Melanie Sears has been a trainer for the Center of
Nonviolent Communications since 1991. She works with businesses,
hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, individuals, couples and parents in
transforming their usual way of operations, interpersonal interactions and
dealing with conflict to one which is more compassionate, conscious and
effective.
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Empathy helps people connect with
their creative self.
It helps people connect and accept themselves. It allows for creativity to
emerge. It helps someone find the joy beneath the pain.
Empathy allows you to enter into the inner world of another person.
This allows them to be heard and seen and gives you a sense of
connection.
Empathy
feels like unconditional love.
When someone receives empathy, there is nothing to defend against so you
are more likely to be seen
as a friend. When you can empathize with anything they say, it gives
them unconditional acceptance. This feels freeing to people and allows
them to explore parts of themselves that they usually keep hidden.
Empathy prevents you from taking things
personally.
You can either empathize with yourself or with someone else. Once you
realize that people are always expressing feelings and needs even when
they are attacking you, it is easier to have compassion for them. The
more you empathize with people, the less judgments you make. Judgments
are the opposite of understanding.
Empathy helps people connect and accept themselves. It allows for creativity to
emerge. It helps someone find the joy beneath the pain.
Empathy allows you to enter into the inner world of another person.
This allows them to be heard and seen and gives you a sense of
connection.
When someone receives empathy, there is nothing to defend against so you
are more likely to be seen
as a friend. When you can empathize with anything they say, it gives
them unconditional acceptance. This feels freeing to people and allows
them to explore parts of themselves that they usually keep hidden.
If they see you as the enemy and you empathize with them, their enemy
images tend to disappear.
If they see you as the enemy and you empathize with them, their enemy
images tend to disappear.
When you empathize with the blocks they tend to dissolve. This allows
for deeper connection.
