doing phone sessions, and training healers through her Energy Spirituality Mentoring Program, Rose facilitates healing sessions of Energy Release Regression Therapy. See more details at her website.

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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from Empathy as Affliction, Empathy as a Gift, August 18, 2004

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Birrell Walsh (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Empowered by Empathy : 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit (Paperback)

Rose Rosetree has written a survival manual for the empath.

People who feel other people's experience, who cannot help it, bounce through life like a pingpong ball. The mood of the last person you met determines how you feel.

First Rose Rosetree reassures you that you are not crazy. Then she tells you how to get control over the incoming feelings. When you finally have some space of your own, she helps you to use your empathy to help others.

*Empowered by Empathy* is that rare book that delivers what it promises. I recommend it.

59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Priceless information!, March 13, 2001

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Charles (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Empowered by Empathy : 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit (Paperback)

If you are sensitive to the moods and feelings of others, do yourself a big favor and read this book! Empathic sensitivity (that is, pulling in emotional energy from people around you and experiencing it as your own) can be a big source of confusion and frustration. But Rose Rosetree helps you understand empathy as the GIFT it truly is. This book is all about learning to manage empathic sensitivity by using it with awareness and grace. When you learn how to turn empathy on and off, it becomes a choice instead of an uncontrolled experience. And when you do choose to "join in spirit" with another person in a skilled, balanced way, your consciousness expands and soars! You get to step outside the box of your own experience and explore the delicious "otherness" of someone else's consciousness, then return safely to a grounded sense of yourself. Rosetree defines numerous categories of empathy, including several that never would have occurred to me. I've always imagined empathy to be an exclusively EMOTIONAL connection. Who knew that a talent for getting in sync with another's THOUGHT process could be a kind of intellectual empathy? There are insights galore here. One of the things I like best about Rosetree's books in her use of Q&A sections. This gives her books an "interactive" feel that I really appreciate. It's the closest thing to a live workshop you can get in book form. If you know, or suspect, that you are a natural empath, don't pass this one up; it could be life-changing.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Empaths Defined, August 24, 2005

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Judith McClimans - See all my reviews

This review is from: Empowered by Empathy : 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit (Paperback)

If you have ever asked yourself questions such as `Why do I care so much?'; you will thank yourself for reading this book. With clarity and insight, Rose delves in to give specifics about the 20% who relate to others on a deeper level.

If you are merely interested, you will learn a lot. If you are empathic, you will understand your gifts more fully and gain needed skills to be more effective in all areas of your life. This book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who has ever pondered the nature vs. nurture theories to explain their own unique abilities to connect with others.