In illuminating the stories of some of these people and of their communities, Younge has provided us with a beautifully told and empathic account that wrenches at the heart even as it continues to engage the brain.
In illuminating the stories of some of these people and of their communities, Younge has provided us with a beautifully told and empathic account that wrenches at the heart even as it continues to engage the brain.
THEORY In the Project on the Good Physician, the authors propose a moral intuitionist model of virtuous caring that places the virtues of Mindfulness, Empathic Compassion, and Generosity at the heart of medical character education.
Disrupted empathic processing is a core feature of psychopathy.
Although it may suit us to believe that character can't be packaged, like pantyhose, or readily accessed, like a text message, we respond to people who strut around with their heart glinting on their sleeve, declaring their empathic receptivity to the world's disenfranchised.
It is this empathic response that will open up for us the heart of the play.
Once you're cool and calm, go back to the kitchen table, the heart of the house, and use my empathic process, remembering that this is the person you love.
Taking them to heart can help us be more scientific in our thinking, which can lead to a more empathic understanding of ourselves and others in our daily lives.
While the authors of the JAMA study didn't test different kinds of service, I think it's quite possible that volunteering helped the students' hearts because it fostered greater connections between them and younger students; indeed, if they felt stronger empathic connection to others, these cardiovascular benefits increased even more.
