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The approach to conflict resolution that I am describing requires not only that we learn to express our needs, but also that we assist others in clarifying their needs. We can train ourselves to hear needs being expressed through the messages of others, regardless of how others are expressing themselves.
I've taught myself to do this because I believe that every message, whatever its form or content, is an expression of a need. If we accept this assumption, we can train ourselves to sense what needs might be at the root of any particular message. Thus, if I ask someone a question about what they have just said, and they respond. "That's a stupid question," I choose to sense what the other person might need as expressed through that particular judgment of me. For example, I might guess that their need for understanding was not being fulfilled when I asked that particular question....

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Reward and punishment are an inherent part of our society. For thousands of years, parents of children and educators who are responsible for them have praised the kids for desired behavior and penalized them for unwanted behavior. However, it is possible to do away with this using the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) approach as per Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. Why reward and punishment negatively affects children:

• It reinforces competitiveness in children. Our children are exposed to constant competitive thinking.
• You don’t find out what’s really going on inside your child and how they are doing. You lose connection, understanding, closeness, and a great deal more.
• The curiosity to find new solutions is nipped in the bud and the stimulus to advocate for oneself is lost.
• Our child grows up in a dominant environment, learning that the strongest one wins! In this way, we are encouraging them to strive for power.

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Non-defensive/Nonviolent Communication, also know as Compassionate Communication, is a way of relating to others so that everyone’s needs matter. NVC fosters connections between people rather than competition, one-upmanship or judgment. Shifting your attention to inner space rather than finding fault with what’s out there is the secret sauce for life-enhancing connections. Here are Ten Tips for NVC to get you started in the right direction:

1. Recognize and acknowledge that everyone’s basic nature is compassion and basic goodness, no matter what they are doing or saying on the surface.....

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Nonviolent communication is about learning how to tell others:

• what they are doing to enrich or hurt your life
• what your needs are
• what feelings are tied to your needs

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• “Every diagnosis is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you see is who you get.”
• “When you see someone as complaining you are already in diagnosis. You have to learn how to enjoy their pain.”
• “Empathic connection before fixing.”
• “Only empathize if it is something you are doing for yourself. When it meets your need to go surfing with the divine energy. If not, then do something else.”
• “There is a difference between asking if that is clear and would you tell me what you heard.”
• “When you want someone to change, consider both, what would it is that you’d like the other person to do differently and what do you want their reasons to be for doing it?”
• “When your feeling positive your needs are met.”
• “When your feeling negative your needs are not met.”
• “We all meet our needs to the best of our abilities.”
• “Anything that is worth doing is worth doing poorly.”
• “Empathize, don’t justify.”
• “Unexpressed fear is almost always heard as aggression.”
• “Rewards take the rewards out of it.”
• “Respect as a feeling is a bit dangerous because we think we get it from another.”
• “To give is domination, if I cannot receive.”
• “When someone is talking a lot, look for need under the pain that is moving him or her to talk.”
• “When some one is talking a lot you can say, I need to stop and need to know what you want from me. The feeling under the words must be patient.”
• On regrets he said, “We do things we wouldn’t have done if we knew than what we are learning now.”
• “Do not think what you say is empathy, this is off target; empathy is where we connect our consciousness with our intentions.”
• “A hug is a mug, when you give it to someone when they need empathy. When you do it to get rid of the pain because you cant stand their pain.”
• “We are responsible for our intentions and actions.”
• “How others reinterpret our actions and intentions is what creates their feelings, this is out of our control and we cannot be responsible for their feelings.”
• “When people keep repeating themselves is where they need empathy.”
• “We can only experience pain when it touches beauty.”
• “Don’t try to be perfect try to get less stupid”.

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Have you ever noticed a tendency for your attention to be everywhere but where you actually are? You may be doing the dishes and stewing over a task you have tomorrow. Or changing the baby’s diaper while fretting about something you said earlier that day. You may be talking to a friend while worrying about your trip next week....

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