Feelings Disuse: Empathy
We are social beings.
With the exception of the singular cases of certain hermits in history, we have all lived in society.
Archaeological remains of humanity's early age are proof that we were grouping together, making families. Nuclei of individuals have been conformed throughout history.
This characteristic makes us think about communication. The transmission of ideas, customs, teaching, feelings.
Because of not having a language, there must have been a high cognitive level to achieve the necessary communication.
This allowed the prevalence of the human race.
Then we can affirm that it is part of our nature to be interested in the situation of our neighbor.
Even this information can be at the molecular level and be passed on for generations.
It is not just to show your partner, neighbor, brother or friend that somehow you care about their condition, but it is a matter of survival.
The concept of empathy defines it as: the "capacity" to perceive what the other feels.
For me it's something else. It is more than that.
Because for me this "capacity" must be preceded by the "intention", the "desire" to understand the other.
Someone may have the ability to understand his fellow man, that is, if he decides to try to do it.
But the motivation to do it is not "born" within that person.
So: can we consider that person as empathic?
I say NOT.
"We must establish more solid and positive links with others, recognize and understand their feelings, ideas, behaviors and attitudes, even identify circumstances that may affect them in specific situations, in order to intervene and seek welfare in our fellow."
And we can not only be empathetic with other people. We can even feel empathy for animals or plants. We can establish such a real connection with our pet that we can accurately know their mood.
The grandmothers say "today my plants woke up sad".
So:
Can you see the importance of empathy?
Can you see the current lack of empathy that our global community suffers?
While in Africa many children die of hunger and disease, in other countries they make millionaire auctions of thoroughbred horses for equestrian competition.
When citizens of a rich country are literally eating from the trash, their president eats tender lamb ribs from the hand of an international chef and then smokes a Havano, this while recording everything in a video to post it on Facebook.
But not all is lost.
Let's practice empathy. There are no barriers. There are no borders or distances.
Do you want an example?
Do you have not been able to detect the mood of someone, just by reading one of your comments?
It turns out that this person lives in the Netherlands and you are in South America.
Let's Save Humanity, Let's Be Empathic.
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I do feel there is a server lack of empathy due to our adoption of western culture which is been so focused on the needs of the individual and not considering the community aspect and how we function as a collective. People are seen as commodities and thus empathy can easily be ignored.
The funny thing is if you are empath you are able to connect with people which will improve your networking, your business relationships and consumer relationships and over time improve your business.
Hi dear @chekohler.
This is surplus value.
Thanks for comment.
Dear @chekohler
Western culture is so far the ONLY one that value human life in general. Living 11 years in Asia (various countries) made me realize how bad it currently is in China and south-east Asia, where technology is already developing way faster comparing to west.
Indeed that's true. And it will only get "worse".
Yours
Piotr
Sorry but I do not agree with you. Western society gives high amounts of help in many ways to many countries and societies even they are frequently abused and victims of scam and this since ages and also if it comes to their own society they are willing to help each other out there were social care is not doing so to its own people no matter how much taxes they pay.
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I agree with you @wakeupkitty
Western culture is so far the ONLY one that value human life in general. Living 11 years in Asia (various countries) made me realize how bad it currently is in China and south-east Asia, where technology is already developing way faster comparing to west.
Yours
Piotr
So technology is more worth as human life 😕. Because the development is needed to survive/make an income or this is all they need? You have a lot of experiences.
I wish you a happy and 🌞 day with 💕
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@juanmolina, The solution is very easy but happening is difficult because in my opinion, we are living the lives of deception. We can take great example of Tribes and by that i mean, when tribes were established then they were not protectors of just their family but whatever they done it was regards to whole tribe, but now we are limited our emotional and brotherhood levels and thinking about our doors no matter how much cruelty faced by fellow human beings.
For a moment think this way, why we want these companies, why we need to work hours and hours on excel sheets, applications, computers and so on when we are took birth to do field work and life close to nature and mother earth, so definitely this materialistic world is deception. No matter how much people earning at the end of the day they are living the life like a robot and Materialistic.
The biggest issue of this world is poverty and lack of food. Now we are destroying lands, just for a moment think this way, if we can plant fruit trees wherever it's possible and let's cover the whole world with these trees then no one will ask for the food inturn they can pluck the fruits from trees, but no it will not happen because people hold so much materialistic thought that they dominate others when it comes to land. Solution is so simple but implemention is difficult because for that everyone should awake to the truth.
