You may feel more courteous than usual today due to an increased awareness on your part of what others are feeling. This developing empathy can influence your day in a number of ways, yet the most profound indicator of your ability to read emotions will likely be your choice to think carefully before speaking. You may sense that it is your duty as a compassionate and conscious individual to consider the reactions others will have to your words. In this way, you can avoid both conflict and hurt feelings today, as you will likely see a means of compromise before ever entering into a potentially charged interpersonal situation.

When we understand that others will take both pleasure and offense in notions wholly different than those that please and displease us, we can tailor our words so as to avoid causing anyone undue pain. However, while this sounds like an involved procedure, we need do little more than think carefully before opening our mouths to speak. Doing this provides us with the time we need to consider the feelings and circumstances of the individuals standing before us. Should we find during this short period of critical thought that we were poised to unintentionally cause someone pain, we have plenty of time to reframe our thoughts and feelings so that our words emerge from us more or less benign. The courteousness you show others as a matter of course today will help you interact with the people around you on an emotionally neutral level.