Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.

What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body.