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Ayurvedic Healing Properties of Aromas


Aromas are smells. Every person has five senses, each of which corresponds to one of the five elements. Sound and hearing are associated with the element of space, colour and sight with the element of re, taste with the element of water, smell and scent with the element of earth, and touch with the element of air. These five senses are the human being's portals of perception, and they can be employed for healing.

Aromatherapy employs incense and essential oils derived from flowers, plants, trees, and grasses to transmit scents to the brain via the olfactory sense, bringing healing energy to the mind and body.

Ayurveda believes that particular fragrances are heating, cooling, or neutral, and that they are intimately tied to doshic balance and imbalance.


  • Deer musk and hina, for example, are warming, calming vata and kapha but provoking pitta.
  • Camphor is soothing and aromatic, but it also has a heating effect; it soothes and pacifies vata and kapha, but it may also promote pitta.
  • Sandalwood has a cooling and antiin amatory scent; it is relaxing and relaxing for pitta, but may elevate kapha or vata. 
  • Grounding, soothing, and cooling, khus (the essence of khus grass) It has a lovely odour and calms pitta, but it can also aggravate kapha and vata. 
  • Jasmine is cooling and pleasant, and it is beneficial for pitta, but it might cause kapha to build up.
  • Rose's impact is influenced by the color of the bloom. White and yellow-colored roses are cooling, while dark red roses are warming. Rose blossoms have an aphrodisiac property and have an antiin amatory and relaxing scent. Rose scent can be utilized to calm pitta, but it can also aggravate vata and kapha.




THE DOSHAS AND THE AROMAS


• Sweet, warming, grounding scents like musk, hina, and camphor can help to balance Vata. Orange, clove, cardamom, lavender, pine, angelica, and frankincense are all nice vata scents.


• Cooling, relaxing, sweet scents like sandalwood, khus, jasmine, and rose help to settle Pitta. Rose geranium, lemongrass, fennel, peppermint, gardenia, and mint are some of the herbs that can help.


• Aromas with a warming, somewhat stimulating influence are used to calm and balance Kapha. Musk, hina, and camphor can all be beneficial. 


Aromas that are more pungent are likewise beneficial to kapha. Eucalyptus, cinnamon, myrrh, thyme, basil, rosemary, and sage are a few examples.



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4 Essential Oils for Healing Empaths

 



Essential oils are soothing and can help with the tension that comes with metaphysical hypersensitivity. In 2014, the American College of Healthcare Sciences performed a study in which 58 hospice patients were given a regular hand massage for one week using a mixture of essential oils by the American College of Healthcare Sciences. Lavender, frankincense, and bergamot were used in the oil mix. As a result of the essential oil massages, all of the patients showed less depression and discomfort. Essential oil mixture aromatherapy massages were found to be more effective than massage alone in treating depression and discomfort.


The following are some of the better essential oils for anxiety relief:


1. Lavender 

Lavender oil has a soothing and healing effect; it balances the nervous system, promotes inner harmony, improves relaxation, and reduces restlessness, panic attacks, irritability, and nervous energy. There have been several scientific trials that show that inhaling lavender reduces anxiety and depression right away. In one trial, taking lavender oil capsules orally triggered a rise in heart rate variance as compared to a placebo when watching an anxiety-inducing video. According to the findings, lavender has an anxiolytic function, which means it can help to reduce anxiety.

Other studies have shown that lavender will help patients who are undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery or who are scared of the dentist feel less anxious.

2. Rose

Rose is effective in treating depression, fear, grief, shock, and panic attacks. In a report conducted in the Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, a sample of women who were pregnant for the first time inhaled rose oil for 10 minutes while taking a footbath. The footbath was also offered to a second group of women who were pregnant for the first time, but without the rose oil inhalation. The findings revealed that combining a footbath with aromatherapy reduced anxiety in nulliparous (women who have never had children) women in the active process.

3. Chamomile 

Chamomile oil is known for its soothing properties and ability to promote inner harmony, as well as alleviate worry, fear, overthinking, and irritability. An exploratory research undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that it contains therapeutic anti-depressant properties. Chamomile capsules have also been shown to help with depressive effects, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

4. Frankincense 

The soothing energy and calming properties of Frankincense oil make it ideal for treating anxiety and depression. It also aids concentration, mental quiet, and reflection. A research from Korea's Keimyung University discovered that a blend of lavender, frankincense, and bergamot decreased pain and depression in hospice patients with terminal cancer.


