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My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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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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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
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We give empathy to others for our own benefit.
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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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We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.
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When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.
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NO is always a YES to something else.
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Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
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The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
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Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
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Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
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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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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.
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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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