Empathic Emotional Connection Vs. Soulmate Bond

I am currently having a psychic connection with a coworker that resembles a soulmate or twinflame relationship. When this all started I was already on an enlightenment journey due to some life changing moments in my recent past. As an Empath, I have developed connections with people that needed emotional healing. Years ago I learned to change the negative energies to positive ones and through touch was able to transfer them back. This worked well in my past career in healthcare. My patients benefited greatly from my gifts. I am no longer working in direct patient care. I haven't been using my gifts.

So when this connection with my coworker began, I thought it was just another person needing healing. But, the whole experience is different and very intense. He and I do not communicate anymore. Earlier this year we began working on a project together. The intense connection began immediately. About a month later, he suddenly cut all communication with me and became silent. We both are present daily for a meeting with several other people. For the past few months he doesn't even acknowledge my existence. I have left him alone. But, the connection never ended. I have been through hell and back feeling his roller coaster emotions and feeling his energy around me constantly. Although we do not communicate in this physical world, we meet in the Astral plane. When I meditate, he oftentimes appears and we have long talks. I feel I'm speaking with his higher self or soul. I vacationed in another country in May and still felt his energy around me. I've never had this kind of bond with anyone.

When he and I were still communicating, I looked deeply into his eyes and saw and felt recognition. I felt a shift within me and outside of me as the feelings of safety, love, and coming home washed over me. It took some time to process this experience. Coincidentally, this recognition and the emotions are the same as what I have felt when I've had a recurring dream about "the one" I'm supposed to be with. He was my imaginary friend named "One" in my childhood and the one whose energy has been with me in my dreams all my life. I feel this coworker resonates the same frequency. Is he "One"or is this wishful thinking? I have prayed and asked for guidance.

I have always received messages in my dreams. I was shown past lives we have had and a future together where we walk together on this journey of light and healing spreading the message to the masses. Also the repeated messages I have received in my dreams is that he is my soulmate. Yet, I wonder if this is all an illusion and I'm the only one that feels the connection between us because I am an Empath.

I have finally come out of this depression, after repeated cord cutting to sever the ties between us that never worked, and after praying for divine intervention. He seems to be in a better place emotionally and the connection I am feeling is not so intense. But, lo and behold at the beginning of July, 2017 he started looking my way again, greeting me, and smiling at me when we pass in the halls. I feel that my inner light is illuminating strongly again and my heart chakra is wide open. This is how I had been before and maybe that is what attracted him to me in the first place. I'm confused. Maybe someone reading this can shed some light on this situation. I have researched this on the internet, but much of the information is conflicting.