Dynamics of Empathy
Nonviolent Communication Training
Marshall Rosenberg
Marshall Rosenberg :: “I relate empathy to surfboard riding. Imagine yourself getting up on a surfboard, this requires getting in touch with a certain energy. If you don’t get on exactly, you can get knocked off. To me, empathy is somewhat like that. Empathy is getting in touch with a LIFE energy that’s coming through another person. Now, as I have expressed in other sessions, the LIFE energy that’s coming through people at each moment, I have learned can best be described in words by referring to what that person is feeling and needing.
The empathic connection that I am interested in sustaining is one in which I can stay connected to the life energy coming through another person. That’s what makes it like surfboard riding. It’s a challenge because many people don’t know how to directly express what’s alive in them. So they use a rather choppy language, they often tell you what’s alive in them with reference to what’s wrong with you. When people need empathy the most, they’re often expressing it in a pretty violent way. In that sense, it’s very much like surfboard riding. How to get in touch with this energy and flow with it. The energy coming through people is, for me, a very beautiful divine energy. So when I can really stay connected with it, I feel like I’m riding in a very precious flow of energy.
NVC is about connecting with ourselves and others from the heart. It’s about seeing the humanity in all of us. It’s about recognizing our commonalities and differences and finding ways to make life wonderful for all of us. https://www.cnvc.org
” Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them.
We Think We Listen, but that might be a thought!
https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/
Understanding this could greatly reduce human suffering.
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“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead.
~Albert Einstein
..::”For me the Jewish religion, like all others, is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions… And the Jewish people… have no different quality for me than all other people”. He explicitly stated he could not see anything “chosen” about them. ~ Albert Einstein
Einstein viewed the “cult of individuals” as unjustified and often in bad taste, noting that it was unfair to select a few for “boundless admiration” while ignoring everyone else.
”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.♡ Love Albert Einstein … Only a comic book bible would suggest a cultish behavior to genoc~~ everyone else, but some special chosen ones?~ OMG
Imagine living on the only known planet in the infinite universe, where the mortified rich get richer by colonizing the people to follow debunked dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of war, projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children inherit a brutal indoctrination instead of Living Sacred Life. https://empathymatters.org/armageddon/
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