Empathy

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According to the glossary in the course textbook titled Looking Out Looking In written by authors Ronald B. Adler and Russell F. Proctor II, empathy is the skill to project oneself into someone’s point of view to achieve experience the thoughts and feels someone is going though. Empathy is beneficial because it is to better understand other people, gain more confidence and learning to trust others. Opening a two-way communication with someone else is something everyone does, becoming more appreciated and sensitive towards others issues and concerns are also some characteristics of how empathy is helpful to everyone.
Empathy in a way to think about this action that we as humans do vary so often is similar to stepping out of our own shoes that we have one and stepping into another person’s, whether it be a friend, co-worker, family, and anyone in our daily lives. If you can feel, imagen, experience what someone going through. One is not always in our own shoes because we someone’s see the world differently.
Even my youngest brother named Daniel who is a three year old toddler, can empathize. My older brother Rodolfo went outside one day and slipt on a match of mud and grass. Rodolfo was on the ground crying because he said he hurt his left leg. Daniel on the other side of the lawn ran towards him and on his way was crying as well. The question to ask if Rodolfo was the one to fall, then why did Daniel cry as well, if he didn't get hurt?
Explaining empathy in the eyes for a child is different and they may have different perceptions as to what empathy really is.
The answer lies in the feeling that Daniel received which was empathy for his brother. Children so young already know how to empathize, even though they may not have been...

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...s as well, become aware of own feelings, what do i want and what do I need . People who have lost the ability to know whether or not they are hungry, tired, sleepy may mean one is highly co-dependent.
There are four levels of owning thought and feelings, they include level W, level X, level Y and level Z. Level W is a statement that a type of blaming statement using the word “you”. I used a level W when I was speaking to Jesus.
Me: You said I’m strange first and really randomly.
Jesus: Okay.
In the statement I was blaming Jesus for saying I was strange, I could have restated this. I could have said” Hey Jesus I noticed you said I was strange, I just thought that was a little strange.
The second level of statement is a level X, this statement includes language with an idea, an opinion, or the person trying to stay away from ownership to thoughts and or feelings.

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