Ask Lewis: Tips On Manifestation Through Empathy
A personal growth journey
Much of the work I teach in the Mystic Academy is designed to strengthen a student’s ability to master boundaries in lucid dreams and on the Astral Plain. It is also designed to give them greater skills at Manifestation — The ability to embrace, act, or have some person, place, or thing, appear in your worldly or altered state of consciousness, and sensory awareness, and have this person, place, or thing, appear in a specific way, of your choosing
When intelligently exploring the concept of Manifestation you must become familiar with several related concepts.
If you are effectively able to influence the receiver at each stage, of your or their development you are building a foundation of influence as well as a bridge to the next stage.
Keep in mind that when you first attempt to influence the receiver, he or she may already be in a higher state of consciousness. You must be skilled enough to determine this before you engage the receiver in the influence process.
Empathy and Influence
One of the greatest tools for sustaining and maintaining influence over an extended period is empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being (a human or non-human animal) is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.
People with strong, even constant empathetic qualities refer to themselves as Empaths.
On one level Empaths are truly gifted because they are sensitive to all the people, places, and things around them.
On the other hand, they need to develop both hard and soft skills to deflect and control how they respond to these people, places, and things.
Many definitions for empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Three distinct though related types of empathy seem to exist:
1. cognitive empathy
2. affective empathy
3. somatic empathy.
In the development of human empathy, individual differences appear, ranging from no apparent empathic ability, or empathy that is harmful to self or others, to well-balanced empathy, including the ability to distinguish between self and other. Various theories and aspects of empathy have been researched, including empathy within nonhuman animals.
Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad range of emotional states, including caring for other people and having the desire to help them; experiencing emotions that match another person’s emotions; discerning what another person is thinking or feeling and making less distinct the differences between the self and the other
It also is the ability to feel and share another person’s emotions. Some believe that empathy involves the ability to match another’s emotions, while others believe that empathy involves being tenderhearted toward another person.
Compassion and sympathy are words that many associate with empathy, but all three of these words are distinct from each other. Compassion is an emotion we feel when others are in need, which motivates us to help them. Sympathy is a feeling of care and understanding for someone in need. It can also be understood as having the separateness of defining oneself and another blur.
In the field of positive psychology, empathy has also been compared with altruism, reciprocal altruism, and egotism. Altruism is behavior that is aimed at benefitting another person without any benefit to be gained in return, reciprocal altruism is a behavior where we act in a manner that temporarily reduces our fitness while increasing another’s fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act similarly at a later time. while egotism is a behavior that is acted out for personal gain. Sometimes, when someone is feeling empathetic towards another, acts of altruism may occur for an unlimited amount of time until the altruistic person no longer has the resources needed to continue that behavior. However, many question whether or not these acts of altruism are motivated by egotistical gains. According to positive psychologists, people can be adequately moved by their empathies to be altruistic.
The Takeaway
Since empathy involves understanding the emotional states of other people, the way it is characterized is derivative of the way emotions themselves are characterized. If, for example, emotions are taken to be centrally characterized by bodily feelings, then grasping the bodily feelings of another will be central to empathy. On the other hand, if emotions are more centrally characterized by a combination of beliefs and desires, then grasping these beliefs and desires will be more essential to empathy. The ability to imagine oneself as another person is a sophisticated imaginative process. However, the basic capacity to recognize emotions is probably innate and may be achieved unconsciously. Yet it can be trained and achieved with various degrees of intensity or accuracy.
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