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Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Sympathy, Empathy, and Empathic Support

  Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Sympathy, Empathy, and Empathic Support    Emotional intelligence is an important part of our emotional, relational, and spiritual growth. It teaches us not only to recognize what we are feeling, but also to understand those feelings and make wise decisions about what we do with them. "David thought, ‘I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.’ So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites," – 2 Samuel 10:2 KSB     Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize that you are having a feeling, name that feeling, give yourself permission to experience it, and then intelligently decide what you are going to do with the energy and emotion associated with that feeling. It is the process of bringing your thoughts and feelings together for soul growth .    Emotio...