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    The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work: Empath as Archetype, #2
    The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work: Empath as Archetype, #2
    The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work: Empath as Archetype, #2
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    The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work: Empath as Archetype, #2

    By Elaine LaJoie

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    The Empath, or highly sensitive, artistic, intuitive person, wants bonded, happy family relationships, a soul mate partnership, and a career involving her creativity.  Yet many times the Empath has suffered from trauma in her past which prevents her from having the energy to reach for her dreams.  

    This book describes Shamanic Energy Healing Work, which can be highly and quickly effective in helping Empaths heal their wounds, discharge old emotional pain, and over come unhappy patterns.  Soul Retrieval, Extraction Work, Underworld Work, and other Shamanic tools and interventions are described along with examples of Empaths returning to health from Elaine's practice.

    The author, Elaine La Joie, has spent ten years as a shaman and certified life coach specifically helping Empaths with their personal transformation so they can create happier, more fulfilled lives and relationships.  The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work is the second in the series, Empath as Archetype, in which Elaine shows her clients how overarching patterns common to Empaths as described by the Enneagram Type Four can change using shamanic perspectives and energy healing techniques including Soul Retrieval and Shadow Work.

    Other volumes in this series:  The Empath and the Drama Triangle, Motivations of the Empath, The Empath and Shadow Work, and The Empath and the Fan-Hero Family System.  Each volume builds on the previous volumes.  Visit Elaine's website at www.elainelajoie.com for more resources for Empaths.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElaine LaJoie
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781516383047
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      The Empath and Shamanic Energy Work - Elaine LaJoie

      DEDICATION

      To Grant, my first guinea pig, look what happened!

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I want to acknowledge my teachers, Debra Grace, Alberto Villoldo, Linda Fitch, Greta Holmes, Marv Harwood and Wake Wheeler.  I feel blessed to have learned so much from you.  I also thank all my clients for sharing their healing with me.  This book wouldn’t have been possible without all of you.

      1 INTRODUCTION

      I am an Empath who has been working as a coach, mentor, and shaman for about ten years. Most of my clients are also Empaths. I decided to write this book when I realized that I repeated the same concepts and materials to my clients, and those clients usually used their new knowledge for great improvement in their lives. Since Empaths tend to love books on self-improvement, writing one of my own seemed like the next right step, especially since not all Empaths have access to their own personal shaman. My teachers have included other Empaths, like Sonia Choquette and Julia Cameron, plus shaman teachers like Alberto Villoldo, Linda Fitch, Debra Grace, Greta Holmes, and Marv Harwood. If you’ve enjoyed Sonia Choquette’s and Julia Cameron’s work, you will most likely find this book useful. The shaman likes to get to the deep, nitty-gritty, and sometimes painfully messy work and release it. So, some of the work in this book may not feel inspirational or particularly easy to read. But, if you are an Empath, you probably aren’t afraid of dealing with the darker emotional states, and in fact you may be relieved to hear how one Empath overcame obstacles particular to Empaths.

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      WHAT IS AN EMPATH?

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      One way of describing an Empath is the ability of someone to feel the emotional, mental, and physical symptoms of people around the Empath, especially those that the Empath loves, as if those emotions and sensations originated in the Empath. The untrained Empath literally cannot tell the difference between her emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations and those of another. An Empath can easily absorb the emotions of others, and in some cases, she can be overtaken by the physical symptoms of others. Without skill, the Empath can become very ill. Some Empaths are so sensitive that they cannot take public transportation and must avoid large groups of people or feel completely overwhelmed by what most people consider normal stimuli.

      Empaths who work with me learn how to manage their Empathy so they can be at choice about how much they want to open to others. They learn how to Observe, not Absorb, as my teacher Sonia Choquette says. They also learn techniques to shake off excess energy and how to protect themselves during overwhelming situations.

      Honoring the Empath’s sensitivity is the first step in healing. This very sensitivity is the reason that Empaths make natural healers, artists, and intuitives. Empaths can also make great performers, literally channeling their roles. It is this ability to role-play and to respond that can get Empaths into trouble in their relationships; Empaths can confuse a performance or a role with their essential selves.

      In such cases Empaths can use their sensitivity to collude with the group instead of honor their individuality. The Empath can be easily caught up in drama because she is so psychically in tune with everyone around her. The ability of the Empath to enmesh herself with others can lead the Empath to waste her life supporting others without her understanding how she became the anchor for their emotional support.

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      THE MYTHIC REALITY: ARCHETYPES

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      My discussion of the Empath, especially within relationships, hinges on understanding the archetypal nature of the human experience. Archetypes are forces that are common to all human beings—they are part of the collective consciousness. The Empath can be described as an archetype. When we understand ourselves as archetype, we can understand our behavior in a less personalized way. Knowing the other archetypes with which Empaths tend to interact also helps us understand our relationships and how those predictably will unfold. In this book I’ll discuss several archetypes that have been described in detail through the Enneagram, although no previous knowledge of the Enneagram is necessary.

      For those of you unfamiliar with the Enneagram, it describes the motivations of nine major Archetypes. I like using the Enneagram rather than other personality type systems because the Enneagram focuses on belief systems and motivation rather than on behavior. In shamanic work, as we will see later, we create our world through the lens of our beliefs. If we can gain insight into our hidden belief system, we can create more effectively lives that we love and enjoy. The Enneagram, as described by Riso and Hudson, also touches on the levels of mental and emotional health of each of the archetypes, and on what happens to each archetype as we become more aware of our motivations. The Classic Empath is most closely related to the Four on the Enneagram.

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      THE MYTHIC REALITY: SHAMANIC WORK AND THE SACRED

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      I will use examples from my life and my clients’, including discussion of shamanic energy work as I proceed. Some shamanic knowledge has similar concepts as psychology, such as the Drama Triangle and the discussion on projection. However, I am a shaman, so those readers with a psychology background may notice differences in descriptions. The shaman works at the level of the Soul’s

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