Force Sensing
Master Sifo Dias and Jedi Seven
As humans we put data from our brain into sensory data. Often linking events to feelings, color, sounds, etc. Empaths take it one step further and reach out to pick up sensory data outside themselves. This can work on both animals and humans. See if you can even use empathy to feel trees, rocks and lakes! In this lesson you'll learn how to use your own cognitive ability to discern what a person is like from sensory information, 'feeling' a color, sound or other associated sensory input. It takes some practice and a careful log of what personality types and people you associate with certain colors, sounds, tastes etc. With training you can quickly glean important information about those around you from using your Force sense.
Go to a ball game or crowded mall or restaurant. Do not look conspicuous or stand out, but do not be withdrawn. Reach a calm center within yourself, then open your eyes and let them rest on one person in the area. Do not stare but pick up on small visual clues. Be carefully observant, how do they have their hair done, and why? How are they dressed, are they tidy or sloppy? Why do they carry the accessories they do? Do they talk to others around them or do they chat on the cell phone the entire time? Do they act forceful and arrogant, pushing past people or making demands? Do they stop to help other people or ask questions?
Make a mental list or carry a journal with you to make notes. Often if you want to truly become an empath the best step is to keep a journal.
Now close your eyes. Focus on the person you have been studying. Feel your Force Self reaching from your chest to that person and touching their aura. Do they appear as a color? Flashes of pictures like still frames in a movie? Do sudden sounds begin in your inner ear? Take whatever comes to you, no matter how strange it may seem, and write it down.
You may continue to study that person or switch to another. But if you are keeping a journal you will start to notice that individual characteristics and what you are "feeling" from the individuals start to match up. For instance, if you always meet an aggressive bully and they come up with the color red for you, you will know without having to first study a person that they might push you around if you suddenly get the color red!
You can also try reaching out to the Force in a publicly crowded place as you are walking through it. Hold your hands down and at your side. Try to feel the people that are behind you. Eventually you will register separate life forces. Attempt to intuit their movements before they make them. Eventually some of the regular actions people make will seem predictable.
This may sound impossible, but it is not. However, it is not advised to make judgements on people when you first meet them. Typically when people first meet a mental wall of defense if formed. After all this could be friend or foe. You withdraw until you can tell from visual and auditory cues who this person is and how they might react. This is no exact science for us humans. Therefore it is better to suspend judgement until you can open up and center your focus to make a better decision. Keep in mind your initial thought and see later if it changes or remains the same. If it stays the same then you are mastering the technique. However if you do get an overwhelming sensation you are in danger don't wait, leave or take immediate evasive action.
Not only do people but also specific places have an aura. Everyone at some time or another has felt comfortable or drawn to a place, whether it be a charming country cottage or a grotto with a waterfall, and at the same time felt that some places, like dark gnarled oak woods or scrubby wind-blasted fields have an aura of foreboding. You can practice the technique above for studying and comparing places as well. Why is it that the waterfall entices? Is it the mist of fine water beading on your skin, or because the air seems easier to breathe?
Definitely do not ignore your gut instincts whether in nature or around people. Too often people have been victims because they 'wanted to be nice' or ignored obvious signs 'blood all over the man’s boots.' You have every right in the world to say, "you're standing to close to me, back up." Like Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II tells Anakin Skywalker in her chamber, "Don't stare at me like that." He asks why and she simply tells him, "It makes me uncomfortable." Being aware of those around you, emergency exits, and natural conditions could some day save your life, or someone else's life.
But what if something terrible has been building up and happens to you. Is it your fault that you didn't pick up on it in time? Remember the words of Yoda then, "Hard to see the Dark Side is…" And indeed it is. At least on this planet we're only human. Not only that, but we carry emotional baggage that can fatigue our awareness. As Doc Childre said: "We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world. By learning to identify the ‘emotional baggage’ and manage our feeling-world reactions, we can view life based on current information instead of being held captive by our past."
Now that you know how to feel the Force, practice your empathy everywhere that you go. When you first arrive at a new destination you might take a walk, breathe the air, and get a good feel for the place. Then you can feel when danger is imminent; the place and people in it can show you. Ripples in the Force will begin to warn you, or tell you stories. That is when you know that you are Jedi and that you are further down your path to becoming one with the Force.
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