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The Empathy Effect

6 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains that communicating empathy changes listeners’ brains by reducing the intensity of negative emotions (stress, anxiety, crisis), which soothes them and enables clearer thinking and problem-solving. She advises using empathy to support others emotionally but cautions against using empathy as a means to fix their external problems.

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When you communicate empathy to someone, you actually change their brain a little bit in a really good way. You actually turn down the volume of their emotions. If they're feeling, like, in crisis or they're stressed out or they're anxious. It's almost like it soothes that uncomfortable emotional state, which then allows their brain to kick in and allows them to actually think and sort through and solve their problems more effectively. So I do think you should use your empathy with people. I just don't think you should use it to fix their situation.