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Empaths are a Sacred Mirror

Bevin Niemann-Cortez
3 min readMar 29, 2019

If you’ve ever wondered, why do I have to sense everything? Feel so deeply? Be so aware of every horrible thing that is happening on our planet?

It would be so much easier not to know! Can’t I go back and take the blue pill? If I wasn’t an empath, wouldn’t life be so much easier?

After revisiting the classic sci-fi movie The Matrix, I was struck by the parallels between the spiritual awakening and maturation of the main character, Neo, and the journey of an empath.

The period of your life when you know there’s something more, yet you just can’t put your finger on it. When trying to fit in with many of our current societal structures no longer matches who you are. So you keep asking questions, wondering about the unusual experiences, the things you know without a logical explanation.

At some point, you meet a Morpheus, inviting those that sleep into a state of awakening. Maybe it’s a relationship, career, family or health situation that shakes you up and invites you to evolve. A quantum leap into a new dimension of awareness and understanding.

You wake up and unplug.

You now sense the world and what’s beyond our physical reality, in a whole new light. It’s pretty gritty at first, but also exciting to lift the veil. You enter the dojo and train to maximize your empathic…

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Bevin Niemann-Cortez

Social-Emotional Healer | Sacred Space Designer | Budding Herbalist