Product Description

Did you ever know that someone was upset, even when no one else seemed to notice? Or felt that a loved one far away was in trouble, only to learn that you were right? If so, teaches Karla McLaren, you have already demonstrated the gifts of an empath - a person who uses the skill of emotional intuition to understand and connect more deeply with others. On Becoming an Empath, Karla McLaren brings together her thirty years of work with emotional intuition to offer this practical course for discovering and using one's empathic abilities more effectively. In four guided training sessions, listeners will learn how to create healthy emotional boundaries, navigate their own emotions more skillfully, and tune in to the feelings of those around them with unprecedented depth and clarity. "Empathic awareness," says McLaren, "is essential for psychotherapists, health care providers, teachers, and parents - or anyone else who must rely on this instinctual power of perception every day." With Becoming an Empath, listeners now have a way to master this vital inner skill.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #375533 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

About the Author
Karla McLaren has researched emotional intuition in many world traditions and in her own work as an empathic healer. She is the author of the award-winning Your Aura & Your Chakras: The Owner's Manual, and Rebuilding the Garden: Healing the Spiritual Wounds of Childhood Sexual Assault.

From AudioFile
An empath is agile with the language of emotions and knows how to live an integrated life by coordinating feeling, thinking, and spiritual factors when making decisions. Though not labeled as such, this is a program for psychotherapists who live in the minefield of painful and confusing emotions and for others who have issues with mood or boundary problems. For anyone interested in emotional growth, the advice is sound and easily comprehensible. The author's probing questions are especially effective (and listed in the 22-page guide), and this helps make this a useful program on staying balanced and keeping in touch with emotional signals in all their forms. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

How To Be Empathic While Remaining Balanced
Karla McLaren's workshop on tape is just about the right length, and presents about the right information at about the right depth. The idea of someone being or wanting to become an empath speaks volumes about that individual even before the first step is taken or the first idea is taught. If the meek are to inherit the Earth, you'll find a quorum here.

It has been said that the voice is the barometer of one's being, and if so Karla's is beautiful (in both respects). Here is the voice of experience, one who has taken her childhood wounds and used them as a vehicle to transcend the common mold, to become a butterfly rather than choosing to remain a victim.

Karla explains what an empath is and highlights the differences between clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. She explains the theory of the five elements of the human personality and presents a powerful working model for balancing the psyche. No part of the personality should be squelched because a person is "too sensitive". What really needs to be accomplished is the balancing of a dominant attribute by bolstering other aspects of the personality. (This portion of the tape alone is so interesting and useful that it could be considered a seminar in its own right.)

Karla teaches the inner skills of self knowledge, emotional agility and humility, and the importance of external support systems such as healthy relationships, good boundaries and the ability to create separations. She explains how to maintain a sense of personal space, of grounding and image releasing, and other skills necessary to protect against the energy overloading that may be associated with emotional over-exposure. She also teaches the skills of listening without projecting one's own judgements into the picture.

She talks about the primary emotions - anger, fear, sadness, depression and suicidal tendencies - their many and varied derivations and disguises, and shows that emotions are messengers, not problems. She exposes the awesome primal power that can be tapped into by communicating with the emotions and the deep insights they can yield, and provides the specific questions that should be asked in the presence of each emotion. Fantastic!

I think the word "skills" is the cornerstone of this seminar. It's all about learning how to handle situations with finesse, rather than force, and a bit of "by the book" is a nice balance to the obvious emotional predilection of the subject matter.

Woo hoo! "Becoming An Empath" is not just for healers!
Wondering how empathic you are? One thing for sure--you ARE empathic! With these tapes you can figure out if you use projection, mimicry or clairsentience when relating to others. Learning three internal skills, you can work from a place of wholeness. Learning emotional agility allows you to ask the right questions and move through emotions to healing. And learning three external skills cultivates and supports your empathic skills. Speaking of support, Karla says that empaths need the company of other empaths for understanding and exchange--and that includes your partner at home.

Karla also gives three steps to clear empathy that are important when helping others and maintaining yourself. And if you're like me, the advice to do some "conscious complaining" is pure joy!

The skills in the last session are some you've seen before if you've worked with Karla's tapes, but done this time in a different context. At the end, two Sufi meditations are suggested for those in conflict in close relationships.

These are powerful tapes! I highly recommend them to everyone, as we're all living on some empathic level. I love Karla's music, her voice, and her awe-inspiring connection with that misunderstood and neglected part of us--the emotions.

Woo hoo! "Becoming An Empath" is not just for healers!
Wondering how empathic you are? One thing for sure--you ARE empathic! With these tapes you can figure out if you use projection, mimicry or clairsentience when relating to others. Learning three internal skills, you can work from a place of wholeness. Learning emotional agility allows you to ask the right questions and move through emotions to healing. And learning three external skills cultivates and supports your empathic skills. Speaking of support, Karla says that empaths need the company of other empaths for understanding and exchange--and that includes your partner at home.

Karla also gives three steps to clear empathy that are important when helping others and maintaining yourself. And if you're like me, the advice to do some "conscious complaining" is pure joy!

The skills in the last session are some you've seen before if you've worked with Karla's tapes, but done this time in a different context. At the end, two Sufi meditations are suggested for those in conflict in close relationships.

These are powerful tapes! I highly recommend them to everyone, as we're all living on some empathic level. I love Karla's music, her voice, and her awe-inspiring connection with that misunderstood and neglected part of us--the emotions.