My name is Mimi.  I have been working with or channeling Energy Healing and doing Spiritual counseling for the past Twenty years.  I am empathic.  Empathy is being highly sensitive and having the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being.  One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to accurately experience sympathy or compassion.  An empathic can sense the truth behind the cover and may act compassionately to help another person express him/herself, thus making them feel at ease and not so desperately alone.