"As mentioned earlier, we have an inheritied a language that served kings and powerful elites on domination societies. The masses, discouraged from developing awareness of their own needs, have instead been educated to be docile and subservient to authority. Our culture implies that needs are negative and destructive; the work "needy" applied to a person suggestes inadequacy or immaturity. When people express their needs, they are often labeled "selfish" and the use of the personal pronoun "I" is at times equated with selfishness or neediness.
By encouraging us to separate observation and evaluation, to acknowledge the thought or needs shaping our feelings, and to express our requests in clear action language, NVC heightens our awareness of the cultural conditioning influencing us at any given moment. And drawing this conditioning into the light of consciousness is a key step in breaking its hold on us." -Excerpt from Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

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