Empathy

• Empathy is the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions; the ability to share someone else's feelings. When one is sympathetic, one implies pity but maintains distance from another person’s feelings.
• A former smoker is more likely to have empathy with someone who is trying to quit. A feeling of "been there, done than, bought the t-shirt" that makes you understand what the other is feeling. 
• Another example, one may say that they feel bad for you and they understand your situation, but you'll always know that they're saying " Thank god i'm not in thats situation" from behind your back. 
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Relational Aggression

Relational aggression, also known as indirect bullying, is a type of bullying that often targets someones social status or relationships. Peers become increasingly significant in adolescence. Peer relationships are especially important for adolescents' healthy psychological development: peers provide many new behavioral models and feedback essential for successful identity formation and development of one’s sense of self.

 spreading gossip, refusing to socialize with the target, bullying other people who wish to socialize with the target, and criticizing the target's manner of dress and other socially-significant markers (including the target's race, religion, disability, sex, or sexual preference, etc.) are part of the wide variety of ways to commit the act. 

Many of us unintentionally say something that could effect the well being of another person. WATCH WHAT YOU SAY.

Empathy

                                                                        
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Empathy is not just a way to extend the boundaries of your moral universe. According to new research, it's a habit we can cultivate to improve the quality of our own lives. 


http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_habits_of_highly_empathic_people1

Empathy

Empathy

Definition: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
  
      According to skillsyouneed.com, "Empathy is a term that is often misunderstood. This page attempts to describe 'empathy' and suggest ways that we can become more empathetic towards others. Empathy is perhaps the most advanced of all communication skills."

Examples:

It means imagining yourself in someone else's situation and being able to put yourself in their position - you understand their circumstance. 

Like being a student. I remember what is was like having to study/read all the time and take tests where you didn't know what the teacher would ask. It was stressful. Now that I'm not a student I have more money (because I have a "real" job) and less stress (because when I go home my time is my own and I don't have to spend my free time - or feel like I should be spending my free time 

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Emapathy

You can never truly understand someones pain until you are the one who feels it.
-Unknown




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What is Empathy

  Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. 
Having empathy doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll want to help someone in need, though it’s often a vital first step toward compassionate action. 
Contemporary researchers often differentiate between two types of empathy: “Affective empathy” refers to the sensations and feelings we get in response to others’ emotions; this can include mirroring what that person is feeling, or just feeling stressed when we detect another’s fear or anxiety. “Cognitive empathy,” sometimes called “perspective taking,” refers to our ability to identify and understand other peoples’ emotions. Studies suggest that people with autism spectrum disorders have a hard time empathizing. 

 http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/empathy/definition

Empathy's Tears

To be blessed with sensitivity's curse;

empathy's tears do nourish Mother Earth.

Caring about others will haunt your soul,

to be marooned alone you can't be whole.

Pain must always come to those who express;

no safety in coffins of selfishness.

I'm drawn to those who have suffered defeat;

compassionate struggles are their soul's wreath.

I'm not guided by light from what you do;

suffering's prism reflects the true you.

With your pain my suffering doth echo;

understanding will come from what we show.

To be blessed with sensitivity's curse;

empathy's tears do nourish Mother Earth.