Religious teachings provide us with both and have them built into their teachings and that is why both religions, Muslim and Christianity are hated and why their members are targeted for mass extermination as these khazars did to Christians in 1917 when they murdered Christians in the millions and sent the church underground until the mid 1980's.
They would have done the same to the "REAL SEMITIC JEWS OF THE BIBLE, but they needed them as cover for their mass deception for running, owning and controlling Israel. So instead, the leaders of Israel had the new khazar immigrants that migrated to Israel from Russia, beat them and take their property, which resulted in the real semitic Jews seeking asylum in both London and New York.
In 1991, just before leaving office, the khazar, George Bush Sr, signed the khazar drafted and adopted "NOAHIDE LAWS" that makes Christianity illegal and decapitation the punishment for confessing to being a Christian. Now tell me this isn't brutal and psychopathic????
A Page on Compassion & Empathy
http://thegardenofresistance.com/nvc/
By Admin, The Garden of Resistance,
Creating understanding and empathy for ourselves and each other is a vital part of our collective success on this journey together as a human family.
I think the people in this video have some very helpful insights that can possibly encourage and support us while we are on this roller coaster called life
What is nvc? nvc stands for non-violent communication.
http://youtu.be/NEIekhyzd78
Here is a thorough explanation of nvc by a close friend: “With non-violent communication, which is a communication style created by Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960’s, (and it’s been improving and honing ever since), we start from the premise that everybody is just trying to get their needs met… That no matter what they are saying, how they are saying it, the tone of voice they’re saying it in, what they’re doing, whether it’s frightening to us, appalling to us, they’re still just like us; a human being who’s trying to get their need met, and they’re doing it in the only way they know how at the time…
And so from that perspective, we believe that if we can really listen to one anothers needs rather than give advice, or reassure people, or try to calm them down, that if we actually just listen to what it is that they’re trying to get met by what they’re doing, or what they’re saying, then we’re much more likely to actually make a connection, a genuine connection with this person and they are much more likely to be able to hear us as well because to be heard is one of our greatest needs and its one that we get met probably the least often.
It’s just miraculous that when you just start listening to what it is people are needing, without correcting them, or giving them advice about how to do things differently, how they will just calm down and engage…
And so we try to listen in a certain way… It’s a certain quality of listening which we call empathy and this is based on Carl Rogers definition of empathy back in the ‘50’s. He’s the man who brought the concept of empathy into the American Psychological literature… It’s to be fully present to the other person.
Not telling them what’s going on with us at the moment not , like I say, trying to calm them down or giving them advice or telling stories about ourselves, but just being fully present, listening to them, and offering feedback about what we’re hearing them say. Often I use their very words to offer them feedback so that they don’t have to process my words and decide if what I’m asking them is actually true for them, I just feedback empathically from a place of compassion.
There’s a four step process, and the idea of the four steps is to keep us in that place where we are in compassion and where we are feeding back empathically and what it is, is we start out by just making an observation, rather than what we usually do which is evaluate someone’s behavior, ‘You’re too this,’ or ‘You’re being selfish’, instead we just make an observation. ‘When I heard you say what you just said…’
And then we go to the next step, which is, we connect with what it is we’re feeling… Or what it is they’re feeling. ‘I’m wondering if you’re feeling frightened,’ or ‘It sounds like you’re feeling frightened.’ And then the third step is we go to the underlying need, because according to non-violent communication, our feelings stem from our needs. When our needs are being met, we feel happy, content, excited. When our needs are not being met we often feel angry, confused, frustrated.
So ok… ‘I’m feeling scared because I’m needing some safety.’ And then the fourth step is that we make a request of the other person to help us meet our need or from the other side, we ask the other person what it is they want from us that might help them meet their need. Marshall also suggested the same four steps for anger. He says that the minute you start feeling upset, like something’s going on that you’re not feeling happy about, stop.