Essential Oils when used for Hypersensitivity, are used in aromatherapy, swallowed, or applied topically.


Here are few ideas about how to use them:


1. Aromatherapy is a treatment that uses essential oils to

Because of the human capacity to absorb information by scent, aromatherapy is a common anxiety treatment. It can elicit a strong emotional response. The limbic system is a part of the brain that regulates memory recall and emotional processing. Inhaling essential oil scents triggers a mental reflex in the limbic system of the brain, which controls stress and relaxing responses including hormone activity, blood pressure, and breathing habits. The oils may be used in the wash, a hot water vaporizer, immediate inhalation, a humidifier or vaporizer, cologne, soap, a fan, or aromatherapy diffusers.

2. The bulk of natural oils should be taken orally. It is, however, important that the oils you use are both clean and natural. The bulk of commercialized oils have been mixed with other chemicals or combined with synthetics, making them unhealthy to use. Combining a drop of oil with a teaspoon of honey or dropping the oil into a bottle of water is the most efficient way to consume essential oils. You should even add a few drops to your food as it's frying. A couple of drops can be placed under your tongue.

This is especially helpful since blood capillaries are situated at the surface of the tissue under the tongue, allowing the oil to easily penetrate into the bloodstream and migrate to the region of the body where it is needed. Basic oils may also be used as capsules.

Application

The method of applying essential oils to the skin, nails, teeth, hair, or mucous membranes of the body is known as topical application. The oils penetrate easily into the flesh. Since the oils are too solid, you must dilute or mix them with a carrier oil like coconut, avocado, jojoba, or sweet almond oil. The combined mixture may be applied directly to the affected area, along the rims of the ears, the soles of the feet, in the water, as a warm compress, or as a massage.


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Hinduism - Where Is Tiruchirappalli In India?

  

The city of Cauvery is located on the Cauvery River in Tamil Nadu's central region, and it is the capital of the same-named district.

The city's strategic location made it a target for numerous southern Indian dynasties, the most recent of which were the Madurai Nayaks, who erected a magnificent fort on a stone outcrop in the city's center.

The huge temples of Shrirangam and Jambukeshvar, located on an island in the Cauvery River north of the city, are the city's most recognized attractions.

The first is dedicated to the deity Vishnu in his aspect as "Lord of the Rose-Apple (jambu) Tree," which has significant symbolic links with southern Indian rulers and monarchy; the latter is devoted to the god Shiva in his aspect as "Lord of the Rose-Apple (jambu) Tree." 

Off With the Horns, On With the Show



“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. She sharpens, She wakes imagination. There are secret Truths which one can see only with the light of the heart in the depths of the dark”  
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

  


At midnight, when Mankind is wrapt in Peace, 
   At midnight hour, when slumbering in their deepest sleep, 
   Worldly Fancy feeds on golden dreams,  
   This gives more Dream to Man’s most dreadful Hour, 
   Quickly startled are these, by the sound of  
   God’s great trumpet sounding high 
   A sound so pure, 
   It roars as it speeds through Hearts and Souls
   At Midnight; ‘tis presumed, this pomp will burst
   From tenfold darkness sudden as the spark…
   An Archangel is seen, seated on a cloud, 
   And with angelic trumpet summons all the world 
   Man, starting from his Couch, shall sleep no more. 
   The Day is broke which never more shall close!... 
   Terror and Glory join in their extremes!
   Quickly they arise and do appear before the seat of God!







INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE HUMAN EGO


       Great spiritual masters, who have explored life in depth and understood it, compare life to a bubble. Time is infinite.  Human life, which appears and quickly fades away, is transient.  But in his arrogance, man forgets this Truth.  When still in possession of wealth, status, authority and youth, man lives in reckless arrogance, thinking, “I am great. Everything is under my control”.  He forgets his dharma to the world, his nation, his fellow-beings, to Nature – even his dharma to himself. Consciously or unconsciously, we give our ego complete rein to rule and control our life.

        When a human life comes to an end, all that it can look back upon are the actions done in that life time and how they have influenced people and society.  Our lifespan, health, strength and physical beauty are limited.  They all fade with time.  Change is the powerful signature  of time.  There is nothng in this universe upon which time does not leave its mark.  It is this change that the ancient sages named maya.  Maya does not mean that which does not exist. Rather, it means something that undergoes constant change.  However, consciousness, which is still and constant, is the underlying foundation of all that undergoes change.  We should learn to recognize the difference between the body and the external universe -  which undergo constant change  --  and the unchanging consciousness that serves as the substratum of the body and universe.  When we recognize this difference, we will learn to see all changes in life as natural and accept them.




