improve my communication skills

Definitions of empathy on the Web:

understanding and entering into another’s feelings
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Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another’s state of mind or emotion. It is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself …
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the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person; capacity to understand another person’s point of view or …
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathy

empathic – showing empathy or ready comprehension of others’ states
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The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding, and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of others, thus imagining the same sensations as that of those actually experiencing them.
www.poeticbyway.com/gl-e.html

ability to emotionally relate to another individual’s emotional state.
anxiety-panic.com/dictionary/en-dicte.htm

The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the …
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sometimes i forget how important it is to be a good listener. i got alot of practice today listening to others problems.

my roomate and i talk nonstop.

i’m getting alot of practice lately, talking to friends/family, so i’m breaking out of my shell more and more each day with this goal.

i feel that when my mouth is dry, it’s harder for me to communicate. plus it’s really hot here in arizona. i just kind of end up nodding and smiling, wishing for an ice cold drink some of the time. so many things left unsaid.