How Dogs Respond to Our Hidden Desires…
Dogs inherited this ability and started using it on us, manipulating us into “domesticating” them. Over the years they developed a deeper and stronger ability to tune into our emotional states. It’s what enables them to work for us and, quite often, to comfort us when we’re not feeling well.
It’s not empathy. And it’s not emotional contagion. I think it’s more like a sixth sense, an ability to tune in to our emotional vibrations.
by Lee Charles Kelley
Over the last decade, Paul Ekman has had the opportunity to spend close to 50 hours in one-on-one conversations with the Dalai Lama. The content from their first dialogue was published in the book Emotional Awareness (2008). During their…
Empathic engagement in patient care leads to improved patient outcomes. This is what we found in 2 studies. In the first study1 of 29 family physicians and their 891 patients with diabetes mellitus in the United States, we found that physicians&r…
You may not realize it, but empathy is one of the most important skills that we can teach children. Unlike most skills that we teach our children, empathy is an often misunderstood word…So why is this skill so important to teach to our children? Beca…
Swedish scientists show that dogs empathize with humans.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