Man is Like a Drop of Water in the Vast  Ocean of this Infinite Universe.  


            When he gives undue importance to his ego and asserts its greatness, it is like a drop of water proclaiming that it is the ocean.  It is not man’s ability that makes the sun, moon and planet move, nor is it his ability that sustains the earth and its innumerable life forms. Man, who is just another creature that inhabits this infinite existence, should not nurture his ego.  Instead he should realize its insignificance  and move forward in his life with humility.

           Once there lived an old woman in a village. One day, she quarreled with some people and decided to leave the village.  As she was making her way out, she exclaimed, “Now let me see how the sun rises over this village”. 

“What do you mean?” asked the villagers.  The old woman replied, “The sun rises here only because my rooster crows at dawn.  That is not going to happen any more.  Both my rooster and I, are leaving this village!”  The old woman reached another village where she decided to stay.  The next morning, as usual, her rooster began  to crow. And the sun rose in the sky.  The old woman drew herself up and said haughtily, “Ha ! That will teach them to trifle with me!”  The foolish woman believed that, after she left the village, the sun never rose over it again.  Often, due to our arrogance, we also tend to think like her.

           We often hear people say, "That person has hurt me a lot.  He has made so unhappy that I will never be able to forgive." But if we think a little deeper, we will realize that it is actually our own ego that is hurting us.  Also, on such occasions, it is good to remember that we too have hurt others  and made many people unhappy.  In fact, no one can hurt us without our permission.

Life is like a stage full of Actors. And an Actor is totally vulnerable and  emotionally naked, without signs of fear or shame. His total personality, his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance is exposed to critical judgment and opinions. But it isn't Him at all rather just the ego he deliberately presents and discards with his many carefully rendered masks.
 ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan


Ego instigates us to approach individuals and situations indiscriminately and develop unhealthy attachments.  Whether it is an inner emotion, or directed towards an external object or individual, it is when we establish an indiscriminate attachment spawned innately and subliminally by the workings of egotism that we become hurt and disappointed.

          Consider a man tightly hugging a thorny bush and screaming,” Help! Help! I cannot bear this pain!”  Who can help him?  Only he himself  because he is the one hugging the bush. Only if he himself lets go of the bush, will his pain cease.  Many of our troubles are like this  -- they are our own creations.  They are the result of our own indiscriminate and uncontrolled ego.  We impose  the troubles created by our own mind upon external objects, individuals and situation, and constantly fool ourselves.  We can be free of this only through spiritual contemplation and practice.  Therefore, just as you eat and sleep, you should try to make Spirituality a part of your life. 


Blessings & Best Wishes.
Sincerely,
Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)



Hinduism - What Is The Nayak Dynasty?

 

The Nayak Dynasty  was a southern Indian dynasty that had its capital at Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

The Nayaks rose to prominence when the Vijayanagar monarchy was deposed late in the sixteenth century, leaving a political vacuum.

For the following hundred years, the Nayaks dominated the southernmost section of the subcontinent.

Tirumalai Nayak (r. 1623–1659), the dynasty's greatest emperor, built huge parts of the Minakshi temple, dedicated to Madurai's patron deity, Minakshi.

~Kiran Atma


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Hinduism - Who Was Ahalya Bai Holkar?

 


Ahalya Bai Holkar (r. 1761–1795) In the Holkar dynasty, there was a Hindu queen.

The dynasty reigned over one of the successor republics that arose following the split of the Maratha empire, with its headquarters at Indore, in central India.

She rose to power at a period when the Moghul dynasty's authority had been significantly diminished, and she attempted to fill the political vacuum that had resulted.

She was able to wield true political influence over most of north-central India throughout her lengthy rule.

She was also a prominent royal patron at Hindu pilgrimage places like as Benares, where she supported the renovation of the Vishvanath temple, and Haridwar, where she is reported to have paid for the construction of a ghat, which is a structure that leads to a holy bathing (snana) location.

More information may be found in Govind S. Sardesai's 1986 book, A New History of the Marathas.


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Samkhya

 


(“enumeration”) The Samkhyakarikas, authored by Ishvarakrishna in the third century B.C., is the foundational book of one of the six schools of ancient Hindu philosophy.

Samkhya believes in an atheistic philosophical dualism in which two basic principles are held to be the origins of all things.

Purusha ("person") is the first of them, which is conscious yet entirely passive and unchanging.

