Its been a few months in travel and still no answers...

[Ashe]

So I'm back everyone and still havnt found an answer. I have been to Ireland, Scottland, Italy (all over europe) japan, India, China and a few other places. My problem is still the same...I cant control this bloody curse. Being an Empath sucks majorly. I feel like my head is still about to explode. Its not like i can read minds or anything that is useful...i just know things about people from their feelings and whatnot. Its so hard not to focus on the negative when 7/10 people around you all are and you can feel it. I still havnt even found a way to shield from it yet. None of the shields i have tried have worked. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks for your time.

[MotherSuperior]

In stead of focusing your energy on learning how to mute your ability, I suggest learning to focus it. Take a day or a few hours out of your week and volunteer at a homeless shelter or an animal shelter, maybe go visit with the elderly at a nursing home or wounded soldiers at a vet hospital.

Perhaps the reason that you're absorbing only negativity is because your powers are trying to tell you to create positivity.

[Granamyr]

I feel the same way, although I don't feel cursed. Your ability may be stronger than mine. I consider what I have to be intuitive telepathy which is tied into the emotional "taste" in the air but also picking up on people's thoughts. Just today I was feeling burnt out.

You might find engaging in acts of compassion or kindness to be a good thing. Rather than simply experiencing the emotions, you're engaging the ability to transform it into useful energy. I guess in other words, I agree with Mother!

Have you tried a mirror shield? That might help deflect things if it gets to be too much some days.

Peace

[Chaos Shaman]

Make an empathy sheild that transmutes the energy. Being an empath is a great and very powerful gift, it is no curse.

[Melindrose]

So I'm back everyone and still havnt found an answer. I have been to Ireland, Scottland, Italy (all over europe) japan, India, China and a few other places. My problem is still the same...I cant control this bloody curse. Being an Empath sucks majorly. I feel like my head is still about to explode. Its not like i can read minds or anything that is useful...i just know things about people from their feelings and whatnot. Its so hard not to focus on the negative when 7/10 people around you all are and you can feel it. I still havnt even found a way to shield from it yet. None of the shields i have tried have worked. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks for your time.

the other's who have replied make very good points. Have you tried using the same blocks you use to block a mental psychic atack? If so then I wouldn't know what to suggest.

[Ashe]

Yea i have tired every kind of shield that i can think of. I also volunteer for 20 hours a week at several hospitals. I tried learning to control it but its not working. I can pick up on people from around 15 feet away. I have studied the 5 senses of the psyche but havnt found anything useful there yet. Thank you all for the suggestions though. I'll keep plugging away at it. I still think its a curse lol only because I cant seem to control it. Only thing i can do is to keep trying.