Sunday 19 February 2017

EMPATHY

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position. 

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.

One must learn to be empathetic to empathize with the problems faced by family members, friends, acquaintances, as this will make our lives more meaningful and worth living. 

Empathy is not the same as sympathy. Empathy is about feelings, sympathy is about actions. Thus one can empathize with another and then act on it by feeling sorry for the person or happy for the person.

Empathy helps connect people
Empathy builds trust.
Empathy helps heal and can be therapeutic



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