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| Author | Topic: How can I develop Empathy? Feel/respect/understand others? |
| h |
posted 5/7/07 1:56 AM
Anyone else who was adopted/abandoned by mother/parents? I've been having a lot of trouble with relationships lately. I lost my best friend, almost a family member, due to my behavior involving him and his girlfriend. Please explain "love" to me. |
| Lightworker |
posted 5/7/07 4:07 PM
Were you in love with him? Did you want to wake up next to him every day, rain or shine? Was there more than just the overdone sex appeal that kept you around? If so, you were probably in love. And if you "lost" him, it's fine. Another one comes around *wink*. |
| natashatha |
posted 8/1/07 5:27 PM
luv is being able to put someone els needs before your own. Understanding is the core of love, being able to trully care about someone that you would never wanna do anything to cause them negative emotion |
| seeker |
posted 8/1/07 11:37 PM
It is my belief that in order to respect, love, and have empathy for others one must first be able to accept and love one's own self. Many people are not able to do so because they have closed themselves off from their own emotions, there is no "empathy" because there is nothing against which they can compare. There are as many definitions for love as their are people in this world. What I have found helpful for myself is to search some quotation websites for quotes and love and see what resonates. Have you asked your family friend how he perceives you and your involvement? Do you have a professional you can trust for therapy? |
| Paper_Tiger |
posted 8/16/07 2:59 AM
I agree with Seeker, and would add that the depth at which one can love others also depends on the depth one loves and understands oneself. |
| waldencc |
posted 12/19/07 7:16 PM
You want to know how to develop in empathy/feel/respect/understand others? It takes practice...during those situations which arise when you want to disrespect, not feel and not understand is when you do the opposite of those things mentioned previously. There is no such thing as falling in or out of love. LOVE is an act, not a feeling or emotion. Love is being kind when you don't want to be, love is being patient when you want what you want now, love is being temperate when you want to go off, Love is being disciplined when you want to be without control of your actions. If you truly want to develop in something you MUST do that which is not what you want to do. |
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