Latest / Vitamina O: Evangelio dominical comentado / T1.E198| Mc 6, 30-34: Los 3 tipos de soledad y los tres niveles de empatía
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- 0:04Frozen foods to isband the best selection of pre- cooked and ultra- frozen
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- 0:24of vitamin or prayer, together with Francisco Ermengold, a brief spiritual Bible reflection
- 0:30capsules that entertain, teach and lift the soul. Good morning. We say
- 0:40the sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time and read the Gospel of Mark. At that
- 0:45time, the apostles reunited with Jesus and told him everything they had done and
- 0:50taught, and he told them to come to a desert place alone to rest
- 0:56a little because there were so many who came and went that they could not
- 1:00find any time to eat. They went by boat alone, to a deserted
- 1:06place. Many saw them leave, and they recognized them from all the villages,
- 1:14and they ran over the land, and came before them when they landed.
- 1:18Jesus saw a crowd and took pity on it because they walked like sheep
- 1:23without a shepherd and began to teach them many things. Jesus Christ invites his
- 1:30apostles to go to a lonely place to rest, and then he has compassion
- 1:36on people because he sees that they are like a flock without a shepherd.
- 1:41Loneliness and empathy. Let' s reflect on this vitamin about the three types
- 1:48of loneliness and the three levels of empathy. There are three types of loneliness
- 1:55in the first place is involuntary physical loneliness. It is the one that we
- 2:01do not seek and do not want, but that suddenly we find ourselves immense.
- 2:05In it it does not suppose a choice of the individual, but obeys
- 2:10undesired impositions or circumstances. We fall into it without wishing, without asking.
- 2:16It comes suddenly from an event that judged as a abandonment, loss, or
- 2:23failure. And usually this loneliness generates fear. This loneliness is given, for
- 2:30example, by a new situation in life. We moved to a new city
- 2:35where we don' t know anyone. We started a new job, entered
- 2:40a new school full of unknown faces, lost a loved one who had accompanied
- 2:46us for a long time. We feel lonely and as abandoned can also be
- 2:53given by the fact that we are different. Maybe we' re in a
- 2:59place that looks familiar to us, but we feel different from the other people
- 3:02who are there. So different by ways of being, of thinking of personality
- 3:07or whatever, that we feel socially isolated from them. Secondly, there is
- 3:13involuntary loneliness, of a more psychological nature and it is what we feel,
- 3:17despite being surrounded by others. There is an emotional disconnect with others. Nor
- 3:25does it imply an individual choice, but it is not only physically like the
- 3:31former solitude, but surrounded by people. We find here the loneliness that appears
- 3:37for lack of love. Even if we have many friends and family, we
- 3:43feel lonely because we don' t have an intimate bond, or maybe we
- 3:47have a partner, but we don' t feel a deep connection with that
- 3:51person. Loneliness for lack of friendship also appears. Today we have many contacts
- 3:58on our social networks and abundant co- workers or colleagues, but we may
- 4:03not find friends with whom to share our life. You can also feel lonely
- 4:09because no one gives me time. Everyone is, as they say colloquially,
- 4:13in their roll or in their ball and, therefore, no one dedicates me
- 4:17in time, and that gives me a psychological sense of loneliness. Scientific studies
- 4:25show that we are all stronger when we feel loved, feel accompanied and accepted.
- 4:32It improves self- esteem, self- confidence and the ability to make
- 4:38decisions properly. On the contrary, the loneliness of the feeling of loneliness deteriorates
- 4:45physically, emotionally and cognitively. Feeling rejected or excluded actually causes physical pain.
- 4:51Loneliness does not make healthy relationships sick. On the contrary, they protect us
- 4:58from being rejected from being humiliated, from being over- demanded by parents or
- 5:04caregivers themselves, from being unable to live up to the expectations of others that
- 5:09people I trust disappoint me from feeling understood, from not feeling listened to.
