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To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
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When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.
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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
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Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
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When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
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I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.
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All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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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.
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Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.
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If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.
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Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
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There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.
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People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
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Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.
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