Before I realized that I had a knack for understanding people and being able to pre-dict their emotions before they even spoke to 
me, I thought I was over-sensitive and at times a little bit nuts.
Although, I have a lot of Intuitive abilities, the one I wish to focus on today is Clairsentience ( the feeling ability.)
Yes, I am the one that cries hysterically during the On-Star commercials and when tragic events happen on the planet, and I’m plugged in – forget it!
I was a complete MESS for three days after the Connecticut shootings occurred. I couldn’t even think about anything related to it because my energy would tap right into the emotional field of that tragedy and I would just burst into tears.
This ability to tap into the energy of events, people or situations is called:
Clairsentience (feeling/touching)
In the field of parapsychology, clairsentience is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by feeling. The word “clair” is French for “clear”, and “sentience” is derived from the Latin sentire, “to feel”.
It is an ability that can be obtained at advanced meditation level. Generally the term refers to a person who can feel the vibration of other people.
There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases of other people to the thoughts or emotions of other people. The ability differs from third eye in that this kind of ability cannot have a vivid picture in the mind. Instead, a very vivid feeling can form.
Psychometry is related to clairsentience. The word stems from psyche and metric, which means “soul-measuring”.
– Excerpt taken from Wikipedia
The actual ability to being able to FEEL the emotions that come from others we coin as Empathic Sensitivity. We are in essence…
Elizabeth Pfeiffer 
Thanks for the share! 🙂