How To Be More Caring Towards Others. When you ask someone how he or she is doing turn your full attention to the person in front of you. Compassion takes empathy one step further because it harbors a desire for all people to be free from suffering and its imbued with a desire to help.
Since then Ive been learning having compassion for oneself is essential if I wish to be compassionate toward others. Yet not once did it occur to me to have compassion for myself. Exercising meditating helping others freely and eating a healthy diet work really well for me.
It is important to note that compassion involves more than just empathy.
We often say to treat others the way you want to be treated. You need to be able to understand what another person is facing and understand what it might be like to be in their place. Compassion helps people feel what others are feeling but also compels them to help others. They hurt feel fear have insecurities and feel the need to.