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If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.
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The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
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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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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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We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
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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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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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Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
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Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
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You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.
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Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
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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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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.
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By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.
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I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
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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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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
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Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and 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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