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ABIR   SIDHU
VI-C
Empathy is the ability to share and understand feelings and emotions of another person.
I am writing this blog on empathy to share my experience with two boys. I was going  to home in car with my father and younger brother.At hero bakery lights,I saw two poor boys begging everyone for food,but no one cared. I noticed and felt very empathetic for the boys.we took them to a nearby restaurant and ordered for food of their choice. The smile on their faces made me feel so good that I decided to do something regularly for underprivileged children like them.I thank god that I am in a position to do my bit for others.

Empathy is one of the most required life skill. We need to take care of other people's needs,desires and feelings.Having empathy for someone also make us feel what other people are facing in their lives.Empathy is needed in our lives as it help us to connect with people emotionally and help them.Thus it is an important life skill to learn.

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fact, that the person can support another

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What is the empathy?
DEV BASSI
VI-A

The empathy is shown in the fact, that the person can support another person in the moral way. The person has the ability to feel what the other people feel in some situations, what they need and how it is possible to help them to overcome the difficulties in the life.

It seems, that the empathy and the kindness are the same things. The kindness is like the magic key, that can open the heart even the angry person.

It is said, that you should not lose the opportunity to do something kind for your friends or relatives, or even for the strangers, if you have this possibility. You can even smile, and you will make the day of some people better that it was before.

But if you check the empathy from the other side, it seems, that it is not the feeling. There are some emotions in the feeling, but you cannot find it in the empathy. The empathy means, that you can help and support other people without any rewards or words. You should not wait, that this person should do something for you in the future. You help people to realize, that these problems can happen with anyone. But if the person cannot show the empathy and support other people, it seems, that it is impossible to say, that this person is kind.

Can it help or not?

But it is important to understand, that not in all situations there is the need in the empathy and in the kindness . It can be even dangerous for your personal life. If, for example, the person has some serious problems, for example, the death of the member of the family, and it is impossible for him/her to overcome it without the support of other people, it is needed to help this person and to do all possible to support her/him. If the person wants to contact with you, you need to help even saying a few kind words. You can be sure, that it will be the great help from your side.

But if the person creates a lot of problems for himself/herself and your help can just be the danger for you, in this situation, it is needed to refuse from the empathy, because these people can understand what they have done only if they see the consequences of their actions. You should remember, that the empathy can as help you as break your life.

Also, it is needed to check the situation, when different people can understand the meaning of the empathy in the different way. For example, if you see the person, that drinks the alcohol or is taking drugs, what will you think about it? Some people can think, that they have lost everything in their life and they need to support these people and give them money, for example, but they do not understand that the money, which they give, will be spent on the new portion of the drugs or alcohol. You should understand, that these people have chosen this kind of life and they do not want to change it in the better way.

Such examples can be also in the families, where the husband leads the amoral style of the life. Instead of protecting their children, the wife has different thoughts, like: “How he will live without me?” and continue to live with her husband. You can see, that the amoral style of the life gets the support and because of it, the husband does not want to change something in his life. From the other side, if they divorce, the life of that woman can be much more better that it is now. But the most important fact, that the children should hear everyday quarrels and they have a lot of stress because of it. As you can see, this example shows, that the empathy is not good in every situation.

But today the empathy has changed a lot from which it was in the past. We can see the empathy only in some special situations, for example, when people have a lot of problems and difficulties, but it is difficult to find the empathy in the everyday life.

Now you understand the difference between the empathy and the kindness and it is possible to check the types of the empathy.

2 types of the empathy

There are 2 types of the empathy: oral and written. You can see the written empathy at the funeral, for example. This type of the empathy should come from your heart, because if it is false, all people will understand it and it will create the anger and the conflict. You should not be shy to show your real emotions and you should always find some warm words to support people.

If you do not know what to say, you can always say, that this person can ask you about help any time and you will be glad to help.

The reasons why you need to show the empathy

1. The attitude to someone’s problems, difficulties.

2. The feeling, which was created by someone’s disaster.

3. The positive attitude to some people.

To sum up, you need to understand, that it does not matter where you live and how much money you have, you need always to be the human. The possibility to show the empathy and to have the opportunity to support the people in the hard time is the main feature of every person and it is valued a lot. We cannot know exactly the time, when we will need these words from other people, because of it if we can help someone, we just need to do it. by dev bassi VI a

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KARTIK KHARBANDA
VI-B
Empathy is a term that often used in a psychological sense.
empathy is the ability to share someone else's feeling or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation.
Sympathy is when you share the feeling of another, where as Empathy is when you understand the feeling of another but not necessarily share them.
The sentiment behind empathy is often presented in the familiar idiom to put (oneself)in another's shoes. Empathy can not only be felt for a person but also for other living creatures.

I experienced empathy few months back. A stray dog lived near my home. She gave birth to a very cute puppy. I named him Snoofy because he was very cute like all puppies. I loved to play with him every evening. Snoofy and I developed a good connection with each other. One day he got sick because it was very cold outside. I thought he would recover and would be okay by the next morning because I have read in articles that stray dogs have good immunity but when I saw him next morning, his condition was worse. He got very weak, he couldn't walk and have food. I decided to get an appointment to vet near my home and took him to doctor. Doctor gave him some injections and advised me to take care of snowy for atleast two days and keep him indoors because of cold weather outside. Also he was very kind enough as he didn't charge fee for stray dogs. I took him home and took care of him. I felt empathetic for a stray puppy who wouldn't have survived if not taken care. I also observed that most of the veterans don't charge fees for stray dogs. So why can't we humans take care of stray dogs. Stray dogs have really good immunity but sometimes they too need care and treatment just like all living beings when not well. Snowy got well in 2-3 days. My family appreciated me for my effort and I felt very good. Snowy is all grown up into a dog, healthy and happy and I am happy for him that he survived. Also I am very thankful to my family who supported me in all my decisions.

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The word empathy translated by Edward B. Titchener was originally derived from the Ancient Greek word ‘empatheia’ which means physical affection or passion. According to the Oxford Dictionary, empathy refers to ‘the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc.’ Empathy is a skill which most of the parents and teachers try to imbibe in children from a very early age, so that they become responsible citizens of the society.

As I am growing up, I have experienced many instances where I felt empathy towards my friends, family members, strangers and animals too. But one of the most important instances which I still can’t get over was when I paid a visit to temple with my grandmother two weeks ago. As I was paying my respect to God and coming out with prasad in both my hands, I noticed something. There was this girl who would be about two or three years younger to me, cleaning around the temple for the devotees to come. For a moment, I could not help but notice. It was my grandmother who made me realise that how that child would be experiencing same emotions as me. I wondered how difficult life would be for that child and if anyone offered her something? This was when I stepped ahead and offered my prasad to her. She extended both her hands with a big smile. I don’t think anything made me happier. The feeling that a little effort from my side could make up someone’s day.

Hence, I realised that if everyone empathised with everyone, understanding the situation and circumstances; the world would become a happy place to live in.

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Hansika Mittal
VI C

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states.

Hy so today i empathesy myself at my home made's place. She works at hour home for almost more than 6 hours. She works flawlessly without any hesitation only for her family as she is the only one to make money at home. She do it only so that her family don't sleep hungry that night she is so kind and good that she do work that is given to her without arguing and all. So i tried to be at her place this was not an easy job:

Getting up so early that too in hot summer days is also a big challenge.well but i accepted it for 1 day.

Coming at house by walking around 2 km and then working again at house

Doing all those house holds work were not easy and they tired me as hell

At the end I would like to thank her for doing all work of our and managing it, without her the routine would not have been the same.

THANKS FOR READING MY BLOG

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Ibrat Grewal
6th-c
EMPATHY
Hi friends,I Ibrat from class 6th-C ,today  i am going to talk about empathy...what is Empathy?... Empathy is defined as to understand somebody's feelings and thoughts who  are in stress... Empathy is to understand others and help others...there is one example of this,one morning my mother was cooking  in the kitchen and my  father was getting ready for his work..They both were in hurry.
Next day my school reopens,I woke up early and saw my mother preparing pasta for me and for my brother...when I stood with her in kitchen for just 5 minutes, i started feeling the heat and I ran back to my AC room.But I started thinking that we sometimes get angry on our mother and shout at her and hardly help her in her daily work. Despite that  she does everything for us..I felt empathatic for her.. I felt she does so much  for us but we never thanked her ..Now I understand  what all she does for us, never ever complains ...Her love and feeling for us is priceless...Now I use to help her in her daily routine ,love her so much ,listen to her and never complain about anything.. I think this is the true meaning of Empathy to understand feelings and emotions of others.......
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Let me ask u a question ?what is empathy
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person experiencing from within their frame of refrence,that is,the capacity to place oneself in another's position.definition of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states.
The action of understanding ,being aware of ,being sensitive and vicariously experiencing the feelings ,thoughts and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings ,thoughts and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
There is an incident that remind me  a work of empathy...one day  we were going for dinner. I saw a old lady crossing d road but she was not able to do it as the traffic was very heavy...so I asked my mother how can i help her...then she suggested me to help her to cross the road...i went to her and hold her hands and helped her to cross the road by stopping the cars..she gave me blessings and love which made me feel satisfied.
We should do such type of things to spread happiness in the world..
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Srishti Modi
VI C

Empathy is about sharing an emotion or feeling the way they feel even if we are not in the same situation.
It is all about saying “I think I understand how this feels to you and you are not alone.”

We should always treat other people exactly as we had liked to be treated for this we need to take the perspective of the other person put aside our judgment and conclusions and finally need to communicate that we understand. The message of empathy to the other person makes them feel understood and supported and make them stay motivated.

So this makes me remind one of my incident that one day when I was going to the park for playing I saw a dog instead of running and playing he was just lying very tired sitting in a corner then I realised that he may be thirsty as it was a very hot day so I get him water and he drank it hurriedly and he thanked me by his loving gesture and he accompanied me to my home when I left the park.

This incident makes me understand that empathy doesn’t only belong to humans but to every living creature on this earth.

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DEVYANI SEHGAL 6-D      Let me ask you a question -What is Empathy?    Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others . It is a construct of multiple components ,each of which is associated with its own brain network.         "Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."                                                         Barack Obama             People are engrossed these days to care about their careers and hobbies. There is no time left to be aware of other's trouble, to be sensitive to other's unhappy feelings, and to actually help other's to solve their problems.Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into bubbles of other people. EMPATHASISE WITH THE FRUSTRATED DAD         Have you ever noticed that your dad is frustrated while he is tidying up your toys? One day I had a fun and frolic time playing with my toys and did not mind them laying on the floor . But I thought about it from my dad's perspective and realized that he does not like how it feels to have a messy space and he feels frustrated at having the extra work of tidying it up. When I look at the situation from my dad's side of the story (from his perspective) and understand how he might be feeling...that's empathy.   I WOULD LIKE TO END BY SAYING-      

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DEVYANI SEHGAL 6-D      Let me ask you a question -What is Empathy?    Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others . It is a construct of multiple components ,each of which is associated with its own brain network.         "Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."                                                         Barack Obama             People are engrossed these days to care about their careers and hobbies. There is no time left to be aware of other's trouble, to be sensitive to other's unhappy feelings, and to actually help other's to solve their problems.Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into bubbles of other people. EMPATHASISE WITH THE FRUSTRATED DAD         Have you ever noticed that your dad is frustrated while he is tidying up your toys? One day I had a fun and frolic time playing with my toys and did not mind them laying on the floor . But I thought about it from my dad's perspective and realized that he does not like how it feels to have a messy space and he feels frustrated at having the extra work of tidying it up. When I look at the situation from my dad's side of the story (from his perspective) and understand how he might be feeling...that's empathy.   I WOULD LIKE TO END BY SAYING-      

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"YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD".

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Empathy is a value which seems to be missing nowadays. Empathy means to understand the situation of others and to appreciate the work done by them. Empathy makes us humble. When I wanted to take this project, I discussed with my father. He asked me that whose life I feel is most comfortable. I immediately said my mother's life is most comfortable life as she doesn't have to do any work and she sits idle whole day. So, on my father's advice, I took on responsibilities of my mother for one day. I was very happy as I thought I can do whatever I want it. I will tell others to do all the work and sit idle. However, my day was not that easy. I had to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, open the door for domestic helps  to come in. After that, I had to tell them what was to be made for breakfast and lunch and dinner. This was not as easy as it seems because everyone in my family eats different type of food. So, I had to ask everyone what they would like to eat. I had to ask everyone so many time because no one was giving me answer and our cook was again and again asking me what is to be cooked. After I had my breakfast I had to ensure that everyone has their breakfast on time so that our domestic help can clean up and eat their own breakfast. At the same time I had to ensure that my father's lunch was packed as he had to leave for factory. Once this was over, my next job was to ensure that cleaning is being done in the house. After that there was one work after another and I literally did not have any time to rest, let alone play. By evening I was so tired that I gave up and requested my mother to take responsibilities back.  Now, I understand that her job is not easy at all. I learnt lesson that everyone has to work hard and life is not easy for anyone.  Now I respect her more. I will not belittle her work anymore. This project was a big learning for me  and I thank my teachers for giving this project.

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Empathy within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.  Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing. Having empathy can include having the understanding that there are many factors that go into decision making and cognitive thought processes. Past experiences have an influence on the decision making of today. Understanding this allows a person to have empathy for individuals who sometimes make illogical decisions to a problem that most 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 individuals would respond with an obvious response. If, for example, emotions are taken to be centrally characterized by bodily feelings, then grasping the bodily feelings 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.

connections in the brain which a person uses to make decisions in the future.

Empathy is a word that means that someone is able to share or understand the emotions and feelings of another person. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they are able to feel compassion.

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FALIT SIKRI VI -A          Empathy is the abillity to understand and share the feelings of others. Empathy is IMPORTANT as it helps us understand what others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation.Empathy is, among other things, believed to improve our personal relationships, motivate charitable giving and encourage pro-social behaviours. Recently, I tried to place myself in the life of our car driver “Babu Ram” uncle who all day long drive our cars only for money to support his family and he has been following this routine for around 30 years now, and I woudn’t do this for even one single day ! When I imagined myself waking up early in the morning and cleaning the cars so that we can go to our destination with a clean and nice car, then driving all day long from here to there for just dropping and picking us. I truly appriciate his work as without him our family routine would have never worked properly.I feel so empathetic for him for working for us this long. Like in Mahabharata Krishna Ji was charioteer for Arjuna and similarly Babu Ram uncle is my charioteer as he tells me awesome moral stories on the way, so for me he is my Krishna Ji.THANK YOU FOR READING MY BLOG  

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FALIT SIKRI VI -A          Empathy is the abillity to understand and share the feelings of others. Empathy is IMPORTANT as it helps us understand what others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation.Empathy is, among other things, believed to improve our personal relationships, motivate charitable giving and encourage pro-social behaviours. Recently, I tried to place myself in the life of our car driver “Babu Ram” uncle who all day long drive our cars only for money to support his family and he has been following this routine for around 30 years now, and I woudn’t do this for even one single day ! When I imagined myself waking up early in the morning and cleaning the cars so that we can go to our destination with a clean and nice car, then driving all day long from here to there for just dropping and picking us. I truly appriciate his work as without him our family routine would have never worked properly.I feel so empathetic for him for working for us this long. Like in Mahabharata Krishna Ji was charioteer for Arjuna and similarly Babu Ram uncle is my charioteer as he tells me awesome moral stories on the way, so for me he is my Krishna Ji.THANK YOU FOR READING MY BLOG  

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CLass- Vl C

Empathy refers to the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.It is really difficult to understand to someone might feel without having those feelings yourself.But ,if one,develops such skill ,then world would be a better place to live in.I wan’t to make the topic understand by laying the following example.
Once,my friend said that she saw the place where her maid lived.She was very surprised to see that how could so many people could live in just one room.She told me that she was very empathised with her maid’s condition.But when I asked her that ‘can you live in such circumstances?’ she clearly said ‘NO’.This is the irony of our society.We could have ‘sympathy’ with others.But if we truly hold ‘empathy’with others ,then there would be no negativity around us.Also,this world would be not just better but the BEST place to live in.

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Class - VI-D

Empathy helps connect people, moving them towards each other in helping or healing capacity. Our society relies on empathy to facilitate connections and forward movement. When the empathy piece is missing, we become more disconnected.

Practicing empathy is important in a variety of relationship dynamics such as among families, siblings, friendship etc.

Here I would like to talk about a time that I spent with my great grandmother. She was suffering from cancer due to which she was feeling very lonely, week and sad. So I used to entertain her by playing games, learning songs and religious mantras of Jainism. I used to help her by giving medicines, fixing her hearing aid, oiling and making her hair, feeding her and moving her wheel chair. We used to talk about things like her childhood memories, Liking and disliking etc. She taught me the meaning of humanity that we must love and care every living being. Whenever I was in her company, I could see joy and happiness on her face. She was very happy seeing all family members together by her side during her last days.

Empathizing with someone is seen through their eyes, listening with their ears  and feeling with their heart.

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understand and feel what a another experiencing. Most of the people use the word Sympathy interchangeably but in reality sympathy is feeling pity for the problems of person whereas empathy is putting in the shoes of another person. It encompass a broad range of emotional states. 

Recently I Experienced a similar situation while taking a walk along my mother as we went a long I saw a pair of old shoes, which belong to a poor man who was working in a field near by , and who had nearly finished his day's work


Kairavi garg
Kairavi garg
  CLass - VI A

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Unlike sympathy, which simply means feeling sadness or pity for someone who is undergoing some type of hardship, empathy promotes selfless compassion and action on behalf of another person or group of people.
 
I feel empathy towards animals in the zoo when thier babies are carried away from them. Its such a painfull sight to see a baby getting separated from a parent. Authorities do this to preserve their species but its very heart breaking to see families breaking . I really hope this practice to be stopped. 
Fateh Singh Sandhu VI-B
Fateh Singh Sandhu VI-B
Empathy means to put yourself in the someone else's shoes and understand the difficulties and problems that they face.
 The first thoughts that came to my mind when thinking about empathy are about my grandparents. We live in a nuclear family and are hence away from both my maternal and paternal grandparents. We all are so busy in our lives that at times we even forget to talk to them. 
My parents always encouraged me to call them up and ask for their well being at least every alternate day. During the weekends or holidays try and spend as much time with them as possible. Slowly I understood why they wanted me to do so, and why it is so important to talk to them so frequently.
 Our grandparents are with us for a limited time and we kids are their lifelines. If we put ourselves in their position and think , they have spent their entire lives bringing up and taking care of our parents . Now when in the later years of their life, all they need is love from their kids and grandchildren. We just need to take out a little time everyday to talk to them and listen to their experiences. They are the best guides for all our day to day problems. 
We need to understand that by  devoting time to our grandparents , we are not doing them a favour, but it is our duty as they have devoted their entire lives for us. 



ISHANA JAIN 6-B
ISHANA JAIN 6-B
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within , that is the capacity to place oneself in another's position .
Empathy is at its simplest , awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people . it is the key element of emotional intelligence , the link between self and others , because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves .
Around a year back the daughter of my house maid used to come to my house to work with her mother . one day i asked her that why is she not going to school ?She told me that she has to help her mother for running the house and her mother cannot afford her studies . I felt very sad and asked my mother to pay her school fees and help her mother by increasing her salary or other incentives . Now that girl is happily going to school and is enjoying her childhood . 

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another , listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. 
Alvirah Chopra class 6 -B
Alvirah Chopra class 6 -B 
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.[1] 

It is rightly said that if you judge people, you will have no time to love them. I had heard this phrase before but I never really knew what it meant. This was because 
I had never personally experienced such a thing until a certain incident took place in my life. 
This happened when i had gone to my Uncles place for the summer vacations. 
The building he lived in, had a wonderful park and a playground where children used to play football everyday. Because I had to stay there for about 15 days, I decided to go and play with the children. 
All the children were very sweet and let me play with them. 
While playing I noticed that there was agirl who played really well but had torn and worn out shoes on her feet and I kind of created an opinion about her and didn’t want to interact with her. 
Days passed and I used to see her everyday, playing with us but I never really spoke to her because of my judgemental attitude towards her. 
But, one day it rained in the morning and the ground was all wet so we weren’t able to play that day. All of us were just sitting around getting bored when that girl came and told us that we could go to her place and do something else. I was reluctant to go but everyone insisted so i went with them. As soon as I entered her house, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Her house was huge and very beautiful. We went to her room and I saw that she had around 10 pairs of expensive shoes. I couldn’t control my curiosity and I asked her about it. 
She told me that her elder brother used to play very good football but he died a year back in a car accident. Those were his shoes that she used to wear everyday in his memory. It was then that I realised the meaning of that statement and the meaning of Empathy
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another,listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another 
ADHIRAJ SINGH MANGAT (VI-B)
ADHIRAJ SINGH MANGAT    (VI-B)
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within that is the capacity to play oneself in another’s position.

