Normally we are told that empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Some scholars describe its attributes in terms of perspective taking, staying out of judgement, recognising emotions and communicating skilfully. But I’ve never found conventional definitions of empathy to really capture its essence. They explain what it ‘looks like,’ […]
It can be tempting to think that the wholesome response to malevolence is to ‘let it go’ by ‘doing nothing’ – To show antagonists a holier way of being by graciously “turning the other cheek.” But true “Letting go” is not the same as “doing nothing.” Our mind brought this challenge about for good reason.
Only when we are willing to face up to feeling, can anyone else help us in a sustainable way. If we are not willing, all other attempts to “help” can only mask the underlying cause, suppress and rearrange its expression, and nothing significant will have been made conscious. As Carl Jung said: “there is no
What does ‘True Friendship’ mean to you? Studies suggest that loneliness is on the rise globally, despite us being more ‘connected’ than ever. I suspect that a large part of this rise in loneliness is due to our psychological attitude towards friendship and our misunderstanding of what ‘true friendship’ means. Many people when asked what
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