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I have been asked recently about emotions and emotional reactions. Reactions that were out of character. Within the last few months, I have become aware of how external energies affect my own state of consciousness and affect others. Eric Robison, author of “Bending God: A Memoir” started me on the road to this awareness.

Do you think that when you think about another person, they might be thinking about you at the same time?If you think about someone with an intense emotion, like love, lust, anger or fear, is it possible that this other person is having the same emotion? If you meditated on your chakras every day and raised your energy, would this increase the intensity of your emotional broadcasts to the people connected to your life?To the people in close physical proximity to you?

Yes. Yes. Yes. And Yes.

One could think of our minds as the center of spider web with strands of webbing connecting to every person that was ever close to us in our lives. When we have intense emotions we shake this webbing and send energetic bursts of energy out that webbing to others. When others have intense emotions, they send this energy back to us. When this emotional energy is detected by our brain, our brain interprets the emotion as our own. Does this mean we will always be at the emotional mercy of those around us? No, we can train our brain to recognize the subtle difference in feeling between internally generated and externally generated emotions.

Assuming this is true, how could we prove it ourselves… prove it to our subconscious? The answer is simple. Learn to tell the difference. Just the fact that I made you aware of this outside influence on your emotional state makes it more likely that you will be aware of the effect. But I don’t think that is enough to learn the skill. What techniques could be devised to train someone? If your own thoughts may not have come from you, how do you change that?

I learned this technique from a new student who has been meditating for a few months. First, find someone to practice with. Your practice partner does not have to live anywhere near you, just know you well enough to create a “feeling” of you in their mind. Pick a day to practice. One person is the transmitter and the other person is the receiver. During the assigned day, the transmitter will think about the receiver and attempt to send the receiver energy two or three times during the day, and note the times. The receiver will pay attention to his or her own thoughts and attempt to discern the times that the transmitter is thinking about them. Later they compare notes and see what happened. A remarkably simple game that has remarkable results.

Another approach would be to pay attention to your own thoughts when around someone with an intense emotion. Does being around someone angry make you angry? Does this affect create the so-called “mob mentality”? It is actually possible to tune into the emotional broadcasts of the people around you. You could call the beginning levels of this empathy. Start by looking at the area around people’s eyes for clues. Paying attention to subtle clues to get you started; to makes yourself more aware. Eventually you can tune into this emotional broadcast without seeing the person.