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Empathetic Listening
By
Tomishia Rossum
Summary on Empathy and Empathetic Listening
Empathy is an ability to feel what they are feeling, but the accomplishment of empathy goes deep-seated than just this. Since empathy involves understanding the emotional condition of other people, the way it is characterized is original of the way emotions themselves are patented. Emotions are taken to be fundamental to acknowledging feelings, and then grasping the feelings of another will be fundamental to empathy. On the other hand, if empathy is depicted by both beliefs and desires, then grasping these beliefs and desires will be more important to empathy. Empathy has many different definitions, from caring for other people and having a desire to help them, to experiencing emotions that reflects another person 's emotions, to knowing what the other person is thinking or feeling, to hiding the line between you and another. Empathy can be used as a communication skill. Empathy can allow the conversation of two people emotions and is the reciprocal understanding of the two people that are conversing. A lack of empathy involves a poor sense of communication that lets down the understanding and the perspective of the two people that are conversing. Understanding what someone else is feeling because you have experienced it yourself or can put yourself in their shoes. Empathetic Listening is a necessity for any empathy. A way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust, it is enabling the listener to receive and accurately interpret the two individual conversations, and then provide an appropriate response. It is also called active listening or reflective listening full understanding of the situation. In doing this you need to find out specifics such as who is involved, what the actual problem is. All of this information goes to help you give the best informed resolution you can find. Without it, perhaps through the
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