          These summer Holidays gave me enlightening experiences and I felt grown up. Except for the ten days that I travelled to DUBAI, I was at home for the rest of the holidays spending all my time with my family and helpers – something that I had wanted to do for a very long time now. 

We live in a farm house with huge well maintained lawns, pruned trees, mowed grass, flowers and lots of greenery. It is said that, “ A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER” so this joy set me thinking about the labour being put into maintain these lawns. I would observe the four gardeners who would come each day for four hours not bothering about the hot and humid weather. They would work tirelessly in the Sun, their skin looked like old worn out leather, their pale old clothes hung on their bodies, carrying their tools in their torn cloth carry bags, they would observe each plant and treat it like a doctor. I started empathizing with them and actually admired the hard work they were putting in their jobs. They were the reason for this beautiful ambience around us and I could feel that they lived a life sans any beauty.

There was hardly even any fresh air in their rented quarters away from their families, they probably planned the weddings of their daughters with the little money that they earned or the job oriented education that they wanted to impart to their sons. It was heart wrenching when one of them approached my mother for some advance because his little child was hospitalized. Trust me, I am trying to get two of them off PAN MASALA or TOBACCO chewing. 

I have made my mother promise me that we would offer them tea and lunch everyday. I wish people doing manual labour here had the same dignity and financial security as it happens abroad. Well other may or may not understand but I would definitely try to put a little beauty in the lives of those “MAGICIANS” who have made me the recipient of this beauty – aka joy.       

Samaira Dhaliwal  6-
Samaira Dhaliwal  6-B
EMPATHY is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships.It is the ability  to understand how someone else is feeling or to understand the situation they are in. It is the ability to "put yourself in someone else's shoes" and to understand the way a situation might make them feel. EMPATHY is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own.
A situation happened  last year, one of my best friend was out of country for around ten days.She had missed her school and her studies were hampering. Unfortunately, mid term examinations were just starting after two days when she came back.That evening, I went to her house to take my notebooks and found that she was very sad and her face was looking as if she was about to cry. With the felling of empathy, I asked her the reason of sadness. She told me that she was not able to solve maths sums as she had not attended the classes. I consoled her by saying that I would help you in explaining the concept of difficult sums and also helped her in scoring good marks in all subjects. After the examinations,the marks she scored were quite amazing and she scored A+ grade in all her subjects. I felt very happy for her.
Saesha Dhaliwal 6-A
Saesha Dhaliwal 6-A

Empathy is the ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. Empathy is not sympathy. What we are sympathetic, we often put to someone else, but maintain our distance physically, mentally and emotionally from their feelings or experience.Empathy cover a wide spectrum,ranging from caring for other people and having a desire to help them, to experiencing emotions,to knowing what the other person is thinking or feeling.
Recently, an incident occured when I was playing in the park. I saw a little girl of about four years sitting under a tree at one of the corner in the park. I went to her and saw that she was very sad I asked her the reason of her sadness but she started crying. I sat beside her and patted on her shoulder and tried to make her relax so as to understand the cause of being sad. She said that while coming back from the tuition the auto driver's auto got stuck in mud . Her house was  quite far so Auto driver tried to explain her house address. She followed the way that was told by him but wasn't able to reach her destination. On her way she saw a park and thought to take some swings .After an hour, when she thought about her mom she started crying as she had lost the way that led to her home. I checked her bag to get some clue like mobile number,house address etc. but didn't find any. I tried to make her remember by asking questions again and again . After about an hour, at last she spoke her house number. I got relaxed and comforted her by saying that we would soon reach your house. A blushing smile on her face made me happy. I took my bicycle and took her safely to her house. Her mother thanked me for dropping her daughter safely to her house. I felt really very happy after helping her. Thanks.
Rajvir Singh Bedi
Rajvir Singh Bedi
Class VI-B

Hello friends,
Before I begin writing this Blog, I would like you all to understand what being empathetic is. The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation or circumstances.

I have always imagined what my life would be if I were an animal or a bird. How would I be able to express my feelings to others. So, these days as it is very hot,whenever I feel thirsty, I think about my pets, my dogs, the birds in the sky. What if they are thirsty and there is no water in their bowls,how will they quench their thirst. 

So now it is my daily routine to fill up my dogs' water bowls and  to fill the bowls with food and water that are placed on my terrace and balconies for the birds too. 

It gives me so much happiness when I see the birds gathered around the bowls and my thirsty dogs drinking water. 

So my dear friends, we are really blessed that God has given us the power of speech and expression.




Trisha Mahajan
Trisha Mahajan
Class- VI-C

        "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of Empathy."

Hi ! I am Trisha Mahajan from grade VI.This is my first attempt at making  a blog. This blog as you are aware is about 'Empathy' which is one of the most important aspects for creating conflict-free relationships and reducing stress.So, do you know what exactly Empathy is? Well, from a 11 year old girl's outlook(That's me), Empathy is the ability to not only realize what others feel but also to undergo that emotion yourself. With Empathy we can experience the emotion of someone and what state he is going through. Well, I have always tried to be empathetic as well as sympathetic.Confused?  No, empathy and sympathy are not the same terms.Sympathy is about pitying someone while empathy is about understanding someone's feelings.Do you know, neither did I value my father's earnings,nor helped my mother in any work. My story took place when I was 9 years of age, I asked my parent's for a mobile phone. I was too young,so obviously  they refused. I informed them that all of my friends have a phone and they tease me for not having one.My parents told me that I just got a new I-pad on my birthday and I was too young to have a phone. My mum advised me not to get bothered if my friends tease me. I ran into my room and did not talk to anyone. The next day, my maid's daughter accompanied her to my house. While,our maid did the house work, I and her daughter, Suman were playing.She is of my age.I took Suman to my room and showed her my doll collection. She was so amazed to see all the things I had. She told me that all of her family slept in one room and she had only one doll,her mother gifted her on her birthday.I was dazed to hear everything because I had always complained about these things.  While playing, I noticed a piece of towel with eyes on it in Suman's hand. She told me that this was her birthday gift- a doll. My eyes widened. I thought that how could she be happy with these small things. I realized that we have got all the facilities but still disrespect and hurt our parents' feelings and never value their earnings and what they do for us but these children are happy with whatever they have.At night, I felt empathetic towards my parents ,I went to their room and  apologized  them for whatever I had done. I told them that I understand their feelings and I will never hurt them again. My parents were happy because I not only realized what they go through but also I experienced it mentally myself, So,friends I think you would have understood what Empathy is from this story.In my story I was not only insensitive of my parents' feelings but also happy as Suman had taught me a lesson in a day that no one could teach me in so many years.So, I also got Suman a new teddy bear that she wanted and I felt glad to see her smiling while holding her new teddy bear in her hand. Hence, we need to understand that in life,it is possible to have difficulties any time. At these moments we need to get the gesture of Empathy from others. All of us know about the different worries and stress but not all of us can be empathetic at such moments. We, being humans,feel empathy which is a trait that should  be possessed and realized in others. So,here are some ways to to expand and improve empathy:-

Explore the person's heart not just the head
Walk in other person's shoes
Smile at people
Examine your attitude
Try to practice empathy(internally)
                      
        Thank you for reading!
           ~Trisha Mahajan
               Class- VI-C
          Sat Paul Mittal School
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Abeer PuriVI-B
Abeer Puri
VI-B
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. 
MY EXPERIENCE OF EMPATHY  :-
Recently I felt empathy towards a 12 years old poor girl who daily sells toys on the traffic lights to earn a two times meal for herself. When i talked to her i came to know that she was an orphan and she lives with her aunt. She was not supported by anyone. When i imagined myself on her place i felt so bad because i could never imagine my life without my parents.I felt the pain that the girl suffers daily because she could not ask anyone for toys or for anything she want for herself all she could do is earn and eat food.That day i realised the value of small things.
I shared my feelings with my mother the same day and we decided to buy all the toys from the girl next day.The girl was soo happy and satisfied.
Empathy is the biggest deficit that we have in our society. Our society need more people who have courage to understand others and support them so that the World becomes a better place to live in.
Nysa Soni VI -D 22
Nysa Soni VI -D 22
EMPATHY is seeing with the eyes of another, stepping into the shoes of another person and feeling with the heart of another person.  It doesn't need a lot of money. The main and only ingredients is a warm heart and a cheerful smile.In simple words empathy is to give your love when the unfortunate  has lost his. presently we are relaxed,enjoying every luxury from every gadget to our lavish homes.
Millions of people are not lucky as we are.Recently I felt empathy towards my maid's stepdaughter.Every day when my maid comes to clean the house her stepdaughter comes along.
She first went to school, but because she is allergic  from skin problem, children used to tease her and also because her mother didn't pay any attention towards her study's,she left school. she get's up early in the morning and fills water from the well. After that she stands in a long queue to use the washroom. What a poor life she has!!! I told this to my parents, and they did something that changed her whole life. My father took her to the doctor to cure her skin problem and my mother arranged a 12 hour school for her. After she was cured, she went to her new school. She learned many new things,and now i am very happy for her.
"IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT BUT IT'S EVEN IMPORTANT TO BE NICE".
Baanipreet Kaur VI-D
Baanipreet Kaur VI-D
What is EMPATHY?
It is not too complicated or difficult concept. It doesn't need a lot of money to imbibe this quality. What it needs is only: a warm heart with a cheerful smile. It is the ability to see with the eyes of another, to listen with the ears of another and to feel with heart of another. In simple words, empathy is to give someone one of your smiles when the unfortunate has lost his. 
Presently we are relaxed, enjoying every luxury, from browsing through the gadgets to living in lavish homes. But unfortunately out of trillion people in this world almost 1 million people are not lucky as we are. They don't have latest gadgets or branded clothes to wear. Giving this a hard thought, I glanced at my domestic help. What a terrible life she has! She is a poor lady. She gets up early in the morning and even works on Sundays. There are days when she is not well but she makes no lame excuses, cleans every nook and corner of the house and cooks anything for us which we name. After a long tiring day she only manages to get a short good night sleep. 

When I am enjoying in my air-conditioned room, my maid is working in hot sun. She didn't even have a cycle so had to walk in the scorching heat from door to door. 

I felt pity for her. When my mother added some cash to her regular salary, she used it to feed her children. 

If I am not wrong, reading this article, you must be feeling sympathy for my maid. But don't confuse sympathy with empathy. Sympathy is only a pitiful feeling which you are having for her, whereas empathy is putting yourself in her shoes. 

In fact I had empathy for her. So I persuaded my mother you buy her cycle. Though that was a quite a small thing for us but this gift brought a big smile on her face.

There are millions of needy people. Let's try to help them with small tasks like helping your busy mother in the kitchen, giving water to the thirsty birds in this hot weather. 

It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice. Let's add peace and happiness to this world through our small acts of empathy. 

I end my blog with the quote of Barrack Obama 
"Learning to stand in somebody's else shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."

Anirudh Sharma
Anirudh Sharma
Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. ... “Cognitive empathy,” sometimes called “perspective taking,” refers to our ability to identify and understand other people's emotions.

  A number of days ago at a school for students with special needs, I had a conversation with a 13-year-old student. He was a person with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21. This extra genetic material causes the developmental changes and physical features of Down syndrome  He asked to talk to me  He Said; I know I am not all that smart because I have that syndrome thing, and guess I will have it for quite a while. But I just hate it when people talk to me like I am stupid.”
 
I learned a lot from a very insightful young man that day.We should not make fun of someone who is disabled . After a talk with him i realized that he was really sad that people call him stupid and really if you ask me he is not  . He is also a human being like all of us just the problem was that he was not normal like all of us but he also had a heart he also had feelings he also had emotions. But i could not do anything for him because I knew that I cant heal his Down Syndrome but I knew that I can make him feel happy and do not let him feel about his problem and not make fun of him like others else I treated him as my friend 
My thought is that;
A Healthy Mind does not think ill of others and we should keep our mind healthy and treat everybody as normal like we want everybody to treat us...
ISHTA NAYAR VI-D
ISHTA NAYAR VI-D
'Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another'.
In this blog I would like to put myself into the shoes of my mother.
My mother always gave more time to my elder brother due to his board exams and i always thought that she didn't care for me. I always felt so irritated and angry but when i stepped into her shoes then only I realised that she gave equal time to both of us and she used to maintain balance in both of us and she used to take equal care of my studies.She is indeed our saviour.
EMPATHY
EMPATHY 
                     By- ARHAM JAIN VI-A





Manik Kaushal VI-D
Manik Kaushal VI-D

Empathy is the ability of a person to recognise and understand the life of other person. To have a successful relationship with our loved ones in the society we need to take care of other people’s need , desires and feelings.. Without empathy, our interaction 
with people is just one way traffic... 

There are house helpers in my house who take help my mother in taking care of my house.. They come from a very poor , uneducated and male dominating family... The females are harassed and beaten from their husband . They are made to work whole day long without considering their value and importance in their family ... 

One day I saw my maid crying and sobbing like a kid ... she was very sad and depressed from her state and condition. While she was talking to my mother I head their conversation secretly ( which is not good , I know ) but after that I felt bad for her and put myself into her condition and thought how can someone just not speak against injustice and torture that one is facing.. Just being uneducated and unaware of the rights she is holding she is living a very bad life ... She was very dedicated in making her daughters study and make them earn to live up to their livings.... 

I at that time saw the pain and grief a women faces in life if she has no money or she is uneducated in life ... Then as I Come from a lawyer background I talked with her and made her realise  what her importance in society is .. Still in this twenty first century we are fighting for rights of women, their safety , giving them the opportunity that they deserve... I hope within less time we will achieve the goal of Women empowerment ...


SAATVIK DUGGAL VI-D
SAATVIK DUGGAL VI-D
Empathy is the ability to recognise,perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. It is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships and enhancing emotional awareness. Empathy is the feeling in which a person identifies the sorrows and sadness of other. One who feels empathy for someone, has a sense that he can truly understand what the person is going through in his tough times. He imagines the depth of another person's emotional state or situation by walking in someone else's shoes. It implies feeling with a person, rather than feeling sorry for him.
 
Owners harass helpers in homes and factories and treat them in a highly unacceptable manner showing no humanity. Owners should rather show empathy towards them and should be loving and caring towards them as they work hard day and night leaving their families behind in order to earn a living

Empathy is the symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to cultivate it to make a better person and motivate others to have empathic feelings. By this weekend make this world a worth living place.
Aarza kalra 6c
Aarza kalra 6c
Empathy is seeing someone's life with their eyes .It is the awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. Putting ourselves on their place, we can experience their life in the best way. This summer break I also felt empathaized as I visited the old age home, where old and dependent people were thrown by their children. One of the old lady shared her heart wrenching story with me. She told me that she had been waiting for her son since 10 years had who left her there with a fake promise that he would turn up in few days. The story of a grandma broke me and bought tears to my eyes. I could feel the same pain as if I am being abandoned by my family. But I couldn't be just a listener. I know I can't bring his son ,I really really wanted to bring smile on her face so I decided to visit her on every weekend. Maybe I could replace her grandchildren😊.
SHAURYA GUPTA VI-C
SHAURYA GUPTA VI-C
"Empathy is the ability to share and understand anybody's feelings and emotions."

Step into someone else's shoes sounds as a piece of cake, but it is not so easy. This  is termed as empathy. Nowadays people are so busy in themselves that they  do not have any time to look into someone else’s feelings and emotions.

Empathy is not just a skill laid down by WHO, it is also responsibility for us. We should also be responsible enough towards empathy.For being empathetic, we have to take a bit of leisure time 
enter into someone else’s heart. 

No body is perfect and we should also not try being so but we can at least be empathetic towards
the society for a balanced environment. 

One day me and my friend had a very big fight in which we didn’t only had an argument, but also 
but also wrestled. In this fight , I hit on his face very badly and he started crying. Because of the fight,
 I didn’t even bother to apologise. But after some time I stepped into his shoes and felt empathetic for him and went to apologise straight away. Now we both are best friends.
Moral-Empathy always leads to wealth and happiness.

It’s not important that what  we see in other people’s mind is accurate. It can even be wrong. So there are some steps that help us :

1. Imagine yourself in the same situation.
2. Try to know about the person’s sensitivity.
3. Talk for a small amount of time with that person.
4. Use the three magic words ie. Sorry, thank you, please.

In the end I would like to say that we should be empathetic towards the society and make it a better and balanced place. 

Empathy is :
Seeing with the eyes of other ,
Listening with the ears of another 
And feeling with the heart of another........

Empathy (Belief)
Empathy (Belief)
Dron Rai 
VI-D

The Elephant Rope 

I was walking through an elephant camp with my family on my summer vacation and I spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains.

All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.
As I gazed upon the elephants, I was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, I asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape.

The trainer replied;

“when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
 

 The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the camp was that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible.

Moral of the story:
No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving it.

📎 the definition of empathy
The Highest Form of Knowledge is Empathy
The Highest Form of Knowledge is Empathy 
             ~ Avyaa Jain
                Class 6-B
What is empathy? Empathy is the capacity to put oneself in another person’s shoes to know what the person’s current feelings or emotions are ~ simply put; to reimagine  their lives  from our points of view!
The person who I empathise the most with , is my father. For he works hard, day in and day out, to provide my family and I with a good quality life by ensuring that all our  household bills are paid fully and at the right time.He puts in his labour beginning at  Nine ‘o’ clock in the morning and returns home only at night ,after  twelve hours of arduous and strength exhausting and work.
To show my appreciation and gratitude for the hard work my father commits to,  I would like to contribute, by at least trying to do certain things on my own, like making refreshing smoothies for him when he returns to refresh his mind. Since the work my father engages in is sedentary in nature , which usually involves making tedious phone calls and incessant desk work, I could help him relax by going and doing yoga with him or even going out for a run in the park !
My father takes his work very seriously as he holds himself accountable for the welfare of the families of all his employees. An example to illustrate this is that the very day in which we return from our vacations or holidays, my mother and I always lie down on the bed to just relax, whereas my father; no matter how tired he is, goes to his office and works hard!

I believe that empathy is the truest and the most valuable lesson of life as it teaches us to feel heart to heart ,even when we cannot see eye to eye !
6-A Samaira
6-A Samaira 
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own.  In this summer break I also felt empathaized as I visited an orphanage and I felt very touched by seeing those kids as they were without their parents. Living without parents is very hard and when I conversed with them one of them told me that he was working as child labour, and one of the girl's told me that she had also been working in a factory since she was of 7 and it is so hard at such an age to work when one needs to play and study and they are working in such an early stage of life, getting yelled by the owner of the factory was another humiliation they had to go through and I could empathaize their feelings and I felt that it is not right small kids working in such a small stage and I was really hurt. This situation really made me know the true meaning of empathy. 
PARTHAM6DEmp
PARTHAM
6D
Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others.Empathy is important because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation.once,I saw a kid ,who was trying to cross the road but he was not able to do so. So, I helped him to cross the road.
Empathy is the ability to
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.It is the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

In this blog I would like to put myself into the shoes of my mother.

My mother gave more time to my younger brother so I always felt so irritated and angry but when I stepped into her shoes I realised that she gave more time to him because he was small and could not eat his food or do something alone.And whatever time was required for me she used was in my studies and other activities was given to me properly.
Nyrah Gupta VI-B
Nyrah Gupta     VI-B
 
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference. 

One day I was going for my class and I saw a poor old man selling a bunch of balloons. Nobody was buying the balloons from him. He looked very exhausted and miserable. When he stopped by my car to sell balloons I really felt sad for him and wanted to give him money but I had none. 

After a week I saw the same old man selling balloons. I felt very empathetic for him. I gave him ten rupees. At first he thought that I am going to buy the balloons but when I denied to take the balloon he refused to take the money and said that he is not a beggar instead he is here to sell. I really got amazed and bought all the balloons from him .He was elated to sell all the balloons he had. I felt exhilarated and satisfied. 

Later I went to the temple and gave all the balloons to children sitting outside begging for money. They were so delighted to get the balloon and started playing with it. 

The happiness on their faces was such a lovely sight to look at. 

Devesh Keshav VI-D
Devesh Keshav  VI-D
Empathy is one of the most important skills. Empathy is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. To have a successful relationship with our loved ones in the society, we need to take care of other people's needs, desires and feelings without empathy, our interaction with other people is just one way traffic. It is the experience of understanding another person's thought, feeling, condition without judging. It is different from sympathy.

