Compersion: Feeling Joy For The Happiness of Others

  The word compersion refers to the state of happiness produced by perceiving happiness in another. Arguably, it’s about empathy at its finest. As a matter of fact, it’s said that feeling satisfaction for the happiness of another is like being happy twice. For this reason, it’s an extremely positive and uplifting condition. Some would say that compersion is the opposite of jealousy. In this case, we refer to jealousy of all kinds. For example, professional, social, emotional, sexual, etc. However, it must be clarified that not all types of jealousy are the result of discomfort in seeing another’s happiness….