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Compassion and empathy

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How do you expand compassion and empathy? Cheers

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@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. 


 "Unburdened and Becoming" - Bon Iver

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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. 
 

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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 by gettoefl

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