To be able to perceive other people and to feel, see, hear, understand and communicate with them, you need to attune to them.
You need to tune in to them as if you are them so you can feel or imagine that other person’s emotional experience and understand what they are feeling.
This is what allows you to know what to do in any given situation to end conflict, to improve a situation or to assist someone.
Attunement naturally gives rise to empathy.
The most dangerous people in the world are people who are in an egocentric bubble.
They are essentially toddlers in a grown-up body holding kittens by the neck.
But those kittens are other people.
And even though it would be great if all people just naturally developed out of the egocentric bubble and into attunement, the reality is that some people don’t.
They stay in a reality built for one.
When you are in a relationship with this kind of person, you end up feeling lonely, unseen, unheard, unfelt, misunderstood and abused.
You will feel like you are living in an entirely different reality than the other person.
You will feel this way because you quite literally are.
You and this person are on entirely different frequencies and they are unwilling to tune in to yours.
It’s the same as trying to find harmony when you are on the 98.2 FM station and your partner is on 94.5FM.
~ Teal Swan