       Recently I felt empathy towards one of my cousins. He is 16 years old and he topped at the state level in the board examination and he also got full scholarship from Yale University, U.S. He has made his parents really proud. Even I am very proud of him. As I started imagining myself at his place, I got overwhelmed with joy and excitement. Its the beginning of a new chapter in his life. New country, new place, new college, new people and new friends. That day I learnt importance of hardwork. I could feel the way he was feeling and it inspired me to follow his steps too. It was just a wow feeling.
AAYAN GUPTA 6D
AAYAN GUPTA 6D
EMPATHY
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
 
 Now i am going to share my experience when i felt empathy towards one of my agemate.
 Once in my summer vacation i went to a dhaba. It was a very hygienic dhaba and the food was also very tasty. We were waiting for the food to be served and finally a boy of my age with a towel on his shoulder served us food. He was wearing torn clothes and seemed to be very untidy. I tried to talk to him and asked him about his studies. I was very shocked to know that he never went to school because his father died when he was young and his mother was not able to earn enough money to send him to school. I felt very sad for him and thought what is one's life without studies. He was even not having access to basic needs so he was forced to do child labour just to earn a little bit of money. Should not child labouring be stopped? Should'nt these kids be provided with basic needs? How would we feel if the same happens with us?

APPAR SINGH VI-C
APPAR SINGH     VI-C  
"Empathy is symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to make a better person and motivate other to be have emphatic feelings. By this we can this world living place."
      Man is social animal. we all need to give and receive help from time to time. I have helped my grandparents many times, when they want to learn about electronics 
       Here, I would like to talk about a time when I helped an old person, who was not known to me earlier. 
      About two months ago I was travelling by Shatabdi Express. I boarded the train Phagwara. I was sitting on the seat and the seat next to me was vacant. the next stop was Ludhiana. an old man maybe in his late seventies, boarded the train. he had a suitcase and a bag with him. He tried to keep the suitcase and the bag in the rack over the seats. He did not ask help from anyone but I could sense a problem and offered to do it. He was relieved and thanked me with a big smile. I put the the suitcase and the bag in the rack. the next four hours passed very soon. Before leaving the train I again helped him with his luggage and he thanked me again. 
     I felt very happy and realised that such a small gesture of love like helping others gives happiness not only to the receiver, but also to the giver. 
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Divnoor Singh VI-B
Divnoor Singh VI-B
   I heard about the word empathy while being part of a global project “Everyday Kindness”. It had a life changing effect on me and I started looking at being empathetic in my everyday life towards my fellow human beings, animals, plants and our environment. Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s thoughts, feelings and condition from his or point of view, rather than from one’s own. Empathy helped me behave in a more compassionate manner.  

                        One day I saw a dead stray dog in my street. It looked like it had died because of dehydration in the excessive heat. I felt really sad because dogs can’t even talk about their problems and if we feel hot we just go indoors and turn on the air conditioner but dogs or any other stray animal do not have the facilities humans do. So I started to put feeders all around the area where I live and filled them with water and food. The next morning I checked the feeders and they were all empty. So now everyday I refill them even during the vacation wherever we went I made it a point to provide water to stray animals. This can be solved by spreading awareness about the plight of stray animals. Everybody should keep water feeders outside their house and in  their locality and a very important thing is by planting more trees we give them a shade to sit under.

Jashanpreet Kaur VI-B
Jashanpreet Kaur VI-B
 
“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.” 

Let’s eliminate these lone feelings by accepting the value of empathy. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening through the eyes of another and feeling with the heart of another. It helps us to respond appropriately to the situation. It helps us to build togetherness than allowing ourselves to function as self-obsessed and self-centered individuals. It fuels the connection between you and others. Adapting this quality makes you a better person and empowers your soul. 

The world is becoming so selfless. Everyone cares about their own pleasures and pains. I was also one of them until I felt the pain of my maid’s daughter. 

MY EXPERIENCE WITH EMPATHY:
My maid’s daughter, Jyoti used to help her mother to do all the house work. She used to polish my shoes and iron my clothes. I just hated the fact that she did this although we were of the same age. Instead of going to school she used to take care of me and my home. When I asked her do you really don’t want to go to school, she cried and told me that she was a very bright student but had to leave school because her single mother couldn’t afford it. I asked my father to take responsibility of her education. My father proudly agreed and now she is happy in her life focusing on her goals. 

“Empathy” is the biggest deficit that we have in our society. We need people who have the courage to understand one’s heart and soul. 

Sakhi Jindal VI B Empathy is the ability to appreciate the feelings and perspectives of others.There have been times in my life, mostly with my friends, where we understood each other without using words. Then I understood, what I was feeling for them and what they were for me? It was empathy. There was a time in the past when my best friend faced the crisis of her life and spoke to me about it, Her parents were going through a tough time financially, and she was worried for her dad who was working extra shifts into the night and was getting very little sleep, her mother had to help more in the household chores and also go out for part time work, because of which her mind was being affected deeply. Even though I wasn't the one who was going through that situation, I understood what she was going through. So I asked my mom and told her that my friend is going to come to our place regurarly to have her morning meals. We started hanging out everyday, showing her that I understand her and started relating to her situation more and more by the day, in the end we got very close even as best friends.
Sakhi Jindal  VI B          Empathy is the ability to appreciate the feelings and perspectives of others.There have been times in my life, mostly with my friends, where we understood each other without using words. Then I understood, what I was feeling for them and what they were for me? It was empathy. There was a time in the past when my best friend faced the crisis of her life and spoke to me about it, Her parents were going through a tough time financially, and she was worried for her dad who was working extra shifts into the night and was getting very little sleep, her mother had to help more in the household chores and also go out for part time work, because of which her mind was being affected deeply. Even though I wasn't the one who was going through that situation, I understood what she was going through. So I asked my mom and told her that my friend is going to come to our place regurarly to have her morning meals. We started hanging out everyday, showing her that I understand her and started relating to her situation more and more by the day, in the end we got very close even as best friends.
Seerat Sharma VI-A
Seerat Sharma VI-A
Empathy  is the ability to imagine how another person is feeling and understand his/her mood. This word was coined in 1909 by English Psychologist.                                                                                Recently I felt empathy at an old  lady. A few days ago me and my father went to the market for taking some fruits. When we were coming back we saw an accident on the road.The place was crowded .We went out to check at we saw the old lady with his son on a scooter ,crashed with a car . With god's grace the son,just a cut at his right hand did not get harmed but the old lady got her arm broken . That time no one helped her.   We took her to the hospital and got them checked .Then they both thanked us and were very happy. Really that smile was priceless.I felt very happy that time.                                                                   
Waheguru Jot Singh Chawla VI-C Roll No.30
Waheguru Jot Singh Chawla VI-C Roll No.30
“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes,to see through their eyes,that is how peace begins and it is up to us to make that happen.Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

Today I will be expressing my feelings,when I understood others feelings by heart.A driver has a difficult life and a sick hurried routine.He Has to wake up early in the morning and drive all day long so that he can earn money.He has to stay away from his family for long periods of time and even days.When his family is in financial trouble he works very hard without taking care of himself and only thinking about his family.We all cannot even imagine a life like this which is full of troubles and worries.I understood his feelings and would also like you to.
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
Devyani Sehgal VI-D
Devyani Sehgal VI-D
Let me ask you a question -What is Empathy?

Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others . It is a construct of multiple components ,each of which is associated with its own brain network

       "Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."
                       -Barack Obama
 
People are engrossed these days to care about their careers and hobbies. There is no time left to be aware of other's trouble, to be sensitive to other's unhappy feelings, and to actually help other's to solve their problems.

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into bubbles of other people.

 EMPATHIZE WITH THE FRUSTRATED DAD
Have you ever noticed that your dad is frustrated while he is tidying up your toys? 
One day I had a fun and frolic time playing with my toys and did not mind them laying on the floor . But I thought about it from my dad's perspective and realized that he does not like how it feels to have a messy space and he feels frustrated at having the extra work of tidying it up. When I look at the situation from my dad's side of the story (from his perspective) and understand how he might be feeling...that's empathy. 


















Kangna VI-A
Kangna VI-A
EMPATHY AS A LIFE SKILL


Empathy is one of the most required life skill. It is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. We need to take care of other people’s needs, desires and feelings to have a healthy relationship with our loved ones in the society. Having empathy for someone also make us feel what other people are facing in their lives. Empathy is needed in our lives as it helps us to connect with people and emotionally help them. It is an important life skill to learn.

A situation when I felt empathy was when my friend told me she was moving to a bigger city. My parents also used to surprise me by saying that we would be moving to another country. I could connect with her and I knew what she was going through. Even though she was very upset, I tried to calm her down and make her laugh. Afterwards, she felt better and also thanked me for helping her when she was not well.
Samaira Hara VI B....Empathy is noEsympathy. When we're sympathetic ,we often pity someone else ,but maintain our distance (physiclly,mentally,and emotionally) from their feelings or experience .Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand,relate to,or imagine the depth of another person's emotional state or situation .It implies feeling with a person rather than feeling sorry for a person .And in some cases that "person" is actually us.There are number of things that get in the way of us utilizing and experiencing the power of empathy .Three of the main ones are feeling threatened ,being judgemental and fear . One such incident happened with me it was my mother's birthday.All my family members didn't remember to wish her.My mother is the most wonderful person on the earth. Her love for our family members is incessant but unfortunately we all forget to wish her.After coming from school i saw my mother's face tto be quite sad. I was not able to understand so i asked her,she gave a smile and said everything is fine. I was doing my homework suddenly i saw my personal diary where i used to write about all the events of my family members and friends. I go through it and found that what a big mistake we all had done by not remembering my mother's birthday. Somewhere i felt Empathy for my mother and went to wish her and also express regret for forgeting about it. On behalf of my family members i felt very bad for her but made efforts to somewhere make her mood quite happy. From that day onwards i promised my mother that ii will never forget any happy moments of your's and of any other family members. https://padlet.com/samariahara62001/vte2nndv0cic
Samaira Hara VI B....Empathy is noEsympathy. When we're sympathetic ,we often pity someone else ,but maintain our distance (physiclly,mentally,and emotionally) from their feelings or experience .Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand,relate to,or imagine the depth of another person's emotional state or situation .It implies feeling with a person rather than feeling sorry for a person .And in some cases that "person" is actually us.There are number of things that get in the way of us utilizing and experiencing the power of empathy .Three of the main ones are feeling threatened ,being judgemental and fear .
One such incident happened with me it was my mother's birthday.All my family members didn't remember to wish her.My mother is the most  wonderful person on the earth. Her love for our family members is incessant but unfortunately we all forget to wish her.After coming from school i saw my mother's face tto be quite sad. I was not able to understand so i asked her,she gave a smile and said everything is fine. I was doing my homework suddenly i saw my personal diary where i used to write  about all the events of my family members and friends. I go through it and found that what a big mistake we all had done by not remembering my mother's birthday. Somewhere i felt Empathy for my mother and went to wish her and also express regret for forgeting about it. On behalf of my family members i felt very bad for her but made efforts to somewhere make her mood quite happy. From that day onwards i promised my mother that ii will never forget any happy moments of your's and of any other family  members.
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Samaria Hara VI B
Samaria Hara VI B
GURDIT GILL VI D
GURDIT GILL VI D
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing  from within their frame of reference  , that is , the capacity to place oneself in another position. 

Recently , I felt empathy towards my gardener. Few days back my gardener was trimming the plants , I felt that he is very sad and depressed. I told my dad and my dad had words with him and then he told us the story that is is not having enough money to pay the school fees of his child. As I was standing near the gardener , I felt empathy for him. So we offered to help him by paying his sons school fee.I also  gave him my old and unused stationery. The smile on is face was priceless.

Empathy is the symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to cultivate it to make a better person and motivate others to have emphatic feelings by this we can make this world a worth living place.
Samarveer VI A
Samarveer VI A
"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." 
                                        Maya Angelou
Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. It is the ability to imagine oneself as another person.
During this summer vacation I experienced something that changed my perception towards life. Till now I had never really thought about hardships of life, as God had been really kind and blessed me with all amenities. One day a young boy of my age came to our home. He was wearing an old t shirt and pant which was torn. He didn't even have anything in his feet. My mom told me that he collects clothes for ironing from the whole locality in the morning and delivers them back in the evening. He even irons the clothes when his mother goes to work as domestic help in the locality. He had to leave his studies inbetween as his parents could not afford to send him and his three sisters to school. He was long gone but I could not stop thinking about him.i could very well imagine him ironing clothes in sweltering hot afternoon when we couldn't even think going out of our AC rooms. When kids like me enjoy all amenities of life, go to the best school and travel in AC cars, there are kids like him who struggle every day just to get meal twice a day. I gave him some of my old clothes and a pair of shoes and slippers when he came in the evening. The smile on his face made me feel so good that I decided to do something regularly for underprivileged children like him. I thank God that I am in a position to do my bit for others.
Tanisha Chaudhry 6-c
Tanisha Chaudhry 6-c


 Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions to imagine what someone else might be thinking of feeling empathy is the German word meaning “feeling  in “ as there are many ways to feel they are multiple ways  experience  empathy  we get connected to others to empathy by several ways listening is one of them  listening is one of the most effective ways you can devapeop secondly when is to open up just listening to  someone is it going to build a bridge between the two of us has to offer physical affection and focus attention towards taking away or removing or listening the pain of the body of the other we should not be judgemental and offer help maybe our   Empathy  is the fear  and anger of the suffer empathy means you have to put yourself in other shoes and be aware of a sensitive to their feelings to help them 

GANIV KAUR class- vi-c
GANIV KAUR    class- vi-c  
"Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others."
I am writing this to share my experience which took place with me in my summer vacations. I started waking up early morning and started going for a morning walk with my father. One day as we were on our daily routine for the walk, I saw a man wearing thick spectacles and it appeared that he could hardly see. we helped him to cross the road and wanted to escort him to his destination but he politely declined . It is my  daily  routine that I will go myself then my father inquired him where he lived and has he got his eye checkup done. he said that he is very poor and cannot spend much money on various checkups and medicines. Then my father took him to our known eye-specialist. Then he took him to the store where he could get some eatables. he was happy and then my father took him to his place.
   This small  gesture of helping someone gave me lot of happiness. You should help people wether you know them or not. What I felt after helping the blind man cannot be described in words. I am very happy for what I did. So, go and help people in need it will immense pleasure and satisfaction 
Empathy
Empathy
Nishka khanna 6-A
Nishka khanna 6-A
 
Our life does not consist of the only holidays. It is possible to have the difficulties any time, and in these moments we need to hear the kind words of the support from our friends and relatives. You cannot be ready for everything and you cannot know what will happen in the future. All of us know about different worries, stress , but not everyone can understand the internal world of the other person in such moments. Exactly in such moments the empathy of one person to another one is shown.
 
Empathy is the show in the fact, that the person can support another person in the moral way. The person has the ability to feel what the other people feel in some situations, what they need and how it is possible to help them to overcome the difficulties in the life.
It seems, that the empathy and the kindness are the same things. The kindness is like the magic key, that can open the heart even the angry person

But today the empathy has changed a lot from which it was in the past. We can see the empathy only in some special situations, for example, when people have a lot of problems and difficulties, but it is difficult to find the empathy in the everyday life.

There are 2 types of the empathy: oral and written. You can see the written empathy at the funeral, for example. This type of the empathy should come from your heart, because if it is false, all people will understand it and it will create the anger and the conflict. You should not be shy to show your real emotions and you should always find some warm words to support people.
If you do not know what to say, you can always say, that this person can ask you about help any time and you will be glad to help.

Vishwas bangia class- vi-a roll no. 29 EmpathyThe word empathy means to have a feeling in your heart for some one other whom you never know but we can realize ourselves in him or her pain and loss. There are still some people on earth who try making other people like themselves, people who do not live for food or greed but for some needypeople. Empathy for a milk manThe accident was happened 2-3 weeks ago in Delhi, the accident occurred at night when we were going back to home in our way we Saw a car banged very forcefully into the milk man’s bike we got off, Our car and picked him up and realized that his one leg was paining we went behind the car but were unable to catch him as he broke the traffic rules and went across the red light, when we came back to him we saw on the other side that his whole milk was fallen down. I felt myself in place of him and thought that if this news reaches to the owner of this milk he will never forgive me for this.Importance of empathy Empathy is a natural gift to human mankind. It prevails in all living forces sympathy and empathy are the integral part one’s life which creates lively brotherhood and better understanding. Empathy gives the man global thinking and local working for the welfare of the social community and mental flight for all mankind and thi8s will the boost the empathy power in the all working man kind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPMMSKfKZQA big change in worldI want to tell the world that there is a dramatically change in the world, and this is all because off drugs and all, because of them our beautiful earth have become a hell where no one can live freely and not only this because of them empathy is also fallen down to poor level which is not good for us, not good for them who have down this and not good for our mother earth. A very formal request to all to make our earth a more better place than before , leave these drugs behind and move forward to a better level for a GREEN, CLEAN and EMPATHISED surrounding, And make better tomorrow, this is the need of the hour
  Vishwas bangia   class- vi-a     roll no. 29            EmpathyThe word empathy means to have a feeling in your heart for some one other whom you never know but we can realize ourselves in him or her pain and loss. There are still some people on earth who try making other people like themselves, people who do not live for food or greed but for some needypeople. Empathy for a milk manThe accident was happened 2-3 weeks ago in Delhi, the accident occurred at night when we were going back to home in our way we Saw a car banged very forcefully into the milk man’s bike we got off, Our car and picked him up and realized that his one leg was paining we went behind the car but were unable to catch him as he broke the traffic rules and went across the red light, when we came back to him we saw on the other side that his whole milk was fallen down. I felt myself in place of him and thought that if this news reaches to the owner of this milk he will never forgive me for this.Importance of empathy Empathy is a natural gift to human mankind. It prevails in all living forces sympathy and empathy are the integral part one’s life which creates lively brotherhood and better understanding. Empathy gives the man global thinking and local working for the welfare of the social community and mental flight for all mankind and thi8s will the boost the empathy power in the all working man kind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPMMSKfKZQA big change in worldI want to tell the world that there is a dramatically change in the world, and this is all because off drugs and all, because of them our beautiful earth have become a hell where no one can live freely and not only this because of them empathy is also fallen down to poor level which is not good for us, not good for them who have down this and not good for our mother earth. A very formal request to all to make our earth a more better place than before , leave these drugs behind and move forward to a better level for a GREEN, CLEAN and EMPATHISED surrounding, And make better tomorrow, this is the need of the hour  
Jaitegh 6-C
Jaitegh 6-C
Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. In fact, empathy also comes from a German word, Einfühlung, meaning “feeling in.” And just as there are many ways to feel; there are multiple ways to experience empathy. The three forms of empathy that psychologists have defined are: Cognitive, Emotional, and Compassionate.



Empathy is the ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. empathy is the feelings in which a person identifies the sorrows and sadness of others .he puts the sorrow person in his mind and try to feel his problem as his own. Empathy is the necessity which is found scarce among the people now a days.it is present in some person by birth and some are found without any such type of feelings.it is the catalyst of our moral actions.it influences and has a great impact on our daily life motions. Empathy is the feeling which forced us to succor others, to nullify their sorrows, and to reduce their problems. its best example is the huge natural disasters such as tsunami and earthquake in whole world united to help the effective. It is actually needed to satisfy our own feelings.

Jasraj 6-C
Jasraj 6-C
Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates pro-social or helping behavior that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner. 
Although there may be individual differences in empathy based on genetic differences, research suggests it is possible to boost the capacity for emphatic understanding. In recent years neurosciences have advanced the concept of "mirror neurons," which are believed to enhance the capacity to display, read and mimic emotional signals through facial expressions and other forms of body language. Mirror neurons may help individuals share emotional experiences and become more emphatic toward others. The significance of mirror neurons remains in contention. 

 
Kaina Jain
Kaina Jain
Class- VI-C

I’ve got three things for you today- a rant, a lesson for life that will serve you well, and a quick request. 
This is only my twelfth year on this planet but I have come round to realise that empathy is the most important virtue to tie a knot amongst the humans in this world.
Putting it parallely, Empathy is a seven letter word meaning walking seven miles in someone else’s shoes and viewing life from their perspective  for seven births ( I believe in it).

I  empathised with that person whom nobody pays attention towards but they meet them in almost every vacation- the air hostess. I had an eight hour long flight this time. I had expected it to be tiresome but on the contrary I felt really relaxed and comfortable. Then struck to me a sudden moment of realisation that all what I had felt was because of that air hostess who took care of all my needs during the restless midnight flight. But who took care of her?  I thought about the air hostess who was not only attending to my needs but to every passenger’s. I couldn’t sleep for the remaining two hours of my flight thinking about her. She was roaming in the flight wearing a formal outfit, heavy make up and a pair of heels which were making her uneasy. Passengers were calling her repetitively. Besides not being able to sleep through the night, they didn’t even have the time to have their dinner peacefully as they were busy serving the people on board. They have to go through this situation everyday and stay away from their families for a long duration. On landing at my destination, I wished her luck for her future flights thinking that it might help her deal with the passengers.

