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How to understand empathic sensitivity as spiritual capacity

I can feel other people's pain so intensely that I avoid crowds but my grandmother says this is a gift not a curse and I don't know what to believe

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Exceptional sensitivity becomes pathologized rather than cultivated, creating confusion about one's essential nature

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