EmpathyEmpathy plays a very big role in the cycle of abuse. If you are traumatized and you haven’t started to heal your inner wounds, the chances are that you lack empathy – for yourself, and, by extent, for others. Such person is disc…

The more frequently any of us feels compassion in our daily lives, the more it prevents escalations of violence as a method to deal with the immoral actions of others. Of most import, it doesn’t even matter toward whom we feel that compassion… T…

Today marks the start of the 2013 Compassion Games, a global community service project that anyone can get involved in with just one random act of kindness. Seattle is one of the nearly two dozen cities around the world chosen as a compassion community…

These examples capture the economy of empathy in action. Time-Banking will not eliminate all economic inequalities, nor can empathy construct a new economy by itself: that must be given shape through concrete institutions.  But by building th…

John Van Zante from Rancho Coastal Humane Society gets to the bottom of whether dogs have empathy, taking a look at various studies. He also introduces us to this week’s adoptable dogs. John Van Zante from Rancho Coastal Humane Society gets to the…

Imagine – while eating lunch, you observe that a spider is slowly crawling across a friend’s forearm. Immediately, your own arm tingles uncomfortably, but when you briefly glance downwards, no such spider is crawling up your own arm. Your m…

Being able to put yourself in another’s shoes and to realize that they are just like you has far-reaching benefits for both your emotional and physical wellbeing. These are just a few of the many benefits of empathy. 1. Makes you happier……