Every profession offers a several comforts and demands hardship so I admire the air hostess for doing her job commendably. I explored this world of empathy and believe me, it was peaceful to think about someone’s feelings in this materialistic world. I urge you to explore this world of empathy and feel the peace what I am feeling today. With every morning you wake up, promise to yourself to be generous to others and understand what they are going through.  

Kavneet Kaur
Kavneet Kaur
Class VI A
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of anotger and feeling with the heart of another".
Empathy is the ability to sense other persons's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be feeling. One of my favourite experience about empathy is dream but one i had in my life.
                                          In this summer vacations, my parents decided to rennovate our house. My dad hired a man to bring all the tools and material for work. The man came on a rikshaw. He was very old man. He was about 65 years old. He was keeping all the tools and material inside , which were very heavy. Me and my dad felt pitty for him. We asked him to sit and have water, after that we asked him for food also. We also helped him in his work. He was delightedto see our kindness and gave us lots of blessings. I wonder how hard he have to work for survive. My father told me that life is notas easy as we are living. I felt really happy by helping him.
                       Helping someone with the bottom of my heart  gives me happiness and understanding someone's emotions , this iswhat empathy means to me. Giving helping hand to someone needy is just priceless.
Aashika Goel VI-C
Aashika Goel VI-C
Roll no. 6

I feel empathy towards the handicapped or crippled people. I would have never begged or cried much and rather looked for ways in which i could still do the tasks like a normal being. I was really inspired by Subhreet Kaur Ghumman who performed dance single leggedly on India's Got Talent. This is just one of the many stories. 
I also talk to handicapped people and try to encourage them to find new ways to overcome their handicap.
Obviously i am very thankful to god that i am able to lead a normal life and may nothing like this happen to anyone but if it does, to give them the strength to overcome their handicap.


Kartik Kapoor (6th B)
Kartik Kapoor (6th B)
Empathy is when you are quite literally feel the other person’s emotion alongside them, you have  ‘caught’ the emotion. 
In this summer vacation , i was feeling hungry and my mother was not at home. So i dialed a number of grocery story and asked the shopkeeper to send a packet of maggi. He replied me that the packet will reach in ten minutes at your home. I put my phone down. After 7-8 minutes a small child of my age rang the doorbell and on hearing it i went out to open the door in a very hot daylight with a temperature of 42 degrees celsius. He was bare footed. I told him to come inside and to sit on the chair and i brought cold water for him and asked the reason for him being bare footed on such a hot day. He told me that he is poor and he can’t afford to buy any shoes or slippers. I told him to wait and went inside and gave him all my shoes and slippers which were not in use now. I told him to wear those and to take them home if they were comfortable. When he was going back the smile on his face made me also happy. When my mother returned home i told her about the proud work which i did. She was happy and proud of me. 
This incident teaches me the value oh noticing how other people feel.
Inayat Sahni
Inayat Sahni 
Class 6D 
Empathy
Hey I am Inayat Sahni and this is my first attempt towards blogging in which I will try to express my feelings on EMPATHY. 

Our lives have been blessed with luxuries and facilities provided to us by our parents. From a big house to expensive cars to studying in one of the top schools, we have been blessed with the best. But life isn’t fair for everyone. 

My blog on EMPATHY focuses on my domestic helper who has a daughter who is my age. Her mother has only one dream that her child doesn’t have to suffer in life like the way she is struggling. She works three jobs in a day only because her daughter could study in an English medium school . She is not only supporting her education but is also responsible for her household chores. When I place myself in her shoes I feel her life is very difficult and troublesome. I empathise with her obstacles. 
Rehana Makkar (6th A)
Rehana Makkar (6th A)
 
 Empathy: A selfless compassion towards others

"Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates prosocial or helping behaviors that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner."

Empathy is different from sympathy

Mostly people get confused between empathy and sympathy and they think that sympathy is the exact synonym of empathy. Perhaps, there is a great difference between empathy and sympathy as sympathy is only showing concern for feeling sad for someone while empathy is the promotion of selfless compassion action on behalf of another person or group of people.

My story of Empathy


I vividly remember when I was in class 3rd, I was given a holiday homework of visiting a nearby old age home and serving the old people with food and helping them by giving some clothes and other necessities to them. Though it was just a holiday homework for me, the visit to an old age home had a great impact on my mind and soul. When I saw those old people sitting idle counting there remaining life days on fingers, I was completely shattered. I realized that they not in a greed of food and clothing but what all they need is love, respect and time.

I met a 65 years old lady named Radha Sharma who was sitting alone and there was sadness on her face. When I talk to her I came to know that his own son left him in the old age home because he cannot take care of her anymore. She told me how badly she missed her grandson. Tears started rolling out of my eyes and I hugged her tightly. There was silence all around me and I could only see her old wrinkled face with a hope that one day his son will come and take her from this place. I know I could not do much for her but what I finally decided was to spend at least an hour with her so that I can bring smile on her. I sat with her and played cards and ludo with her.

 After that I went back to home but I was not able to forget her face. Therefore, I insisted my mother that I will visit the old age home to meet 'Radha Maa' at least once a month. The next time I visited there, I took a saree for her. She smiled and gave lot of blessings to me. That day I realized the true difference between empathy and sympathy. 

 



Namanpreet singh sya
Namanpreet singh syal  Class 6th B
Feel invisibility
Emphathy is beautiful thing that we can feel...it's our emotions that come out at the time when we see a particular person or animal..I also felt such feeling many times but i want to share one of them
        These holidays we visited Nanital,when we were going for lake boating i just need to go to washroom,i preffered paid washrooms which is near to me...when i came out i saw a cleaner who is cleaning that washroom i think it's toughest job that she is doing,really we never paid attention to such attendents who are standing in washrooms all the day for us.Their job is to keep the washrooms clean ,sanitary and nice to us to visit for only a few minutes.can u imagine how nasty can public washroom could become in just one day,if these people were not there.By mentioning this ,I'm not trying to low their value,rather i tried to go out of my way to say them 'hello' and ' thank you so much'.Their responsibility is often one of the amazing workthat no one notice and always invisible to others...The smile i saw was the 100 dollars smile......😊
Arihaan Aggarwal IV-C
Arihaan Aggarwal IV-C


Arihaan Aggarwal IV-C
Arihaan Aggarwal IV-C
Empathy is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. According to the ten Life skill laid down BY WHO (World Health organisation), Empathy is one of the most important skills. For a good relationship with our loved ones in the society, we must take care of other people's needs, desires and feelings. Without empathy, our relationship with other people is unnecessary.

Recently, I felt empathy for a poor boy.
At a cold day of December, I was roaming at the street near my home when I saw a boy of my age coming out of a small house shivering in cold. Then I started feeling empathy for the boy which was shivering. I went near that boy and asked him his name. His name was Rahul. I asked him to come with me in my house. I gave him water and then went in my store room for finding my old jacket or sweater. Atfter a while, I found a sweater which I was not using. I gave that sweater to Rahul and said him not to come without that sweater out in cold and if he wanted anything then come again. From that day, we become friends and he could come out in cold next time. This was a good experience for me and he was happy to. After that, whenever he saw me, he gave me a smile and said thanks.

Making someone happy makes us happy to. It's example is what happened to me. This is the importance of Empathy.




jasraj
jasraj
jasraj
jasraj 
jasraj s
jasraj s
jasraj sin
jasraj sin
Empathy
Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.
                      

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates provincial or helping behaviour that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner. 
Although there may be individual differences in empathy based on genetic differences, research suggests it is possible to boost the capacity for empathetic understanding. In recent years neuroscientists have advanced the concept of "mirror neurons," which are believed to enhance the capacity to display, read and mimic emotional signals through facial expressions and other forms of body language. Mirror neurons may help individuals share emotional experiences and become more empathic toward others. The significance of mirror neurons remains in contention.


           
 Empathy includes emotions
 
Jasraj
Jasraj
Kyna Jagota VI-B
Kyna Jagota VI-B
''Empathy is simply listening, holding space,withholding judgement,emotionaly connecting ,communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.''


In this blog I would like to put myself into my servant's shoes.Its very easy to say  abusive words but when those words come back to you ,you feel so angry and irritated.


See the routine of my servant .She is working the whole day .She packs my tiffin in the morning and does all the other household work . One day I came back from my class and my servant offered me mango.There was an ant on the mongo .I blamed her so much that you don't take care of anything . I was in a such an angry mood that I said her that you and your family is mad.She just kept on listening and started  crying .She told my mom everything and then I got scoldings from my mom.After a few hours  later I realised that she does my whole work and handles everything and what all have I said to her .She is an underprivileged person and I said her so many things .I thought the if I would be in her place how many ants would be there on my mango .


Therefore I felt bad for her  and apologised  her .From that day I realised my mistake and understood the hardship of a servant. 



Aiyra Sood VI-D
Aiyra Sood VI-D

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Unlike sympathy, which simply means feeling sadness or pity for someone who is undergoing some type of hardship, empathy promotes selfless compassion and action on behalf of another person or group of people.
And i felt this emotion of empathy towards the stray dogs. I used to feel really sad for them since they have no place to live, no proper food to eat and water to drink. And so i decided to be empathetical towards them. So now i take care of one of the stray dog in my street. I give him food and water and also tried to make a shelter for him. I also discovered that we can hand over these dogs to the municipal. You all should also take care because these creatures also have feelings like we do and since they cannot speak and cannot do many things like we do. So it is our responsibility to look after them and try to make the world a better place for them to live.
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Paramkabir Singh VI-C
Paramkabir Singh VI-C
Empathy is an active attempt to understand another person's perspective,their emotions and reality. We are social animals and our ability to communicate and understand each others emotional state is the key to maintain our relationships.We should make an effort to try and experience other people's reality as well.

Recently,I felt empathy towards an Ice-cream hawker.The first thing that caught my eye was the name imprinted on his cart " Preetam Badshah" .I was in Yamuna Nagar to spend some days in summer vacations. He was peddling and sweating in heat when he came horning towards me  and my cousin.He already knew my cousin as he is his regular customer.He was delighted to greet us. I started imagining his schedule throughout the day and how he finds his happiness in small things and limited earnings. That day I learnt patience and keeping  calm.
We can develop these empathetic skills by actively thinking beyond our own concerns and practising some simple habits-
☆ Be observant of others.
☆ Always keep your curiosity alive .
☆ Stop categorising and labelling people.
☆ Use active listening.
☆ Open up and have more exchange of opinions.
Paramkabir Singh VI
Paramkabir Singh VI C
PRISHA VI-C
PRISHA VI-C
The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

In fact, empathy also comes from a German word, Einfühlung, meaning “feeling in.” And just as there are many ways to feel; there are multiple ways to experience empathy. The three forms of empathy that psychologists have defined are: Cognitive, Emotional, and compassionate
Suppose you are a student and you got the first failing grade on your assignment .You have never got this failing grade before and are disappointed and surprised that where did you went wrong in your assignment . you started yo feel depressed and and think that you are a failure 
Your friends take you out in-order to cheer you up "i feel sorry that you failed in your assignment" says barbie  and Sia  puts her hand on your back and said "i know how you are you feeling  i also failed in the in a class test .You must be disappointing and upset with yourself but try don't  be too harsh with yourself. Sia's reply was an example of  empathy.  
Haneet Kaur 6th A roll no-7
Haneet Kaur 6th A roll no-7
SIYA SINGAL VI-D
SIYA SINGAL VI-D
EMPATHY :
It is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. The ability to put yourself in other’s shoes, and try to relate and understand where they are coming from, even if the situation is not familiar to you.

5 Ways to Empathize :
Put aside your viewpoint, and try to see things from the other person's point of view.
Validate the other person's perspective.
Examine your attitude.
Listen. 
Ask what the other person would do.
VANIA CHOPRA VI-D
VANIA CHOPRA VI-D
" Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another"
It is not always about 'me' or 'I' but also about 'we' sometimes it is good to think beyond an individual's life and realize the sensitivity of other's situations.

The most empathetic moment I have ever had was when my elder sister passed through her board exams with flying colours.  She scored 95%.  I could relate that happiness because at the same moment I became the topper of the class.  I felt very happy and proud because of our achievements.  My parents kept congratulating us for our intelligence.  It was really a big moment for all of us.  My sister was really glad and could not stop smiling.  After that day, I was really inspired that I have to do better and better.  She actually inspired me the most.  Our parents were praising us for our hard work.  It was really a proud moment for all of us.

Some ways to expand empathy can be like to walk in other's shoes or ask more and more of questions to the other person if you think that the person is sad or happy.

I really want the same situation to happen all the time as it inspired me a lot and from then I was more dedicated to be the topper of batch not the class.
Mehraaj Singh VI-C
Mehraaj Singh VI-C

Empathy is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions , coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.
I felt empathy seeing the greengrocer who sells vegetables by walking street to street in such a hot weather, this is so much painful them to walk whole day only to earn money for their family.
Empathy is at it's simplest awareness of the feelings and emotions of other person . It is the key element of emotional intelligence , the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as it we were feeling it ourselves.
TEEKSHAN JAIN
TEEKSHAN JAIN
VI-A

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. 
 l felt empathy seeing a horse pulling a cart,with a lot of burden on it. In such hot weather all sweating and having sticks on his back. Working all day long and getting nothing for it,just some food and water.
 And i also feel emphaty for other animals pulling carts and also seeing people hiting street dogs. At holi i also saw some people threw colours on street dogs. 
Rav Asees Singh VI-A
Rav Asees Singh VI-A
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart. 

-      Sue Monk Kidd (www.brainyquote.com)

Here is an incident which comes into my mind. One day, I argued with my father to have pet or a bird in my house because an idea of pet always fascinates me. We decided to put our case front of my grandmother and I was quite confident that my grandmother would support me this time too. To my utmost surprise, she is against this idea. Granny explained me that, all the creatures are created by God and they have equal right to live as human beings. They breathe the same air, share the same land. They must also have same right to roam freely on the land and in the sky as the humans do. She said that the humans who committed serious crimes are only caged and the birds and animals have an exception because they are caged for their personal leisure. She accompanied me to the nearby shop and showed me the pitiable conditions in which they were caged. Their deplorable condition could be judged easily through the following picture.

I can empathize the pathetic conditions in which they are captured  in the cages. It was 40o C temperature and the cage was placed in the sun only to attract the passer-by which might be their probable customers. On the other hand, I can barely stand in the Sun. They store these living creatures as stock and they couldn’t breathe in the locked tiny shops at night when there is no source of fresh air. They even have to leave their parents, siblings, community, friends, open space, fresh air, nature’s lap and above all freedom. My grandmother opined that the injustice to these innocent living creatures would not stop until we don’t appreciate the business of caged creatures. She also suggested the need to sensitize the human beings for these living innocent creatures. 
Pehchan Rai VI-B
Pehchan Rai VI-B
Empathy is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships, reducing stress, and enhancing emotional awareness – yet it can be tricky at times.Empathy is not sympathy. When we’re sympathetic, we often pity someone else, but maintain our distance (physically, mentally, and emotionally) from their feelings or experience. Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand, relate to, or imagine the depth of another person’s emotional state or situation. It implies feeling with a person, rather than feeling sorry for a person. And in some cases that “person” is actually us.

Empathy can be tricky, particularly when we have an emotional connection (or attachment) to the people or situation involved (which we almost always do).  It’s also challenging to feel empathy when we feel threatened, stressed, or emotionally triggered (all of which we can experience a lot, especially with those who mean the most to us).  And, empathy is sometimes misunderstood.
Empathy is NOT:

Sympathy

Pity

Agreement

Commiseration

Endorsement

Simply put, empathy is getting into another person’s world and connecting with them both emotionally and compassionately. We don’t have to agree with them or fully understand them to be able to empathize. We don’t even need to be able to relate to what they are experiencing specifically (although that can help).  We just need to be present, connect with them where they are, and acknowledge what they’re experiencing.  Empathy for ourselves, while different contextually, actually functions the exact same way, simply turned inward.
The problem is that we often allow our egos, opinions, and judgments to get in the way of our ability to experience and express empathy.  If I agree with someone completely, can totally relate to them, and see things exactly as they do, it’s quite easy for me to empathize with them.
However, if I don’t agree, can’t relate, have a very different take on the situation or actually think how they’re reacting to things is potentially harmful for them and others, it’s often very hard for me to be empathetic towards them and I also worry that my expression of empathy could come across as agreement or endorsement.
While it can be challenging, the power of empathy is essential to the health and success of our relationships and lives.  It is a key element to our own emotional intelligence and well being.  With the people closest to us, including ourselves, and the issues that mean the most to us, empathy is even more critical, but often more difficult for us to experience and express.
Vaman Gupta VI-C
Vaman Gupta VI-C 
Empathy,in its simplest form means awareness of the feeling of the emotions of other people.......empathy goes far beyond sympathy, which means feeling for someone. On the other hand empathy is feeling with someone through imagination.It is a key element of Emotional Intelligence, the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” ...

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” ...

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them

One of my favorite experiences about empathy is a dream but the best one I had in my life

I was going to my cricket academy when I saw a poor kid on the street .I felt pity for him and asked him if he liked cricket or not. He nodded and ran away. The next day I bought him one of my old bat and then left for my class, in the evening I saw the same boy sitting on a foot path 
I asked him about the bat and he said he gave it to a little child who desperately wanted to play cricket.I was highly motivated

 TYPES OF EMPATHY

Cognitive Empathy

Cognitive empathy, also known as ‘perspective-taking’ is not really what most of us would think of as empathy at all.

Cognitive empathy is basically being able to put yourself into someone else’s place, and see their perspective.

It is a useful skill, particularly in negotiations for example, or for managers. It enables you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, but without necessarily engaging with their emotions. It does not, however, really fit with the definition of empathy as ‘feeling with’.

Emotional Empathy

Emotional empathy is when you quite literally feel the other person’s emotions alongside them, as if you had ‘caught’ the emotions.

Emotional empathy is also known as ‘personal distress’ or ‘emotional contagion’. This is closer to the usual understanding of the word ‘empathy’, but more emotional.

Compassionate Empathy

Finally, compassionate empathy is what we usually understand by empathy: feeling someone’s pain, and taking action to help.

The name, compassionate empathy, is consistent with what we usually understand by compassion. Like sympathy, compassion is about feeling concern for someone, but with an additional move towards action .


THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY

Human relationships are an integral aspect of our lives. We are all, in one way or another, connected, and these relationships have to be sustained. Empathy is one of the ingredients towards building, maintaining and strengthening human relationships. Therefore, it is safe to say that empathy improves relationships and, consequently, helps one achieve greater success and an overall feeling of well-being and happiness.

Empathy encourages people to perform acts of charity and heroism. Those with higher levels of empathy are more likely to go out of their way to help others who are in need, even at the risk of their own comfort or self-interest. It encourages acts of selflessness from people, even resulting to heroic and, to a certain extent, self-sacrificing acts
Empathy promotes equality. People will start to act and think more “in the spirit of fairness”. Fights against inequality are often grounded on empathy, with the advocates promoting the idea of reaching out to the less fortunate ones, or those who belong to marginalized and stigmatized groups.
Empathy improves workplace relationships and processes. There are hierarchies even in the workplace, and if empathy is demonstrated in this setting, it will result in a more harmonious and peaceful working environment, while improving productivity of the workers.

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Hanshika Fatehpuria VI-B
Hanshika Fatehpuria VI-B
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is ,in capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

In this blog I am going to share an incidence that I encountered a few days back.

Me and my friend were taking a walk, near her new house. We saw a pair of old shoes which belonged to a worker who was constructing her new house. She told me to play a trick on that man. She said me to hide his shoes and conceal ourselves behind those bushes ,and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them. I replied to her that we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. She was comparatively rich and she could give herself a great pleasure by means of a poor man. I suggested her to put a coin into each shoe and hide ourselves to watch how the discovery affects him. My friend did so, and we both concealed ourselves behind the bushes. The worker came out of the house to pic his coat and shoes. While putting his shoes, he felt something hard inside the shoe ,he stooped down to feel ,and found a coin in both of his shoes. Astonished and wonder where seen upon his countenance. He gasped upon the coin, turned it around, and looked at it again and again. He looked around and found no one. He  put the coin in his pocket, kneeled down on  his knees .He looked up heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanks giving, in which he spoke of his wife,sick and helpless and his children without bread, whom timely bounty from some unknown hand would save from perishing.

