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We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.
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Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
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People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.
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In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
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Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.
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When we judge others we contribute to violence.
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Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.
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All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
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Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
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It's never what people do that makes us angry it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
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When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
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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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The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.
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Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
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As soon as you say, are you feeling X because I ... Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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