Before we begin, let us try to revise and re-connect to our previous skills, self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationship and now will connect these three skills with Empathy.
Have you ever experienced a situation when someone in your neighborhood get sick and hospitalized. If yes, then don’t we see categories of people, someone just telling to himself sad, someone telephones the patient’s family member or patient himself and gets the health situation checked, someone visiting patient in person, and the extreme someone visits the hospital and be there concerned till the patient is back home good. Now let us question to ourselves, what made this differentiation. The differentiation is all about the extent of sympathy and empathy. And again this depends upon our bonding with the person/situation, moral values, and interpersonal relationship and so on.
Have you ever experienced a situation when someone in your neighborhood get sick and hospitalized. If yes, then don’t we see categories of people, someone just telling to himself sad, someone telephones the patient’s family member or patient himself and gets the health situation checked, someone visiting patient in person, and the extreme someone visits the hospital and be there concerned till the patient is back home good. Now let us question to ourselves, what made this differentiation. The differentiation is all about the extent of sympathy and empathy. And again this depends upon our bonding with the person/situation, moral values, and interpersonal relationship and so on.
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling, whereas sympathy is feeling of pity or sense of compassion for the person. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. It is also a key ingredient of successful relationships because it helps us understand the perspectives, needs, and intentions of others.
Before we speak something sense, we would go through the difference between empathy and sympathy, as people use these two words as rubber and eraser, but a big no, because empathy is very much different than sympathy. Empathy is feeling the pain as being on his shoe, saying me too faced the same situation, I can understand. Whereas sympathy is also with the good intention but, it is for providing comfort and assurance. Empathy implies feeling with a person, rather than just feeling sorry for a person.
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