And just make an observation to yourself: (1st Step) ‘When that person just used that tone of voice or spoke really loudly like that… (2nd Step): ‘I felt…concern. (3rd Step): ‘My need is to be able heard by this person; I’m worried that as upset as they seem to be they won’t hear me.’ And so, you do the first three steps and already more than likely you have transformed that anger from just immediate reaction to the other person, where you might label or evaluate or try to calm them down to a place where you are now in touch with what matters to you.
And so when you go to the fourth step which is to make a request, you’re in a much better place to make that request of the other person from a compassionate place. This is because you’re no longer blaming them, you’re no longer probably as stimulated by what’s going on with them, but you’re in touch with what it is about you, what it is that you need, why you’re here, why you’re motivated to stay in communication with this person and you’re just coming from a completely different place.
So those are the three very basic things that I always like to share about non-violent communication so the idea of empathy, often sounds very easy and often turns out not to be very easy, especially if we are stimulated by what the other person is saying, so we do a lot of practicing of how to stay in empathy with people.” As spoken by Suzanne Jones, transcribed by Kristie Elgersma
Compassionate Communication By Marshall Rosenberg
At
an early age, most of us were taught to speak and think “Jackal.” This
language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people
into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong.
Ultimately, it
provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. “Giraffe” bids us
to speak from the heart, to talk about what is going on for us-without
judging others. In this idiom, you give people an opportunity to say
yes, although you respect no for an answer. “Giraffe” is a language of
requests; “Jackal ” is a language of demands.
Human beings the world over say they want to contribute to the
well-being of others, to connect and communicate with others in loving,
compassionate ways. Why, then, is there so much disharmony and conflict?
Setting out to find answers, I discovered that the language
many of us were taught interferes with our desire to live in harmony
with one another. At an early age, most of us were taught to speak and
think Jackal. This is a moralistic classification idiom that labels
people; it has a splendid vocabulary for analyzing and criticizing.
Jackal is good for telling people what’s wrong with them: “Obviously,
you’re emotionally disturbed (rude, lazy, selfish).”
The jackal moves close to the ground. It is so preoccupied with
getting its immediate needs met that it cannot see into the future.
Similarly Jackal-thinking individuals believe that in quickly
classifying or analyzing people, they understand them. Unhappy about
what’s going on, a Jackal will label the people involved, saying, “He’s
an idiot” or “She’s bad” or “They’re culturally deprived.”
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally
classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong.
Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack.
I also came upon a language of the heart, a form of interacting
that promotes the well-being of ourselves and other people. I call this
means of communicating Giraffe. The Giraffe has the largest heart of
any land animal, is tall enough to look into the future, and lives its
life with gentility and strength. Likewise, Giraffe bids us to speak
from the heart, to talk about what is going on for us-without judging
others. In this idiom, you give people an opportunity to say yes,
although you respect no for an answer. Giraffe is a language of
requests; Jackal is a language of demands.
By the time I identified these two languages, I had thoroughly
learned Jackal. So I set out to teach myself Giraffe. What would I say, I
wondered, if someone were doing something I found unpleasant and I
wanted to influence him to change his behavior? Giraffes, I realized,
are aware that they cannot change others.
They are not even interested I
changing people; rather, they are interested in providing opportunities
for them to be willing to change. One way of providing such an
opportunity, I decided, would be to approach the other person with a
message such as: “Please do this, but only if you can do it willingly-in
a total absence of fear, guilt, or shame. If you are motivated by fear,
guilt, or shame, I lose.”
As Giraffes, we make requests in terms of what we want people
to do, not what we want them to feel. All the while, we steer clear of
mandates. Nothing creates more resistance than telling people they
“should” or “have to” or “must” or “ought to” do something. These terms
eliminate choice. Without the freedom to choose, life becomes
slave-like. “I had to do it-superior’s orders” is the response of people
robbed of their free will. Prompted by directives and injunctions,
people do not take responsibility for their actions.
As time passed, I learned much more about giraffe. For one
thing, they do not make requests in the past. They do not say, or even
think, “How nice it would have been if you had cleaned the living room
last night.” Instead, Giraffes state clearly what they want in the
present. And they take responsibility for their feelings, aware that
their feelings are caused by their wants.