Stay blessed brother.
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Hi @chieerocks,
".... if we can plant fruit trees wherever it's possible and let's cover the whole world with these trees then no one will ask for the food inturn they can pluck the fruits from trees, but no it will not happen..... "
Only a person with a broad-minded heart will be able to do such a thing. This sentence is rocking.
Let me correlate a thing with your sentence. In olden days, people of Tamil Nadu, a state in the southern India used to build a place outside their homes to sit and take rest. In Tamil language, we call it "thinnai". The point worth mentioning here is that anybody can sit there and take rest. This sort of empathy used to be encouraged during those days.
Similarly, we will also plant fruit saplings, but for whom..... for ourselves!
BUT AS YOU SAID IF WE PLANT FRUIT SAPLINGS WHEREVER WE FIND PLACE, THOSE WHO FEEL HUNGRY WILL FEAST ON THEM THEREBY KILLING THE POVERTY GHOST SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Wonderful comment @chieerocks, really a sort of eyeopener!
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Thank you so much and i am familiar with what you are saying because i am also from the state of Andhra Pradesh. Thank you so much for your kind words and response. Stay blessed.
Dear @chireerocks
Very sad, but true.
Yours, Piotr
Yes brother. Stay blessed.
We just need to search within ourselves. The universe is in us.
Great thinkers who have approached enlightenment, sought peace within. Great beings of light: Siddharta Gautama, Jesus.
Maybe your message has been lost over time.
We must rescue and practice his teachings. That would help a little.
Thanks dear @chireerocks.
Welcome and everyone is part of source and mass consciousness will decide peace or division in this world. Have a great time ahead.
«HOMBRE» definición:
"Un animal tan perdido en extasiada contemplación de lo que él piensa que es, como para siempre pasar por alto lo que indudablemente debería ser.
Su principal ocupación es el exterminio de otros animales y los de su propia especie. Y el cual, además, se multiplica con tal insistente rapidez, que infecta toda la tierra habitable, Choroní y sus alrededores."
La vida le preguntó a la muerte:
La muerte respondió:
Joke: a guy asks about the concepts of empathy & eternity, someone answers the following: "it is the time it would take you to understand those concepts!"
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” - Albert Einstein.
Yeah! not so often you can witness acts of 'empathy' from people crowds. Unless, you've had trained very well your 'birds' to bring some competence among them and offer good entertainment in exchange. };)
Hello my brother dear @por500bolos.
Your unmistakable, dynamic style, with those appointments so surgically accurate and always a good video.
Thank you for making us see how "HUMAN" we are.
es inevitable el avance en la ciencia, la destruccion de un grupo por uno mas fuerte, la imposición de Deidades a culturas inocentes, es inevitable nuestra destrucción, pero de nuestras cenizas se levantaran nuevas civilizaciones, que terminaran iguales a nosotros, es nuestra humanidad la que tiene el problema en su genética, somos la peste de este hermosa tierra, somos sus parásitos, que poco a poco la destruimos, nuestra culpa fue hacernos inteligentes, veo a grupos de animales viviendo en paz en la selva, ellos si conocen el secreto de este universo, pero es una gran aventuras ser un humano mas, jajajaaaa, saludos amigo
Que comentario tan profundo querido amigo @betzaelcorvo.
Tienes mucha razón.
Los únicos seres vivos en el planeta que generan contaminación y destrucción del medio ambiente somos los humanos.
Todos los demas seres juegan su papel sin afectar al otro.
Y resulta que el planeta nos pertenece a todos y cada uno.
Gracias por tu excelente comentario querido amigo.
Some really good points you make here Juan.
I think people get their priorities wrong when being empathetic. What one person sees as a need or a tragedy can be way different from another depending on their own experiences.
This week it has been demonstrated very clearly.
Whilst millions around the world continue to be made homless and millions more starve to death, and others die from bombs and bullets,an old church burns down in Paris and people from a around the globe send millions to rebuild it.
Wouldn't it be better for the Church to redirect so much money to a better cause and leave the building as a monument, marking the day the world joined together for peace and the welfare of our fellow man.
I am not bashing the Church or religion here just the fact that money could be better spent in saving lives not old buildings.
