Empathy
A definition of empathy will be a projection of one's own personality into the personality of another in order to understand him better. When you see the world from the other perspective you can be sensitive to his joy and suffering, in the case of sympathy you will only be sensitive to the suffering. True empathy helps to understand others better this is the way to make healing relationship, if you pay to much attention to yourself and your impact on the others you have a very limited perspective that will not help you with your relationship. Try this exercise :
Imagine a situation that involve a friend of your examine the situation as you know and think of it, then put yourself in your friend shoes and imagine the situation from your friend's perspective. Now, imagine, the situation from a third observer. If you do it , this exercise will give you greater perspective on the way you interact with others.
Usually, there are 3 level in communication : what is said, what is meant, the emotional need being expressed. If you use empathy you will be able to address directly those emotional needs, you are communicating and your relationship will improve a lot this way.
Imagine a situation that involve a friend of your examine the situation as you know and think of it, then put yourself in your friend shoes and imagine the situation from your friend's perspective. Now, imagine, the situation from a third observer. If you do it , this exercise will give you greater perspective on the way you interact with others.
Usually, there are 3 level in communication : what is said, what is meant, the emotional need being expressed. If you use empathy you will be able to address directly those emotional needs, you are communicating and your relationship will improve a lot this way.
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Comment by badboy on February 9, 2010 at 10:48am - I may be offline and this may not be what you are talking about. But I think we can project our thought into others. I think we do it everyday without even knowing It, I cause fear in most people until they get to know me. I was brought up on the streets and you learn to overcome fear you project it into others. I think animale do this on a regular basis. Take a spider or snake most people see them and see danger, I think the worst to do this is a bee, When someone encounters a bee they start to try and get away. I think that most people project thoughts without even knowing It.I think this is an ability that all living creatures are borne with. An example is If you encounter a dog that is growing and you show fear the dog keep on but if you start think If you bite me MF I will rip your heart out and feed it to you , Then the dog will back up and want to become friends. This can be done with other animals and people are animals so It can be done to them. That Is just my take on things.
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