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As an intuitive sensitve empath, I can often take on, feel, and sense energies around me. I didn’t realize how truly sensitive I was until I ended in the hospital. And Doctors provided no explanation about why it happened. 

The Metaphysical Fair

It was a warm spring day in 2002 and I took my 30-yo self to the Denver Metaphysical fair. I spent 4 hours walking up and down the aisles of this colossal building. It was fun and exhausting checking out the hundreds and hundreds of vendors. There were psychics, healers, energy workers, star beings, light beings, singers, artists, and so much more. Energy was moving in different directions in my field and I would get dizzy from time to time. This usually happened when I went into metaphysical stores or when around too many people / too much energy. Maybe it was the overwhelming smell of sage and incense. Or maybe it was all the energies moving about seen and unseen. It was time to unwind and ground.

Going to the Movies

I enjoyed my time at the fair, overwhelmed by all the insight, information, and vendors I got to explore. But I wasn’t ready to go home just yet. So decided I would watch a movie at the theater to chill out for a bit. And when I was done with the movie, I made a pit stop at Blockbusters to rent a movie. I knew that Zoolander just came out and was excited to rent it. So there I went into the blockbuster and straight to the back wall, where I knew Zoolander would be. I had no idea what was about to happen.

The Blockbuster Moment

As I approached the movies and was scanning through titles, something odd happened. The movies started to move, as if a portal was opening within them. I blinked my eyes a bit then rubbed them and peered closer, taking a deep breath. Did I really see that? There, they did it again! What was going on? I didn’t take any hallucinogens, but something was clearly happening.

Just then, my left hand started to tingle. Hm, I thought, Am I going to have a heart attack? I thought I had heard before that your hand tingling meant something not so good. So, I got down on the ground and sat there in seiza (a martial arts sitting position). Being close to the ground felt safe as I assumed something was going to happen but I didn’t know what. As an intuitive sensitive empath, I knew that calming the body and mind is critical when in unknown situations. And there I sat.

The Sensitive Empath Experience

As I sat there, I looked around the room and saw a man standing in the distance. It was at this moment everything changed. The next thing I remember, I was in a moving vehicle and there was a man yelling at me. “Kathy, calm down! Calm down!” I took a big gasp of air, trying to figure out what was happening. My eyes darted around the space wide with panic. Where was I? Who are these people? What happened? After a minute, they filled me in on the details. Then promptly asked me questions about if I knew where I was (what State, City) or who I was.

It took me a minute to put it all together. I thought I was in Arizona, which is where I had moved from a year and a half prior. But then I remembered I practiced Aikido and lived in Denver. They explained to me that I had a Grand Mal Seizure. Apparently in took 6 large police officers and fire fighters to hold me down. I don’t remember any of it. I was in the hospital for a few hours while they ran some tests ensuring I was safe to go home. Wow, what a day. When I finally made it home, I took it easy for a few days. My muscles were extremely sore and I was a bit confused by what happened. So needed some time to put all the pieces together.

The Aftermath of my Sensitive nature

Over the next few months, many tests were run and no one ever found anything wrong with me. No explanation from all the neurology departments and doctors I saw. They said it was just a strange occurrence that happens very rarely to 30 year olds.

A psychic told me otherwise. And 5 years later when I entered my Shamanic Practitioner training program, my teacher said it may have been an initiation. She let me know that the metaphysical fair is lined with psychics along the inside perimeter of the building. And that for an intuitive sensitive empath, it was no surprise it knocked me for a loop.

The next time I went to the fair, I made sure I had my grounding, shielding, and boundary tools active. Oh, what it is to be an intuitive sensitive intuitive empath. I’ve learned many tools in the many years since that experience. And I now help other intuitive sensitive empaths, or what I like to call Divine Super Souls

What Now?

If you are an intuitive sensitive empath, check out my “Turn Yourself In! Self-Mastery for the Intuitive Sensitive Emapth” podcast Episode 1 on Heart over Ego Radio.

Reverend Katherine Ganev Soto, The Urban Spirit Guide is an Intuitive Sensitive Empath. She has been providing Spiritual Guidance and teachings since 2007.

She is here to learn and teach love, to heal and master thyself. And to help other Intuitive Sensitive Empaths (aka Divine Super Souls) heal and master themselves.

She is the creator of the “Turn Yourself In! Self-Mastery for Intuitive Sensitive Empaths” podcast and program..

You can find her on social media via Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. She is a teacher on InsightTimer and publishes podcasts on Heart Over Ego Radio. You can email her at kiofg@hotmail.com.