Thus, this incident gave my friend a valuable lesson to show empathy towards poor. She also learnt that,

‘YOU CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND PEOPLE IF YOU FEEL THEM IN YOURSELF’ 

Tia Upadhyaya VI-B
Tia Upadhyaya VI-B
Empathy is the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings & ability to share another persons feelings and emotions as if they were your own  .

My story related to Empathy
When we were traveling to Chandigarh during summer vacations . We stopped at the restaurant to have our lunch . Their I saw a small child asking for money . As I did not have any money at that time . Feeling pity , I gave him a toy, which I really liked. He was overwhelmed and I was sure that he would respect more than I did . First , I wasn't that happy to do this but I felt really happy for him afterwords .
   
Tia Upadhyaya VI-B
Tia Upadhyaya VI-B
Compassion
It's important to be able to feel what someone else is feeling so that we can help them .
Gobind Sikka
Gobind Sikka VI B
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of the another and feeling with the heart of the other"
Some experiences change our lives forever. Recently on my visit to my matetnal grandparents house, I had one such experience. Someone had parked a car right in front of their gate. On asking, my grandfather told me that it was the young boys living next door. I became really angry and told my grandfather to go and confront them. My grandfather became sad and said that he wont say anything. On further prodding, he told me that whenever they say anything the boys talk back rudely and start fighting. My grandparents stay alone and I was really hurt by their helplessness and defeated attitude. 
Next morning i woke up with a resolve. I went and spoke to the boys next door and very courteously requested them to park their vehicles carefully and be respectful to my grandparents. I asked them to just imagine if someone did the same to their parents or grandparents. The boys immediately apologised to my grandfather. My grandfather was elated and felt very proud of me.
"See the light in each other,
Be the light for each other."
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Aahana Gupta VI-D
Aahana Gupta VI-D
What is EMPATHY? It is the ability to feel others feelings. We all know its meaning but it does not matter. I am saying this because we all never do this actually we do not want to do this because these days we all are happy in our own lives. we never think that what the other person is feeling when he/she is hurt.

Once I went to a market with my mother. Over there was a little child who was very poor. So he was asking everybody for money. Then he went to a lady, and then she angrily said, "Go away. I will not give you any money!!" But that little boy did not go away. then she said,"If you do not go away i am gonna slap you!!"At that point of time i felt very sad for the boy. then i ran towards him and gave him some money which I took from my mother.Then that boy smiled so did i and my heart.

Though this was a small act of empathy, but if everyone does small-small acts of empathy, then this world will become a much happier place. Believe it or not.

Last but not the least I would like to say-If we can't see eye to eye let's try heart to heart.
Kainaa Jain VI-D
Kainaa Jain VI-D
Kainaa Jain VI-D
Kainaa Jain VI-D 
Empathy is the ability to feel the emotions of others and put yourself in the shoes of other people 
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another,listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another 
No one cares how much you know,until they know how much you care 
Empathy  means instead of putting others in their place,put yourself in their place 
Before you speak think and be smart it’s hard to fix a wrinkled heart this gives me the inspiration to be able to understand the other person’s feelings it means that whatever you speak about the other person it leaves a permanent mark on the person’s heart and it is very difficult to erase that mark from their heart

STEPPING INTO THE SHOES OF THE OTHER PERSON SOUNDS LIKE A PIECE OF CAKE,BUT IT IS NOT SO EASY 
Rajvi Jain
Rajvi Jain 
What is empathy? It is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. The ability to put yourself in other’s shoes, and try to relate and understand where they are coming from, even if the situation is not familiar to you and empathy is not sympathy because sympathy means , caring and understanding for the suffering of others. So lets not get confused between sympathy and empathy. Sympathy is “aww, I’m sorry that happened to you (but I don’t actually feel it myself)”; empathy is “wow, I feel what you’re going through, and that feels horrible”.

 I am going to share with you one experience when I felt empathy for someone 
It is when I was doing my holidays homework last to last year for the social service we were told to visit the old age home. When I was walking through the corridor I felt sympathy for everybody. We took along some eatables for them but while I went to every room and gave them the items, I encountered one old man I offered him the eatables but he said he couldn’t eat them as he  was old and had only few teeth left whereas he offered me some sweets and I took them but still I felt bad for him . So I told my mom to go home and cook some homemade soup and dal and rice for him while till the time she was cooking,   me ,my sister and my dad were listening to his story and felt sorry for him but when my mom came and gave him the food he was so happy and that made me happy and gave me a wonderful feeling. But now we had to leave. 

Even now when I look back at that time, my heart prays that all the sufferings of such people will soon come to an end and world will be a more prosperous and happy place. I hope u guys liked the blog.






Empathy
Empathy
HANEET KAUR 6TH-A ROLL NO.-7
HANEET KAUR 6TH-A  ROLL NO.-7
Shaurya Gupta VI-C
Shaurya Gupta VI-C
"Empathy is the ability to share and understand anybody's feelings and emotions."

Step into someone else's shoes sounds as a piece of cake, but it is not so easy.
Avni Somani VI-A
Avni Somani VI-A
Empathy, as we all know, is the ability to understand other people’s situations and feel like them and for them in those situations. This is indeed easier said than done. Our minds and hearts are so crowded by our feelings, views, opinions and biases that we are not able to feel for the other person, as they would feel it. But, when we do, empathy creates a closer bond between people.
My elder cousin, Shivani Di was preparing for her CA Final Exams. She was very tense throughout the preparatory period and worked very hard. I was so anxious when her results were to be announced. Unfortunately, she could not clear the exam. She was very sad. I felt the same. I also thought the God has been unfair with her as I have seen her work so hard. As she did. I tried to comfort her in that situation by asking her to engage in various activities with me. After a while, she decided to try the exams once more and we all encouraged here. She passed with flying colours. I was so happy with her. We all celebrated a lot. Shivani Di relishes the moments now, when I tried to make her sadness go away in my small ways and when I was so sad for her. We share a deep bond due to empathy from both of us.
Empathy is a key habit that should be carefully nurtured. People should be kind and compassionate towards others. Before reacting in any situation, people should stop and try to visualise how they would feel if they were the other person. This when done continuously will become a habit and help us to understand each other more carefully. At the last feelings is not only the way to have a better relationship, empathy is the path to live a better life .
Fatehveer Singh VI-D
Fatehveer Singh VI-D
 Empathy is “the act of coming to experience the world as you think someone else does.”   “The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes.”    Empathy is the ability to connect with the other person's pain and try to understand how he or she might be feeling.
In fact, empathy also comes from a German word, Einfühlung, meaning “feeling in.” And just as there are many ways to feel; there are multiple ways to experience empathy. The three forms of empathy that psychologists have defined are: Cognitive, Emotional, and Compassionate.
Eight Ways to Improve Your Empathy-
Challenge yourself. Undertake challenging experiences which push you outside your comfort zone. ...
Get out of your usual environment. ...
Get feedback. ...
Explore the heart not just the head. ...
Walk in others' shoes. ...
Examine your biases. ...
Cultivate your sense of curiosity. ...
Ask better questions.
One such incident that happened to someone who works at my house left me shocked and feeling sad for her.
When this incident took place i was in Dalhausie. When we came back home we gave her a holiday for recovering fast.

                thank you
Jahnavi Nayyar VI-D
Jahnavi Nayyar VI-D
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is feeling or Is going through. To put it simply "Empathy is the ability to put oneself in someone else's boots." It is the most important human value when it comes to handling relationships with loved ones.

Children nowadays lack this feeling of empathy towards people specially their parents and grandparents. They are unable to understand that their parents work day and night to satisfy them and fulfil their needs and their grandparents are the ones who have taught them certain values and basic etiquettes. One such incident happened with me when I had an argument with my grandma about whether she knew how to work with modern fashion or not. The argument ended with my grandma feeling sad and dejected by me. My dad later made me realize that she(my granny) also went through my age and has way way way more experience than me and always knows best. My dad made me feel empathy by telling me that everything she does for me is for the best and also has kept me like a part of herself. Later that night I went to her, kissed her and told her that I was sorry and would never do it again.
My only wish is that children understand the plight of their parents and grandparents who work so hard at the office and at home just to keep us happy.
Thank you for letting me share my views on this topic.
Ananya Dhawan VI-B
Ananya Dhawan VI-B
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler
Empathy is trying to understand what another person is feeling.  It is seeing the world through another’s eyes.   It helps people to get along better and to feel better.Having empathy is a key ingredient to becoming the  best person you can be.Listening to someone rather than trying to talk to them,asking someone how they are feeling if you think there is something wrong,learning about people from different backgrounds and cultures,showing concern and care for others,paying attention to the needs of others,getting to know someone better instead of judging them and many other things which can be done by one to be empathetic.Its easy to say,but hard to practice.
Positive emotions like empathy or gratitude are linked to a more positive continual state and these people are far more likely to help others than those not experiencing a positive emotional state. Thus, empathy's influence extends beyond relating to other's emotions, it correlates with an increased positive state and likeliness to aid others.
“Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins.  And it’s up to you to make that  happen.  Empathy is a quality of character that can  change the world.” – Barack Obama
 
Here are eight ways to strengthen your own empathy:

1. Challenge yourself. Undertake challenging experiences which push you outside your comfort zone. Learn a new skill, for example, such as a musical instrument, hobby, or foreign language. Develop a new professional competency. Doing things like this will humble you, and humility is a key enabler of empathy.

2. Get out of your usual environment. Travel, especially to new places and cultures. It gives you a better appreciation for others.

3. Get feedback. Ask for feedback about your relationship skills (e.g., listening) from family, friends, and colleagues—and then check in with them periodically to see how you’re doing.

4. Explore the heart not just the head. Read literature that explores personal relationships and emotions. This has been shown to improve the empathy of young doctors.

5. Walk in others’ shoes. Talk to others about what it is like to walk in their shoes—about their issues and concerns and how they perceived experiences you both shared.

6. Examine your biases. We all have hidden (and sometimes not-so-hidden) biases that interfere with our ability to listen and empathize. These are often centered around visible factors such as age, race, and gender. Don’t think you have any biases? Think again—we all do.

7. Cultivate your sense of curiosity. What can you learn from a very young colleague who is “inexperienced?” What can you learn from a client you view as “narrow”? Curious people ask lots of questions (point 8), leading them to develop a stronger understanding of the people around them.

8. Ask better questions. Bring three or four thoughtful, even provocative questions to every conversation you have with clients or colleagues. 
“Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.” –  Arundhati Ray 

Why Only Me? By Sahib Kapoor VI - C
Why Only Me? By Sahib Kapoor VI - C
Can you actually stand into someone else’s shoes when you are facing your own sufferings? 

Empathy is not just a feeling but is an act done by someone to make another person feel cherished and heart-whelming. It is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you to understand their thinking patterns and perspectives. Empathy is one of the ingredients towards building, maintaining and strengthening human. Therefore, it is safe to say that empathy improves relationships and consequently helps one achieve greater success and an overall feeling of well being and happiness. 

Now let’s take a dive into my life’s ocean. My best example till date to understand empathy was when I dreamt about being a teacher. It was my first day at school teaching class 6th. As soon as I entered, the first thing heard was the screaming of the children. I was vexed with the paper planes roaming in the class like airplanes. The chalks and the duster cluttered the floor and the desks were scattered all around the place. The children were also eating chewing gums and sticking them under their desks and on the wall. I tried to shush them but they were not ready to listen. While I was handling the class, I mispronounced ‘keep quiet’ as ‘keep quit’ so the class belly laughed at me. I saw a lonely student sitting at the corner of the classroom. He had his head down. At last, when I banged the ruler, everyone silenced and seated back in their seats. The lonely student came to me and empathetically apologized on behalf of the entire class and assured me that it will not happen again in the future. I felt astonished due to the behavior of that student. I had so much agitation experiencing the nuisance created by the chaotic and unapologetic class. The moment which I experienced in my dreams cannot be described in words.

It was an exasperating experience, although in my dream.  Now I understand how our teachers feel when we do the same with them. 

Another thing to keep in mind is that blaming is not the solution. When you blame another for your own mistake, you can never grow to be a successful person in life. For instance, a plant not grown is always to be blamed. It is never thought that we must not have given it proper water or conditions to grow.

Ways to Expand Empathy:
By challenging and pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. 
Getting out of our usual environment by exploring new cultures and places.
Getting feedback from our colleagues, family, friends or teammates, so that we can work better on our well being. 
Exploring the heart and not just the head so that we can control our emotions and our personal relationships. 
Walking in other's shoes by experiencing their point of view.
Examining our biases by not categorizing others into different categories of gender, caste, creed or age.
Cultivating our sense of curiosity so that we can learn the important things in our life.
Asking better questions so that we can improve our understanding of people and that can help build us better relationships. 
Kridhay Mehra VI-D
Kridhay Mehra VI-D
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference,that is,to place oneself in another's position.

I am writing this blog on Empathy to share my experience with a  man and an unemployed man.

I was going to a market. There was a man going in a car.And the another man banged to the door of the car. Then man who got banged, said sorry to the another man. Although he was equally responsible for the accident. But the man was a rude and angry person. So he came out of the car and started hitting the person. he slapped his face.He could not do anything to him because he was unemployed.I felt very bad for him because  he did not have enough money and was helpless.
Aditi Lamba VI-D
Aditi Lamba VI-D
"Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins"

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.Empathy helps us to communicate our ideas in a way that makes sense to others, and it helps us understand others when they communicate with us. It is one of the foundational building blocks of great social interaction and, quite obviously, powerful stuff.

Our brains are wired to experience the emotions that someone else is feeling. 

I decided to empathise on my father...

When i was a kid I thought that i was the one doing all the work like going to tutions , completing my homework and helping at home but then one night i herd my father in the kitchen , he had come to drink a glass of water ,it was the middle of the night and while he was drinking water i went into his study room and saw his computer was on and some papers were scattered all around his desk and then i realised that he did a lot more work than i did. So i took a decision that i would start helping him. Well, i couldn't exactly handle all the work, but some minor things can also make a difference.

 Empathy is a universal team value that promotes high commitment and cooperation in the workplace.
Medhansh Singal VI-B
Medhansh Singal VI-B
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.It is the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

In this blog I would like to put myself into the shoes of my mother.

My mother gave more time to my younger brother so I always felt so irritated and angry but when I stepped into her shoes I realised that she gave more time to him because he was small and could not eat his food or do something alone.And whatever time was required for me she used was in my studies and other activities was given to me properly.

Empathy is a very important skill.It cannot be increased on its own.We can increase it by trying to do challenges that take you out of your comfort zone.
You Can Only Understand Another By Feeling Them In Yourself
You Can Only Understand Another By Feeling Them In Yourself
Hey ! I’m Krishnav Chowdhry if class 6-D ,and this is my first attempt at blogging in which I am trying to convey my feelings on Empathising with someone to empower them.

Our life doesn’t consist of only the holidays or the happy days. It is an important part of life to face difficulties and to struggle to overcome them. It is I these tumultuous times when we realise the importance of a kind or encouraging word ,by a stranger or a confidant ; alike. Empathy is the core value which is the sole necessity for the survival of the human race.
                               But what is empathy ?
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is , the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. Empowering someone, on the other hand is to increase their capacity to make choices. They are both very closely linked and I would like to illustrate an example from my own life.
                                                                          I empathise with my sister, who has her board examinations soon as she is going through a tough time.I empower her by supporting her choices and telling her inspirational  quotes to help her tide over. “ Exams are like festivals,celebrate them,” is her favourite one! I make her laugh by acting silly and goofy around her.I also asked my mother to teach me how to make coffee so that she was able to study at night !
                                                                     Empathising with someone is seeing through their eyes, listening with their ears and feeling with their heart. Empathy is one quality that enables you to never look down upon another person unless you are helping them.
                                                                 There is a major difference between empathy and sympathy.Look at it this way : If you empathise with a person,you understand the struggle they went through to make it across a path; but if you sympathise with them,then you only see the blisters on their feet.

In the end I would like to state that in a world full of people who couldn’t care less, we should strive to be someone who couldn’t care more.
Saher Gupta VI-B
Saher Gupta VI-B 
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. " 
Empathy is the feeling of being in someone's shoes. Without empathy the world will be a traffic jam. It's very easy to make fun of someone without knowing what he/she is going through. Also empathy is one such value that we need to implement  in our daily life. Without empathy we will have no friend and no one will try to understand our feelings. 

Like any other kid, at first even I did not value but one incident changed my perspective towards life. My class and I used to trouble our new teacher a lot . When she used to explain our topic we used to whisper among ourselves . We even used to play with paper planes . I can recall whenever she read a chapter, she used to mispronounce some words and I would mock her . One fine day, as a punishment she asked me to read a chapter in front of the whole class. At first I was giggling at her stupid punishment. I took my teacher's place and she took mine. I started reading the chapter. That moment I could hear chatters all across the class and I could see paper planes. I was feeling dejected as I was putting all my energy in it. I remember I mispronounced a word . Every body started laughing at me. Tears rolled down my face. But then I saw my teacher encouraging me. I was over the moon. 

Therefore I understood the hardships of being a teacher . I apologised to her and made her comfortable in the new school. After that day I understood the value of EMPATHY.
ABIR CHADHA VI-B
ABIR CHADHA VI-B
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. The ability to put yourself in other’s shoes, and try to relate and understand where they are coming from.

In this blog I would like to put myself into one of my domestic helper's shoes. I want to know how it is to live his life.

He wakes up early in the morning, everyday to pack my food for school, and then works for the whole day doing different household chores. This his daily routine for almost a full year. He spends most of his time away from his family and only gets to see him for only about a month. I feel very empathetic for him. I can't imagine how I would be able to live my life without my family.

So this was my blog on Empathy. I hope you liked it and if you want to check out my blogging website where I post blogs monthly make sure to click the link down below.
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Abir Chadha 6
Abir Chadha 6

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Class- VI-C

Empathy is capacity to understand and feel what a another experiencing. Most of the people use the word Sympathy interchangeably but in reality sympathy is feeling pity for the problems of person whereas empathy is putting in the shoes of another person. It encompass a broad range of emotional states.

Recently I Experienced a similar situation while taking a walk along my mother as we went a long I saw a pair of old shoes, which belong to a poor man who was working in a field near by , and who had nearly finished his day's work. I turned to my mother and asked her whether I could play a trick and by hiding his shoes and hide behind those bushes. my mother told me should never amuse ourselves at the cost of the poor man rather we should put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the discovery effects him. we did so and hid ourselves behind bushes nearby. The poor man soon finished his work and came across the field where he had left something hard and bent down to feel what it was and found a coin. Happiness and wonder were seen upon his face. He gazed upon the coin again and again and turned around him on all the sides, but no person was to be seen. He put the coin in his pocket and proceed to put on the other
shoe : but his surprise was doubled on finding overcame him and he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud. he thanked god for the coins and tears started shedding down his eyes. I stood there deeply affected by that poor person's happiness. My mother asked me if i was much pleased than if i had played my silly trick on him. that day my mother taught me a lesson for lifetime which will never be forgotten by me. I feel now the truth of those words which I never understood before : " It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Unlike sympathy, which simply means feeling sadness or pity for someone who is undergoing some type of hardship, empathy promotes selfless compassion and action on behalf of another person or group of people.

I feel empathy towards animals in the zoo when thier babies are carried away from them. Its such a painfull sight to see a baby getting separated from a parent. Authorities do this to preserve their species but its very heart breaking to see families breaking . I really hope this practice to be stopped.

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Empathy means to put yourself in the someone else's shoes and understand the difficulties and problems that they face.
The first thoughts that came to my mind when thinking about empathy are about my grandparents. We live in a nuclear family and are hence away from both my maternal and paternal grandparents. We all are so busy in our lives that at times we even forget to talk to them.
My parents always encouraged me to call them up and ask for their well being at least every alternate day. During the weekends or holidays try and spend as much time with them as possible. Slowly I understood why they wanted me to do so, and why it is so important to talk to them so frequently.
Our grandparents are with us for a limited time and we kids are their lifelines. If we put ourselves in their position and think , they have spent their entire lives bringing up and taking care of our parents . Now when in the later years of their life, all they need is love from their kids and grandchildren. We just need to take out a little time everyday to talk to them and listen to their experiences. They are the best guides for all our day to day problems.
We need to understand that by  devoting time to our grandparents , we are not doing them a favour, but it is our duty as they have devoted their entire lives for us.