If a mother is upset because
her son’s toys are strewn about the living room, she will identify her
feeling: anger. She will then get in touch with the underlying want that
is causing this feeling: her desire for a neat and orderly living room.
She will own the anger, saying, “I feel angry because I want the living
room to be clean and instead it’s a mess.” Finally, she will ask for a
different outcome: “I’d feel so much better if you’d just put these toys
away.”
Whereas Jackals say, “I feel angry because you…,” Giraffes will
say, “I feel angry because I want…” As Giraffes, we know that the cause
of our feelings is not another person, but rather our own thoughts,
wants, and wishes. We become angry because of the thoughts we are
having, not because of anything another person has done to us.
Jackal, on the other hand, view others as the source of their
anger. In fact, violence, whether verbal or physical, is the result of
assuming that our feelings are caused not by what is going on inside us
but rather by what is going on “out there.” In response, we say things
designed to hurt, punish, or blame the person whom we imagine has hurt
our feelings. Aware of this tendency, a Giraffe will conclude, “I’m
angry because my expectations have not been met.”
As Giraffes we take responsibility for our feelings. At the
same time, we attempt to give others an opportunity to act in a way that
will help us feel better. For example, a boy may want more respect from
his father. After getting in touch with his anger over the decisions
his father has been making for him, he might say: “Please ask me if I
want a haircut before making a barbershop appointment for me.”
Giraffes say what they do want, rather than what they don’t
want. “Stop that,” “Cut it out,” or “Quit that” do not inspire changed
behaviors. People can’t do a “don’t.”
Giraffes ultimately seek a connection in which each person
feels a sense of well-being and no one feels forced into action by
blame, guilt, or punishment. As such, Giraffe thinking creates harmony.
STATING A REQUEST CLEARLY
Stating a request in simple Giraffe is a four-part process rooted in honesty:Describe your observation.
Identify your feeling.
Explain the reason for your feeling in terms of your needs.
State your request. In describing the situation, do so without criticizing or judging. If you have come home from a busy day and your partner seems preoccupied with the newspaper, simply describe the situation: “When I walked in the door after an especially trying day, you seemed busy reading.” Identify your feelings: “I feel hurt.” State the reason for your feelings: “I feel hurt because I would like to feel close to you right now and instead I’m feeling disconnected from you.” Then state your request in do-able terms: “Are you willing to take time out for a hug and a few moments of sharing?” The same process applies if your teenager has been talking on the phone for hours and you are expecting a call. Describe the situation: “When you’ve got the phone tied up for so long, other calls can’t come through.” Express your feeling and the reason for it: “I’m feeling frustrated because I’ve been expecting to hear from someone.” Then state your request: “I’d like you to bring your conversation to a close if that’s all right.” In Jackal culture, feelings and wants are severely punished. People are expected to be docile, subservient to authority; slave-like in their reactions, and alienated from their feelings and needs. In a Giraffe culture, we learn to express our feelings, needs, and requests without passing judgment or attacking. We request, rather than demand. And we are aware of the fine line of distinction between these two types of statements. In Jackal, we expect other people to prove their love for us by doing what we want. As Giraffes, we may persist in trying to persuade others, but we are not influenced by guilt. We acknowledge that we have no control over the other person’s response. And we stay in Giraffe no matter what the other person says. If she or he seems upset or tense, we switch into listening, which allows us to hear the person’s feelings, needs and wishes without hearing any criticism or ourselves. Nor does a Giraffe simply say no; as Giraffes we state the need that prevents us from fulfilling the request. RESPONDING TO A “NO” Responding to a refusal is a four-part process rooted in empathy:
1. Describe the situation
2. Guess the other person’s feelings.
3. Guess the reason for that feeling, together with the unmet need;
then let the person verify whether you have correctly understood.
