Quotes About Empathy

being receptive makes us available to shift into an open internal place and enable unpredictable states to be created so that we may resonate with others. This is a way of seeing how we can intentionally cultivate creativity and presence in our lives.

We don't turn our back or reject them when they're distressed. We don't say, or even imply, that their happiness is a condition they must meet to receive our love.

La disciplina efectiva depende de una relación afectuosa y respetuosa entre el adulto y el niño. La disciplina no debe incluir nunca amenazas ni humillaciones, provocar daño físico, asustar ni hacer que los niños sientan que el adulto es un enemigo. La disciplina ha de transmitir sensación de seguridad y cariño a todos los implicados.

This type of left-brain, logical response would hit an unreceptive right-brain brick wall and create a gulf between them. After all, his logical left brain was nowhere to be found at that moment. So, had Tina responded with her left, her son would have felt like she didn't understand him or care about his feelings. He was in a right-brain, nonrational, emotional flood, and a left-brain response would have been a lose-lose approach.

situation. But notice how Laura drew the story out of her son, letting him take an active role in the storytelling process. She acted primarily as a facilitator, helping get the facts of the event straight. This is how stories empower us to move forward and master the moments when we feel out of control.

By connecting with him, right brain to right brain, she was able to communicate that she was tuned in to how he was feeling. Even if he was stalling, this right-brain response was the most effective approach, since it let her not only meet his need for connection, but also redirect him to bed more quickly.

queremos ayudarles a estar preparados para aprender, hay que conectar con ellos. Antes de redirigir su conducta, hay que conectar y consolar. Si los calmamos cuando se hacen alguna herida física, también hemos de ayudarles cuando están emocionalmente trastornados. Y lo haremos validando sus sentimientos y dándoles muchísima empatía enriquecedora. Antes de enseñar, hemos de conectar.

Y si hacemos hincapié en lo positivo? En vez de «Basta de lloriqueos», podríamos decir algo como: «Me gusta más cuando hablas con tu voz normal, ¿puedes repetir eso?» O ser incluso más directo en la enseñanza de la comunicación efectiva: «Pídemelo otra vez, pero con tu voz fuerte de chico mayor.»

Después de conectar, redirigimos. En cuanto hayan sentido esta conexión con nosotros, los niños estarán más preparados para aprender, por lo que podremos redirigirlos con eficacia y hablar con ellos acerca de su conducta. ¿Qué esperamos conseguir cuando redirigimos y fijamos límites? Queremos que los niños adquieran percepción de sí mismos, empatía hacia los demás y capacidad para solventar las cosas tras haber cometido un error.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1.

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.