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HEALTH Once we know what we’re dealing with, we must metaphysically return it to the original person we’ve absorbed it from. results addressing what is not yours using the tools for what is yours. (The reverse is also true.) This is why so many of the HSPs I worked with hadn’t experienced permanent results, even after seemingly trying every practitioner and modality available. Go slowly inward and ask your body what type of energy you’ve absorbed, whose it is, and where it is being stored—and be open to hearing or feeling something unexpected! 4. Return to Sender Once we know what we’re dealing with, we must metaphysically return it to the original person we’ve absorbed it from. “Cord cuts” and random “Sending it back to the Universe” techniques are all very well; however, they do not teach you how to become a strong, connected empath, capable of opening up your heart at any time without fear of energetic or emotional overwhelm. 5. Recalibration Typically, after doing the first four steps, you will find yourself feeling alive, open, and spacious. This can be disorienting, as feeling so good may be unfamiliar! Recalibration is a form of energy medicine that anyone can do. Sitting BIO Dave Markowitz is a medical intuitive who has helped thousands on their journey toward wholeness. He’s shared the lecture bill with Deepak Chopra, and his work has been endorsed by bestselling authors and metaphysicians: Dannion & Kathryn Brinkley; Lynn Andrews; Dr. Meg Blackburn-Losey; and ShirleyMacLaine.com. After years of denying his empathic abilities, his slap-in-the-face moment was when he got drunk without drinking any alcohol. Dave then began attracting clients who’d done lots of spiritual work but hadn’t seen improvements using traditional, alternative, or complementary modalities. He was able to intuit that his client’s pains and illness weren’t their own; that their 31 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW in silence after each Body Scan and Return to Sender helps you integrate any shifts and remain permanently at a higher vibration. In closing: know that you are not crazy and that there is hope. By practicing the five steps summarized above, you can prevent and heal empathic illness and finally begin to thrive. For more detailed instruction, check out my book, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers. Please “like” on Facebook and share this far and wide; odds are high that someone you know needs this information, too! And please comment below; I’d love to get a conversation going! Blissings, empathic abilities made them an “energetic sponge.” Dave knew he could “squeeze” the “sponge” but also knew that without addressing the underlying causes, all pains and illness would be eventually recreated. He then intuited a 5-step process that helps empaths see their gifts as a blessing and not a curse, and also helps them “give back” what isn’t theirs. Self-Care for the Self-Aware: Healing for Highly Sensitive People www.DaveMarkowitz.Com