empathy and the contented acceptance of mystery.

[Native spirit]

I can only answer this as I see it.

I am an Empath, I also read people which gives me a good insight to how they tick.
As an Empath I can tell how a person is feeling before they do.
As I am not only a medium I am also a counsellor.
so I would see it differently as you or anybody else would.


Namaste

[AngelBlue]

Hi weareunity, and like Native, I am also an Empath and so my response may be determined by that fact .
I personally don't know whether there ever is a contented acceptance of mystery because there will always be mystery in one form or another.
As for whether there is a relationship between empathy and acceptance of mystery I would have to say no.
The only exception maybe would be someone that needs to solve the mystery of the way they feel like they do if they are empathic and they they don't really know why they feel like they do.

An Empath, or someone that feels a great "empathy" would never physically be able to overwhelm the ability to "feel".
In fact the opposite is true.
The ability to "feel " is very overwhelming, if that makes sense.
And no amount of knowing will ever change that.

Every question has an answer.
But as to whether we understand the answer can indeed be pondered on.

Personally I ponder more on the question than the answer !

[Native spirit]

I would have to agree with that



Namaste

[weareunity]

Hello all.

Is "empathy" a form of interconnection?

Cheers. X.

[FallingLeaves]

i suppose if I stand in a cold place and you stand in a warm place, we can talk all we want about the relative merits of the places we stand. However, the only thing that will make such a discussion make sense is if I have at sometime stood in a warm place and you have sometime stood in a cold place.

To me, words don't mean anything at all without some sort of shared experience.

[FallingLeaves]

BTW it is the people who stand in the coldest places who are loneliest... because they've stood in warm places often enough to know how bad it is and meanwhile everyone else avoids cold like the plague. So there is a sort of one-way relay of information, from the side where everyone has been to the side few will go. And often, people on the side where few will go - people are maligning them and everything they say or do.

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by weareunity

Hello all.

Is "empathy" a form of interconnection?

Cheers. X.

There is a difference between ‘feeling empathy’ and bejng an empath

The one key difference is external social cues


Empaths tune into another living creature’s experience intuitively.. not just human. All living things.

Empathy builds connection and understanding of another’s experience, so it’s a building tool to deeper connection both within and with other life.

[weareunity]

Hello all.

As we join in considering "empathy" I feel prompted to attempt to convey the feeling that the phenomenon we call "empathy" is not a separate distinct ability-- but a natural consequence of being consciously in the orchestra of the whole as performers,--not as observing and listening audience.

---- with this connection, this bonding, this inclusion, this immersion, this willing acceptance, being in some mysterious manner part of the great mysteries which we call love and loving.

Cheers. X.

[AngelBlue]

Not everyone feels "empathy" towards other, and that is very sad really.
As for the "orchestra of life" , would you prefer to be the main performer on the violin/ piano, or would you prefer to be the person at the back that pings the triangle once or twice during a performance / lifetime ???????

I know what my answer is !

[weareunity]

Hello AngelBlue.

With regard to your reference to " the orchestra of life" ---I agree with you ---the desire to live our lives according to our personal preferences has been and remains a fundamental factor in what we do and how we do it. Obviously not always possible to satisfy such desires for a variety of reasons in the here and now, there being all manner of obstacles to such instant gratification.

Now and again reasons become evident which are not so much to do with the here and now but are reasons relating to the future consequences of putting into practice our preferences--consequences to ourselves---and all else.

In such circumstances our personal preferences seem imo best served by the considered collective cooperation as members of the "orchestra of the whole" which was the description I attempted previously--- a description not intended to refer to musical ability as such but as loose imagery of the sort of considered collective cooperation required in the circumstances we now face and have ourselves created imo.

Cheers. X.