One of the most important skills in life to create harmonious relationships, reduce stress and enhance emotional awareness is empathy. Being empathetic requires skill and can be tricky at times. When you relate to another person’s feelings and needs, you build connections. To truly be empathetic requires the ability to shed the need to blame, advise or fix. You simply listen and relate. When we feel empathy for others it gives us a perspective, a sense of peace and connects us to them.
Emotionally intelligent people are people who have experienced a wide range and variety of feelings. They have felt great depths of depression and heights of fulfillment. This enables them to be able to relate with many more people than someone who has not experienced or acknowledged their own feelings.
We often can be very empathetic to those we aren’t close to. Problems can arise when we have an emotional connection to the people or situation. When we feel threatened, stressed or emotionally triggered, we have trouble being empathetic.
Empathy is sometimes misunderstood. Empathy and sympathy are two different things. When we’re sympathetic, we often pity another, but maintain our distance (physically, mentally, and emotionally) from their feelings or experience. Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand, relate to, or imagine the depth of another person’s emotional state or situation. Empathy, implies feeling with a person, rather simply feeling sorry for them. And in some cases that “person” is actually us.
When we are empathetic, we get into another person’s world and connect with them both emotionally and compassionately. We don’t have to agree with them or fully understand them to be able to empathize. We simply need to be present, and acknowledge what they’re experiencing.
The problem is that we often allow our egos, opinions, and judgments get in the way of our ability to experience and express empathy. It can be very easy to empathize with someone if you agree with them completely and see the world the way they do. It can be a lot more difficult if you don’t agree and have a different take on a situation, or believe that their reaction is unwarranted or harmful to themselves or to others.
Being able to empathize with others in all situations is essential to the health and success of our relationships and lives. It is a key element to our own emotional intelligence and well being. With the people closest to us, including ourselves, and the issues that mean the most to us, empathy is even more critical, but often more difficult for us to experience and express.
14 Inspirational Quotes On Understanding :
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
Confucius
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H.H Williams
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
Lyndon Johnson
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
Kahlil Gibran
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Good research, INCREDIBLE FEELING … from one empath to another, it’s tough, but so necessary and the reward is overwhelming!
And it can be so hard to do, to be empathetic. My shoes are so much more comfortable than another’s. Yet, this is the grist of life. One thousand million threads bind us. Knowing how deeply our lives intertwine I undertake…
I agree ❤ Empathy is crucial. There should be more of it in this world.
Absolutely…and I believe it star with our own self-awareness.❤️😊
Informative 😀
A good read. As somebody who gets irritated a lot, this quote hit me: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
Here again Aishwarya you have hit pointblank on the target subject. ‘EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING`. To be Empathetic one has to have that heart of feeling. One can’t be just empathetic like that. Its the emotional nature, feeling for surrounding, to feel connected for the situation out of ones realm, to feel oneness with all-around and something that comes from inner voice, our Soul which matters most. You have so smoothly and in simple words carried out the subject in so clarity that it doesn’t need any further explanation. Kudos to you. It makes me to eagerly wait for your next blog to appear. .
An Empath & INFJ… such is precisely why self care is so important 💗
Thank you for this post. Empathy is extremely important especially for a Christian. It is necessary to cultivate empathy in order to practice what Jesus says in Matthew 7:12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
Great post. Thanks
Love the quotes and your explanatory remarks as well. Empathy is what will cure the ills of the world. Too bad it isn’t easier to do!
It can be really hard being so sensitive too….I feel the plight of people so heavily it weighs a tonne to carry sometimes
Good research👏👏nice 👍👍
Your inspirational and insightful words soothe my soul. Thank you.
Great post! 💛
My God, I love this. Absolutely spot on
Well said. Everything worthwhile comes from helpful relationships between people. Being empathetic builds bridges between hearts.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” that must be me. but i cannot feel this way about Herr Trump. sorry. continue…
“Emotionally intelligent people are people who have experienced a wide range and variety of feelings. They have felt great depths of depression and heights of fulfillment.”
I must be an emotional genius! 😁
“The problem is that we often allow our egos, opinions, and judgments get in the way of our ability to experience and express empathy.”
This is so true, especially in America today. People have shut off their ability to emphasize with the other side and have allowed their egos, opinions, and judgements to get in the way of compromising to get things done.
Hi, aishwarya_shah, please resend me the link to the post you asked me to post on my blog. I forgot which one it is, sorry. Thank you!
Beautifully written and well spoken. If only all man had empathy for others then the world would be a better place.