Lynn Zambrano: HSP and Living Consciously
While working as a bedside nurse, I began to explore the correlation between feelings and energy vibrations. I began to see that patients who had good outcomes shared a willingness to let go of old thought patterns and step into forming new ones, which in turn affected their energy signature. They were changing their frequency. They began to feel better and gained a new perspective on their situations which often changed the direction of their lives. Within this same time period, I began taking energy healing classes (Healing Touch and La Ho Chi). During a La Ho Chi session, I had a very profound experience. I was receiving energy healing from my practice partner, and as she worked with my heart chakra I felt a big shift as if my bound heart had burst through its bonds. It was such an expansion that words cannot express the feeling. I was love, everything I saw was seen with through love. There was no longer a need to judge or label anything, anyone or any situation. People who were suffering became a part of me and I felt the pain but instead of overwhelm there were acceptance, love and compassion. I finally understood that we are all one, it is through my own healing that others too are healed and it is through others being healed that I am healed. We may seem to be separate but are not. This experience re-framed my beliefs and began a deep spiritual quest.
OMTIMES: As an HSP/empath expert, in your own words, how would you differentiate someone that is an empath from empathy?
Lynn Zambrano: Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Highly sensitive persons go beyond this and have an ultrasensitive nervous system. They are able to read energy, moods and the body language of others and can easily sympathize (walk a mile in someone else’s shoes). If you are an empath your ability goes further. You are a highly sensitive person but also clairsentient. This means you feel what others feel, you experience energy and emotions. You tend to leave your own energy field and do an energetic handshake with other people. Empaths feel other people’s emotions as if they were their own. You might find that you take on the physical symptoms, such as a bum knee.
