Respect other peoples' way of thinking

To start respecting others’ feelings, you have to imbibe and practice being humble to the core, for humility teaches you to accept and recognise the importance of others’ existence in this world. A humble person always pays attention to the wellbeing of others. Harbouring Polite nature has the potential of giving respect to others, acknowledging their view point and appreciating it too. This in turn leads to respecting their feelings. By looking at others’ feelings from your own perspective, you can well analyse and interpret the given situation quite easily and therefore, start respecting those feelings on a priority basis.

First of all devoid your mind of all negative emotions like anger, hatred, vengeance, and so on to see the true picture yourself, as disrespect erupts only when your mind is full of filthy emotions and feelings. By being arrogant and self centered, one cannot inculcate the feelings of brotherhood and closeness towards others, leave alone respecting their feelings. Therefore, to take the first step, start respecting your own feelings first and do try to change the attitude of yours towards yourself and others as well.

There is a small story which I read long time back and which changed my outlook towards people especially people working in my team. There was a Senior Manager in a large size Organization and he was retiring. Let's take his name as Ravi. Ravi was a personality who everybody loved because of his respectful behavior for every person in Office. In Ravi’s farewell almost every person came to bid him good bye. A gentleman asked Ravi how he was so calm and how he never became angry and never shouted at his team.

To this Ravi told them about his father that how he always felt his father was so strong, so powerful and he was a role model to Ravi. A day in his teenage without telling his father Ravi went to meet him in his Office. Standing near to his father's desk he saw his father standing in Boss's cabin, bowing his head down, and his father's Boss was shouting loudly at his father. After a few minutes seeing his father returning to his desk Ravi hid him somewhere but saw his strong, powerful father crying. He couldn't believe his strong, powerful Father was crying and that he was helpless and couldn't do anything. Ravi went home without meeting his father and never told him that he came to see him in his office.

Ravi that day promised himself that he will never do what his father's Boss did and that he will remember that every person in his team has a Son or Daughter who equally feel like him that their father is strong and powerful and he will never break their Son or Daughter's belief. So in your case If you wear Ravi’s shoes today like I wore a few years ago you will start respecting other's feelings.

You respect others based on how you were brought up and the feelings you experience within you. Living along with other people requires you to learn to respect others and their feelings. Doing this will make others think better about you, this will lead to good relationships with the people around you. Sometimes it's difficult to understand how others feel about something. Since many of us think mostly about ourselves we know how to treat things from our perspective and get over them, but it varies from one person to another. Knowing this and deciding how you choose to respond to others will help you understand and respect their feelings.

Sometimes you will respect their intentions. Eg. An old man from a village visits a town to meet his grand children, he busy them some modest gifts. The grandchildren are spoilt by their parents and when they see this gift they don't seem so surprised, sometimes they may throw it out without even looking at it. I don't know if I can expect this from a child, but if he were to understand the intention of his grandfather who knows less about his likes but still made an attempt to bring something just so he could see his grandson smile, he would behave differently and without knowing he will start to respect the love shown to him. Cheers!