Understanding Emotional Empathy
What is Emotional Empathy and who has it? What is its role with regard to empaths, normal people and narcissists?
To ensure you understand what has happened to you in respect of your involvement with the narcissist AND to allow you to defend yourself against future ensnarement and hurt, this Assistance Package will provide you with a wealth of information which includes :-
Understanding Emotional Empathy and what it is
Understanding how Emotional Empathy operates with regard to empaths, normals and narcissists
What does Emotional Empathy do?
Why empaths and normal people can be hurtful and why?
How to recognise Emotional Empathy
The relationship between Emotional Empathy and Cognitive Empathy
Several detailed scenarios demonstrating for you in clear and understandable terms the interactions between empaths, normals and narcissists in respect of conflict and its resolution
Several detailed scenarios to help you understand the difference of response from those involved in conflict
Several detailed scenarios demonstrating the response of empaths, normals and narcissists so you understand how instinctive manipulations occur
Several detailed scenarios showing how Wounding and Challenge Fuel factor into the concept of Emotional Empathy and Cognitive Empathy
This Assistance Package is delivered by audio file and will enhance your understanding of a key component of human behaviour and most importantly of all it will ensure you recognise how a narcissist is behaving in the context of emotional empathy so you are able to defend yourself.
One thought on “Understanding Emotional Empathy”
Vent Your Spleen! (Please see the Rules in Formal Info)
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
‘I try to imagine being in someone else’s shoes but I just cannot do it. It makes me feel weak so I choose not to even try anymore.’
Browsing the 2015 threads I found this comment from HG where he responds to a question about ever feeling empathy. I thought it was interesting because when I feel empathy for someone it generally makes me feel weak, too.
My empathy kicks when I recognise that someone (or something, if a creature) is suffering in some way that they don’t deserve. I sometimes take the feelings associated with the suffering – fear, sadness, worry – inside, and feel them too. I don’t generally like to linger too long in an empathic state because it can be draining. Fortunately for me, I have an ‘action mode’ which often takes over, and when that occurs my soft feelings instantly disappear and instead fearlessness and determination send me into that situation to try to improve it.
Sometimes, though, I cannot go into active mode. I have to experience the empathy and suffer those feelings for an elongated period. This has happened in real life a few times but more often it happens in films where I am stuck watching a painful scene and cannot do anything to right it and must endure it. During these moments I have become so emotionally weakened I have been unable to exert control over myself and I have actually ended up in foetal position on the floor in a cinema (yes, FP HG). I wasn’t a child either in this situation – I was a teenager. It is my most extreme reaction but I can list several others I’ve experienced that would still be considered very unusual and they were all brought on by extended exposure to suffering.
I didn’t mean to tell too much of a story, but I wanted to make the point that I think empathy does weaken us, even if only temporarily. And if HG felt weak when he tried to empathise with someone else, then he was doing it right. I don’t know how old he was when he attempted to feel empathy, but the weakness he felt suggests it’s not the case that he is unable to feel it or that he’s never had that potential. I accept that empathy is not bubbling up inside him (heaven forbid) and that he would prefer not to investigate his empathic limits whatever they are. I can appreciate such weak feelings would ultimately be disadvantageous for him and make him less effective. Plus, the cognitive empathy he does readily experience does a good enough job for its purposes.
But I guess it means that HG’s heart has to be at least a few kelvins above absolute zero. Nice!