{"id":3367,"date":"2017-06-10T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2017-12-12T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:09:49","slug":"breathing-boost-interoceptive-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/breathing-boost-interoceptive-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know Breathing Deeply Can Boost Your Empathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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McKinley Corbley from Good News Network writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Want to efficiently put yourself in someone else\u2019s shoes? Try taking a deep breath.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because this new study has found that people who are better at being more physically aware of themselves through meditation or mindfulness are more empathetic and understanding of others.<\/p>\n

According to these researchers from the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, the process of breathing deeply and bringing awareness to the body is called a \u201cstate of interoception\u201d. Their published study shows that people who induce interoceptive states are more empathetic than those who aren\u2019t\u00a0as aware of their internal functioning.<\/p>\n

This keen sense of social understanding, also known as the \u201cTheory of Mind\u201d, is the individual\u2019s ability to hypothesize other people\u2019s feelings, patterns, emotions, and reasoning, which the research team believes to be an improved byproduct of having heightened interoceptive abilities.<\/p>\n

The researchers examined their claim by hosting a study composed of 72 different participants. To gauge their interoceptive abilities, the researchers asked participants to count their own heartbeats during an allotted amount of time. The team then measured the participants\u2019 actual heartbeats in comparison to what the participants counted; those who had more accurate counts were considered more interoceptive.<\/p>\n

The study group then showed the participants videos of events and occasions with multiple-choice answers. Some of the clips showed people\u2019s faces with questions like \u201cHow is Lucy feeling?\u201d \u2013 while other clips featured more factual questions like \u201cDoes the weather seem chilly in this footage?\u201d<\/p>\n

The results of the test showed that the participants with better interoceptive abilities were better at answering questions about people\u2019s emotions than those who were not as interoceptive.<\/p>\n

So maybe next time you\u2019re puzzling over the emotional dilemmas of your friends and family, close your eyes and take a breath before jumping to conclusions.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

McKinley Corbley is the editor and writer for GNN; part-time circus junkie; and part-time English student in community college. Enjoys feminism, bad puns, travel, and copious amounts of stomach-ache inducing pasta.<\/p>\n

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McKinley Corbley from Good News Network writes: Want to efficiently put yourself in someone else\u2019s shoes? Try taking a deep breath. That\u2019s because this new study has found that people who are better at being more physically aware of themselves through meditation or mindfulness are more empathetic and understanding of others. According to these researchers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[378,446,737],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthandvitality","category-news","tag-breathing","tag-empathy","tag-empathy-booster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}