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When empathic sensitivity becomes energetically overwhelming

I can feel other people's emotions in my body and it is exhausting but my teacher says this is compassion developing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Undeveloped energetic boundaries are creating suffering rather than genuine compassionate response.

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