8. Vedic Psychology - Empathy & Mother Attunement

Join Psychologist Dr. Joshika Richmond in her discussion of cognitive and affective empathy and how compassionate empathy helps us in our lives. Discover common barriers to being empathetic and how to improve empathy in the following ways:

1. Put aside your viewpoints
2. Imagine how it is like to be the other
3. Listen intently and catch feelings
4. Be curious
5. Try not to fix

Finally, you can start testing you cognitive empathy in a guessing game. To be continued in an upcoming class!

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[patriciabateson]

Loved seeing all the examples of the different kinds of empathy. Very helpful