I had a friend in need tonight, a friend that was too far away to touch, at least physically. She was hurting from something that had happened to her, something beyond her control. At one point, she asked that I hold her hand. I reached out with my energies and did. She noticed the touch and was comforted by it.
For a long while I ‘listened’ while she ‘talked’. I asked questions, offered support. She felt she was falling, and needed me to hold her. I did a full conscious projection (not too good with these usually) and held her in a hug. All in all I was holding some sort of energy over there for almost an hour.
At one point, she felt she needed to hurt for what had been done, and was going to get something to do that with. I started to drain energy from her into the ground. I was seriously thinking of knocking her out. I wasn’t real sure I could do it, but at that moment, I felt real confident that I could. (I don’t usually have bouts of confidence too often. This was strange.) I would have done anything to stop her from doing damage.
Somewhere I was being shown how to throw an energy bolt large enough to knock her unconscious, but this would have been the same as hitting her over the head with a club. I kept draining, hoping to pull enough out to slow her down. As I did this, I kept talking with her.
Finally, the moment passed, and she was ok. I stopped the drain, and breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked all the guides and deities everywhere.
I guess this goes down as just another day in the life of an empath. Sure. If all my days were like this, I’d be operating from a padded room by now.
Take care.