By
Jan B. Roosa, Ph.D.

Joe found that by learning Empathy skills, he gained a much better relationship with his wife, children, and fellow workers. He learned the difference between Empathy, sucking up, sympathy, and manipulation. Just sticking to Empathy made him feel better. His connection to his loved ones, and others gave him a much better feeling of closeness and belonging.

Having trouble experiencing Empathy for yourself, for others; feeling it when it's sent your way by others? Know someone in the same fix? You or they are missing out. Empathy --- both sending it and receiving it --- is a warm and gratifying experience, particularly when sending it. While sending it, the experience is fuller, more enlightening, lasts longer, and connects us with more people. The saying "It's better to give than to receive" is especially true here.

So, what is Empathy? First of all, it isn't an it. We don't, technically, have, own, or possess Empathy. It is more correct to say we experience, use, enact, practice, or act with the skills of Empathy. We use the Empathy skills of thinking, or feeling from another person's point of view, experience, or situation. We possess Empathy skills of seeing and caring about their side of it, without necessarily agreeing.

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