4. Clarify the unmet need. When people say no in a nasty way, what they invariably want is to protect their autonomy. They have heard a request as a demand and are saying, in effect, “I want to do it when I choose to do it, and not because I am forced to do it.” Sighing, sulking, or screaming can likewise reflect a desire to protect one’s freedom of choice, one’s need to act from a position of willingness. If people scream at us, we do not scream back. We listen beneath the words and hear what they are really saying-that they have a need and want to get their need met. If a mother has asked her daughter to please do her chores and she has refused, the Giraffe dance may go something like this:
Parent: Are you feeling annoyed right now because you want to do your chores at your own pace rather than being forced to do them?Child: Yeah, I’m sick and tired of being a slave. (Note the defensive mode, indicating a need to be listened to.)
Parent: So, you really want to do things when it feels good to do them, and you’re not just avoiding them altogether?Child: You order me around! (The child still needs to be listened to. The parent must keep guessing what the child is saying about feelings and wants.)
Parent: So, it’s frustrating when I seem to be ordering you around and you have no choice about when to do your chores.Child: I don’t want to do chores! They’re stupid. If you want them done, you do them.
Parent: You really hate doing chores and you would like me to do all of them?
If we have been Jackalish and demanding in the past, the people close to us may need a lot of empathy at first. So we listen and listen, reflecting back with guesses about what they are feeling and wanting, until they feel heard and shift out of being defensive. We don’t take anything personally, for we know that upset, attacking, defensive statements are tragic expressions of unmet needs. At some point, the person’s voice and body language will indicate that a shift has occurred. At a meeting I attended at a mosque in a refugee camp near Jerusalem, a man suddenly stood up and cried, “Murderer!” As a Giraffe, all I heard was “Please!”-that is, I heard the pain, the need that wasn’t being met. That is where I focused my attention. After about 40 minutes of speaking, he did what most of us do when we sense we have been accurately heard and listened to: he changed. The situation was immediately defused of all tension. In international disputes, as well as in relationship, business, classroom, and parent-child conflicts, we can learn to hear the human being behind the message, regardless of how the message is framed. We can learn to hear the other person’s unmet needs and requests. Ultimately, listening empathetically does not imply doing what the person wants; rather, it implies showing respectful acknowledgment of the individual’s inner world. As we do that, we move from the coercive language we have been taught to the language of the heart. Speaking from the heart is a gesture of love, giving other people an opportunity to contribute to our well-being and to exercise generosity. Empathetically receiving what is going on in others is a reciprocal gesture. Giraffes experience love as openness and sensitivity, with no demands, criticism, or requirements to fulfill requests at either end of the dispute. And the outcome of any dialogue ruled by love is harmony. In the end, Jackals are simply illiterate Giraffes. Once you’ve learned to hear the heart behind any message, you discover that there’s nothing to fear in anything another person says. With that discovery, you are well on your way to compassionate communication. This form of dialogue, although offering no guarantees of agreement between disputing parties, sets the stage for negotiation, compromise, and most importantly, mutual understanding and respect. Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the international nonprofit Center for Nonviolent Communication, has taught these empowering skills for over 30 years to the general public as well as to parents, diplomats, police, peace activists, educators, and managers. Based in Switzerland, Dr. Rosenberg travels worldwide in response to communities that request his peacemaking services and skills. He has provided mediation and training in over two dozen countries, including war-torn Rwanda, Croatia, Palestine, Sierra Leone, and Ireland. For more information:Child: Yeah.. no.. I don’t know. I just don’t feel like being bossed around. (The child is becoming vulnerable and starting to open up because she’s feeling heard without judgment.)
Center for Nonviolent Communication
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http.//www.cnvc.org This article is reprinted from Autumn 1995 (Number 11) edition of Miracles Magazine. As described here, Giraffe language is shorthand for Nonviolent Communication and is not related to the Washington-state based group that honors people who stick their necks out. Taken from http://www.nwcompass.org/compassionate_communication.html Center for Non-violent Communication Links
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Foundations of NVC
NVC Concepts
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