Oh Wonderful!!!!
If empathy is on the rise, I can't wait til someone makes me good and mad..so I can poke myself in the eye...that'll show 'em.
All kidding aside tho....I use white light protection and I can usually spread out my solar plexus chakra to ease the brunt of the symptoms I pick up in waiting room at doctors office and at grocery stores and stuff, but with some people....like the lady I am caregiving for, I am not yet sure if it is something I cannot...or something I just "choose" to not cut away from..since knowing her pain before it is bad enough for her to say something, does help in providing proper pain management for her. Feeling what she feels, is how I will know she has fallen and cannot get up, if she is left alone. It is not pleasant, but it could always be worse.
Blessings,
Rebecca