Empathy is the WD40 of relationships. We can become more empathic by:
• Increasing awareness of our inner emotional states. It's easier to recognize feelings
in others when we are familiar with feelings in ourselves.
• Teaching ourselves to pay attention to the emotional states in others.
• Looking for similarities between ourselves and others and remembering times that we felt similarly (even if the circumstances are very different).
Yep, empathy is critically important and when we make it a way of life, it changes everything. For example, empathy is what led me to become vegetarian and now pretty much vegan...
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