Compassion and empathy

[B222]

How do you expand compassion and empathy? Cheers

[Thought Art]

@B222 Contemplate it, use prompts generated from AI. Meet people, volunteer, read poetry and spiritual books, study human suffering, connect spiritually to concepts of compassion, love, forgiveness through spiritual experiences. 

[Candle]

My insights : 

• Sometimes pain makes us more empathetic and compassionate. Either use pain to be more rough or use it to be more soft, polite and caring towards others. 
• Mutual suffering creates stronger bonds of love. 
• There is a thing called "compassion fatigue". Compassion fatigue is basically emotional and physical exhaustion that comes from caring for others, especially in situations where there's a lot of pain, suffering, or stress involved. It’s common among healthcare workers, therapists, caregivers, and even people who are always there for friends or family in tough times.
• Imagine showing love to others and feeling deep fulfilment. 

 

[gettoefl]

They are opposites.

Empathy is I feel your pain and therefore I make your pain real. Your pain isn't real and thus you have been harmed by me.

Compassion is I carry your apparent pain on your behalf. I take it away from you and thus you have been helped by me.

Former keeps you stuck.

Latter gets you beyond.

Empathy is saying, I acknowledge what you are going through my friend. = pretty much worthless

Compassion is saying, my friend there is another way. = pretty much priceless

Edited yesterday at 05:40 PM by gettoefl