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As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
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NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
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Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.
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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
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NO is always a YES to something else.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
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Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.
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We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.
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