When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?