BLOG SESSION

JUNE 2017

Sometimes babies know best...

We're back for another Blog Session, and we're discussing "empathy".  We had previously been discussing Empaths and Clairsentients on our last Blog Session.  We also touched on the fact that the idea of empathic people is becoming more highlighted in our consciousness as a society, and a lot of people have been able to identify with the definition.

The topic of "empathy" comes into view and should be discussed today for recording in your Journal notes.  If you are new here to the Blog, just so you know, we write in our Journals for every Blog Session.  If you do not have a Journal, please stop and pick one up, or grab your Notebook or some index cards for today's Blog Session.  If you are a daily Diary user, your Diary will work just fine as well.  We labeled our Journal for the month of June with the title of "Empath Journal" . . .

So now is the time to pull out your Journal and your trusty ink pen to begin your Journal Writing for today . . .

Let's start first with the definition of "empathy":

noun

1. "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another."

Lets go a little further with understanding "Empathy". . .

If we understand "empathy" to be the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner", then we can ascertain that our understanding, awareness, feelings, thoughts, and connection with the experience of another person is important in connection with empathy.  It would also make sense that an Empath would be able to do all that is described in connection with "empathy" just by the very nature of who an Empath is.

Empathy is so vital in terms of gaining a better understanding of others and also being clear about what the significance of "empathy" is that the 1st week in June is dedicated to it...

For your Journal Notes:  Scientific research currently divides empathy into the categories of ‘emotional empathy’ and ‘cognitive empathy’. Emotional empathy is the ability to respond emotionally to what another person is going through, and cognitive empathy is the ability to comprehend another person’s perspective or mental state.

Neuroscience, however, which has been dedicated to investigating empathy over the last decade or so, has found that there is a scientific explanation for how living creatures are able to empathise with others. Neuroscientists have called this phenomenon mirror-touch synaesthesia, where mirror neurons are activated when one animal sees another animal perform a particular behaviour.  It has been suggested that in the case of empaths, mirror neuron activity is particularly acute.

Empathy

It has been proposed that, like in the case of people with a very low empathic response, childhood trauma may be present to a greater degree in empaths than in the majority of the population.  The ability to empathise with the unpleasant experiences of another person may come, to some extent, from having had similar experiences.  However, having had similar experiences does not always mean that someone is able to empathise with others going through the same thing.

We all need to learn how to be more empathetic ~ "showing an ability to understand and share the feelings of another."

As we close out this Blog Session, I'll leave you with this entry for your Empath Journal about the POWER OF EMPATHY . . .

We have much more information to cover.  We'll be back here on the Blog discussing how people with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) have the capacity to experience great emotional depth because of their hypersensitivity.  And we will also discuss the difference between Empaths and Highly Sensitive People.

For now we'll take a brief coffee break and come back to resume our Blog Session . . .

Coffee Break!

~ See you back here shortly ~

Peace, Love & Light,

 René

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