Do you often feel the pain of others?

Answer 1

Am sorry that i do, have had many sad experiences in my life, Have buried a mum, dad, brother and a son, have saved the life of many a person, married 4 times and have been betrayed many times.
but through this, i am able to feel there pain and help many to happiness.

Answer 2

Yes, but not often, nor regular. It's more of a FYI and understanding thing, where I'll feel it till I mention it to the person suffering, and then it goes away as quickly as it came.

Sometimes I'll note to the person suffering that unforgiveness is what can bring a visit from the tormentors, as noted in Matthew 18:34; But most oft I'll simply note I feel what they feel, even though they've said nothing about how they feel.

Occasionally I get fooled, and think it's my own pain; But then I remember there is no discomfort in the God of all comfort, and that is the God I know. Then it leaves immediately.

Answer 3

Yes, I do
And I often think, how people can hurt each other or animal. And if they are hurt I feel why they are, why can't all of us have pain free life.

My mom sometimes says that I should have been a saint .. but I like the way I am
And if we all start feeling pain for each other, this world will be a better place and we all will live happily without pain...

Answer 4

Never.

No, honestly I don't. I find the concept of empathy to be very elusive. I've tried very hard but I can't seem to experience that emotion, I come up empty.

I can logically and rational understand why or how someone is in pain, but I cannot *feel* it.

I believe that most humans naturally feel some degree of empathy and because of that empathy they have a basic sense of right and wrong. If they do something that causes another to feel pain, they feel guilty over it because of empathy. I feel anxiety, but never guilt. I can understand someone is in pain, but I don't feel it. I understand what is socially acceptable and what isn't, but I don't have that little voice in my head telling me right from wrong.

Answer 5

All the time, if is so difficult to feel the stuggling and hurts of others, but this also births prayer for the person and is rewarding. This happened to me last Sunday, I was drawn to a certain person. God told me to give them some money, which I did. At the end of the service there was an altar call and the person was really on my mind and I started to pray for them. It took him a while, but he did go forward for salvation. I was so blessed and soon after that God set me free through prayer.

Answer 6

Yeah, why is that? Do you mean when others are inflicting it, pain, on me, or on someone else? I haaaaaate that! Don't you have to be a doctor to feel someone else's pain? No, actually, to be a real man requires that I feel the pain life inflicts on me and others, and respond accordingly.

Answer 7

If one is very empathic by their nature then one can really feel the pain and as well the pleasures of others.We are all one in spirit and we all have a spiritual relationship with each other as souls.

Answer 8

When you put yourself in someone else's shoes, you can, it may seem strange, but when you have a love for the needy, that do happens, i understand know how Jesus felt for the people when they were crouded around him and he was doing all manner of healings, he had compassion on them, for he knew what they was going through. Read Matthew 9:36

Answer 9

Yes! Often when I see people hurting, I feel hurt where they hurt. I'm a nursing major too :(

Answer 10

"deeds of mercy" are acts of compassionate love (actions words or prayer) that seek to releive the suffering of others.

This is what Jesus said to one of his saints:

"I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it."

The Saint was a nun with much compassion. "She never forgot how a poor young man, barefoot and with his clothes in tatters, came to her convent gate on a cold and rainy day begging for hot food. She immediately went to the kitchen, but found nothing there for him. Sister Faustina finally suceeded in finding some soup, which she reheated and into which she crumbled some bread. After the young man ate the soup, He unveiled to her His true identity - the Lord Jesus Christ Himself!
Then He vanished from her sight. But later, she heard these words in her soul:
"My daughter, the blessings of the poor who bless Me as they leave this gate heve reached My ears. and your compassion, within the bounds of obedience, has pleased Me, and this is why I came down from My throne - to taste the fruits of your mercy."

-- Divine Mercy.