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Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
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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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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.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
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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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In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
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Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
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We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
