Sensitive’s come with various levels and types of extra-sensory perceptions which include abilities to gather knowledge and information through methods not yet fully understood or recognized by science.  These abilities include:

* clairsentience - clear feeling or 'empathy'

* clairalience - clear smelling
* clairaudience - clear hearing
* claircognizance - clear knowing
* clairgustance - clear tasting
* clairvoyance - clear seeing

Some sensitives may possess just one of these abilities, while others may have some or even all of them.

I have been sensitive all my life.  Of the above list I am strongest in empathy (which is the feeling of others emotions)... I also can see & hear things not readily visible or audible (clairvoyance & clairaudience).  Because of my extreme sensitivity I sometime spick up on other things- along the lines of that gut feeling/intuition (claircognizance).

One of the hardest things for me was learning to discern my own emotions from those emanating from others.  The thing about empathy is until you realize this is an extra sense... it is difficult to tell the difference between your own emotions and what you are picking up from others.  Basically their emotions feel almost the same as your own- you have to learn how to tell the difference... and until you do it can effect you all the time.  

For example- you may be standing next to someone in the store and all of a sudden you feel sad- down right depressed... two seconds before you were fine but now all of a sudden you feel terrible.  You don’t realize these feelings are coming from the person behind you in line... for the rest of the day you just want to cry but you have no idea why your feeling sad.  God forbid you are living in close quarters with someone depressed/anxious/angry/hooked on drugs or alcohol etc... it can drive you nuts.  

Anyway- that’s just a bit on what it is to be sensitive.  I love the fact that this is natural for me... and now that I am learning to have discernment (wisdom to know intuition from emotion or random thought) it has become less of a burden and more of an adventure.  Email me with questions :)