Dalai Lama says that empathy is the most precious human quality. Given all the suffering that defines human existence, empathy truly is a gift, a precious human gift. To find people with the capacity to empathize with our sufferings, pains, and even amplify our joys as they likewise feel our happy emotions when we’re happy, makes life truly worthwhile.

There can be little doubt that we need more people with empathy these days.

Empathy is a skill that most people can learn. Like most life skills, it is more easily acquired during the early stages of life.

Like any other trait or skill, people’s empathy levels also differ. Most people possess varying levels of empathy, depending on their current emotional state. Others have just enough to be able to relate to others in their day-to-day existence, while some possess so much that it affects their life, often making them feel too much. The latter is often the case of an empath. Continue reading →

Opposites attract. For many people, this is common among relationships. People with very different personalities, characters, and even goals who end up living ‘happily ever after’ is truly something not strange or unheard of. However, not all such relationships are harmonious or fair and equal.

Narcissists and empaths are among the types of couples or partners that can seem to have an almost automatic attraction for one another. They may be opposites, but they certainly share a common attraction. But if we look even closer, it is the narcissist in the relationship that often incites the luring.

Simply, it is because they are or will be the main beneficiary of the relationship. It is said that every relationship requires some give and take. Well, in this pairing, the empath does the giving, and the narcissist does the taking. Narcissists are attracted to empaths, perceiving them as someone they can easily dominate. Continue reading →