Empathy has been the talk amongst scholars, philosophers, and intellectuals of late concerning its imperative existence for the holistic development of a functional individual of society. That has been a stated fact based on research and studies that empathy gives way to a healthy individual who is capable of staying calm under pressure and making responsible decisions; it is the ability to empathize with others and diffuse conflict. But what exactly is empathy?
“Empathy is the ability to walk into other people’s shoes in order to understand where they are and what feelings they have.” This is why we are able to act in certain ways based on that information and knowledge of “the other.” Adam Smith, known as the “father of economics,” said that empathy “is change of place in fancy with the sufferer.” Even the “father of economics” could have an emphatic comprehension of how the true definitions of both empathy and “self-interest” are not opposites of one another.
If you consider the matter carefully, you will recognize the point that the most essential manner whereby the human is reacting or interacting with the environment is via the use of the attribute of empathy. But where does this specific attribute among the human species come from exactly? Looking back into the prolonged evolution processes that the human species has had to endure until reaching its final stage with all the attributes it has in the present state today, the most truthful reasoning behind its evolution is the end result that it provides an assortment of advantages to our ancestors in more than one manner. First of all, the demand among the developing human species as in all other mammals. Secondly, our species needed to work together. This made us an example of caring for each other through enlightened self-interest. Hypotheses have been proven both by science and by facts. An old theory that we are selfish beings in our nature has been delicately shelved away through the long arm of science, which says our nature is through homo empathicus, which basically states that we are predisposed to being empathetic through our genes.
"Great discoveries have been made by neuroscientists in this field in the last decade with the discovery of a 10-piece "empathy circuit" within our brain that would restrict our ability to understand the emotions that the other person would want to get across if that area of the brain would be damaged. Biological evolutionist Frans de Waal found that we are indeed social beings and can take care of each other. Our ability to take care of each other and our development towards building emotion-sharing capability through very powerful attachments within the first two years of our life has been discovered."
Happily, there have been recent revelations regarding the further development of our sense of empathy in our childhood, its capacity for utilization as a radicalizing factor in our society, in which we can develop these capabilities all our lives. The process of developing our sense of empathy has been discovered through stories, and one of the most expedient ways of getting you into the shoes of another man, as our presentation will be in the form of a storytelling process, as you will learn languages, not merely in the language, but in the language of a subtle consciousness.