193 Turn HSP Empathy Into Compassionate Action

Business Miracles

As an HSP in business and leadership, it is important to learn how to first shift from sympathy to empathy, and then from empathy to compassion. To do this we need to actively engage in identifying and experiencing our full range of emotions, and then manage our response to those feelings using nervous system management tools in order to access lightheartedness and flow into hopeful action in spite of. All so we can be of highest service to ourselves, those we serve, and everyone around us.

In this episode, I go into depth about the difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion. I discuss how compassion is where we as highly sensitives in business and leadership are able to make the greatest difference and impact because compassion is the willingness to take action in service to positive change, which is often why we’ve chosen to be in business in the first place. I also share how lightheartedness supports us in being able to make the shift from empathy into compassion and what you can do to access hope and lightheartedness to stay out of the trap of limiting beliefs and HSP shadow behaviors.

“Our nervous system is wired to take in stimulation at a much higher degree, which means we are able to really intuit what another person is thinking, what they’re feeling, what they’re experiencing, and when we’re in a strength perspective, that allows us the ability to understand and share the feelings of that other person.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

• 1:45: What is empathy
• 3:40: What is the difference between sympathy and empathy
• 4:25: What is compassion
• 7:53: How to flow into hopeful action

“Compassion is more engaged than simple empathy because it involves the willingness to take action.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

• Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
• Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
• Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/193