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  • adverb In an empathic manner.

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  • Experienced Buddhist meditators have reported that when they focused for some time on what they called "stand-alone empathy" (visualizing intense suffering affecting someone else and resonating empathically with that suffering) without allowing compassion and altruistic love to grow in their minds, they soon experienced burnout.

    Matthieu Ricard: Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving? (VIDEO) Matthieu Ricard 2010

  • Spock closed his eyes and directed his mind, not to the prisoner, but back to the assassination attempt, to the moment he had let down his mental guard and had connected empathically with his attacker.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • While this policy prompts physicians to measure BMIs, it doesn't give them the knowledge and training to productively and empathically partner with patients to manage their weight.

    Scott Kahan, M.D.: Measuring Kids BMIs Is Good Practice M.D. Scott Kahan 2011

  • Experienced Buddhist meditators have reported that when they focused for some time on what they called "stand-alone empathy" (visualizing intense suffering affecting someone else and resonating empathically with that suffering) without allowing compassion and altruistic love to grow in their minds, they soon experienced burnout.

    Matthieu Ricard: Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving? (VIDEO) Matthieu Ricard 2010

  • By empathically listening to your audience you will show them how much you care.

    3 Things Don Corleone Knows About Writing | Write to Done 2010

  • While this policy prompts physicians to measure BMIs, it doesn't give them the knowledge and training to productively and empathically partner with patients to manage their weight.

    Scott Kahan, M.D.: Measuring Kids BMIs Is Good Practice M.D. Scott Kahan 2011

  • The two groups have the same innate capacity for empathy, but it appears that upper class people tend to be more lulled into self-absorption and selfishness, while members of the lower classes, who deal more with survival within diminished economic and work opportunities, may be more "connected" empathically to others' emotional and material needs.

    Douglas LaBier: What Are the Emotional Drivers of Our National Unraveling? Douglas LaBier 2011

  • The two groups have the same innate capacity for empathy, but it appears that upper class people tend to be more lulled into self-absorption and selfishness, while members of the lower classes, who deal more with survival within diminished economic and work opportunities, may be more "connected" empathically to others' emotional and material needs.

    Douglas LaBier: What Are the Emotional Drivers of Our National Unraveling? Douglas LaBier 2011

  • The two groups have the same innate capacity for empathy, but it appears that upper class people tend to be more lulled into self-absorption and selfishness, while members of the lower classes, who deal more with survival within diminished economic and work opportunities, may be more "connected" empathically to others' emotional and material needs.

    Douglas LaBier: What Are the Emotional Drivers of Our National Unraveling? Douglas LaBier 2011

  • Experienced Buddhist meditators have reported that when they focused for some time on what they called "stand-alone empathy" (visualizing intense suffering affecting someone else and resonating empathically with that suffering) without allowing compassion and altruistic love to grow in their minds, they soon experienced burnout.

    Matthieu Ricard: Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving? (VIDEO) Matthieu Ricard 2010

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