Happy Empaths from Your Generation
True, unskilled empaths suffer. But enough with the victim-talk! Because empaths can always develop skills. And once you learn those skills, you become so much happier. You can even learn how to do Skilled Empath Merge.
Just as something humorous is said to “Tickle your funny bone,” what happens when you do a Skilled Empath Merge? It tickles your soul.
Even reading about a Skilled Empath Merge can do that for you. So relax, Happiness-Seeking Reader.
These public figures are empaths who have become skilled enough to enjoy their lives. They are, overall, happy empaths. (In case you’re curious, at the end of each profile, you can read a list of that person’s empath gifts.) For extra fun, I’ll be profiling a public figure from YOUR generation. So relax and enjoy.
Note: One of the celebrities researched below is Ellen DeGeneres.This article is adapted from an “Energetic Literacy” Column by Rose Rosetree, originally published in Pathways Magazine in the Fall Issue 2015. Yes, Ellen is currently going through a scandal. But she was a very different person, aura-wise in 2015. Auras DO change over time.
Happy Empaths #1. Millennial Lionel Messi
About you Millennials: Born 1980–2000, you’re digital natives, Internet surfers. Valuing experiences over material purchases, you do not live to work. Seeking a full life, you’re not only wired but highly collaborative, enthusiastically reaching out to others.
Lionel Messi is widely considered the world’s top soccer player. He is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador who advocates for thousands of children who die every year from preventable causes. Besides all that talent plus his clear moral conscience, Messi has another reason for happiness. The man is worth about $180 million.
Lionel’s Empath Gifts
- Physical Intuition
- Physical Oneness
- Environmental Empath Talent
Happy Empaths #2. Generation Xer Chris Rock
About you Generation Xers: Born 1964–1980, you didn’t grow up with computers. But you probably learned to use them way before finishing high school. Questioning authority, you care more to fix the neighborhood than to save the world. America’s Latch Key Kids, maybe it’s no coincidence that yours was first generation to bring our society the concept of life-work balance.
Chris Rock is famous as a “Saturday Night Live” alum, a movie star, and director. But he is best known as one of the funniest standup comics of all time. Not afraid to discuss politics and race relations, Chris Rock has been a vocal critic of racial profiling. Often he describes incidents of “everyday racism” that have affected him, despite being famous since 1985. Regarding that fame, what is another reason why Chris Rock is widely respected? Celebrity or not, he lacks the typical “Look at me, I’m famous!” attitude.
Chris’s Empath Gifts
- Emotional Intuition
- Intellectual Empath Ability
- Animal Empath Talent
Happy Empaths #3. Baby Boomer Ellen DeGeneres
About you Boomers: Born 1946–1964, yours was the first generation to grow up watching TV. Maybe you have been a Hippie or a Yuppie (or both), but you sure didn’t grow up as a Techie.
Ellen DeGeneres is a hero to many who support the LGBTQ community. In the era of Caitlyn Jenner, it may be hard to remember (or believe) the huge scandal after Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on network TV in 1997, or how this almost ended her career. The comedian’s successes since then include hosting the Academy Awards, authoring three books, and winning 13 Emmys. Great kindness and compassion shine through her gentle humor.
Love, trust, and playfulness characterize Ellen’s path of spiritual growth.
Ellen’s Empath Gifts
- Physical Intuition
- Physical Oneness
- Emotional Intuition
- Emotional Oneness
- Animal Empath Talent
- Plant Empath Talent
- Spiritual Intuition
- Spiritual Oneness
Happy Empaths #4. Silent Generation Superstar Jane Goodall
About you members of The Silent Generation: Born 1927–1946, your “high-tech” childhood influences were radio and the movies. It’s great to have you reading Pathways because your generation has always been exceptionally strong on reading. Growing up before feminism, life was simpler than today, although not exactly as depicted for Richie and The Fonz on the “Happy Days” TV show. Not fiction: I’ve heard it on good authority that, in your era, the biggest schoolteacher complaints were for passing notes and chewing gum in class.
Dame Jane Goodall is the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. The British anthropologist and animal rights advocate has received the equivalent of a knighthood. Her achievements include founding the Jane Goodall Institute to protect the famous chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania.
Jane’s Empath Gifts
- Physical Intuition
- Physical Oneness
- Animal Empath Talent
- Environmental Empath Talent
Could There Be Many Kinds of Happy Empaths? Definitely.
An empath is a person with at least one lifelong gift for directly experiencing what is like to be another person. Empaths are born, not made; 1 in 20 people was born as an empath. Of course, that includes many people who are famous.
With the work I do as an Empath Coach, I have identified 15 different gifts. Any one of them would qualify somebody as being an empath.
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