Relationship Booster: Showing Empathy

The highest form of knowledge is empathy. It is a strong connection point with others. It’s a needed skill for harmonious relationship and to also minimize stress and strain. When we develop our power of empathy, the other party opens up to us, fostering a happy union. Loving others is simply loving oneself.

When we judge people’s act, we can’t also have the time to love them. But if you want to love others, show empathy. A lot of times, we show sympathy when in actually sense people need our empathy. To show empathy is to see with the eyes of another, hears through the ears of another and listen with the heart of another. We connect more, deeper and better with one another that way.

Showing empathy is for you to understand the likely challenges the other might likely be going through and vice versa. It reduces the invisible gap, knowing someone else can feels what you are feeling and understand best. Empathy is the greatest virtue, from it all virtues flow and without it, all virtue is an act. It is the impetus for creating change; it propels positive feedback from others. The only way to change someone mind and heart is to connect with them, rather than talk to them.

Don't just say it or hear it, rather feel it with others, go through the process with them and see how beautiful things will turn. Jesus could love us better because he was once a man and so understand all we are going through because he went through the same.

Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.- Leo Buscaglia

Just last week, we visited the ministry of justice, the office of public defender, of which I am a volunteer. We went with the objective to train the social workers on how to effectively manage cases of child abuse and the virtue of empathy came up so strongly, as it is needed for life, self fulfillment and to show love to others.