About empathy and its use in the occult

[Terry]

This works not just with martial arts but anything you want to learn. The problem for highly empathic people is that we don't ground ourselves well and allow ourselves to take on others "stuff." Most of the time this is involuntary and causes real physical problems with health and well being.

If you ground properly, clear effectively and have some mechanism in place that prevents taking on other peoples "stuff" then this is an amazing technique that makes many learning techniques out there obsolete. But if you have any part of the process out of place your opening yourself up to pain and illness and pain.

[CFTraveler]

I agree, but when it comes to family enmeshment the problem becomes more complicated, there is so much psychological stuff going on sometimes retreating and shielding is all you have a mind left for.