It is seen as a passive observer of the changes taking on around it.

Purusha is eventually connected with an individual's genuine and everlasting Self as the source of consciousness.

Given the large number of aware individuals and the reality that one person might attain enlightenment while the others remain in slavery, Purusha is assumed to be multiple.

The second basic principle is prakrti ("nature"), which gives the purusha's subject with an object.

Prakrti is more accurately described as force or power than as a definite physical thing.

Prakrti has three primal characteristics (gunas): sattva is excellent, rajas is active or passionate, and tamas is dark and decaying.

These three forces exist in perfect harmony in the primordial prakrti, each perfectly balancing the other.

Purusha and prakrti are two separate, separable, and independent principles.

When prakrti's original equilibrium is disrupted, it sets in motion a process of evolution that gives rise to both the physical and psychological worlds.

Mahat ("the big one") comes from prakrti, and it has as its psychological equivalent the subtlest type of mental activity (buddhi).

Ahamkar, which contains the first meaningful conceptions of individual identity, develops from buddhi.

The intellect (manas), sense organs (jna nendriyas), action organs (kar mendriyas), and subtle elements (tanmatras) all develop from ahamkar; from the last, the gross components that make up the material universe emerge.

All of these evolutions, whether material or mental, have a different balance of the three gunas, which defines their healthy, active, or unwholesome nature.

Purusha stays untouched throughout this evolutionary process, only seeing prakrti's constant transformations.

The metaphor of the lame man (purusha) being carried by the blind man is used to symbolize their mutual functioning (prakrti).

According to the Samkhya school, the ultimate root of bondage is people's inability to distinguish between these two principles.

The Self (purusha) seems to be an agent, and the evo lutes (from prakrti) appear to be con scious, due to this lack of distinction between the two.

The rose behind the crystal, which looks to be colored but is really unchanging, is used by the Samkhyas to demonstrate this misunderstanding.

The major concern for the Samkhyas prakrti is epistemological—that is, how one learns to know things—rather than ontological, or based in the nature of things themselves.

Because the purusha never changes, there is no way to turn it into anything else or get it back to the way it was; the true issue is distinguishing between the two realities.

The development of prakrti is supposed to reverse after this, leaving the purusha in its glorious solitude once again (kaivalya).

Of course, discrimination becomes much more difficult if one has formed (if incorrect) ideas about (traditional) personality.

This erroneous belief serves as the foundation for one's volitional acts (karma) and emotional dispositions.

The concept of a Self underpins both one's behaviors and dispositions, which reinforce one another.

The yoga philosophical school absorbed the Samkhya metaphysics in its entirety, and the two schools are often cited together—Samkhya as the theoretical underpinning, and Yoga as the practical component.

The notion of the gunas, a fundamental concept in Hindu culture, is one of Samkhya's enduring contributions to Indian thinking.

Their concept of evolution, which has been modified by other schools but is generally subsumed under the istic assumptions in which God is the source of both awareness and the material universe, is another prominent but less pervasive theory.

Given their initial assumptions, the Samkhya could never solve the philosophical challenge of explaining the genesis of bondage.

How could purusha and prakrti interact—much less confuse one for the other—and how did the evolutionary process begin if they are completely separate? Their contributions were mainly overtaken by Vedanta, which stated that the issue is ignorance of the Self and not-Self, and that the world around us is an illusory metamorphosis rather than a true development (vivarta).

Vivartavada is the name of this philosophical system.

A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, edited by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles A. Moore, was published in 1957, and Samkhya, edited by Gerald Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya, was published in 1987.

In the Garden of My Dreams by Jai Krishna Ponnapan



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In the Garden of My Dreams 
by Jai Krishna Ponnapan




Awake in a dream of a quiet night I stood
Alone in the light, I dream in my dream,
Floating through this magical wood.

Soul deep visions that gently sprang,
Were seen every moment, In the actions of men.

Spirits of Truth rose, When My birds first sang,
In all their looks, & In all their words,
Spirits of Love reached down, With warm stars that glow.

As Spirits of Peace gather where the streams always flow,
In that magical wood, In the Garden of my Dreams.

P.S ~ Such Dreams never end, & My hope never withers!







Famous Empaths And Psychics In History.




    Psychics have played an important part in human civilization since ancient times.

    Prior to the birth of Christianity, they also served as priests, priestesses, seers, and mystics of numerous religions.




