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Who is an empath?

The internal emotional state of any person is often reflected in the external manifestations of his behavior, even in cases when a person deliberately does not demonstrate his internal state to others. And others can react to this emotional state by showing understanding based on their own experience of experiencing similar emotional stress. The ability to appear to be in the role of another person and understand his feelings is called empathy.

An empathy is someone who knows how to mentally put himself in the place of another person, understand his state and motives that induce the manifestation of certain emotions (resentment, irritation, anger, anger, hatred, annoyance, fear, gloating joy, joy, delight, contentment, embarrassment and the like).

Typically, empaths are people with extensive life experiences and deep knowledge of human passions. And at the same time, they are people of high professionalism in certain areas of activity, where it is necessary not only to contact other people, but to be able to give professional advice based on what he saw (gestures, facial expressions, actions) or heard (the meaning of words and the subtext that may lie behind the spoken words). These skills are necessary for doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, consultants on any issues, lawyers, household assistants. In professional activity, empathy is necessary for the correct assessment of events and making decisions adequate to the situation.

But outside of professional activity, many people are inherent in the qualities of an empath. Even if they do not empathize with you or rejoice with you on any occasion, such people may be well aware of your current emotional feelings.

The essence of empathy lies in the observation and analysis of the actions and experiences of other people, in drawing analogies with their emotions and actions, in the intuitive understanding of the internal states of another person.

When you say that you were treated with understanding, you are faced with an empath - a person who can relate your worries and problems to his life experience. If you heard: “I understood you without words,” it means that you are facing an empath who does not need to explain in detail his condition or problems, he has already compared your condition with his own knowledge and experience, and made the appropriate conclusions. As a rule, empaths draw such conclusions in favor of those who are analyzed and evaluated. But the saying: “I see right through you” suggests that you are next to an empath who has understood everything about you.

Empathy at the everyday level helps people communicate with each other. So, trying to make someone pleasant, you first correlate future pleasantness with your personal feelings, then with observations of the emotions of another person in various situations, and on this basis you make a decision about whether this or that thing will be pleasant to him. Trying to empathize (a special case of empathy), you remember yourself in a similar situation, remember your feelings and you will be able to understand how the other person is feeling.

Empathy is a useful quality. It allows you to perfectly adapt to the desires of another person, find mutual understanding, avoid verbal clarification of relationships, intuitively feel hostility or disposition of another person and build your behavior according to this knowledge.

We cannot read the thoughts of other people, we cannot fully assess the motives of their actions, but even on the basis of our own observations of life, the ability to analyze and reason logically, to project (impose) someone else's inner state on our own, we can understand the essence of another person. Only people who are indifferent to their own kind, who do not want to delve into someone else's essence, who have a superficial knowledge of the emotional sphere of a person's life, who are not interested in anyone's life except their own, do not have empathy.