I’ve been reading a wonderful book, “Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance”, by the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, Ph.D.. It’s essentially a written account of a dialogue between the two of them about emotions and finding balance.
I’m honestly not exaggerating when I say my copy has at least a hundred post-it flags bookmarking every part I have found to be enlightening, inspiring or something I wish to remind myself about.
In my journey of self-growth and my education as a social work student empathy has become a core value in my beliefs and my life. The easiest way to explain empathy is, “put yourself in the shoes of another”, which gives a basic understanding of it but doesn’t fully encompass the entirety of empathy.
In my reading of “Emotional Awareness”, empathy was described in a manner that I feel really clarifies what it means to have empathy for…
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