    Famous Empaths From History:


    1. Samuel, Gad, and Amos are only a few of the Bible's psychic seers. Samuel was the one who discovered King Saul's donkey. Amos was the seer ordered by Amaziah to flee Judah and pursue his prophetic endeavors elsewhere. Gad was King David's own seer, while Amos was the seer commanded by Amaziah to flee Judah and practice his prophetic endeavors elsewhere.

    2. The Greek Oracle of Delphi is one of the most well-known names of ancient psychics. The Oracle was not a single human, but rather a position occupied by Delphi's most intelligent individual. She sent direct messages from Apollo, the God of Light and Reality. The natural steams coming from the hot springs in the Delphi region heightened her dreams. The priests of Ra on Memphis were the well-known seers in ancient Egypt. Oracles were known as nabu in Assyria, which meant "to declare" or "to call."

    3. During the Renaissance in France, Nostradamus became a well-known figure in the field of prophecy. His prophecies are now well accepted around the world, and they have been published on a regular basis since they were first written.

    4. The Spiritualist Movement started and spread in the mid-1800s, when the planet Neptune (which governs psychic energy) was discovered. At that time, many psychics flourished, including Edgar Cayce, Daniel Dunglas Home, and Madame Blavatsky.



    Since the beginning of human evolution, psychic empaths have wandered the Earth. However, empathic abilities were only recognized as distinct from other psychic abilities after the New Age Awakening of the 1970s and 1980s.



    Famous Empaths From Contemporary Times:




    1. George Orwell


    George Orwell may not seem to be the sort of guy who can empathize at first glance. 

    But, based on his work and social accomplishments, he was a real empath who battled colonialism's harshness. 

    Orwell even took it a step farther. 

    He disguised as a beggar and lived on the streets of London to see the true misery of the people he encountered. 

    While serving as a colonial police officer in Burma in the 1920s, he earned his empathy spurs. 

    Orwell was outraged by the cruelty of colonialism that he observed firsthand, and determined that when he returned to Britain, he would put himself in the shoes of ordinary workers and see what their lives were like. 

    He added, "I felt like I had to flee not only from imperialism, but from every type of man's tyranny over other man." 'I wanted to immerse myself with the downtrodden, to be one of them and fight alongside them against the rulers.' That's when he decided to dress up as a tramp and live on the streets of East London among beggars and vagrants, a period of his life chronicled in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). 

    Orwell, like practically no other writer in the twentieth century, shined a spotlight on neglected and marginalized sectors in British society with this book and his political reporting. 



    2. Harriet Beecher Stowe


    Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American author, may be history's most unsung empathizer. 

    Slavery, particularly the terrible treatment of slaves on cotton farms in the south of the United States, was the major problem of her day. 

    Her novella Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was basically a political treatise against slavery, was published in 1852. 

    Within a decade, it had sold four million copies, making it a publishing phenomenon. 

    The book aided in the transformation of a generation's worldview by exposing people to the horrors of slavery up close, so supporting the revolt against slavery and its proponents that culminated in the American Civil War. 

    Following the terrible loss of her eighteen-month-old son Charley in the Cincinnati cholera outbreak of 1849, Beecher Stowe was inspired to write the novel. 

    'It was at his bed, and at his tomb, that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her kid is wrenched away from her,' she said of the experience. 


    3. Mahatma Gandhi.


    Gandhi thought that if he was going to struggle for Indian independence from British control, he needed to see what life was like for the poorest people in the nation after returning to India from South Africa in 1915. 

    So he ditched his posh barrister's coat and collar, clothed himself in a dhoti or loincloth, and founded the Sabamarti Ashram, where he resided from 1917 until 1930. 

    It was all about putting yourself in the shoes of peasant farmers at the ashram. 

    He and his disciples farmed their own food, spun their own fabric, and cleaned the latrines, which was traditionally a chore reserved for the Untouchable (Dalit) caste. 

    Gandhi's profound sympathetic sensibility also led him to transcend religious barriers. 

    He was outraged by Hindu-Muslim violence and vehemently opposed the establishment of a separate Muslim state. 

    He once stated to a bunch of Hindu nationalists, "I am a Muslim!" while being a committed Hindu himself. 

    And I'm a Hindu, a Christian, and a Jew, just like you.' These remarks are among the most sympathetic of all time, and they still ring true today. 

    Mahatma Gandhi was a tremendous empath who dared to use his energy and strength to hypnotize the world. 

    With the express intention of enabling his empathy to develop and foster mankind, he lived a life of self-sacrifice and made poverty vows. 

