Dave Markowitz - Empathipedia: Healing for Empaths and Highly Sensitive Persons

Empathipedia is brilliantly written with both light-hearted humor and great soulful wisdom. Dave Markowitz has lovingly gifted the world a comprehensive manual on the ABCs of successfully navigating life as an empath or highly sensitive person.

Dannion Brinkley,
NY Times bestselling author of
Saved by the L ight

In the extraordinary book Empathipedia , Dave Markowitz, a gifted healer who has clearly found his true calling, is offering his gift to the rest of us. Every time I open this book I am struck by the power of Daves words, as if in connecting with his true voice he is talking directly to me and the place that I am at in the moment. Not coming from mere intellectual understanding, what Dave has written is a living expression of a deep experiential realization that touches and awakens a similar place of knowing in the reader. This book is a living transmission of Daves wisdom that can greatly support anyones healing journey, regardless of what path they are following. I cant recommend Empathipedia highly enough.

Paul Levy,
author of Dispelling Wetiko and
The Quantum Revela tion

Dave Markowitz has done it again! In his latest book to support empaths, the reader is given expanded tools and wisdom for how to navigate this planet as a Highly Sensitive being in a way that brings more joy, connection and delight. This book will make you laugh and bring you comfort as you feel more understoodwhile also understanding yourself more fully. It gives you powerful tools you can immediately put into action as a skilled empath!

Heather Kristian Strang,
best-selling author of Live Like Youre on Vacation: An Oracle, Ecstatic Union with The Divine , and A Life of Magic: An Oracle for Spirit-Led Li ving

Empathipedia takes readers well beyond the current knowledge base and introduces new ways of thinking aboutand healingold problems. Who hasnt been overwhelmed and disoriented at some point? With these tools, you can learn how to prevent empathic overload and heal yourself from its effects. It is an absolute must-read for Empaths and HSPs!

Anakha Coman,
Corporate Trainer, Creator of Awake
at Work mindfulness program
and Co-Author of The P roof

Empathipedia

Healing for Empaths
and
Highly Sensitive Persons

Dave Markowitz

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Book cover designed by Glenn Wright

Image licensed by Danielle Winter

Edited by Nicky Leach

ISBN: 978-1-9822-0105-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-0106-7 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 05/11/2018

Gratitude to Source, my family, friends, clients, all Empaths and HSPs, and to Maria

who supports me in ways I never thought possible.

In loving memory, this book is dedicated to Alice L evin

Contents

Introduction

How to Get the Most from Empathipedia

Dont believe a word Ive written.

Why would I begin a self-help book with Dont believe a word Ive written? Because Im only coming from my own experience and those of the thousands of people Ive been blessed to work with. If what is written here doesnt resonate with you, that only means there is no resonance, nothing else, and I wish you well on your journey elsewhere. That said, Id like to share a tiny bit of my own journey here, so you get a better idea of whose words youre reading.

My S tory

My first glimpse of an empath was in the original Star Trek series. Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and a woman from another planet were captives of an alien race called Vians who wanted to explore the concept of empathy. The woman, named Gem by Dr. McCoy, communicated nonverbally. She was an empathsomeone who could feel the pain of others. But Gem took it one step farther: she could heal others by absorbing their pain and then transmute it! Perhaps curious about empathy because they appeared to have none, the Vians continually tested Gems desire to experience the pain of others and heal them by progressively torturing the abducted members of the USS Enterp rise .

While Ill assume many viewers thought, How could those mean Vians do that to our heroes? I thought, Damn, wouldnt it be amazing to do what Gem does? Who could have known that in a sense, Id be doing what Gem does 40 years later?!?!

I didnt hear the word empath again for a few decades, even though Id been living as one for so many years. The concept arose again after I became immersed in metaphysical communities in my late 30s, but I never inquired much beyond my sci-fiinfused understanding of the term.

After 45 years in and around New York City, Spirit suddenly said to me that it was time to go west. To that, like most New Yorkers would have, I replied, Heck no! But within three months, I was living in Portland, Oregon. Have you ever tried arguing with the Universe? Good luck with that!

Once here, I attended a MeetUp (through the online networking site meetup(dot)com, which matches groups of people with shared interests), and while I was there, a man approached me and told me I was an empath. Repeatedly. At that time, for whatever reason, I didnt want to own it. He sensed my hesitancy to believe him, so he said, Im the head of the (now defunct) Portland MeetUp for empaths. And I know an empath when I see one. But it wasnt until I had a more visceral experience with empathy that I would eventually buy into the label.

Being new to Portland and desiring camaraderie, I agreed to attend the birthday party of a friend of a friend. What I didnt know until I got there was that it was a party bus tour: seven bars in seven hours! And like many on the bus, at the end of the night I was drunk. Not atypical, right? But I hadnt drunk any alcohol. In that haze of post non-alcohol induced confusion came the clarity Spirit had been trying to tell me: Im an empath. Id absorbed the drunk vibes of all the people on the bus and in the various bars over the course of the evening.

With only a few exceptions, I hadnt been drunk since college. As the Chef from South Park says, Theres a time and place for everything, and its called college. I quit for good in 2005, but this time I knew why I hated it so much. Bars are not good places for empaths!

From that point on, roughly 99 percent of the people who have come to me for intuitive guidance and healing facilitation have been empaths or Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs).

Initially, I had no idea how to be a catalyst in healing others, but Im a clear (enough) intuitive, and being open to assistance allowed vital information to flow through to me. I was then able to share that information with these HSPs and make useful recommendations about how they could heal. My main insight was that their symptoms were end results of consistently and empathically transmitted energies.