- 5:14All this in the long run has an impact on our health. The human
- 5:18being is a substantial union of soul and body. Therefore the pains of the
- 5:23soul then appear also in the body. A very interesting fact, according to
- 5:29a study of the eleven one in four young people in Spain between sixteen and
- 5:33twenty- nine years old, feels unwanted loneliness. But there is a different
- 5:40loneliness, and it is the third kind of loneliness, which is voluntary loneliness,
- 5:45that which we seek and desire with a purpose. It is what Jesus,
- 5:48in fact, generates in this gospel for the apostles. It works to
- 5:54reflect, to write, to deepen, to inspire, to acquire more class
- 6:00evidence on a subject I confine myself to my world to hear better a voluntary
- 6:06self exile. Well- chosen loneliness can be the starting point for self-
- 6:11knowledge. Cutting with the accumulation of external stimuli helps to stop the cortisol poisoning
- 6:16that we may be suffering from is learning to enjoy the inner world itself without
- 6:23the need for the presence of others. This kind of loneliness does not involve
- 6:28feeling alone, because in fact, we have this social network to be able
- 6:31to go to for activities, share illusions or feel accompanied, but temporarily we
- 6:40move away from them to come into contact with our inner world. And so
- 6:44a person can seek solitude for artistic, creative, intellectual, spiritual reasons or
- 6:50simply to be with himself, to get to know himself more thoroughly or to
- 6:55replenish his strength. Loneliness, when voluntary, is considered health benefit, as
- 7:00people take advantage of it for the cultivation of their personal searches and it is
- 7:03a rewarding and enriching experience in a world full of noise. Loneliness is the
- 7:13most beautiful song, Oscar Wilde said. Loneliness is the empire of conscience,
- 7:17said the poet Gustavo Adolfo Becker. Where there is loneliness, there is also
- 7:24resilience, said the painter Pablo Picasso. Well, we just saw the three
- 7:29types of loneliness. Now let' s see all three types of empathy.
- 7:33We see that Jesus feels empathy for people because they walked like sheep who had
- 7:39no shepherd and began to teach them many things. There are three levels of
- 7:45empathy, from the lowest level to the highest level. We begin with cognitive
- 7:49empathy, which is, so to speak, the minimum level. It means
- 7:56to understand intellectually the emotion of the other person. For example, if I
- 8:01work at an airline, at an airport, being in charge of boarding a
- 8:05flight and I see a passenger arriving late for boarding and losing the flight.
- 8:11I can understand intellectually your anger, your sadness, your frustration, but I
- 8:16care very little about your situation and within me I feel no sadness at all.
- 8:20As I look at the scene, I am a mere spectator at most,
- 8:26I will take a role with the choices that the airline puts at your
- 8:31disposal and nothing more than looking for life. With this level of empathy,
- 8:35which is minimal, my treatment of that person will surely be cold, disconnected
- 8:39and indifferent. But at least there is already some empathy, because I understand
- 8:45the situation intellectually. Worse it wouldn' t even go through my head if
- 8:50that passenger had reason to be angry or frustrated. Then there is a higher
- 8:56level of empathy, which is emotional empathy. Not only do I understand the
- 9:01situation intellectually, but I am also internally affected by my own emotions. I
- 9:07feel the sadness of that passenger, too. Surely my way of welcoming him
- 9:13here will be different. My deal will not be cold and distant, but
- 9:18close and warm, with a lot of education and out of my sadness,
- 9:22I will tell you that the airline can do nothing to help you and I
- 9:28will refer you to an Internet page where you will find the options that you
- 9:31have at your disposal. And finally, we have the third level, compassionate
- 9:35empathy, which is what we see that Jesus practices in this gospel, on
- 9:39this level we intellectually understand the situation of the other person. Level one feels
- 9:45within itself, what the other person may be experiencing neither of the two and
- 9:48besides, you do something effective to improve and solve the situation of the other
- 9:54person, which is level three at the level of compassion. Jesus sees the
- 10:00crowd feel their loneliness as veneers without a shepherd and begins to preach to them
- 10:05in order to solve the situation. Returning to the case of the airport and
- 10:09the passenger who has missed his flight, compassionate empathy would lead me to help
- 10:15him in some way beyond what the company' s policies dictate. We'
- 10:18ve all seen that when people are willing to help you in these situations,
- 10:24they do, they skip airline policy a little bit because they want to help
- 10:28you when this happens. You feel grateful, you feel that the other person
- 10:33cares about you and you do not feel alone that this Gospel leads us to
- 10:39seek the voluntary solitude that benefits us. And perhaps these weeks of vacation are
- 10:43more propitious for that, and that this Gospel also leads us to practice the
- 10:48compassionate empathy that God bless you enjoy freshly baked, crispy potatoes and spices,
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