On The Road Ramblings: Seeing With The Eyes of Another

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another." - Alfred Adler This segment, On The Road Ramblings is recorded (safely) bright and early on my long commute to work. These are the moments of purest thought unaffected by events of the day. This episode is also raw and unedited. I was asked by a patient recently, "Do you understand what this Black Lives Matter is all about? I thought all lives matter?"  Recent conversations from people in my community have had an undertone of frustration at situations and stances that are not understood. As I asked myself the causation of the frustration I kept coming back to the word "empathy." I was taught in an Ethics & Society class in college that empathy is easiest understood as the ability to understand the emotion of another person without having to experience their situation personally.  This episode will hopefully give you encouragement on how to curb the anger you may feel with the #BLM as well as the other issues taking up space in our world and turn it into something that can benefit yourself as well as others. I can be contacted at:  Email: [email protected]  Twitter: 1st_do_noharm Instagram: first.do.no.harm.podcast  www.hopeforhumankindness.com