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within , that is the capacity to place oneself in another's position .
Empathy is at its simplest , awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people . it is the key element of emotional intelligence , the link between self and others , because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves .
Around a year back the daughter of my house maid used to come to my house to work with her mother . one day i asked her that why is she not going to school ?She told me that she has to help her mother for running the house and her mother cannot afford her studies . I felt very sad and asked my mother to pay her school fees and help her mother by increasing her salary or other incentives . Now that girl is happily going to school and is enjoying her childhood .

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another , listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.[1]

It is rightly said that if you judge people, you will have no time to love them. I had heard this phrase before but I never really knew what it meant. This was because

I had never personally experienced such a thing until a certain incident took place in my life.

This happened when i had gone to my Uncles place for the summer vacations.

The building he lived in, had a wonderful park and a playground where children used to play football everyday. Because I had to stay there for about 15 days, I decided to go and play with the children.

All the children were very sweet and let me play with them.

While playing I noticed that there was agirl who played really well but had torn and worn out shoes on her feet and I kind of created an opinion about her and didn’t want to interact with her.

Days passed and I used to see her everyday, playing with us but I never really spoke to her because of my judgemental attitude towards her.

But, one day it rained in the morning and the ground was all wet so we weren’t able to play that day. All of us were just sitting around getting bored when that girl came and told us that we could go to her place and do something else. I was reluctant to go but everyone insisted so i went with them. As soon as I entered her house, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Her house was huge and very beautiful. We went to her room and I saw that she had around 10 pairs of expensive shoes. I couldn’t control my curiosity and I asked her about it.

She told me that her elder brother used to play very good football but he died a year back in a car accident. Those were his shoes that she used to wear everyday in his memory. It was then that I realised the meaning of that statement and the meaning of Empathy
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another,listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within that is the capacity to play oneself in another’s position.

These summer Holidays gave me enlightening experiences and I felt grown up. Except for the ten days that I travelled to DUBAI, I was at home for the rest of the holidays spending all my time with my family and helpers – something that I had wanted to do for a very long time now.

We live in a farm house with huge well maintained lawns, pruned trees, mowed grass, flowers and lots of greenery. It is said that, “ A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER” so this joy set me thinking about the labour being put into maintain these lawns. I would observe the four gardeners who would come each day for four hours not bothering about the hot and humid weather. They would work tirelessly in the Sun, their skin looked like old worn out leather, their pale old clothes hung on their bodies, carrying their tools in their torn cloth carry bags, they would observe each plant and treat it like a doctor. I started empathizing with them and actually admired the hard work they were putting in their jobs. They were the reason for this beautiful ambience around us and I could feel that they lived a life sans any beauty.

There was hardly even any fresh air in their rented quarters away from their families, they probably planned the weddings of their daughters with the little money that they earned or the job oriented education that they wanted to impart to their sons. It was heart wrenching when one of them approached my mother for some advance because his little child was hospitalized. Trust me, I am trying to get two of them off PAN MASALA or TOBACCO chewing.

I have made my mother promise me that we would offer them tea and lunch everyday. I wish people doing manual labour here had the same dignity and financial security as it happens abroad. Well other may or may not understand but I would definitely try to put a little beauty in the lives of those “MAGICIANS” who have made me the recipient of this beauty – aka joy.

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Samaira Dhaliwal  6-B
EMPATHY is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships.It is the ability  to understand how someone else is feeling or to understand the situation they are in. It is the ability to "put yourself in someone else's shoes" and to understand the way a situation might make them feel. EMPATHY is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own.
A situation happened  last year, one of my best friend was out of country for around ten days.She had missed her school and her studies were hampering. Unfortunately, mid term examinations were just starting after two days when she came back.That evening, I went to her house to take my notebooks and found that she was very sad and her face was looking as if she was about to cry. With the felling of empathy, I asked her the reason of sadness. She told me that she was not able to solve maths sums as she had not attended the classes. I consoled her by saying that I would help you in explaining the concept of difficult sums and also helped her in scoring good marks in all subjects. After the examinations,the marks she scored were quite amazing and she scored A+ grade in all her subjects. I felt very happy for her.

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Saesha Dhaliwal 6-A

Empathy is the ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. Empathy is not sympathy. What we are sympathetic, we often put to someone else, but maintain our distance physically, mentally and emotionally from their feelings or experience.Empathy cover a wide spectrum,ranging from caring for other people and having a desire to help them, to experiencing emotions,to knowing what the other person is thinking or feeling.
Recently, an incident occured when I was playing in the park. I saw a little girl of about four years sitting under a tree at one of the corner in the park. I went to her and saw that she was very sad I asked her the reason of her sadness but she started crying. I sat beside her and patted on her shoulder and tried to make her relax so as to understand the cause of being sad. She said that while coming back from the tuition the auto driver's auto got stuck in mud . Her house was  quite far so Auto driver tried to explain her house address. She followed the way that was told by him but wasn't able to reach her destination. On her way she saw a park and thought to take some swings .After an hour, when she thought about her mom she started crying as she had lost the way that led to her home. I checked her bag to get some clue like mobile number,house address etc. but didn't find any. I tried to make her remember by asking questions again and again . After about an hour, at last she spoke her house number. I got relaxed and comforted her by saying that we would soon reach your house. A blushing smile on her face made me happy. I took my bicycle and took her safely to her house. Her mother thanked me for dropping her daughter safely to her house. I felt really very happy after helping her. Thanks.

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Class VI-B

Hello friends,
Before I begin writing this Blog, I would like you all to understand what being empathetic is. The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation or circumstances.

I have always imagined what my life would be if I were an animal or a bird. How would I be able to express my feelings to others. So, these days as it is very hot,whenever I feel thirsty, I think about my pets, my dogs, the birds in the sky. What if they are thirsty and there is no water in their bowls,how will they quench their thirst.

So now it is my daily routine to fill up my dogs' water bowls and  to fill the bowls with food and water that are placed on my terrace and balconies for the birds too.

It gives me so much happiness when I see the birds gathered around the bowls and my thirsty dogs drinking water.

So my dear friends, we are really blessed that God has given us the power of speech and expression.

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Class- VI-C

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of Empathy."

Hi ! I am Trisha Mahajan from grade VI.This is my first attempt at making  a blog. This blog as you are aware is about 'Empathy' which is one of the most important aspects for creating conflict-free relationships and reducing stress.So, do you know what exactly Empathy is? Well, from a 11 year old girl's outlook(That's me), Empathy is the ability to not only realize what others feel but also to undergo that emotion yourself. With Empathy we can experience the emotion of someone and what state he is going through. Well, I have always tried to be empathetic as well as sympathetic.Confused?  No, empathy and sympathy are not the same terms.Sympathy is about pitying someone while empathy is about understanding someone's feelings.Do you know, neither did I value my father's earnings,nor helped my mother in any work. My story took place when I was 9 years of age, I asked my parent's for a mobile phone. I was too young,so obviously  they refused. I informed them that all of my friends have a phone and they tease me for not having one.My parents told me that I just got a new I-pad on my birthday and I was too young to have a phone. My mum advised me not to get bothered if my friends tease me. I ran into my room and did not talk to anyone. The next day, my maid's daughter accompanied her to my house. While,our maid did the house work, I and her daughter, Suman were playing.She is of my age.I took Suman to my room and showed her my doll collection. She was so amazed to see all the things I had. She told me that all of her family slept in one room and she had only one doll,her mother gifted her on her birthday.I was dazed to hear everything because I had always complained about these things.  While playing, I noticed a piece of towel with eyes on it in Suman's hand. She told me that this was her birthday gift- a doll. My eyes widened. I thought that how could she be happy with these small things. I realized that we have got all the facilities but still disrespect and hurt our parents' feelings and never value their earnings and what they do for us but these children are happy with whatever they have.At night, I felt empathetic towards my parents ,I went to their room and  apologized  them for whatever I had done. I told them that I understand their feelings and I will never hurt them again. My parents were happy because I not only realized what they go through but also I experienced it mentally myself, So,friends I think you would have understood what Empathy is from this story.In my story I was not only insensitive of my parents' feelings but also happy as Suman had taught me a lesson in a day that no one could teach me in so many years.So, I also got Suman a new teddy bear that she wanted and I felt glad to see her smiling while holding her new teddy bear in her hand. Hence, we need to understand that in life,it is possible to have difficulties any time. At these moments we need to get the gesture of Empathy from others. All of us know about the different worries and stress but not all of us can be empathetic at such moments. We, being humans,feel empathy which is a trait that should  be possessed and realized in others. So,here are some ways to to expand and improve empathy:-

Explore the person's heart not just the head

Walk in other person's shoes

Smile at people

Examine your attitude

Try to practice empathy(internally)

Thank you for reading!
~Trisha Mahajan
Class- VI-C
Sat Paul Mittal School
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Abeer Puri
VI-B
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
MY EXPERIENCE OF EMPATHY  :-
Recently I felt empathy towards a 12 years old poor girl who daily sells toys on the traffic lights to earn a two times meal for herself. When i talked to her i came to know that she was an orphan and she lives with her aunt. She was not supported by anyone. When i imagined myself on her place i felt so bad because i could never imagine my life without my parents.I felt the pain that the girl suffers daily because she could not ask anyone for toys or for anything she want for herself all she could do is earn and eat food.That day i realised the value of small things.
I shared my feelings with my mother the same day and we decided to buy all the toys from the girl next day.The girl was soo happy and satisfied.
Empathy is the biggest deficit that we have in our society. Our society need more people who have courage to understand others and support them so that the World becomes a better place to live in.

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EMPATHY is seeing with the eyes of another, stepping into the shoes of another person and feeling with the heart of another person.  It doesn't need a lot of money. The main and only ingredients is a warm heart and a cheerful smile.In simple words empathy is to give your love when the unfortunate  has lost his. presently we are relaxed,enjoying every luxury from every gadget to our lavish homes.
Millions of people are not lucky as we are.Recently I felt empathy towards my maid's stepdaughter.Every day when my maid comes to clean the house her stepdaughter comes along.
She first went to school, but because she is allergic  from skin problem, children used to tease her and also because her mother didn't pay any attention towards her study's,she left school. she get's up early in the morning and fills water from the well. After that she stands in a long queue to use the washroom. What a poor life she has!!! I told this to my parents, and they did something that changed her whole life. My father took her to the doctor to cure her skin problem and my mother arranged a 12 hour school for her. After she was cured, she went to her new school. She learned many new things,and now i am very happy for her.
"IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT BUT IT'S EVEN IMPORTANT TO BE NICE".

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What is EMPATHY?
It is not too complicated or difficult concept. It doesn't need a lot of money to imbibe this quality. What it needs is only: a warm heart with a cheerful smile. It is the ability to see with the eyes of another, to listen with the ears of another and to feel with heart of another. In simple words, empathy is to give someone one of your smiles when the unfortunate has lost his.
Presently we are relaxed, enjoying every luxury, from browsing through the gadgets to living in lavish homes. But unfortunately out of trillion people in this world almost 1 million people are not lucky as we are. They don't have latest gadgets or branded clothes to wear. Giving this a hard thought, I glanced at my domestic help. What a terrible life she has! She is a poor lady. She gets up early in the morning and even works on Sundays. There are days when she is not well but she makes no lame excuses, cleans every nook and corner of the house and cooks anything for us which we name. After a long tiring day she only manages to get a short good night sleep.

When I am enjoying in my air-conditioned room, my maid is working in hot sun. She didn't even have a cycle so had to walk in the scorching heat from door to door.

I felt pity for her. When my mother added some cash to her regular salary, she used it to feed her children.

If I am not wrong, reading this article, you must be feeling sympathy for my maid. But don't confuse sympathy with empathy. Sympathy is only a pitiful feeling which you are having for her, whereas empathy is putting yourself in her shoes.

In fact I had empathy for her. So I persuaded my mother you buy her cycle. Though that was a quite a small thing for us but this gift brought a big smile on her face.

There are millions of needy people. Let's try to help them with small tasks like helping your busy mother in the kitchen, giving water to the thirsty birds in this hot weather.

It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice. Let's add peace and happiness to this world through our small acts of empathy.

I end my blog with the quote of Barrack Obama
"Learning to stand in somebody's else shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."

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Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. ... “Cognitive empathy,” sometimes called “perspective taking,” refers to our ability to identify and understand other people's emotions.

A number of days ago at a school for students with special needs, I had a conversation with a 13-year-old student. He was a person with Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21. This extra genetic material causes the developmental changes and physical features of Down syndrome  He asked to talk to me  He Said; I know I am not all that smart because I have that syndrome thing, and guess I will have it for quite a while. But I just hate it when people talk to me like I am stupid.”

I learned a lot from a very insightful young man that day.We should not make fun of someone who is disabled . After a talk with him i realized that he was really sad that people call him stupid and really if you ask me he is not  . He is also a human being like all of us just the problem was that he was not normal like all of us but he also had a heart he also had feelings he also had emotions. But i could not do anything for him because I knew that I cant heal his Down Syndrome but I knew that I can make him feel happy and do not let him feel about his problem and not make fun of him like others else I treated him as my friend
My thought is that;
A Healthy Mind does not think ill of others and we should keep our mind healthy and treat everybody as normal like we want everybody to treat us...

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'Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another'.
In this blog I would like to put myself into the shoes of my mother.
My mother always gave more time to my elder brother due to his board exams and i always thought that she didn't care for me. I always felt so irritated and angry but when i stepped into her shoes then only I realised that she gave equal time to both of us and she used to maintain balance in both of us and she used to take equal care of my studies.She is indeed our saviour.

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Manik Kaushal VI-D

Empathy is the ability of a person to recognise and understand the life of other person. To have a successful relationship with our loved ones in the society we need to take care of other people’s need , desires and feelings.. Without empathy, our interaction
with people is just one way traffic...

There are house helpers in my house who take help my mother in taking care of my house.. They come from a very poor , uneducated and male dominating family... The females are harassed and beaten from their husband . They are made to work whole day long without considering their value and importance in their family ...

One day I saw my maid crying and sobbing like a kid ... she was very sad and depressed from her state and condition. While she was talking to my mother I head their conversation secretly ( which is not good , I know ) but after that I felt bad for her and put myself into her condition and thought how can someone just not speak against injustice and torture that one is facing.. Just being uneducated and unaware of the rights she is holding she is living a very bad life ... She was very dedicated in making her daughters study and make them earn to live up to their livings....

I at that time saw the pain and grief a women faces in life if she has no money or she is uneducated in life ... Then as I Come from a lawyer background I talked with her and made her realise  what her importance in society is .. Still in this twenty first century we are fighting for rights of women, their safety , giving them the opportunity that they deserve... I hope within less time we will achieve the goal of Women empowerment ...

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Empathy is the ability to recognise,perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. It is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships and enhancing emotional awareness. Empathy is the feeling in which a person identifies the sorrows and sadness of other. One who feels empathy for someone, has a sense that he can truly understand what the person is going through in his tough times. He imagines the depth of another person's emotional state or situation by walking in someone else's shoes. It implies feeling with a person, rather than feeling sorry for him.

Owners harass helpers in homes and factories and treat them in a highly unacceptable manner showing no humanity. Owners should rather show empathy towards them and should be loving and caring towards them as they work hard day and night leaving their families behind in order to earn a living

Empathy is the symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to cultivate it to make a better person and motivate others to have empathic feelings. By this weekend make this world a worth living place.

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Empathy is seeing someone's life with their eyes .It is the awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. Putting ourselves on their place, we can experience their life in the best way. This summer break I also felt empathaized as I visited the old age home, where old and dependent people were thrown by their children. One of the old lady shared her heart wrenching story with me. She told me that she had been waiting for her son since 10 years had who left her there with a fake promise that he would turn up in few days. The story of a grandma broke me and bought tears to my eyes. I could feel the same pain as if I am being abandoned by my family. But I couldn't be just a listener. I know I can't bring his son ,I really really wanted to bring smile on her face so I decided to visit her on every weekend. Maybe I could replace her grandchildren😊.

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"Empathy is the ability to share and understand anybody's feelings and emotions."

Step into someone else's shoes sounds as a piece of cake, but it is not so easy. This  is termed as empathy. Nowadays people are so busy in themselves that they  do not have any time to look into someone else’s feelings and emotions.

Empathy is not just a skill laid down by WHO, it is also responsibility for us. We should also be responsible enough towards empathy.For being empathetic, we have to take a bit of leisure time
enter into someone else’s heart.

No body is perfect and we should also not try being so but we can at least be empathetic towards
the society for a balanced environment.

One day me and my friend had a very big fight in which we didn’t only had an argument, but also
but also wrestled. In this fight , I hit on his face very badly and he started crying. Because of the fight,
I didn’t even bother to apologise. But after some time I stepped into his shoes and felt empathetic for him and went to apologise straight away. Now we both are best friends.
Moral-Empathy always leads to wealth and happiness.

It’s not important that what  we see in other people’s mind is accurate. It can even be wrong. So there are some steps that help us :

1. Imagine yourself in the same situation.
2. Try to know about the person’s sensitivity.
3. Talk for a small amount of time with that person.
4. Use the three magic words ie. Sorry, thank you, please.

In the end I would like to say that we should be empathetic towards the society and make it a better and balanced place.

Empathy is :
Seeing with the eyes of other ,
Listening with the ears of another
And feeling with the heart of another........

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Dron Rai
VI-D

The Elephant Rope

I was walking through an elephant camp with my family on my summer vacation and I spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains.

All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.

As I gazed upon the elephants, I was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, I asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there and never tried to escape.

The trainer replied;

“when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the camp was that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible.

Moral of the story:

No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving it.

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1. the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of another: She put an arm around her friend's shoulders and stood by her in silent empathy.

2. the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self.

First recorded in 1900-05; from Greek empátheia "affection," equivalent to em- "in, within" (see em-²) + path- (base of páschein "to suffer") + -eia noun suffix (see -ia); its present meaning translates German Einfühlung

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British Dictionary definitions for empathy

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the attribution to an object, such as a work of art, of one's own emotional or intellectual feelings about it

C20: from Greek empatheia affection, passion, intended as a rendering of German Einfühlung, literally: a feeling in; see en- ², -pathy

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Cultural definitions for empathy

Identifying oneself completely with an object or person, sometimes even to the point of responding physically, as when, watching a baseball player swing at a pitch, one feels one's own muscles flex.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Empathy definition, the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of another: She put an arm around her friend's shoulders and stood by her in silent empathy. See more.

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The Highest Form of Knowledge is Empathy 

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The Highest Form of Knowledge is Empathy 

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~ Avyaa Jain
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What is empathy? Empathy is the capacity to put oneself in another person’s shoes to know what the person’s current feelings or emotions are ~ simply put; to reimagine  their lives  from our points of view!

The person who I empathise the most with , is my father. For he works hard, day in and day out, to provide my family and I with a good quality life by ensuring that all our  household bills are paid fully and at the right time.He puts in his labour beginning at  Nine ‘o’ clock in the morning and returns home only at night ,after  twelve hours of arduous and strength exhausting and work.

To show my appreciation and gratitude for the hard work my father commits to,  I would like to contribute, by at least trying to do certain things on my own, like making refreshing smoothies for him when he returns to refresh his mind. Since the work my father engages in is sedentary in nature , which usually involves making tedious phone calls and incessant desk work, I could help him relax by going and doing yoga with him or even going out for a run in the park !

My father takes his work very seriously as he holds himself accountable for the welfare of the families of all his employees. An example to illustrate this is that the very day in which we return from our vacations or holidays, my mother and I always lie down on the bed to just relax, whereas my father; no matter how tired he is, goes to his office and works hard!

I believe that empathy is the truest and the most valuable lesson of life as it teaches us to feel heart to heart ,even when we cannot see eye to eye !

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Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own.  In this summer break I also felt empathaized as I visited an orphanage and I felt very touched by seeing those kids as they were without their parents. Living without parents is very hard and when I conversed with them one of them told me that he was working as child labour, and one of the girl's told me that she had also been working in a factory since she was of 7 and it is so hard at such an age to work when one needs to play and study and they are working in such an early stage of life, getting yelled by the owner of the factory was another humiliation they had to go through and I could empathaize their feelings and I felt that it is not right small kids working in such a small stage and I was really hurt. This situation really made me know the true meaning of empathy.

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Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others.Empathy is important because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation.once,I saw a kid ,who was trying to cross the road but he was not able to do so. So, I helped him to cross the road.

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Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.It is the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

In this blog I would like to put myself into the shoes of my mother.

My mother gave more time to my younger brother so I always felt so irritated and angry but when I stepped into her shoes I realised that she gave more time to him because he was small and could not eat his food or do something alone.And whatever time was required for me she used was in my studies and other activities was given to me properly.

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference.

One day I was going for my class and I saw a poor old man selling a bunch of balloons. Nobody was buying the balloons from him. He looked very exhausted and miserable. When he stopped by my car to sell balloons I really felt sad for him and wanted to give him money but I had none.

