WHAT IS EMPATHY?

CAROLYN

Empathy is an ability that helps us understand the feelings of others, also facilitating the
understanding of the reasons for their behavior, and thus preventing major conflicts. However,
many people have excessively low levels (in pathological cases they can be non-existent) of this
ability.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF EMPATHY? ALEJANDRA

The benefits of being an empath are many and very good. Among the main ones are: it helps to
feel better about yourself, it helps in solving problems, it develops social skills, it helps to have
respect for other people, it raises our own self-esteem, it makes us respectable, it helps to be fair,
helps not to judge others, encourages emotional development, contributes to emotional
intelligence, etc.

EMPATHY IS CLASSIFIED INTO TWO CAROLYN

Affective empathy: Affective empathy is the ability to feel what the other person is feeling

Cognitive empathy: Cognitive empathy is making an effort to understand the problem or situation
from the other's point of view.

IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY IN SOCIETY ALEJANDRA

It is important that empathy becomes a common and normal attitude among us because the well-
being of a community will depend on that. This is because being in solidarity, listening to others,
accompanying them in their suffering or helping them is what makes us human and enriches us as
human beings.

HOW TO BE AN EMPATHETIC PERSON? CAROLYN

 Train active listening

 Shows interest in emotions related to events
 Practice empathy with yourself
 Get out of your shoes several times a day to put on others'