Empathy and Emotional Intelligence …

Empathy is an important aspect of emotional intelligence … Empathy is the ability to share and understand the feelings of another person ….

Empathy involves putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and see things from their perspective ….

It allows us to connect with others on a deeper level, to feel their pain or joy and respond in a way which is appropriate and helpful …

How empathetic are you??

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iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

You need to have emotional intelligence to form empathy. There are actually 3 types of empathy.

Emotional Empathy, Cognitive Empathy and Compassionate Empathy.

When you have Emotional empathy you build connections with others.

Cognitive empathy gives us the ability to understand how a person is feeling and how they may be thinking.

Compassionate empathy which is also known as Empathetic concern goes beyond connecting with someone. It actually moves us to take action to help however we can.

I have had to really learn boundaries with people because I feel what they are feeling. I take that on and it affects me physically and emotionally.

I want to help them with whatever I can do but I realize I can’t always be that person as much as I want to be.

Soossie

@iamonfire696

Empathy and emotional intelligence are two concepts that are closely related and often used interchangeably. However, they are not the same thing. While emotional intelligence refers to the ability to identify, understand, and manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others, empathy specifically refers to the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. Let's take a closer look at these concepts and their relationship to each other.

Thank you … I learnt from you and also Brava for learning boundaries which is the important line between being emotionally empathetic and emotionally intelligent … 🤗🤗🌹❤️

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@Soossie I completely agree with you. I learned emotional intelligence while setting boundaries for myself in regards to empathy.

I was struggling when I was taking on the feelings of those around me. Emotional intelligence has helped me to manage those emotions to they don’t affect me so physically and emotionally.

Thank you for this post. It’s really important to talk about 🩷💜💖.