Compassionate Witnessing--A Tool for Empaths

This concept has been the most empowering and effective tool I've been given by Rose to navigate life as an empath, the phrase was given in my first Dieta with her, and the teachings on it continue to expand each time I do this work.

Walking through life as a naturally energetically sensitive and empathic being can be immensely difficult, draining, disheartening, and downright exhausting in a world that is filled with fear, greed, anger, separation and other forms of "negativity" around every corner.

Throughout my journey over the last 12 years of holding space for healing work in various settings, I've encountered many teachings centered around the concept of "shielding" and protecting myself from other peoples energy and emotions.

Visualizations such as surrounding myself in a bubble of protective light, mirroring/deflecting the energy back to its source, etc have never been effective tools for me.

Much like I shared in an earlier post about coming into presence with the activity of my mind and witnessing the thoughts that arise without attaching to their meaning, I have discovered applying this to external energies to be the most effective form of "protection".

When I am holding space for someone else's healing process, and am able to meet all that arises through this pure witnessing and compassionate awareness, not only does the energy stop "attacking" or attaching itself to me, but it tends to make the process of transforming the energy more graceful and easeful for the one moving through it.

The moment I begin to judge the quality of energy or emotion I perceive as "dense" or "heavy", something that should not be there, something that needs to shift or transform, or try to mentally analyze what it needs, it is like an internal magnet instantly draws it into my body. In these cases it is absolutely necessary to use any number of tools to cleanse myself after a space I hold.

This ability to "witness", even in a space such as an Ayahuasca ceremony where it can be easy for me to directly experience the thought forms and process of my client through myself, allows me to detach from whatever is arising in a way that it does not negatively impact me.

The art of true surrender as a channel has been the most difficult thing to master, and is definitely something I am still learning with each space or ceremony I hold.

The deepest transformational experiences I have facilitated, and those that leave me feeling energized, clear, and in deep gratitude, have been those where I can truly "get out of the way", be fully present, and witness the process from compassion and non attachment.

 I have learned that it isn't so much what I "do" from a place of my conscious awareness that helps to facilitate a space of healing, as much as it is focusing on my own authentic light and energy and providing a baseline energetic state of unconditional love, compassion, acceptance, and liberated authenticity that the other person, and the energy they are carrying, can naturally soften into and attune to.

Simply asking spirit or the plants I am working with to come through my body and voice and bring what is needed to support the liberation and transformation of whatever is arising in the person's process.

In this most recent Dieta, I had a really direct experience of confronting a rather "dark" energy and I was shown that even something born of evil intent is an energy that has forgotten its original nature as unconditional love.

I used to interpret energies such as the brujeria/witchcraft I have had to navigate in my personal journey, as inherently evil. As I come the the final stages of that process I am learning that even this quality of energy is on some level desperately seeking a source of compassion and love (while simultaneously terrified of it). It simply wants to be accepted and witnessed in the form that it is in, the pain and fear that it is, and this acceptance and compassion provides a tiny opening for its light to flood through.

I also find this applies to normal every day interaction, and "holding space" for someone who is sharing about a difficult emotion or experience they are moving through.

I find as empaths, many of us have a tendency to want to "fix" someone's pain or problem because it causes a degree of internal discomfort, and it is rare to find a person who can truly listen with presence as someone unloads and unpacks a difficult experience.

To listen with this same compassionate witnessing, without a need or desire to change it, gives this person a space and supportive energy to simply "be in their mess" and be fully accepted and heard in their vulnerability. This can be more powerful than any healing modality or medicine!

I have several recorded Rose Transmissions with many verbal and energetic transmissions centered around this concept, contact me for transmissions specific to this theme!