How to feel empathy? As in ways to help me to feel empathy.
It's not that I don't feel anything, just that it's hard for me to feel connected/understand other people and trying to see things in their perspective. And as I think that I should not pretend to feel what I don't feel (not that I know how to react), I ended up being a b!tch.
6 Answers to "How to feel empathy? As in ways to help me to feel empathy."
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Hold the persons hand and try to connect with what they are feeling.
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Read a lot of body language books you will learn that people generally act in similar ways over similar situations. When people talk about "empathy" what they are really talking about is "resonance". All living things have a frequency or resonance if you listen with your body not your ears you can "feel" the frequency much like you do when it gets cold and all the hairs on your skin stand up. You cannot teach a sensitivity you either have it or you don't, but you can fake it by being very, very observant. If some one has the flu you know to give them tissues, if someone is emitting a frequency you can pick that too. The best place to go to learn this is an airport, people, leaving, crying, glad to go, excited, family reunion you can watch the people and pick what they are up too.........
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Did you fail the Voight-Kampt test again and attempt to murder the interviewer? Just remember, you're more human than human.
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You can't really feel empathy. You're either empathic or not. It's not something you build on.
You could try to imagine how you would feel in that position. And if you can't, you could just be honest with people and tell them you can't. Not everybody can be empathic, but everybody can be sympathetic.Like (1)
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You can't feel "empathy" unless if you have been through the situation that someone has and therefore can relate to them.
You can feel "sympathy" by feeling bad for what the person is going through.
Empathy and sympathy are not the same thing. :)Like (1)
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Posted by Classicality7 Sep 20th, 2012 at 2:23AM
Mostly it's just imagination. For instance you see someone else whose boyfriend is treating her badly, imagine how you would feel if you were in that same situation. Most people experience the same basic emotions. Hurt, anger, fear, shame, etc.
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