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Several years back, when I was in my sophmore year of college, one of my friends introduced my boyfriend and I to his other group of friends (he lived in my home town, had friends there, but attended a tech academy high school so he had friends from there as well).
This group of friends like by boyfriend and I were neo pagans. We were introduced over Christmas break. The groups ages ranged from 15 - 19. One of the friends was a girl from Chicago, she was visiting our area over break. We all got along immediately.
On the day of New Years Eve they had to take her to the airport, meanwhile several towns away the rest of us were going to go to a motel and set up a New Years party. I was riding in the passengers seat on the way to the motel, my boyfriend got a call from them saying she was getting on the plane, all of a sudden without moving it felt as though I had hit my shin on something, at the same time there was sudden burst of laughter from the phone, turns out she tripped going up the steps to the plane and...hit her shin. I had known the girl less then two weeks.
But this wasn't uncommon with that group of friends, if one person had a head ache it would bounce off us all. If one person had a bout of insomnia the rest of us were exhusted. And I have always been empathic, it was just usually limited to emotional energy, not so much physical.
This group of friends is kind of scattered and disconnected now. This sort of stuff still happens to me. Usually pertaining to my husband, my family, my best friend and her family, or my soul friend.
I learned alot with that group of friends and they were very important in my life for many different reasons, for one this is how I met my husband. And this is alway how I learned alot of what I know of energy work.

I envy you and this group of friends. smile

I must say, I have never had an empathic experience that was physical like that - that's very interesting.

I am an empath as well, and like my friend mercywild mine is more emotional than physical. Although there were a few times when I swear the pain I was feeling was because it was coming from someone close to me. But those hardly ever occur.
Mine is emotional. However, I wish my experiences were . . .happier. From my freshmen year in high school to my junior year I was none as the girl who cried at every dance. At the time I had no idea why it happened. I'd be dancing with my friends then next thing I know I'm sitting in a chair off to the side crying. All of my friends would ask me what is wrong or if I was ok, and I didn't have an answer. Because I had no clue.
It wasn't until late into my junior year that I noticed if I was in a large group of people (a dance, party, field trip, mall ), I would get upset, even if I was having a great day. During my senior year my Aunt talked to me about being empathic. I seemed to fit everything that she said. It was an eye opener everything made sense after that. The reason I would break down in large crowds was because I picked up on peoples sadness, sorrow, and grief the most. Not knowing how to deal with everything I was taking in, I would let it out the only way I could. Usually in front of everyone. Luckily my cousin, aunt of best friend would be there with me.
Recently I have started learning how to close myself off from absorbing to much from others. It has helped lesson the emotional overloads. With in this year I was able to go to a club for the first time ever! Without an overload, and it was awesome. For once I wasn't the party crasher!
It has been a long road to get this far, but I now know that I possess the strength with in myself to get stronger emotionally and spiritually.