What is an empath
What does being empathetic mean? Is it something you can learn or something you really have to be? Empathy often influences how you interact with others. When you are empathetic, you are generally kind and gentle.
Empathy means being able to empathize with someone else or a situation. The meaning of empathy is to put yourself in the other person's shoes. Empathy towards others mainly concerns your feeling. You can see it as empathizing with someone, and that it also affects you what someone else is going through. Empathetic people can often adapt themselves easily and have less trouble when the story is not centered around them. They like to listen to someone else.
Sensitive people
People who are highly sensitive, also called HSP, are more often empathetic than people who are not or less sensitive. Sensitive people naturally empathize. A situation or a feeling brings along feelings that a sensitive person can sense very well. There is also a downside to being more sensitive, which is that you put yourself aside more often for the desires and feelings of another person.
5 characteristics of being empathetic
If you can correctly place the five characteristics below, then it is obvious: you are an empathetic and sensitive person. This ensures that communication with you is characterized by kindness and understanding, and that you are there for the people around you.
- You like to listen to others.
- You feel for the other person, and can therefore feel emotions
- You like to support someone else, without expecting this
- Likes to exchange experience to help others
- You easily put someone else's needs ahead of your own.
Empathic ability
At work or in your private life, your empathy can have a major effect on your success, but so can your interactions with others. People who are empathetic have an eye for detail regarding another person's emotions. They won't blindly demand things that are unrealistic, and they can empathize if you're late for work, for example. If you are less empathetic and you are more likely to be called selfish, you can still learn how to better empathize with a situation or someone else in your environment. The following tips can help you with this.
- Try to listen to the other person before you speak
- Think about what you are going to say, this will prevent unnecessary hurt
- When someone else tells you something in confidence, make sure you don't betray that trust.
- Try to empathize with the emotions of another, using your own experience
- Give a spontaneous compliment to someone else
To practise
By exercising your empathy skills, you can make progress quickly. It can be more difficult for some than for others. For example, when you often must adopt a serious and business-like attitude in the field of work. Applying more of the above tips when interacting with others will help you be businesslike, but also make sure you use your empathy with others. This often improves intrinsic work motivation and creates a pleasant atmosphere between colleagues.
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