HOW IS EMPATHY LINKED TO EMPOWERMENT?
Being an owner of Balancenstrength, a Pilates and Gyrotonic studio. Encouraging and empowering my clients goes a long way. Joseph Pilates mentioned up front “Empower your Clients”.
Helping others by listening and trying to understand their needs (empathy), can make one feel more appreciated and more effective. This in turn makes one feel empowered.
Three keys to the Power of Empathy:
1. Empathy heals wounds: For one’s voice to be stifled or muted is an offense against one’s dignity, and injustice to that person. Example: Your at a table (school, family, work etc.) and no one ask your name, where your from, dominated, others are talking to each other, you get the idea. Feelings are: you feel left out, ignored and dismissed. So what does this equal, hurt, alone and rejected.
TRUTH: Humans were made for connection, relationship, community and love. So if allowed to continue the pain to someone manifest deep wounds. The solution, recognize it and know its not you that situation is know as toxic to you and you always have the right to excuse yourself and if possible leave.
2 Empathy Is a True Charity an Ability To Feel with another: Example: When you have experienced hard feelings of pain and sorrow, these feelings can consume us, its not often advice, or saying what you would do. TRUTH its the ability to feel another’s position and letting them know perhaps through eye contact, a gentle touch on the shoulder (if you know them), and listening, something that lets that person know they are seen, believed in and most of all not alone.
3. Empathy earns Trust and fosters Peace: There are always examples and always Truth, but to state this one simply. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”. That’s compassion and that’s truth.
RESULT>EMPOWERMENT
Back view of strong motivated woman celebrating workout goals towards the sun. Morning healthy training success.
