Ads: Are You an Empath or Sympath?

"I feel for you", "I understand what you are going through", "I've experience that before and overcome it" - these are words that we tell to extent our understanding with what the other person is experiencing. It can be in the form of happiness, fear, anger or loneliness. Empathy and Sympathy are words that commonly used to make the other person whose experiencing such emotion be somewhat feel that they are not alone.

There's a big difference between empathy and sympathy. Both have similar usage but differ in their emotional meaning. Here are some information that we can differentiate the two.

Empathy is the right term to be used for situations that involves someone that is related to you - it can be your family, friends or within your community. There should be a close bond or relationship for you to consider it as a form of empath. The ability to co-experience and relate to the thoughts, emotions, or experience of another without them being communicated directly by the individual is real essence of empathy.

Sympathy is the appropriate terms to used for instances that involves someone that is for poor or less fortunate. You feel sorry for, feel pity for or feel bad for what happened to them. It just shows that you can for someone even without personal connections. The ability to understand and to support the emotional situation or experience of another being with compassion and sensitivity is what we feel if we want to be sympathetic with someone.

It is very important to have this sense of emotion because it shows that we have care and compassion with another human being. Among the two, empathy has the higher form of emotion as if we are letting the other person know that we feel the exact emotion and that we had gone through that feeling before and overcome it.