    Gandhi was a pacifist because he had a greater knowledge of emotions. 

    He emphasized the need of comprehending how painful negative emotions may be. 

    As a result, he became a potent metaphor for how to recognize and apply your compassionate abilities. 



    4. Claiborne Paul Ellis 


    Ellis was born in Durham, North Carolina, in 1927 to a poor white family. 

    He joined the Ku Klux Klan after struggling to make ends meet working in a garage and thought that black people were to blame for his problems. 

    He ultimately rose to the rank of Exalted Cyclops of the Durham chapter of the KKK. 

    In 1971, he was asked to a ten-day community gathering to assist resolve racial tensions in schools, which was a watershed moment in his life. 

    C.P. Ellis was nominated to lead the race committee with Ann Atwater, a local black leader whom he despised. 

    Working with her, on the other hand, utterly demolished his preconceptions towards African Americans. 

    He saw that she was struggling with the same economic issues as he was, and that their actual adversaries were white merchants and politicians who kept their salaries low and put impoverished blacks and whites against one another. 

    'I was starting to look at a black guy, shake his hand, and perceive him as a human being,' he said of his committee experience. 

    'Something was going on with me.' It felt almost as if I'd been reborn.' He stood in front of a thousand people on the last night of the community gathering and tore up his Klan membership card. 

    C.P. Ellis went on to become a well-known civil rights activist and labor organizer for a union with a 70% black membership. 

    For the remainder of their lives, he and Ann remained friends. 




    5. Nelson Mandela



    Nelson Mandela is maybe one of the most well-known empaths. 

    He, like many empaths, was prepared to put his personal wants aside for the greater good. 

    Mandela had a strong sense of right and wrong. 

    This is why he gave up years of his liberty for something he sincerely believed in. 

    Mandela, on the other hand, was not deterred by his imprisonment. 

    He took use of this opportunity to hone his empathic powers. 

    Because of this, he was able to usher his nation into a new era. 

    With his genuine compassion for his people, Mandela pushed everyone to support the transformation. 



    6. Eleanor Roosevelt


    Eleanor Roosevelt was the first lady of the United States. 

    Eleanor Roosevelt was more than just the First Lady of the United States of America. 

    She had a sweet and compassionate temperament and was a creative empath. 

    Eleanor has the kind of compassionate attitude that made her a pleasure to be around in any circumstance. 

    Eleanor Roosevelt utilized empathy to help people who didn't seem to have much in common. 

    Her unselfish attitude made her a driving force in the civil rights struggle. 


    7. Princess Diana


    It's possible that Princess Diana's abrupt death shook the globe because of her great sympathetic qualities. 

    She didn't have a very strong capacity to interact with people on a variety of levels. 

    And she seemed unconcerned about her surroundings! Princess Diana had a lot of trouble dealing with her sensitive empathic qualities. 

    It's difficult to quiet such sensitivity, which is why she was engaged in so many humanitarian deeds. 


    8. St. Francis of Assisi


    Giovanni Bernadone, the 23-year-old son of a rich merchant, visited St. 

    Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1206 on a pilgrimage. 

    He couldn't help but notice the contrast between the lavishness and richness inside—the dazzling mosaics, the spiral columns—and the destitution of the beggars outside. 

    He convinced one of them to swap clothes with him and then spent the rest of the day asking for charity in rags. 

    It was one of the world's first major empathy tests. 

    This was a watershed moment in the young man's life. 

    He quickly established a religious order whose brothers labored for the destitute and lepers, and who gave up their worldly possessions to live in poverty like the people they helped. 

    "Grant me the wealth of sublime poverty," Giovanni Bernadone, now known as St. 

    Francis of Assisi, is said to have said, "let the characteristic symbol of our order to be that it has nothing of its own under the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it has no other inheritance but begging." From luxury to sweatshop, 

     

    9. Beatrice Webb


    It was fashionable in the early twentieth century for authors and would-be social reformers, such as Jack London and George Orwell, to spend time living on the streets of East London, seeing the reality of poverty among the homeless, beggars, and jobless. 

    Beatrice Webb, a socialist theorist, is credited with starting this tradition. 

    Webb was born in 1858 into a wealthy family of politicians and merchants. 

    However, in 1887, as part of her studies into urban poverty, she left her affluent bourgeois existence and went to work in an East London textile mill, clad in a frayed skirt and buttonless boots. 

    Pages From a Work-Diary, Girl's her description of her trip, created a stir. 

