Emotional vampires...

[gorgeousbutterfly]

why is it , some people might let you on their troubles and you don't feel you picked up their emotions/stress but there are other people who do it and you feel their shit is put on you and then they feel much better? why does this happppppppppen? do you think some people deliberity do it?

[rynath]

I believe part of this comes down to what kind of "listener" you are. I've had previous jobs where co-workers would come to me and dump their problems into my ears just because I was willing to listen to them. They would leave feeling better and I would feel bogged down. I was glad I could help them just by listening but in a way I felt I was absorbing their emotions. Isn't this what shrinks get paid for? I really do want to be a nice person but sometimes it becomes overbearing.

What happened to you?

[gorgeousbutterfly]

i had a lady friend who every time we talked about her problems, like her husband issues i would feel overwhelmed and i would take up her emotions and she would always want to talk to me about her issues and every time she would feel a huge relief. she even said once " I don't know why but ever time i telll you my problems i feel the weight come off my sholders" yeah well and then i would pick it up and feel it. like an empath. what i find odd is that i only felt like that with her and not anybody else. i wonder why i felt like this only with her. i mean, i've had people before tell me worse things so its not that and its not about details, she wasn't that detailed. maybe she just had severe emotional disturbances more so then most people i talked to?

[rynath]

My experience is a mirror image with this one co-worker in particular. In fact she said the exact same thing. Her weight lifted and there I am feeling like I've just doubled my negative emotions.

I don't know if it's my doing by letting it in or if it was her doing by forcing it onto me without my realization.

It's a tough world we live in and taking on more than you can bear if you want to or not can be downright dangerous.

I do believe in empathy and the power of thought. So I'd have to say what you have experienced is a very real thing. This is just my opinion however. Always take a step back and come to your own conclusions...and thanks for sharing because I can definately relate.

[ravenswing]

I have had the same experience, like you I am a good listener and people tend to come and talk to me, in the end I had a near break down. I don't know if this will help you but it helps me, now if anyone wants to talk I create a little box for them in my mind and put all the info and emotions in there, Then when they leave I put the lid on the box and there it stays until the next time it is needed. It may sound silly (I am sure it does) but it works for me and now I am no longer influenced by their problems.

Emotional vampire is EXACTLY the right word for some people, they can suck you dry, beware of them.

Love and Peace

[equinox]

Hi, my mother is like this, andi used to get the same things people have mentioned. recently though i got a harmonic protector from
www.worldwithoutparasites.com for £29,it seals your aura and protects you from electromagnetic radiation, and it really works.

i believe that people are like this because they are unable to manage thire own energy systems, they can't take energy from the universe or whatever, so they take it from other people.

[rossus]

^i bought such a orgonite protective device a long time ago for the same sort of problems,
it didn't work for me.

Emotional vampire is EXACTLY the right word for some people, they can suck you dry, beware of them.
now you say emotional vampire is EXACTLY the right word...

but in the beginning of your post you said that; since you started listening in a different way; you don't feel drained anymore?
is this not enough proof that it's not really the "vampires" themselves that cause the problem... but the listener?

i doubt that people really suck other people's energy like that... thats why i think vampire might be not the right word for it.
i had the same "i feel drained" problem; but since i stopped make myself feel drained by making myself feel uncomfortable around those i suspected to
be vampires...

i no longer feel drained :)

[ravenswing]

^i bought such a orgonite protective device a long time ago for the same sort of problems,
it didn't work for me.


now you say emotional vampire is EXACTLY the right word...

but in the beginning of your post you said that; since you started listening in a different way; you don't feel drained anymore?
is this not enough proof that it's not really the "vampires" themselves that cause the problem... but the listener?

i doubt that people really suck other people's energy like that... thats why i think vampire might be not the right word for it.
i had the same "i feel drained" problem; but since i stopped make myself feel drained by making myself feel uncomfortable around those i suspected to
be vampires...

i no longer feel drained :)

Good point :)

I guess different things work for different people, you just gotta find a way that works for you.

[hagbard_celine]

I've also coined the term "emotional vampires", but I use it to refer to people who wind you up and try to get you upset just for the sake of it.

[ravenswing]

By strange coincidence (there are no coincedences) I was watching a Michael Tsarion vid yesterday and he mentioned this. He is even setting up a website www.emotionalvampirism.com I think, I will saunter over and have a look later.

[abhie]

I have been thru some horrendous experiences of Psychic Vampiring, Gas lighting, and other more virulent forms of psychic attack.
Psychic attack is the more softer version of its elder brother: the demonic attack.
Once you graduate from psychic protection, you progress onto demonic protection.

