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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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NVC is a reminder to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
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Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
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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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Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
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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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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
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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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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.
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Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
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Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
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The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.
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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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Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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