Here is an adapted excerpt from my upcoming book, Communication Breakthrough: How Using Brain Science and Listening to Body Cues Can Transform Your Relationships. This part is about how to listen when another’s pain bothers you. 

We all have times when other people’s pain makes us feel uncomfortable. So we often reach for ways to brush away our discomfort. How can we turn our hearts to a more compassionate stance to a person in pain? Take a breath and bring all your attention to the other person and let your ego concerns take a back seat for a while. How can we show a person that we’re interested in their feelings? Look the person in th...