Hi, Pale Pink Aura and other SoulCysters:
I agree about the value of meditation. I've been doing one type or another daily for my whole adult life, and it has been especially helpful whenever I've gone through difficulties.
When checking out different resources, might I invite you to consider a meditation CD that is especially good for empaths? Empaths have a lifelong gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be other people. (Could be physical, intellectual, spiritual, etc., not just emotional.)
Until skilled -- not merely talented -- we empaths tend to pick up distress from other people and it lands right into our auras, pale pink or otherwise.
The "Coming Home technique" is especially useful for helping an empath to become skilled. I teach it in different parts of the world (will be leaving in a couple of weeks to go to Japan for the seventh time, for instance). This is part of an audiobook called EMPOWERED BY EMPATHY, and you can listen to a nice chunk of the book for free at
http://www.roserosetree.com/empathybook.htm, plus find some FAQs etc. that may be of interest.
Hope this helps! And congratulations on choosing to explore meditation in depth, however you do it. There's a world of help within.
-- Rose Rosetree
Meditation Website 
