The Difference Between Empathy and Compassion

The key is to use your empathy as a gateway to compassion. When you see your child hurting, first step is of course to feel that pain. But then instead of staying with the pain and creating more drama around it, we shift to how much we love our child,. And we stay in this compassion mode. It's really from here that we have the greatest access to our wisdom, our clarity, right? Whereas when we get overwhelmed with empathy to stress, it becomes disconnected.