Also at age three, children begin to apply gender labels and stereotypes, identifying gentle, empathic characteristics with females and strong and aggressive characteristics with males.
Those who are empathic often feel the emotions of others as their own, and the information they receive comes in the form of feelings and emotions.
The empathic ability then processes this information into feelings.
Until the empath stops to examine her individual processes to determine if she’s operating on strictly empathic abilities, or a team of abilities, it’s difficult for her to find ways of controlling the information she receives.
Meditation is one of the most effective and common techniques used to assist in controlling and understanding empathic and other psychic abilities.