After a week I saw the same old man selling balloons. I felt very empathetic for him. I gave him ten rupees. At first he thought that I am going to buy the balloons but when I denied to take the balloon he refused to take the money and said that he is not a beggar instead he is here to sell. I really got amazed and bought all the balloons from him .He was elated to sell all the balloons he had. I felt exhilarated and satisfied.

Later I went to the temple and gave all the balloons to children sitting outside begging for money. They were so delighted to get the balloon and started playing with it.

The happiness on their faces was such a lovely sight to look at.

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Empathy is one of the most important skills. Empathy is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. To have a successful relationship with our loved ones in the society, we need to take care of other people's needs, desires and feelings without empathy, our interaction with other people is just one way traffic. It is the experience of understanding another person's thought, feeling, condition without judging. It is different from sympathy.

Recently I felt empathy towards one of my cousins. He is 16 years old and he topped at the state level in the board examination and he also got full scholarship from Yale University, U.S. He has made his parents really proud. Even I am very proud of him. As I started imagining myself at his place, I got overwhelmed with joy and excitement. Its the beginning of a new chapter in his life. New country, new place, new college, new people and new friends. That day I learnt importance of hardwork. I could feel the way he was feeling and it inspired me to follow his steps too. It was just a wow feeling.

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EMPATHY
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.

Now i am going to share my experience when i felt empathy towards one of my agemate.
Once in my summer vacation i went to a dhaba. It was a very hygienic dhaba and the food was also very tasty. We were waiting for the food to be served and finally a boy of my age with a towel on his shoulder served us food. He was wearing torn clothes and seemed to be very untidy. I tried to talk to him and asked him about his studies. I was very shocked to know that he never went to school because his father died when he was young and his mother was not able to earn enough money to send him to school. I felt very sad for him and thought what is one's life without studies. He was even not having access to basic needs so he was forced to do child labour just to earn a little bit of money. Should not child labouring be stopped? Should'nt these kids be provided with basic needs? How would we feel if the same happens with us?

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"Empathy is symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to make a better person and motivate other to be have emphatic feelings. By this we can this world living place."
Man is social animal. we all need to give and receive help from time to time. I have helped my grandparents many times, when they want to learn about electronics
Here, I would like to talk about a time when I helped an old person, who was not known to me earlier.
About two months ago I was travelling by Shatabdi Express. I boarded the train Phagwara. I was sitting on the seat and the seat next to me was vacant. the next stop was Ludhiana. an old man maybe in his late seventies, boarded the train. he had a suitcase and a bag with him. He tried to keep the suitcase and the bag in the rack over the seats. He did not ask help from anyone but I could sense a problem and offered to do it. He was relieved and thanked me with a big smile. I put the the suitcase and the bag in the rack. the next four hours passed very soon. Before leaving the train I again helped him with his luggage and he thanked me again.
I felt very happy and realised that such a small gesture of love like helping others gives happiness not only to the receiver, but also to the giver.

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I heard about the word empathy while being part of a global project “Everyday Kindness”. It had a life changing effect on me and I started looking at being empathetic in my everyday life towards my fellow human beings, animals, plants and our environment. Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s thoughts, feelings and condition from his or point of view, rather than from one’s own. Empathy helped me behave in a more compassionate manner.

One day I saw a dead stray dog in my street. It looked like it had died because of dehydration in the excessive heat. I felt really sad because dogs can’t even talk about their problems and if we feel hot we just go indoors and turn on the air conditioner but dogs or any other stray animal do not have the facilities humans do. So I started to put feeders all around the area where I live and filled them with water and food. The next morning I checked the feeders and they were all empty. So now everyday I refill them even during the vacation wherever we went I made it a point to provide water to stray animals. This can be solved by spreading awareness about the plight of stray animals. Everybody should keep water feeders outside their house and in  their locality and a very important thing is by planting more trees we give them a shade to sit under.

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“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.”

Let’s eliminate these lone feelings by accepting the value of empathy. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening through the eyes of another and feeling with the heart of another. It helps us to respond appropriately to the situation. It helps us to build togetherness than allowing ourselves to function as self-obsessed and self-centered individuals. It fuels the connection between you and others. Adapting this quality makes you a better person and empowers your soul.

The world is becoming so selfless. Everyone cares about their own pleasures and pains. I was also one of them until I felt the pain of my maid’s daughter.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH EMPATHY:

My maid’s daughter, Jyoti used to help her mother to do all the house work. She used to polish my shoes and iron my clothes. I just hated the fact that she did this although we were of the same age. Instead of going to school she used to take care of me and my home. When I asked her do you really don’t want to go to school, she cried and told me that she was a very bright student but had to leave school because her single mother couldn’t afford it. I asked my father to take responsibility of her education. My father proudly agreed and now she is happy in her life focusing on her goals.

“Empathy” is the biggest deficit that we have in our society. We need people who have the courage to understand one’s heart and soul.

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Sakhi Jindal  VI B          Empathy is the ability to appreciate the feelings and perspectives of others.There have been times in my life, mostly with my friends, where we understood each other without using words. Then I understood, what I was feeling for them and what they were for me? It was empathy. There was a time in the past when my best friend faced the crisis of her life and spoke to me about it, Her parents were going through a tough time financially, and she was worried for her dad who was working extra shifts into the night and was getting very little sleep, her mother had to help more in the household chores and also go out for part time work, because of which her mind was being affected deeply. Even though I wasn't the one who was going through that situation, I understood what she was going through. So I asked my mom and told her that my friend is going to come to our place regurarly to have her morning meals. We started hanging out everyday, showing her that I understand her and started relating to her situation more and more by the day, in the end we got very close even as best friends.

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Sakhi Jindal  VI B          Empathy is the ability to appreciate the feelings and perspectives of others.There have been times in my life, mostly with my friends, where we understood each other without using words. Then I understood, what I was feeling for them and what they were for me? It was empathy. There was a time in the past when my best friend faced the crisis of her life and spoke to me about it, Her parents were going through a tough time financially, and she was worried for her dad who was working extra shifts into the night and was getting very little sleep, her mother had to help more in the household chores and also go out for part time work, because of which her mind was being affected deeply. Even though I wasn't the one who was going through that situation, I understood what she was going through. So I asked my mom and told her that my friend is going to come to our place regurarly to have her morning meals. We started hanging out everyday, showing her that I understand her and started relating to her situation more and more by the day, in the end we got very close even as best friends.

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Empathy  is the ability to imagine how another person is feeling and understand his/her mood. This word was coined in 1909 by English Psychologist.                                                                                Recently I felt empathy at an old  lady. A few days ago me and my father went to the market for taking some fruits. When we were coming back we saw an accident on the road.The place was crowded .We went out to check at we saw the old lady with his son on a scooter ,crashed with a car . With god's grace the son,just a cut at his right hand did not get harmed but the old lady got her arm broken . That time no one helped her.   We took her to the hospital and got them checked .Then they both thanked us and were very happy. Really that smile was priceless.I felt very happy that time.

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Waheguru Jot Singh Chawla VI-C Roll No.30

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“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes,to see through their eyes,that is how peace begins and it is up to us to make that happen.Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

Today I will be expressing my feelings,when I understood others feelings by heart.A driver has a difficult life and a sick hurried routine.He Has to wake up early in the morning and drive all day long so that he can earn money.He has to stay away from his family for long periods of time and even days.When his family is in financial trouble he works very hard without taking care of himself and only thinking about his family.We all cannot even imagine a life like this which is full of troubles and worries.I understood his feelings and would also like you to.
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

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Let me ask you a question -What is Empathy?

Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others . It is a construct of multiple components ,each of which is associated with its own brain network

"Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world."
-Barack Obama

People are engrossed these days to care about their careers and hobbies. There is no time left to be aware of other's trouble, to be sensitive to other's unhappy feelings, and to actually help other's to solve their problems.

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into bubbles of other people.

EMPATHIZE WITH THE FRUSTRATED DAD
Have you ever noticed that your dad is frustrated while he is tidying up your toys?
One day I had a fun and frolic time playing with my toys and did not mind them laying on the floor . But I thought about it from my dad's perspective and realized that he does not like how it feels to have a messy space and he feels frustrated at having the extra work of tidying it up. When I look at the situation from my dad's side of the story (from his perspective) and understand how he might be feeling...that's empathy.

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EMPATHY AS A LIFE SKILL

Empathy is one of the most required life skill. It is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. We need to take care of other people’s needs, desires and feelings to have a healthy relationship with our loved ones in the society. Having empathy for someone also make us feel what other people are facing in their lives. Empathy is needed in our lives as it helps us to connect with people and emotionally help them. It is an important life skill to learn.

A situation when I felt empathy was when my friend told me she was moving to a bigger city. My parents also used to surprise me by saying that we would be moving to another country. I could connect with her and I knew what she was going through. Even though she was very upset, I tried to calm her down and make her laugh. Afterwards, she felt better and also thanked me for helping her when she was not well.

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Samaira Hara VI B....Empathy is noEsympathy. When we're sympathetic ,we often pity someone else ,but maintain our distance (physiclly,mentally,and emotionally) from their feelings or experience .Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand,relate to,or imagine the depth of another person's emotional state or situation .It implies feeling with a person rather than feeling sorry for a person .And in some cases that "person" is actually us.There are number of things that get in the way of us utilizing and experiencing the power of empathy .Three of the main ones are feeling threatened ,being judgemental and fear .
One such incident happened with me it was my mother's birthday.All my family members didn't remember to wish her.My mother is the most  wonderful person on the earth. Her love for our family members is incessant but unfortunately we all forget to wish her.After coming from school i saw my mother's face tto be quite sad. I was not able to understand so i asked her,she gave a smile and said everything is fine. I was doing my homework suddenly i saw my personal diary where i used to write  about all the events of my family members and friends. I go through it and found that what a big mistake we all had done by not remembering my mother's birthday. Somewhere i felt Empathy for my mother and went to wish her and also express regret for forgeting about it. On behalf of my family members i felt very bad for her but made efforts to somewhere make her mood quite happy. From that day onwards i promised my mother that ii will never forget any happy moments of your's and of any other family  members.
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Samaira Hara VI B....Empathy is noEsympathy. When we're sympathetic ,we often pity someone else ,but maintain our distance (physiclly,mentally,and emotionally) from their feelings or experience .Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand,relate to,or imagine the depth of another person's emotional state or situation .It implies feeling with a person rather than feeling sorry for a person .And in some cases that "person" is actually us.There are number of things that get in the way of us utilizing and experiencing the power of empathy .Three of the main ones are feeling threatened ,being judgemental and fear .
One such incident happened with me it was my mother's birthday.All my family members didn't remember to wish her.My mother is the most  wonderful person on the earth. Her love for our family members is incessant but unfortunately we all forget to wish her.After coming from school i saw my mother's face tto be quite sad. I was not able to understand so i asked her,she gave a smile and said everything is fine. I was doing my homework suddenly i saw my personal diary where i used to write  about all the events of my family members and friends. I go through it and found that what a big mistake we all had done by not remembering my mother's birthday. Somewhere i felt Empathy for my mother and went to wish her and also express regret for forgeting about it. On behalf of my family members i felt very bad for her but made efforts to somewhere make her mood quite happy. From that day onwards i promised my mother that ii will never forget any happy moments of your's and of any other family  members.
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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing  from within their frame of reference  , that is , the capacity to place oneself in another position.

Recently , I felt empathy towards my gardener. Few days back my gardener was trimming the plants , I felt that he is very sad and depressed. I told my dad and my dad had words with him and then he told us the story that is is not having enough money to pay the school fees of his child. As I was standing near the gardener , I felt empathy for him. So we offered to help him by paying his sons school fee.I also  gave him my old and unused stationery. The smile on is face was priceless.

Empathy is the symbol of the best person in the society. We should try to cultivate it to make a better person and motivate others to have emphatic feelings by this we can make this world a worth living place.

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"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."
Maya Angelou
Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. It is the ability to imagine oneself as another person.
During this summer vacation I experienced something that changed my perception towards life. Till now I had never really thought about hardships of life, as God had been really kind and blessed me with all amenities. One day a young boy of my age came to our home. He was wearing an old t shirt and pant which was torn. He didn't even have anything in his feet. My mom told me that he collects clothes for ironing from the whole locality in the morning and delivers them back in the evening. He even irons the clothes when his mother goes to work as domestic help in the locality. He had to leave his studies inbetween as his parents could not afford to send him and his three sisters to school. He was long gone but I could not stop thinking about him.i could very well imagine him ironing clothes in sweltering hot afternoon when we couldn't even think going out of our AC rooms. When kids like me enjoy all amenities of life, go to the best school and travel in AC cars, there are kids like him who struggle every day just to get meal twice a day. I gave him some of my old clothes and a pair of shoes and slippers when he came in the evening. The smile on his face made me feel so good that I decided to do something regularly for underprivileged children like him. I thank God that I am in a position to do my bit for others.

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Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions to imagine what someone else might be thinking of feeling empathy is the German word meaning “feeling  in “ as there are many ways to feel they are multiple ways  experience  empathy  we get connected to others to empathy by several ways listening is one of them  listening is one of the most effective ways you can devapeop secondly when is to open up just listening to  someone is it going to build a bridge between the two of us has to offer physical affection and focus attention towards taking away or removing or listening the pain of the body of the other we should not be judgemental and offer help maybe our   Empathy  is the fear  and anger of the suffer empathy means you have to put yourself in other shoes and be aware of a sensitive to their feelings to help them

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"Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others."
I am writing this to share my experience which took place with me in my summer vacations. I started waking up early morning and started going for a morning walk with my father. One day as we were on our daily routine for the walk, I saw a man wearing thick spectacles and it appeared that he could hardly see. we helped him to cross the road and wanted to escort him to his destination but he politely declined . It is my  daily  routine that I will go myself then my father inquired him where he lived and has he got his eye checkup done. he said that he is very poor and cannot spend much money on various checkups and medicines. Then my father took him to our known eye-specialist. Then he took him to the store where he could get some eatables. he was happy and then my father took him to his place.
This small  gesture of helping someone gave me lot of happiness. You should help people wether you know them or not. What I felt after helping the blind man cannot be described in words. I am very happy for what I did. So, go and help people in need it will immense pleasure and satisfaction

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Empathy

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Our life does not consist of the only holidays. It is possible to have the difficulties any time, and in these moments we need to hear the kind words of the support from our friends and relatives. You cannot be ready for everything and you cannot know what will happen in the future. All of us know about different worries, stress , but not everyone can understand the internal world of the other person in such moments. Exactly in such moments the empathy of one person to another one is shown.

Empathy is the show in the fact, that the person can support another person in the moral way. The person has the ability to feel what the other people feel in some situations, what they need and how it is possible to help them to overcome the difficulties in the life.

It seems, that the empathy and the kindness are the same things. The kindness is like the magic key, that can open the heart even the angry person

But today the empathy has changed a lot from which it was in the past. We can see the empathy only in some special situations, for example, when people have a lot of problems and difficulties, but it is difficult to find the empathy in the everyday life.

There are 2 types of the empathy: oral and written. You can see the written empathy at the funeral, for example. This type of the empathy should come from your heart, because if it is false, all people will understand it and it will create the anger and the conflict. You should not be shy to show your real emotions and you should always find some warm words to support people.

If you do not know what to say, you can always say, that this person can ask you about help any time and you will be glad to help.

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  Vishwas bangia   class- vi-a     roll no. 29            EmpathyThe word empathy means to have a feeling in your heart for some one other whom you never know but we can realize ourselves in him or her pain and loss. There are still some people on earth who try making other people like themselves, people who do not live for food or greed but for some needypeople. Empathy for a milk manThe accident was happened 2-3 weeks ago in Delhi, the accident occurred at night when we were going back to home in our way we Saw a car banged very forcefully into the milk man’s bike we got off, Our car and picked him up and realized that his one leg was paining we went behind the car but were unable to catch him as he broke the traffic rules and went across the red light, when we came back to him we saw on the other side that his whole milk was fallen down. I felt myself in place of him and thought that if this news reaches to the owner of this milk he will never forgive me for this.Importance of empathy Empathy is a natural gift to human mankind. It prevails in all living forces sympathy and empathy are the integral part one’s life which creates lively brotherhood and better understanding. Empathy gives the man global thinking and local working for the welfare of the social community and mental flight for all mankind and thi8s will the boost the empathy power in the all working man kind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPMMSKfKZQA big change in worldI want to tell the world that there is a dramatically change in the world, and this is all because off drugs and all, because of them our beautiful earth have become a hell where no one can live freely and not only this because of them empathy is also fallen down to poor level which is not good for us, not good for them who have down this and not good for our mother earth. A very formal request to all to make our earth a more better place than before , leave these drugs behind and move forward to a better level for a GREEN, CLEAN and EMPATHISED surrounding, And make better tomorrow, this is the need of the hour  

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  Vishwas bangia   class- vi-a     roll no. 29            EmpathyThe word empathy means to have a feeling in your heart for some one other whom you never know but we can realize ourselves in him or her pain and loss. There are still some people on earth who try making other people like themselves, people who do not live for food or greed but for some needypeople. Empathy for a milk manThe accident was happened 2-3 weeks ago in Delhi, the accident occurred at night when we were going back to home in our way we Saw a car banged very forcefully into the milk man’s bike we got off, Our car and picked him up and realized that his one leg was paining we went behind the car but were unable to catch him as he broke the traffic rules and went across the red light, when we came back to him we saw on the other side that his whole milk was fallen down. I felt myself in place of him and thought that if this news reaches to the owner of this milk he will never forgive me for this.Importance of empathy Empathy is a natural gift to human mankind. It prevails in all living forces sympathy and empathy are the integral part one’s life which creates lively brotherhood and better understanding. Empathy gives the man global thinking and local working for the welfare of the social community and mental flight for all mankind and thi8s will the boost the empathy power in the all working man kind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPMMSKfKZQA big change in worldI want to tell the world that there is a dramatically change in the world, and this is all because off drugs and all, because of them our beautiful earth have become a hell where no one can live freely and not only this because of them empathy is also fallen down to poor level which is not good for us, not good for them who have down this and not good for our mother earth. A very formal request to all to make our earth a more better place than before , leave these drugs behind and move forward to a better level for a GREEN, CLEAN and EMPATHISED surrounding, And make better tomorrow, this is the need of the hour  

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Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. In fact, empathy also comes from a German word, Einfühlung, meaning “feeling in.” And just as there are many ways to feel; there are multiple ways to experience empathy. The three forms of empathy that psychologists have defined are: Cognitive, Emotional, and Compassionate.

Empathy is the ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotions of others. empathy is the feelings in which a person identifies the sorrows and sadness of others .he puts the sorrow person in his mind and try to feel his problem as his own. Empathy is the necessity which is found scarce among the people now a days.it is present in some person by birth and some are found without any such type of feelings.it is the catalyst of our moral actions.it influences and has a great impact on our daily life motions. Empathy is the feeling which forced us to succor others, to nullify their sorrows, and to reduce their problems. its best example is the huge natural disasters such as tsunami and earthquake in whole world united to help the effective. It is actually needed to satisfy our own feelings.

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Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates pro-social or helping behavior that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner.

Although there may be individual differences in empathy based on genetic differences, research suggests it is possible to boost the capacity for emphatic understanding. In recent years neurosciences have advanced the concept of "mirror neurons," which are believed to enhance the capacity to display, read and mimic emotional signals through facial expressions and other forms of body language. Mirror neurons may help individuals share emotional experiences and become more emphatic toward others. The significance of mirror neurons remains in contention.

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Class- VI-C

I’ve got three things for you today- a rant, a lesson for life that will serve you well, and a quick request.

This is only my twelfth year on this planet but I have come round to realise that empathy is the most important virtue to tie a knot amongst the humans in this world.

Putting it parallely, Empathy is a seven letter word meaning walking seven miles in someone else’s shoes and viewing life from their perspective  for seven births ( I believe in it).

I  empathised with that person whom nobody pays attention towards but they meet them in almost every vacation- the air hostess. I had an eight hour long flight this time. I had expected it to be tiresome but on the contrary I felt really relaxed and comfortable. Then struck to me a sudden moment of realisation that all what I had felt was because of that air hostess who took care of all my needs during the restless midnight flight. But who took care of her?  I thought about the air hostess who was not only attending to my needs but to every passenger’s. I couldn’t sleep for the remaining two hours of my flight thinking about her. She was roaming in the flight wearing a formal outfit, heavy make up and a pair of heels which were making her uneasy. Passengers were calling her repetitively. Besides not being able to sleep through the night, they didn’t even have the time to have their dinner peacefully as they were busy serving the people on board. They have to go through this situation everyday and stay away from their families for a long duration. On landing at my destination, I wished her luck for her future flights thinking that it might help her deal with the passengers.

