Dave Markowitz - Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

Self-Care for the Self-Aware

A Guide for Highly Sensitive People,
Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers.

Dave Markowitz

Copyright 2013 Dave Markowitz.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-7856-9 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 7/31/13

Contents

As I read thro.ugh the pages of Dave Markowitzs, Self-Care for the Self-Aware my heart opened wide because it felt as if hed written this treasured little book just for me! Learning how to use my empathic abilities as a gift is something I have struggled with all my life. But my struggle is over now; what Dave Markowitz offers is the gift of absolute scripture, for those of us who are empaths. It is brilliantly simple, incredibly inspiring and profoundly effective .

~Kathryn Peters-Brinkley, Bestselling Author, Publisher of Kinetics Magazine.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to those who have stood behind, next to, and in front of me. I know the value of a great support system and Ive attracted one of the best.

Gratitude to my Portland co-workers Joan DArcy and Peggy Rollo, publisher Kathryn Peters-Brinkley, Dannion Brinkley, Barry Goldstein, Dr. Meg Blackburn-Losey, agent Devra Ann Jacobs, BMSE, Findhorn Press for publishing my first book, and all those at Balboa Press for making this book possible.

Gratitude to the families: Markowitz; Mazza; Levin; Richman; and Lee; and to my soul families in/from New York and Portland.

Gratitude to all my clients, who I continue to learn from every day.

Special Thank You to my sweetheart, Maria. Your unconditional love has made me feel things I didnt know I could feel.

Front covers self-hug image courtesy of
www.JanetCristenfeld.com .

Author photo by Theresa Pridemore of
www.cogflower.com .

Edited by Holly Wells.

For those who have not read my first book, Healing with Source: A Spiritual Guide to Mind-Body Medicine , Id like to share with you that I went into alternative methods of healing kicking and screaming. I was pretty convinced that what Id been doingwhat Id been taughtwas right, but something much bigger than the Dave part of me kept me searching for deeper meanings and understandings. If someone had told me what was written in that book years prior to its creation, I would have quickly dismissed both that information and the messenger. Surely, only quacks would claim that repressed fear, anger and grief could cause illness. But years of experience and an intuitive message called Healing with Source made it all pretty clear. It was and is true. Even more wonderful was the awareness that by getting in touch with and embracing the raw emotions that most of us were taught not to showby moving energy actively or passivelyhealing can begin. And by understanding the emotional underlying causes, we could also be empowered in preventing pains and illness from manifesting or recurring.

As is always the case, we must be ready to expand our consciousness and belief systems; we are here to grow with the flow. I wondered what would be next and then it hit me in a most unusual circumstance: I became aware that I can absorb the negative energy of others enough to become ill myself. And so can you. If someone had told me just a few years ago what you are about to read in Self-Care for the Self-Aware , once again, I would have quickly dismissed both that information and the messenger. Personal experience is all I have to go on. I was not and still am unaware of other books that explain what Im about to share with you. Id heard references to empaths absorbing energy, and Id heard some techniques to prevent that, but none of them worked for me. And I saw that ultimately, they didnt work for others either. I knew there had to be something else. And then it showed up in High Definition, crystal-clear visions and intuitively guided information for just about all of my clients over a the last few years. Just ask and it is given, right? But not on our terms. And maybe not in our preferred way or at our desired time. But it does show up. All you have to do is listen. You do know how to listen, dont ya?

Blissings and gratitude,

Dave

empath / m p ' TH/ N : a person who can experience the thoughts, emotions, energy and direct experiences of others

Many people identify themselves as empaths, but few know how to use this skill effectively. When understood and used correctly, the burden of empathy can be a divine gift for the betterment of all humankind. After years of misunderstanding and denial, the author was forced to better comprehend his empathic abilities in the most unusual of circumstance. The catalyst was an atypical evening with friends in several bars. Not having drank anything other than water the entire evening, Dave Markowitz got drunk.

This opened up a whole new wave of clients in the following years. Over 90% of them had seen multiple practitioners yet still suffered from acute and chronic conditions. Their hopes of healing, their bank accounts, and their trust and faith in themselves, medical practitioners, and sometimes their higher power were constantly getting crushed. Medical doctors to shamans hoped for the best, but the best these clients could receive was an occasional and temporary relief of the symptoms. True healing could not be found. Clearly, something was missing.

What was missing is now found.

Daves new bevy of clients had three distinct commonalities:

theyd done a large amount of self-growth and healing work yet nothing had permanently shifted their pain or illness;

they had an overblown sense of responsibility;

and they were all empathic.

These clients often wondered why they were still unwell, having done all of the things recommend by the experts. Dave danced on the shoulders of the giants in the field, and was able to intuit that a combination of the above-stated commonalities were a recipe for much more than a temporary sharing of energy and emotion typically associated with empathy. There was an addictive quality to being an emotional and energetic sponge. The author believes that most of us are untrained empaths, and what untrained empaths take instays in. This led to pains and illness that could not be traced, understood, or healed by conventional or even well established alternative methods of healing. Simply put, the empaths symptoms were not their own.