The Effect of Empathy on the Heart

In the short term, it can surprise you. It can change dramatically. Parts of what you thought were you that the empathized can go away and you'll feel like I don't have empathy. And then when you're in a situation where empathy is called on you feel complete absorption into that other person's pain. So it's just that you don't live in your head anymore. Everything is situational. But when he said before that I didn't talk about this for many years,. The only reason I give myself permission to do it is because I know it's deeply okay.