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- Have you ever been surfing? Imagine you're on your surfboard now, waiting for the big one to come. Get ready to get carried with that…
- If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us…
- What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full…
- A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough…
- In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's…
- Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
- If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely…
- The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my…
- To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The…
- If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the…
- When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so…
- When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
- Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
- I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
- Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
- If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
- We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.
- Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because…
- If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do…
- Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it…
- Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of…
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- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash