Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence

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EQ Hierarchy Level Two—Empathy

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Native American Proverb

Empathy, like self-management, is also dependent on self-awareness. If you aren’t able to accurately tune in to your own emotions, you are unlikely to be able to understand and empathize with the emotions of others. Empathy can be broken down further into four sub-capacities, starting with the following:

Compassion—Genuinely Caring

Empathy starts with actually caring about others, about what they feel, what they think, what they want, and about the circumstances they are facing. Actual compassion is more important than any skill.

Human beings are members of a whole,

In creation of one essence and soul.

If one member is afflicted with pain, ...