    A member of respectable society, particularly a lady, having personal knowledge of living among the poor was unheard of. 

    In her memoirs, she remarked, "My personal inquiries into the persistent poverty of our large cities opened my eyes to the workers' side of the tale." Her empathetic immersion motivated her to push for better working conditions in factories and to promote cooperative and trade union organizations. 

    She went on to co-found the London School of Economics and became a key figure in the socialist Fabian Society. 


    10. John Howard Griffin


    Crossing the racial barrier with John Howard Griffin. 

    Griffin, a white Texas native, sought to experience what it was like to be an African American man living in the segregated Deep South in 1959. 

    He used a mixture of sun lights and pigment-darkening drugs to turn his complexion black, then traveled and worked in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina for six weeks. 

    Nobody ever suspected him of being a liar. 

    It was a life-changing event for me. 

    He was astonished by how white folks glanced through him without recognizing his existence while working as a shoeshine boy in New Orleans. 

    He endured the humiliations of segregation on a daily basis, such as going kilometers to use the restroom, and was subjected not only to racist verbal abuse but also to the fear of physical assault. 

    His experiences were chronicled in the monthly magazine Sepia, which had funded his experiment, and subsequently in his best-selling book Black Like Me. 

    While it may appear arrogant or inappropriate for a white man to speak on behalf of other races now, most African American civil rights activists considered his work as important at the time since it was so difficult for them to have their own voices heard. 

    Griffin achieved notoriety for his efforts on behalf of racial equality, and he collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr. 

    "If only we could put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would respond, then we could become aware of the inequities of discrimination and the sad inhumanity of every sort of prejudice," he writes at the core of his book. 


    11. Günther Walraff


    Günther Wallraff, a German investigative journalist, spent two years undercover as a Turkish immigrant laborer in 1983, in what may be the most intense empathetic immersion of the twentieth century. 

    He flung himself into a series of backbreaking tasks, such as unblocking toilets on construction sites that were ankle-deep in urine and sweeping coke dust at a steel mill without a protective mask, which left him with permanent chronic bronchitis. 

    What struck him the most, he subsequently said, was the humiliation of being regarded as a second-class citizen by "native" Germans, more than the 19th-century labor conditions. 

    Lowest of the Low, his book exposing the Apartheid-like circumstances faced by immigrant workers in Germany, has sold over 2 million copies in 30 languages. 

    It resulted in criminal investigations of companies that used unlawful labor and enhanced contract worker protection in numerous German states. 

    Walraff's work emphasizes the importance of experiencing empathy in discovering socioeconomic inequity, a method that subsequent investigative reporters like Barbara Ehrenreich adopted. 


    12. Patricia Moore


    Patricia Moore, a U.S. product designer who specializes in leveraging empathy to bridge generational divides, is one of today's main proponents of experienced empathy. 

    Her most well-known experiment took place in the late 1970s, when she disguised up as an 85-year-old lady to see what life was like as an elder at the age of 26. 

    She donned aged-looking cosmetics, fogged-up spectacles that prevented her from seeing well, splints and bandages on her arms and hands to mimic arthritis, and uneven shoes that caused her to limp. 

    In this disguise, she traveled throughout North America for three years, attempting to use her tied wrists to go up and down subway stairs, unlock department store doors, and operate can openers. 

    What's the end result? Moore pioneered a whole new approach to product design. 

    She developed new items for seniors based on her experiences, such as the thick rubber-handled potato peelers and other utensils that are now available in practically every kitchen and can be readily used by those with arthritic hands. 

    She went on to become a powerful advocate for older adults' rights, assisting in the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. 

    Her most recent effort involves creating rehabilitation facilities for U.S. 

    military veterans who have lost limbs or suffered brain impairments, allowing them to retrain how to live freely again, including purchasing groceries and using a cash machine. 

    "Empathy, an awareness that one size does not fit all," she argues, underpins her whole approach. 



    What can we learn from Famous Empaths and their inspirational lives?


    Few of us will dress up as an 85-year-old or pretend to be an immigrant laborer for years. 

    However, there are additional ways in which we may all cultivate experiencing empathy. 

    You might participate in Live Below the Line, an anti-poverty initiative in which tens of thousands of individuals live for five days on $1.50 per day, the same amount as more than 1 billion people on the earth. 

    Sure, spend the first week of your next two-week vacation sleeping on a beach in Mexico, but why not spend the second week volunteering as a teacher at a local school? If a "wealth exchange" isn't for you, consider a "God swap" instead: Spend a month attending services of several faiths, including a gathering of humanists, if you believe in a specific religion. 

