Diana Brain - Emotional Intelligence Mastery: This Book Includes: Empath, How to Analyze People, Dark Psychology Secrets. Learn How to Master Your Emotions, Improve Your Self-Confidence and Social Skills

Welcome to your journey into the world of empathy. If you are here, it is because you are keen on learning more about what empathy is and how it can be developed. The following words encourages us to love one another: thou shall love thy neighbor as yourself. However, as we grow, we tend to change our natural tendency due to the harsh blows we get from the world. It is at this period that we start mistrusting other people, and we even become self-protective. We may start having attitudes that separate us from the others due to the perception that they are different from us. This itself tendency has some serious consequences, not only to us and our health, but also to the well-being of those who we neglect. We have the ability to hate or kill when the connection we have to other people is lost. We forget the importance behind seeing others as ourselves; hence not living according to the worlds greatest teachings, can keep us from experiencing true empathy.

Most people have found challenges differentiating empathy (feeling with someone) from pity (the feeling of being sorry for someone), especially since the researchers who have handled this topic have ended up mudding the waters with a myriad of definitions.

Empathy is described as the ability for one to identify and comprehend another persons feelings and circumstances. This is a true definition of being shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, eye to eye, and toe to toe with Someone else. Through empathy, we can attain the knowledge of our friends experience through the direct individual awareness of the experience they are undergoing. Empathy is said to penetrate much deeper than reason, and this helps us to get knowledge through our senses and heart and not through our mind. Very pure and deep information about others manages to emerge via an empathetic connection.

In other words, it involves ones ability to perceive the feelings of other people (and recognize the emotions that we possess), to think what the underlying cause for someone elses feelings could be and showing concern to their situations. Compassionate action has always shown to be the most logical response once empathy is activated. Empathy has something to do with various parts of the brain which are responsible for the connection of one person with another and motivating one to show care. Pain pathways in our brains light up if we see someone cut themselves accidentally with a knife and crying in pain, but we feel the pain at a lesser degree. That can be said to be the emotional part of empathy, which is at times referred to as emotional resonance in which it is quite often ignored by many doctors despite going against their instincts.

Our sophisticated neurological system gives us the room to observe other individuals undergo pain, and it, in return, it gives us a small taste of the pain so to trigger action to help them. However, relying on emotional resonance alone is not practical. In one way or the other, it gets much too strong for the people who are similar to us, and this might affect us greatly from achieving our goals. Notably, empathy possesses a cognitive component, and when it clearly set in our mind, we are able to understand the unique feelings of our friends, partners, and enemies. The ability to separate the feelings that belong to us from those of others allows us to calm any discomfort that we might be having, as we are vigilant on what our counterparts might be going through.

Empathy can also be defined as the inner motivation that forces us to respond and show our urge to care about the welfare of other people. Indeed, the amount of concern is said to vary from one person to another with different environmental factors influencing them. The influencers include how attractive the person going through a hard time is to you, the persons social class, whether you have gone through a similar situation yourself, if you feel that their suffering is a random act, or whether they deserve it as a result of their bad acts. In addition, the social status that you are in, meaning that if you are a richer person, you will notice the suffering of other people much less often. This suggests that while empathy is a built-in biological response to suffering, we still need to work on it if we want to develop it for use in everyday situations.