What is empathy
We can be aligned with the views of someone else and understand what they are talking about, and yet empathy is missing. Empathy is the kind of intuitive and emotional knowing that reaches inside the other, and, inside the mask that we all wear towards the outside world. How often do we hear the refrain – “he doesn’t understand me,” “she doesn’t know what I am going through,” “we are living in separate worlds,” or “I can’t get through.” We All Do Have Empathy From Childhood. Before learning speech, children communicate by body language, emotion and signs. They know immediately what a mother is feeling towards them. It is an intuitive reading of subtle clues and subliminal messages that express outwardly the inner climate. So Where Does Empathy Go When We Are Adults? The answer is that it doesn’t go, it gets covered over by layers of logical thinking, concerns, busyness, planning, information and the emotional anaesthesia that we often need to cope with the demands and threats of the ad