When we get our priorities right, empathy will be the biggest tool in the fight for a new world.
Our world can change if we help our neighbours. Its up to us to show that we care. 😀
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You are absolutely right friend @andyjem.
This is a clear and total lack of empathy.
They will never do it.
We have the opportunity to improve the world in our hands. What prevents us?
Many factors.
Greed, selfishness. Lack of resorses are a few.
Our biggest problem is comunication.
All Governments actively, not only keep their own people apart but set them against other countries by instilling Patriotism fri2m a young age through schooling.
So it is down to small groups of people who believe in each other and the ability to change the system.
Then thoes groups will join other groups.
It will be a slow process and every step of the way the system will fight back with all it has, using the press and police to discredited the new idea.
The idea that we can all live peacfully together.
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One of the characteristics of the most disastrous regimes that humanity has experienced is based on the idea of an enemy (internal or external). The dictator uses this concept to bring together a sector of the population. Regardless of whether this involves confrontation between brothers.
Personally I think that, as a psychiatrist friend once told me, humans are "biological-hormonal machines", but with a great capacity to rationalize everything we do and achieve transcendence or a metaphysical varnish to not accept that what we do is a product of our biological nature and consequently animal. Thus, we share emotional capabilities with other mammals and etiological studies show that other great primates have very "human" behaviors, without reaching our extremes of being able to destroy all the environment that surrounds us to satisfy our desires.
Thus, what separates us and makes us the best predators within our group is the capacity of a symbolic language and the manipulation of the environment in consequence, that is, we can talk about what we barely imagine and are capable of creating that we dream, it is a pity that some of our dreams are nightmares for other species.
I think for empathy you need to have certain life experiences and being sensitive as well. Sensitivity is in you, the rest is how you are raised and if empathy is there words are not important since feelings do show themselves in many ways and so does empathy.
I wish you a great day with 💖
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Perhaps to identify some adult emotional experience if previous experiences are necessary. But to feel empathy with basic feelings such as love, sadness ... we should only feel alive.
Thanks Kitty...
Dear Juan,
I understand your enthusiasm in promoting empathy on global level but, sometimes, being one can also be dangerous:
I can use other's empathy and sympathy for me to get my own greedy agenda: case in point, I would dress as a beggar and work the streets.
While it can be generally good, empathy has different effects to other people. For some, especially those who are working with the sick, it could be harmful because, you get too attached and lose your "clinical/professional" psyche. Which makes it difficult for you to do some procedures like extracting blood/ giving injections since, you are anticipating their pain.
Being human is a complex thing and, I am not saying that we should all act indifferent and be empathic to ourselves or significant others as well. its this: know where your boundaries are; be vigilant and discerning.
Obviously nothing in life is simple.
I do not intend to indicate that being Empathic would solve all the problems and already. Because mainly, nothing in life works like this.
Every rule has its exception. All colors have their nuances.
Before acting we must think. There will always be adverse situations. Our personal criteria becomes indispensable when acting. Then we must work on our criteria. I think that is part of growing and maturing.
Thank you for your valuable analysis, I see that you really thought about my approach. I appreciate that very much.
Hey, you sent me a memo and, the polite way to respond to it is to give you my best answer. Keep em coming!
You are absolutely right @nurseanne84, and I wouldn't want an empathic medical practitioner treating me...lol
at certain level, yes. because you are a human being but, to the extent that I would cry/ be clinically impaired to cater to your needs, no.
There are two kinds of empathy. Affective empathy is the ability to literally feel another's feelings. Autistics generally lack this kind. Cognitive empathy is the ability to consciously recognize another's feelings. These are insufficient if one lacks sympathy: caring for another's feelings. Demagogues use their empathy to read potential supporters, but, lacking sympathy, they only care about themselves.
I think you can understand why I think empathy is overrated. Empathy without sympathy is a destructive combination. This is what we're seeing in places like Venezuela and the United States.
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Great point appreciated @rufusfirefly.
Ambitions unleash the lowest passions of the human being. Even being able to use a feeling as valuable as a weapon of domination.
Empathy as you say is something that one is born with and grows up, but that feeling is not only to feel it but to make it rooted with solidarity because today you can be your tomorrow it can be me, but great people do not care about that and it is normal for society .....
Then they aren´t great people.
Thanks for comment dear @memes777.