Here're some tips:
1) Practise psychic protection.
2) Wear a talisman/amulet that can ward off psychic attacks.
The best talisman I have found is a single eye within a circle. This eye makes most psychic attackers very nervous. Its like someone watching them all the time. Wear it around your neck all the time .

[kashmirz]

Thats satanic vamprism, not psychic vamprism abhie , fundamental difference

[abhie]

Here's a little chant that can help:

If you think that you are the target of malicious magic, whether or not you know who is sending it, simply say three times:

“Whatever it is you sent to me
I send it back, three times three.
Don’t fuck with me.
Don’t fuck with me.
Don’t fuck with me.”

Using the word 'fuck' will strengthen your protection.

Before your 'freind' leaves, make sure you trick him back, by giving him/her a small 'gift' , anything , even a flower will do.
As you give it to him/her, say to yourself, "I am now returning all the negative energies you gave me, as you are the rightful owner"

Later you could pray for this person and send him/her some healing positive energies.
But its important to be very protective of your own person , first.

LInk:
http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/vampyres.htm

Amulets and protection charms:
http://healing.about.com/od/amulets/Amulets_Charms_Talismans.htm

[armoured_amazon]

I have had the same experience, like you I am a good listener and people tend to come and talk to me, in the end I had a near break down.

+1

I don't know if this will help you but it helps me, now if anyone wants to talk I create a little box for them in my mind and put all the info and emotions in there, Then when they leave I put the lid on the box and there it stays until the next time it is needed. It may sound silly (I am sure it does) but it works for me and now I am no longer influenced by their problems.

That's a good idea. :)

[armoured_amazon]

I have been thru some horrendous experiences of Psychic Vampiring, Gas lighting, and other more virulent forms of psychic attack.
Psychic attack is the more softer version of its elder brother: the demonic attack.
Once you graduate from psychic protection, you progress onto demonic protection.

Here're some tips:
1) Practise psychic protection.
2) Wear a talisman/amulet that can ward off psychic attacks.
The best talisman I have found is a single eye within a circle. This eye makes most psychic attackers very nervous. Its like someone watching them all the time. Wear it around your neck all the time .

Fighting evil with negatively-charged trinkets is kinda contraindicatory....whatchoo gonna do if the clasp breaks? Oh noes! Putting your faith in symbols puts you over there with the Lumies.

[abhie]

Be Wary of Energy Suckers
http://healing.about.com/cs/energyhealing/a/aa_vampires.htm

[danster82]

Ive read quite alot about the nature of evil beings from many diffrent sources and religions and myths and so on and it seems the emotional vampire is where the myth of the blood sucking vampire comes from.

So the vampire sucks the blood of its victims to prolong its own life and also the vampire is dead in a sense or spiritualy dead.

A teaching i was given said some beings have spent their oppotunitys to turn back to God and so are disconnected from the source others of us are still connected to source. However it gets more complex in that beings can existed in the material universe on 4 diffrent realms mostly the lower astral realm for these disconneted beings but also the physical realm.

So my take with people like this who I have experienced also is that they are either disconnted from the source and so they need to absorb the light from you to nurish them or there are beings from the lower astral realm that are attached to them like parasites that use them to create lower frequencys of emotions in the physical so they can absorb.

The baisc premise then is humans have the capacity to bring the light of god into the world like conduits and so the whole world is setup as a sort of farm for these lower astral beings to suck the life force out of us to sustain their own life. In order to do this they must lower the emotional virbration of the light that we step down to a level where its capable of them abosrbing it.

These frequencys are those such as Fear Greed Anger Hatred Apathy and so on they cannot absorb the frequencys of joy love excitment and so on.

So this lady probably has a parasite which simply has feeding time she will then be inclined to induce a lower state in you with depressiong storys or guilt or whatever extremly subtle ways that will lead you unkowingly into lower vibrations.

I mean this is simply one way of describing it using the type of vocabulary I have but someone with a diffrent background will describe it totaly diffrent but you realise they are essentialy saying the same thing. This is somthing I have recently began to notice about alot of teachings and so you can find parallels for the same basic teaching in all areas. For example I even saw this teaching knowledge In a film many years later called monsters inc. where the monsters in a diffrent realm have to scare the children to catch energy they then take back to the monster realm...

[armoured_amazon]

...beings can existed in the material universe on...diffrent realms mostly the lower astral realm for these disconneted beings but also the physical realm.

...there are beings from the lower astral realm that are attached to them like parasites that use them to create lower frequencys of emotions in the physical so they can absorb.

