As i'm sitting here, surrounded by books, hearing clicking noises from laptops, I just thought...
2007-02-06 05:28:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Mirror Neurons
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2007-02-06 05:35:56 · answer #1 · answered by neuralzen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Empathy is an emotion we fell based on our opinion of how another person it felling. This can be tricky. It is an emotion based on an opinion. It is not even an opinion of yourself but that of another person.
Try this sometime.
When you are feeling empathy for another person, rather than feeling sorry from a distance, approach the situation, go to where they are emotionally and be with them.
You will find that your effect is that of strength and encouragement. This is what you will be to the other person because this is what they can not be to them selves.
The trick is to not be effected by your own actions. It is a selfless act.
On a lighter note. This can be practiced with any empathetic circumstance.Not just sadness.
Good question. Thanks for asking.
2007-02-06 05:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by hurst3 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Empathy is the ability to feel someone else's pain and suffering, or to feel negative or positive energy in the air and to be very much affected by it.
Being an Empath is a documented medical condition that only very few people suffer from. Being empathetic is a natural response in all humans. It is the built in response to feel for someone or something, joy or sorrow. It is not created. It is as natural as breathing.
2007-02-06 05:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by elu_1998 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Empathy is created by the understanding that man is a being of self-created soul, that man's life is an end in itself and the personal recognition that every man could be of potential value to ones own selfish interests.
2007-02-06 05:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by Micheal A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being a compassionate human being and first understanding yourself and your emotions creates empathy. You also have to have suffered and experienced a certain amount in your own life to really put yourself into the shoes of another person and to feel their joy or their pain.
2007-02-06 05:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Pegasus 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