Empathy affects your motivation to be helpful.   There is a lot of research suggesting that empathy increases people’s desire to help others. Empathy is the ability to share other people’s emotion. The better able you are to feel what …

by melissa dahlThere is some evidence that adults who process stories deeply and are highly engaged in the story report more empathy, but the results have been inconsistent.=================And kids who read fiction with their parents seem to be better…

From Frontiers in Emotion Science, this interesting study confirms what seems kind of obvious to anyone who worked with non-violent communication and been in imago therapy – when we respond to someone with empathy, in this case through paraphrasing a s…

Riga, Latvia 9 September 2013At the end of a long journey from India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was warmly welcomed when he landed under bright skies in the northern European port city of Riga, capital of Latvia, yesterday. Members of the organi…