Empathy: Spa Treatment for the Soul (Part 1)

A small set of practices such as receiving empathy, meditation (mindfulness), Yoga, and Tai Chi Chuan, promote recovery and well-being in reducing inflammation. The solution then is a hot bath? Aspa treatment? Don’t laugh. There are many less useful interventions available. The limitation of a spa treatment is that it provides symptom relief, not a long-term solution. After the benefits of the spa treatment wear off in a couple of weeks, the person is right back where she or he started. Thedifference between empathy and a hot bath granted that both are relaxing—is that empathy provides for structural change to the person’s personality, expanding resilience, emotional stability, and relatedness. Advantage empathy: empathy is superior to a spa treatment for the soul. How is this so? Engage with this dynamic short series on empathy as a spa treatment for the soul and find out why!

Image Credit: Group Tai Chi practice in a Shanghai park led by Grandmaster Xie Bingcan in 2011. Author: Seattletaijiquan This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license