Empath Mirroring
Mirror neurons make us fundamentally social —for better and worse.
Christian Keysers • The Empathic Brain
Anxiety is the enemy of empathy. Fear makes us egocentric; egocentric makes us blind. An amygdala/prefrontal-cortex two-step that narrows the search parameters of the pattern recognition system. Pretty soon, as anxiety climbs too high, we lose our ability to find one another.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
Empaths feel deeply and absorb the emotions of others, which can be both a gift and a burden, especially when tied to unhealed traumas.
What Empaths Feel: Intense Emotions: Experiencing emotions more intensely than others, sometimes without understanding the source.
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