When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.
As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.
It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.
Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.
Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.