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Metaphors of Empathy - What is your metaphor of empathy? Empathy is like: Standing in someone else's shoes. Looking through someone else's eyes. Strings tuned to the same frequency. Empathy Is Like Surfboard Riding;
"Empathy, I would say is
presence. Pure presence to what is alive in a person at this moment,
bringing nothing in from the past. The more you know a person, the harder
empathy is. The more you have studied psychology, the harder empathy really
is. Because you can bring no thinking in from the past. If you surf, you'd be
better at empathy because you will have built into your body what it is about.
Being present and getting in with the energy that is coming through you in the
present. It is not a mental understanding." Empathy is like going on a journey with the other person, a journey where neither of us knows where we are heading and where we will be when we arrive. Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow. — Neal Maxwell. Empathy is like reading someone else’s story: being one with the characters and events and feeling the emotions of the main character. It is living life with others with a certain mindfulness: observing, listening, and understanding. Empathy is like a sixth sense in that it presents us with emotional information. Empathy is like gravity: its effects on a small scale are apparently modest, but observed on a global scale, the effect is so overwhelming as to create the environment that houses every other interaction. To study the effects of empathy upon individual survival without fully understanding the effects of empathy upon the survival of the species is like running meticulous crash tests but ignoring road conditions. Betsy Shebang Empathy is like jazz. Jazz requires listening to the experience, rather than just hearing the instruments When empathy is at its best, the two individuals are participating in a process which may be compared to that of a couple dancing, the client leading, the therapist following: the smooth, spontaneous back and forth flow of energy in the interaction has its own ascetic rhythm (Raskin and Rogers, 1989, p 157) Like two galaxies coming together, which represents two souls coming together. Edwin Rutsch Like the Universe - Edwin Rutsch Like a cornucopia, Edwin Rutsch Social Glue that binds us together. Edwin Rutsch
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