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You can use Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to stand up to hate speech in a way that preserves your integrity and attends to the humanity of everybody involved, including the person expressing the hate speech.

While “hate speech” is not a legal term, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that most things that would qualify as such are protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

So even though “hate speech” is protected by law as free speech (in the US), NVC gives us more options than fighting it, giving in to it, or trying to ignore it.

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For years I have been speaking and writing about how our communication can greatly enhance our relationships and life experiences. For something completely different, I thought I’d offer readers some sure-fire ways to effectively ruin relationships.

That’s right. Ruin relationships! We could also call it the Thomas Edison approach .. a few tips on how not to light up the faces of those you love. For those who might be curious, here are some time-tested strategies...

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Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a popular method of conflict resolution that privileges unbiased evidence and specificity. While NVC is often used in relationship counselling and political negotiation, it is also a tool for thinking that may help improve the way you communicate, whether it be with family, friends, colleagues. This post teaches you the four steps of NVC so that you can use them in your own relationships. If you learn to use it, benefits might include clarity in understanding and realising your own desires, increased compassion and empathy towards yourself and others, and closer, more meaningful relationships.

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COVID didn’t create narcissism, but the isolation created by the pandemic may have increased the challenges we face trying to meet needs of a shared reality and meaningful connection with others.

Recently, a friend asked whether there is an antidote to “dealing with a narcissist”? He said that providing empathy for that person had become emotionally taxing, and that more empathy seemed only to encourage the other person to go on and on, inviting more empathy and thus creating compassion fatigue for me.

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When we are involved in a long running conflict with a family member(s), we may feel hopeless that any satisfactory resolution is possible. When we are in such a situation, we all too often imagine there are only two alternatives, either submitting or acting unilaterally without full consideration for the needs of the other. Both alternatives leave us feeling dissatisfied. This dynamic interferes with the quality of connection that we would like to have with family members and often becomes an additional focus of conflict. Hence, conflicts within families can seem unsolvable.

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"Learn to be happy, here and now, under all conditions;
and to include others’ happiness in your own joy.
Go out of your way to make others happy."

Paramansa Yogananda

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1. Spend some time each day quietly reflecting on how we would like to relate to ourselves and others.
2. Remember that all human beings have the same needs.
3. Check our intention to see if we are as interested in others getting their needs met as our own.
4. When asking someone to do something, check first to see if we are making a request or a demand.
5. Instead of saying what we DON'T want someone to do, say what we DO want the person to do.
6. Instead of saying what we want someone to BE, say what action we'd like the person to take that we hope will help the person be that way.
7. Before agreeing or disagreeing with anyone's opinions, try to tune in to what the person is feeling and needing.
8. Instead of saying "No," say what need of ours prevents us from saying "Yes."
9. If we are feeling upset, think about what need of ours is not being met, and what we could do to meet it, instead of thinking about what's wrong with others or ourselves.
10. Instead of praising someone who did something we like, express our gratitude by telling the person what need of ours that action met.

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Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal
Compassionate Communication suggests that improving the quality of our relationships is a primary goal. Indeed, that connection with ourselves and other people takes a higher priority than being right, winning, making more money, or looking good to other people.....

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