The best way to determine whether or not you are dealing with a 'sick soul' is to perceive the person's level of empathy. For it is the quality of empathy over self-serving attitudes or hedonism that determines the overall health of the human soul. If a person appears to be obsessed by material things, is not able to fully concentrate on personal interactions, seems to be preoccupied, angry or disenfranchised in some way, they unquestionably have a sick soul.
During such encounters, you might want to consider what first may seem to be a selfish act, but I assure you is not in any way; Get away from the person quickly. Hopefully, this is an option for you. The reason it should be your first instinct is that your primary raison d'être must always be to ensure your own soul's health. Because without safeguarding the health of your own being, you may never discover your personal life's mission, and you become susceptible to catching 'sick soul syndrome'. Once you allow this to happen, you will no longer be on a path of positive being with yourself or with others. That journey will be become blocked and you will see yourself struggling on the wheel of becoming. When this happens, you will quite likely become ethereally unwell. Remember, just as you cannot benefit from experiences you are not having, you will not be served by sick souls, yours or another's. There are too many wonderful souls in this Universe. Souls that enrich, inspire, create and enable. Better to let the healthy souls including your own to enrich your experience in this dimension. It's that or risk become an outpatient at the Hospital For Sick Souls. -A.N.
