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My I – open and centered
How your empathy becomes a sturdy bridge.
Your capacity for empathy, especially in contact with others, is a great strength. It belongs to you and gives your life meaning and abundance. But it can also lead to excessive compassion, to boundary problems and exhaustion.
You meet many people. Through your conscious or unconscious interests, you can experience what is happening in the other and how he or she experiences the world. You can feel that as if you were merging into people or things.
Through your empathy, the experience of the other can mix with your personal feelings. This easily leads to interpreting your own condition in the other’s. But it may also be that you pick up something from the other that you cannot digest.
- Do you notice what you have taken in and brought over from the other?
- Can you distinguish it from your own and keep it away from you? Or are you devoured by the impressions?
To get along in a better way with these questions, we propose three exercises. We believe that this process can help you to build an inner balance. So in future situations you can feel interest, attention, and empathy for the other person and still remain centered in yourself.
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