Empathy is the way you understand another person's feelings, needs or wants. It makes possible for us to learn more about people and relationships with people. If we connect empathically with other person, we should only focus on the how the other person is feeling and on the needs contributing to the feelings. We maybe can understand from the other person's tone of voice or from his or her facial expression that he or she is hurt. Listening is very important for being an empathic person. Second thing that we should is to make ourselves defenseless. We should remove our masks and reveal our real feeling and thoughts to create more strong bond with other person.There some other behaviors that can not be called as empathizing. Some of the behaviors are advising, one-upping, educating, consoling, storytelling, shutting down, sympathizing, interrogating, explaining and correcting. We should not confuse empathy with sympathy. Sympathy requires some degree of agreement with the other person's view. However in empathy, we communicate with other person without agreeing or disagreeing. In other words empathy tries to understand other person, not tries to agree or disagree.
I think you have raised good points here. Empathy means understanding people.
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