Every profession offers a several comforts and demands hardship so I admire the air hostess for doing her job commendably. I explored this world of empathy and believe me, it was peaceful to think about someone’s feelings in this materialistic world. I urge you to explore this world of empathy and feel the peace what I am feeling today. With every morning you wake up, promise to yourself to be generous to others and understand what they are going through.

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Kavneet Kaur
Class VI A
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of anotger and feeling with the heart of another".
Empathy is the ability to sense other persons's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be feeling. One of my favourite experience about empathy is dream but one i had in my life.
In this summer vacations, my parents decided to rennovate our house. My dad hired a man to bring all the tools and material for work. The man came on a rikshaw. He was very old man. He was about 65 years old. He was keeping all the tools and material inside , which were very heavy. Me and my dad felt pitty for him. We asked him to sit and have water, after that we asked him for food also. We also helped him in his work. He was delightedto see our kindness and gave us lots of blessings. I wonder how hard he have to work for survive. My father told me that life is notas easy as we are living. I felt really happy by helping him.
Helping someone with the bottom of my heart  gives me happiness and understanding someone's emotions , this iswhat empathy means to me. Giving helping hand to someone needy is just priceless.

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I feel empathy towards the handicapped or crippled people. I would have never begged or cried much and rather looked for ways in which i could still do the tasks like a normal being. I was really inspired by Subhreet Kaur Ghumman who performed dance single leggedly on India's Got Talent. This is just one of the many stories.
I also talk to handicapped people and try to encourage them to find new ways to overcome their handicap.
Obviously i am very thankful to god that i am able to lead a normal life and may nothing like this happen to anyone but if it does, to give them the strength to overcome their handicap.

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Empathy is when you are quite literally feel the other person’s emotion alongside them, you have  ‘caught’ the emotion.
In this summer vacation , i was feeling hungry and my mother was not at home. So i dialed a number of grocery story and asked the shopkeeper to send a packet of maggi. He replied me that the packet will reach in ten minutes at your home. I put my phone down. After 7-8 minutes a small child of my age rang the doorbell and on hearing it i went out to open the door in a very hot daylight with a temperature of 42 degrees celsius. He was bare footed. I told him to come inside and to sit on the chair and i brought cold water for him and asked the reason for him being bare footed on such a hot day. He told me that he is poor and he can’t afford to buy any shoes or slippers. I told him to wait and went inside and gave him all my shoes and slippers which were not in use now. I told him to wear those and to take them home if they were comfortable. When he was going back the smile on his face made me also happy. When my mother returned home i told her about the proud work which i did. She was happy and proud of me.
This incident teaches me the value oh noticing how other people feel.

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Class 6D
Empathy
Hey I am Inayat Sahni and this is my first attempt towards blogging in which I will try to express my feelings on EMPATHY.

Our lives have been blessed with luxuries and facilities provided to us by our parents. From a big house to expensive cars to studying in one of the top schools, we have been blessed with the best. But life isn’t fair for everyone.

My blog on EMPATHY focuses on my domestic helper who has a daughter who is my age. Her mother has only one dream that her child doesn’t have to suffer in life like the way she is struggling. She works three jobs in a day only because her daughter could study in an English medium school . She is not only supporting her education but is also responsible for her household chores. When I place myself in her shoes I feel her life is very difficult and troublesome. I empathise with her obstacles.

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Empathy: A selfless compassion towards others

"Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates prosocial or helping behaviors that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner."

Empathy is different from sympathy

Mostly people get confused between empathy and sympathy and they think that sympathy is the exact synonym of empathy. Perhaps, there is a great difference between empathy and sympathy as sympathy is only showing concern for feeling sad for someone while empathy is the promotion of selfless compassion action on behalf of another person or group of people.

My story of Empathy

I vividly remember when I was in class 3rd, I was given a holiday homework of visiting a nearby old age home and serving the old people with food and helping them by giving some clothes and other necessities to them. Though it was just a holiday homework for me, the visit to an old age home had a great impact on my mind and soul. When I saw those old people sitting idle counting there remaining life days on fingers, I was completely shattered. I realized that they not in a greed of food and clothing but what all they need is love, respect and time.

I met a 65 years old lady named Radha Sharma who was sitting alone and there was sadness on her face. When I talk to her I came to know that his own son left him in the old age home because he cannot take care of her anymore. She told me how badly she missed her grandson. Tears started rolling out of my eyes and I hugged her tightly. There was silence all around me and I could only see her old wrinkled face with a hope that one day his son will come and take her from this place. I know I could not do much for her but what I finally decided was to spend at least an hour with her so that I can bring smile on her. I sat with her and played cards and ludo with her.

After that I went back to home but I was not able to forget her face. Therefore, I insisted my mother that I will visit the old age home to meet 'Radha Maa' at least once a month. The next time I visited there, I took a saree for her. She smiled and gave lot of blessings to me. That day I realized the true difference between empathy and sympathy.

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Namanpreet singh syal  Class 6th B
Feel invisibility
Emphathy is beautiful thing that we can feel...it's our emotions that come out at the time when we see a particular person or animal..I also felt such feeling many times but i want to share one of them
These holidays we visited Nanital,when we were going for lake boating i just need to go to washroom,i preffered paid washrooms which is near to me...when i came out i saw a cleaner who is cleaning that washroom i think it's toughest job that she is doing,really we never paid attention to such attendents who are standing in washrooms all the day for us.Their job is to keep the washrooms clean ,sanitary and nice to us to visit for only a few minutes.can u imagine how nasty can public washroom could become in just one day,if these people were not there.By mentioning this ,I'm not trying to low their value,rather i tried to go out of my way to say them 'hello' and ' thank you so much'.Their responsibility is often one of the amazing workthat no one notice and always invisible to others...The smile i saw was the 100 dollars smile......😊

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Empathy is the ability to imagine what life is like for another person. According to the ten Life skill laid down BY WHO (World Health organisation), Empathy is one of the most important skills. For a good relationship with our loved ones in the society, we must take care of other people's needs, desires and feelings. Without empathy, our relationship with other people is unnecessary.

Recently, I felt empathy for a poor boy.
At a cold day of December, I was roaming at the street near my home when I saw a boy of my age coming out of a small house shivering in cold. Then I started feeling empathy for the boy which was shivering. I went near that boy and asked him his name. His name was Rahul. I asked him to come with me in my house. I gave him water and then went in my store room for finding my old jacket or sweater. Atfter a while, I found a sweater which I was not using. I gave that sweater to Rahul and said him not to come without that sweater out in cold and if he wanted anything then come again. From that day, we become friends and he could come out in cold next time. This was a good experience for me and he was happy to. After that, whenever he saw me, he gave me a smile and said thanks.

Making someone happy makes us happy to. It's example is what happened to me. This is the importance of Empathy.

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Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions of someone else. Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Empathy facilitates provincial or helping behaviour that come from within, rather than being forced, so that people behave in a more compassionate manner.

Although there may be individual differences in empathy based on genetic differences, research suggests it is possible to boost the capacity for empathetic understanding. In recent years neuroscientists have advanced the concept of "mirror neurons," which are believed to enhance the capacity to display, read and mimic emotional signals through facial expressions and other forms of body language. Mirror neurons may help individuals share emotional experiences and become more empathic toward others. The significance of mirror neurons remains in contention.

Empathy includes emotions

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''Empathy is simply listening, holding space,withholding judgement,emotionaly connecting ,communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.''

In this blog I would like to put myself into my servant's shoes.Its very easy to say  abusive words but when those words come back to you ,you feel so angry and irritated.

See the routine of my servant .She is working the whole day .She packs my tiffin in the morning and does all the other household work . One day I came back from my class and my servant offered me mango.There was an ant on the mongo .I blamed her so much that you don't take care of anything . I was in a such an angry mood that I said her that you and your family is mad.She just kept on listening and started  crying .She told my mom everything and then I got scoldings from my mom.After a few hours  later I realised that she does my whole work and handles everything and what all have I said to her .She is an underprivileged person and I said her so many things .I thought the if I would be in her place how many ants would be there on my mango .

Therefore I felt bad for her and apologised  her .From that day I realised my mistake and understood the hardship of a servant.

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Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own. Unlike sympathy, which simply means feeling sadness or pity for someone who is undergoing some type of hardship, empathy promotes selfless compassion and action on behalf of another person or group of people.
And i felt this emotion of empathy towards the stray dogs. I used to feel really sad for them since they have no place to live, no proper food to eat and water to drink. And so i decided to be empathetical towards them. So now i take care of one of the stray dog in my street. I give him food and water and also tried to make a shelter for him. I also discovered that we can hand over these dogs to the municipal. You all should also take care because these creatures also have feelings like we do and since they cannot speak and cannot do many things like we do. So it is our responsibility to look after them and try to make the world a better place for them to live.

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Empathy is an active attempt to understand another person's perspective,their emotions and reality. We are social animals and our ability to communicate and understand each others emotional state is the key to maintain our relationships.We should make an effort to try and experience other people's reality as well.

Recently,I felt empathy towards an Ice-cream hawker.The first thing that caught my eye was the name imprinted on his cart " Preetam Badshah" .I was in Yamuna Nagar to spend some days in summer vacations. He was peddling and sweating in heat when he came horning towards me  and my cousin.He already knew my cousin as he is his regular customer.He was delighted to greet us. I started imagining his schedule throughout the day and how he finds his happiness in small things and limited earnings. That day I learnt patience and keeping  calm.
We can develop these empathetic skills by actively thinking beyond our own concerns and practising some simple habits-
☆ Be observant of others.
☆ Always keep your curiosity alive .
☆ Stop categorising and labelling people.
☆ Use active listening.
☆ Open up and have more exchange of opinions.

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Paramkabir Singh VI C

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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

In fact, empathy also comes from a German word, Einfühlung, meaning “feeling in.” And just as there are many ways to feel; there are multiple ways to experience empathy. The three forms of empathy that psychologists have defined are: Cognitive, Emotional, and compassionate
Suppose you are a student and you got the first failing grade on your assignment .You have never got this failing grade before and are disappointed and surprised that where did you went wrong in your assignment . you started yo feel depressed and and think that you are a failure
Your friends take you out in-order to cheer you up "i feel sorry that you failed in your assignment" says barbie  and Sia  puts her hand on your back and said "i know how you are you feeling  i also failed in the in a class test .You must be disappointing and upset with yourself but try don't  be too harsh with yourself. Sia's reply was an example of  empathy.

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EMPATHY :
It is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. The ability to put yourself in other’s shoes, and try to relate and understand where they are coming from, even if the situation is not familiar to you.

5 Ways to Empathize :

1. Put aside your viewpoint, and try to see things from the other person's point of view.

2. Validate the other person's perspective.

3. Examine your attitude.

4. Listen.

5. Ask what the other person would do.

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" Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another"
It is not always about 'me' or 'I' but also about 'we' sometimes it is good to think beyond an individual's life and realize the sensitivity of other's situations.

The most empathetic moment I have ever had was when my elder sister passed through her board exams with flying colours.  She scored 95%.  I could relate that happiness because at the same moment I became the topper of the class.  I felt very happy and proud because of our achievements.  My parents kept congratulating us for our intelligence.  It was really a big moment for all of us.  My sister was really glad and could not stop smiling.  After that day, I was really inspired that I have to do better and better.  She actually inspired me the most.  Our parents were praising us for our hard work.  It was really a proud moment for all of us.

Some ways to expand empathy can be like to walk in other's shoes or ask more and more of questions to the other person if you think that the person is sad or happy.

I really want the same situation to happen all the time as it inspired me a lot and from then I was more dedicated to be the topper of batch not the class.

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Empathy is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions , coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.
I felt empathy seeing the greengrocer who sells vegetables by walking street to street in such a hot weather, this is so much painful them to walk whole day only to earn money for their family.
Empathy is at it's simplest awareness of the feelings and emotions of other person . It is the key element of emotional intelligence , the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as it we were feeling it ourselves.

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VI-A

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
l felt empathy seeing a horse pulling a cart,with a lot of burden on it. In such hot weather all sweating and having sticks on his back. Working all day long and getting nothing for it,just some food and water.
And i also feel emphaty for other animals pulling carts and also seeing people hiting street dogs. At holi i also saw some people threw colours on street dogs.

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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

-      Sue Monk Kidd (www.brainyquote.com)

Here is an incident which comes into my mind. One day, I argued with my father to have pet or a bird in my house because an idea of pet always fascinates me. We decided to put our case front of my grandmother and I was quite confident that my grandmother would support me this time too. To my utmost surprise, she is against this idea. Granny explained me that, all the creatures are created by God and they have equal right to live as human beings. They breathe the same air, share the same land. They must also have same right to roam freely on the land and in the sky as the humans do. She said that the humans who committed serious crimes are only caged and the birds and animals have an exception because they are caged for their personal leisure. She accompanied me to the nearby shop and showed me the pitiable conditions in which they were caged. Their deplorable condition could be judged easily through the following picture.

I can empathize the pathetic conditions in which they are captured  in the cages. It was 40o C temperature and the cage was placed in the sun only to attract the passer-by which might be their probable customers. On the other hand, I can barely stand in the Sun. They store these living creatures as stock and they couldn’t breathe in the locked tiny shops at night when there is no source of fresh air. They even have to leave their parents, siblings, community, friends, open space, fresh air, nature’s lap and above all freedom. My grandmother opined that the injustice to these innocent living creatures would not stop until we don’t appreciate the business of caged creatures. She also suggested the need to sensitize the human beings for these living innocent creatures.

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Empathy is one of the most important aspects of creating harmonious relationships, reducing stress, and enhancing emotional awareness – yet it can be tricky at times.Empathy is not sympathy. When we’re sympathetic, we often pity someone else, but maintain our distance (physically, mentally, and emotionally) from their feelings or experience. Empathy is more a sense that we can truly understand, relate to, or imagine the depth of another person’s emotional state or situation. It implies feeling with a person, rather than feeling sorry for a person. And in some cases that “person” is actually us.

Empathy can be tricky, particularly when we have an emotional connection (or attachment) to the people or situation involved (which we almost always do).  It’s also challenging to feel empathy when we feel threatened, stressed, or emotionally triggered (all of which we can experience a lot, especially with those who mean the most to us).  And, empathy is sometimes misunderstood.
Empathy is NOT:

Sympathy

Pity

Agreement

Commiseration

Endorsement

Simply put, empathy is getting into another person’s world and connecting with them both emotionally and compassionately. We don’t have to agree with them or fully understand them to be able to empathize. We don’t even need to be able to relate to what they are experiencing specifically (although that can help).  We just need to be present, connect with them where they are, and acknowledge what they’re experiencing.  Empathy for ourselves, while different contextually, actually functions the exact same way, simply turned inward.
The problem is that we often allow our egos, opinions, and judgments to get in the way of our ability to experience and express empathy.  If I agree with someone completely, can totally relate to them, and see things exactly as they do, it’s quite easy for me to empathize with them.
However, if I don’t agree, can’t relate, have a very different take on the situation or actually think how they’re reacting to things is potentially harmful for them and others, it’s often very hard for me to be empathetic towards them and I also worry that my expression of empathy could come across as agreement or endorsement.
While it can be challenging, the power of empathy is essential to the health and success of our relationships and lives.  It is a key element to our own emotional intelligence and well being.  With the people closest to us, including ourselves, and the issues that mean the most to us, empathy is even more critical, but often more difficult for us to experience and express.

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Empathy,in its simplest form means awareness of the feeling of the emotions of other people.......empathy goes far beyond sympathy, which means feeling for someone. On the other hand empathy is feeling with someone through imagination.It is a key element of Emotional Intelligence, the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” ...

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” ...

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them

One of my favorite experiences about empathy is a dream but the best one I had in my life

I was going to my cricket academy when I saw a poor kid on the street .I felt pity for him and asked him if he liked cricket or not. He nodded and ran away. The next day I bought him one of my old bat and then left for my class, in the evening I saw the same boy sitting on a foot path
I asked him about the bat and he said he gave it to a little child who desperately wanted to play cricket.I was highly motivated

TYPES OF EMPATHY

Cognitive Empathy

Cognitive empathy, also known as ‘perspective-taking’ is not really what most of us would think of as empathy at all.

Cognitive empathy is basically being able to put yourself into someone else’s place, and see their perspective.

It is a useful skill, particularly in negotiations for example, or for managers. It enables you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, but without necessarily engaging with their emotions. It does not, however, really fit with the definition of empathy as ‘feeling with’.

Emotional Empathy

Emotional empathy is when you quite literally feel the other person’s emotions alongside them, as if you had ‘caught’ the emotions.

Emotional empathy is also known as ‘personal distress’ or ‘emotional contagion’. This is closer to the usual understanding of the word ‘empathy’, but more emotional.

Compassionate Empathy

Finally, compassionate empathy is what we usually understand by empathy: feeling someone’s pain, and taking action to help.

The name, compassionate empathy, is consistent with what we usually understand by compassion. Like sympathy, compassion is about feeling concern for someone, but with an additional move towards action .

THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY

Human relationships are an integral aspect of our lives. We are all, in one way or another, connected, and these relationships have to be sustained. Empathy is one of the ingredients towards building, maintaining and strengthening human relationships. Therefore, it is safe to say that empathy improves relationships and, consequently, helps one achieve greater success and an overall feeling of well-being and happiness.

Empathy encourages people to perform acts of charity and heroism. Those with higher levels of empathy are more likely to go out of their way to help others who are in need, even at the risk of their own comfort or self-interest. It encourages acts of selflessness from people, even resulting to heroic and, to a certain extent, self-sacrificing acts

Empathy promotes equality. People will start to act and think more “in the spirit of fairness”. Fights against inequality are often grounded on empathy, with the advocates promoting the idea of reaching out to the less fortunate ones, or those who belong to marginalized and stigmatized groups.

Empathy improves workplace relationships and processes. There are hierarchies even in the workplace, and if empathy is demonstrated in this setting, it will result in a more harmonious and peaceful working environment, while improving productivity of the workers.

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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is ,in capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

In this blog I am going to share an incidence that I encountered a few days back.

Me and my friend were taking a walk, near her new house. We saw a pair of old shoes which belonged to a worker who was constructing her new house. She told me to play a trick on that man. She said me to hide his shoes and conceal ourselves behind those bushes ,and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them. I replied to her that we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. She was comparatively rich and she could give herself a great pleasure by means of a poor man. I suggested her to put a coin into each shoe and hide ourselves to watch how the discovery affects him. My friend did so, and we both concealed ourselves behind the bushes. The worker came out of the house to pic his coat and shoes. While putting his shoes, he felt something hard inside the shoe ,he stooped down to feel ,and found a coin in both of his shoes. Astonished and wonder where seen upon his countenance. He gasped upon the coin, turned it around, and looked at it again and again. He looked around and found no one. He  put the coin in his pocket, kneeled down on  his knees .He looked up heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanks giving, in which he spoke of his wife,sick and helpless and his children without bread, whom timely bounty from some unknown hand would save from perishing.

Thus, this incident gave my friend a valuable lesson to show empathy towards poor. She also learnt that,

‘YOU CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND PEOPLE IF YOU FEEL THEM IN YOURSELF’

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Empathy is the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings & ability to share another persons feelings and emotions as if they were your own  .

My story related to Empathy
When we were traveling to Chandigarh during summer vacations . We stopped at the restaurant to have our lunch . Their I saw a small child asking for money . As I did not have any money at that time . Feeling pity , I gave him a toy, which I really liked. He was overwhelmed and I was sure that he would respect more than I did . First , I wasn't that happy to do this but I felt really happy for him afterwords .

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Compassion

It's important to be able to feel what someone else is feeling so that we can help them .

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Gobind Sikka VI B
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of the another and feeling with the heart of the other"
Some experiences change our lives forever. Recently on my visit to my matetnal grandparents house, I had one such experience. Someone had parked a car right in front of their gate. On asking, my grandfather told me that it was the young boys living next door. I became really angry and told my grandfather to go and confront them. My grandfather became sad and said that he wont say anything. On further prodding, he told me that whenever they say anything the boys talk back rudely and start fighting. My grandparents stay alone and I was really hurt by their helplessness and defeated attitude.
Next morning i woke up with a resolve. I went and spoke to the boys next door and very courteously requested them to park their vehicles carefully and be respectful to my grandparents. I asked them to just imagine if someone did the same to their parents or grandparents. The boys immediately apologised to my grandfather. My grandfather was elated and felt very proud of me.
"See the light in each other,
Be the light for each other."