    These are all examples of how you can incorporate some experienced empathy into your life. 

    Not only will this broaden your viewpoint and creativity, but it will also help you to employ empathy to promote social justice. 

    And that's certainly preferable than letting this amazing type of human comprehension to become simply another commercial tool.



    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:




    What is the most uncommon sort of empath? 


    Heyoka empaths are the rarest and most powerful kind of empath, working as a spiritual mirror for others around them to help them evolve. 

    Others are forced to reconsider their own preconceived beliefs of what is good and bad, real and imaginary, because of the Heyoka's unconventional attitude to life. 


    What is the greatest level of empathic experience?


    Because the Heyoka empath is basically an emotional mirror and tends to be more spiritual than the others, it is the most potent of all the empath kinds. 

    They are also supposed to have the ability to read people's thoughts. 



    Is it possible for an empath to be a narcissist?


    The empath struggles against this low vibration condition. 

    An empath becomes a narcissist's narcissist in their plutonic condition. 

    As a result of mirroring them, the empath loses empathy for the narcissist, becoming excessively cold and intent on destroying their fragile egos. 



    What does it mean to be an intuitive empath? 


    Intuitive empaths are said to be a special kind of empath that blends empathy, or the capacity to comprehend and share other people's emotions, with instinct and observation. 

    Some people feel intuitive empathy is a valuable talent with its own set of limitations. 


    Is it possible for empaths to be actors? 


    You may be an empath as well as extremely sensitive as an actor or other artist. 

    Dr. Orloff, who has written several papers, books, and videos, can teach you a lot about this kind of high sensitivity. 



    How do you know if you're an empath? 


    12 indications that you're an empath: You have clairsensibility. 

    You are a different kind of "clair."

    You are often overstimulated. 

    You can have trouble setting limits.

    You have the ability to sense other people's feelings. 

    You're feeling overwhelmed by the people.

    You must consciously choose not to let energy in. 

    You've always been sensitive, even when you were a kid. 




    What Are the Three Main Empath Types? 



    Physical Empath.

    You're very sensitive to other people's bodily ailments and are prone to absorbing them into your own body. 


    Emotional Empath.

    You mostly pick up on other people's emotions and may become a sponge for both joyful and negative sentiments.... 


    Intuitive Empath.



    What makes me think I'm a Heyoka? 


    Despite your outstanding social abilities, you prefer to be alone. 

    It might be difficult for empaths to control how they truly feel when they are bombarded with emotion from their surroundings. 

    You are open and honest with others.... 

    You are inventive.... 

    You are compassionate. 



    Is it true that intuitive empaths are uncommon?


    Empaths are a very uncommon subclass of HSPs. 

    According to some estimates, empaths make up less than 1% of the population. 

    Empaths (like me) are described by psychiatrist Judith Orloff as "sponges," having the capacity to "absorb" both good and negative emotions from individuals around them. 



    What is an educated empath?


    An educated empath is more wholistic and focused on a group or community. 

    This group strives for a win-win outcome that benefits everyone. 

    The empaths' task is to educate themselves on the methods of the taker/predator and acquire self-defense techniques. 

    They must master the art of outmaneuvering the manipulator.



    Kiran Atma


    You may also want to read more about Empaths, Psychic Empaths, Intuitive Empaths, and Healing here.


    References And Further Reading:

    • Hollan, Douglas, and C. Jason Throop. “Whatever Happened to Empathy?: Introduction.” Ethos 36, no. 4 (2008): 385–401. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20486588.
    • Montwieler, Katherine. “Reading, Sympathy, and the Bodies of ‘Bleak House.’” Dickens Studies Annual 41 (2010): 237–63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44371449.
    • BRADLEY, CHRISTOPHER. “THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF EMPATHY.” Review of Religious Research 51, no. 2 (2009): 201–19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20697334.
    • LADA, ISMENE. “‘EMPATHIC UNDERSTANDING’: EMOTION AND COGNITION IN CLASSICAL DRAMATIC AUDIENCE-RESPONSE.” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, no. 39 (1993): 94–140. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44696701.
    • Spector, Scott. “Edith Stein’s Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits.” New German Critique, no. 75 (1998): 28–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/488577.
    • Boyd, John D. “‘In Memoriam’ and the ‘Logic of Feeling.’” Victorian Poetry 10, no. 2 (1972): 95–110. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40001620.