...The baisc premise then is humans have the capacity to bring the light of god into the world like conduits and so the whole world is setup as a sort of farm for these lower astral beings to suck the life force out of us to sustain their own life. In order to do this they must lower the emotional virbration of the light that we step down to a level where its capable of them abosrbing it....These frequencys are those such as Fear Greed Anger Hatred Apathy and so on they cannot absorb the frequencys of joy love excitment and so on.

...So this lady probably has a parasite which simply has feeding time she will then be inclined to induce a lower state in you with depressiong storys or guilt or whatever extremly subtle ways that will lead you unkowingly into lower vibrations.

I mean this is simply one way of describing it using the type of vocabulary I have but someone with a diffrent background will describe it totaly diffrent but you realise they are essentialy saying the same thing. This is somthing I have recently began to notice about alot of teachings and so you can find parallels for the same basic teaching in all areas. For example I even saw this teaching knowledge In a film many years later called monsters inc. where the monsters in a diffrent realm have to scare the children to catch energy they then take back to the monster realm...

+1

When we have God in us we can't turn it down. The Holy Spirit is a beacon for spirit parasites and demons. We just need to learn to put up walls. I used to get so drained I was on Prozac just from people sucking the life out of me; I thought I was going crazy. Eventually, I got those people out of my life, quit the Prozac overnight and didn't have a single side effect. (sometimes I wonder, do they tell people to pyramid down, hmm pyramid, to keep them dependent on the state longer?)

Re: Monsters Inc, I've never seen it but Disney have a sick enjoyment in showing us the truth.

eta: People in general who have strong positive energy are magnets for parasitic beings.

[nafenisr]

i had a lady friend who every time we talked about her problems, like her husband issues i would feel overwhelmed and i would take up her emotions and she would always want to talk to me about her issues and every time she would feel a huge relief. she even said once " I don't know why but ever time i telll you my problems i feel the weight come off my sholders" yeah well and then i would pick it up and feel it. like an empath. what i find odd is that i only felt like that with her and not anybody else. i wonder why i felt like this only with her. i mean, i've had people before tell me worse things so its not that and its not about details, she wasn't that detailed. maybe she just had severe emotional disturbances more so then most people i talked to?

this lady friend you speak of must be my wife. small world, eh?

[armoured_amazon]

:D

[notthisshitagain]

I believe part of this comes down to what kind of "listener" you are. I've had previous jobs where co-workers would come to me and dump their problems into my ears just because I was willing to listen to them. They would leave feeling better and I would feel bogged down. I was glad I could help them just by listening but in a way I felt I was absorbing their emotions. Isn't this what shrinks get paid for? I really do want to be a nice person but sometimes it becomes overbearing.

What happened to you?

This is what happens to me EXACTLY.. and now I know what to do! I'll try that idea of the "mental box", sounds useful! :D

[quetzalcoatl]

Stop being so weak & pathetic.. For fuck sake! Are you all really that abused? Go on get offended! ;)

No-one, not even satan himself can take your energy without your permission (& it maybe a decision on a below-conscious level). I've been around depressants & lively/happy individuals a-like & I can choose exactly how I experience the situation/them.. It's totally up-to you how you dispense your energy.

Some people all it takes is a bit of a 'loud' character & they feel totally drained.. Where I can look at them & yawn & think go get 'em buddy! & I'm no worse for wear. I can decide to be inspired by the depressed whimpering of someone seeking my attention.. Tis easy give advice if you feel it's useful; & be inspired not to end up like them.

It's all about Mastering your emotions.. & YOU CAN Master them! Because how you think about any situation & how you react directly effects your emotions. Even seemingly un-controllerable feelings like pain can be Mastered. Okay, your belief may-be that if someone punches you in the facial then it's gona hurt.. Well it really doesn't have to! When you know pain is simply an electrical signal sent to the brain & designed to bring alert to body damage & areas that requires conscious attention - Then you can intercept this impulse & change the out-coming feeling.

Master the Mind/Body then Master the emotions. Nothing & No-one can make you DO, FEEL or THINK anything you don't want to. You are all so much better than this.

So, if you reckon you can't choose what to feel in any situation then you probably need some de-programming.

[mr_pixie]

This stuff does happeds to me a lot, theres a guy how lives in my block of flats, and everytime I see him I feel he's drawing engery from me, I dont like him.

[disorder2k8]

Strange, I was going to write something like this, I believe there is energy transfer. Its akin to things like giving a smile and getting one back, you will pick up on negative energies when you deal with other peoples problems, remember though, they are their probs, not yours. Think happy thoughts and they will go away.

Subsequently. has anyone had any unusual dreams/mightmares when sleeping next to a pet, like a cat or dog? I seem to think I am picking up my cats dreams, most of them are weird.