Marshall Rosenberg - Feelings Quotes

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NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

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The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

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What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

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Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

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Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

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Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

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In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

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