"Empathy
calms the emotional brain so that we can perceive situations and
interactions accurately and thoughtfully. With empathy, we produce our own
natural stress-reducing chemicals that create calm, focused energy, allowing
us to do and be our best."
"Positive relationships and involvement in meaningful group
experiences create resilience and lessen stress. Such experiences
stimulate the release of oxytocin, the compassion hormone. This hormone
produces feelings of security and calm and inhibits stress and anxiety:
thus it protects us against the release of cortisol.... while cortisol
make us fearful, oxytocin makes us feel comfortable, secure, and in a
position to give and receive empathy...
The good news is that we can produce this effect with
practice by expanding our abilities to communicate with empathy."
"If we were committed to developing empathy in our
schools and if we demanded empathy from our politicians and from leaders
within the corporate world and beyond, then our society would experience the
shift from exclusion and fear of differences to a deep appreciation for
diversity and also diverse ideas."
"I recently spoke with Edwin Rutsch, founding director of the Center
for Building a Culture of Empathy. He has been working for over 12 years to
create a more empathic society. He has interviewed over 200 empathy experts
and posted the interviews on his website CultureOfEmpathy.com. Edwin
created a simple and accessible method of learning, practicing and deepening
mutual empathy in small groups called Empathy Circles.
He uses this method to lessons political, social, family
and personal divides. He says he finds Empathy Circles to be the most
effective first step or gateway practice for enhancing empathy skills."
- Arthur P.Ciaramicoli,
The Transformation of Belief: Empathy Circles and Group Practices
"Empathy is our common language, giving voice to the heart's most profound
yearnings, eloquently articulating the soul's most anguished questions.
Through its thoughtful actions and interactions, empathy creates
the invisible connections that hold us together, one human to another,
neighborhood to village, community to country, nation to planet." Arthur Ciaramicoli, The Power of
Empathy
Empathy is the key to loving relationships and the antidote to the loneliness,
fear, and anxiety that afflict us. Dr. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ph.D., clinical
psychologist and author of The Power of Empathy, defines empathy as your
ability to understand and respond to the unique experiences of another.Explore the clear differences between empathy, sympathy, and compassion.
Recognize when you have pre-judgments, expectations or projections when
conversing with a family member or loved one and learn how to listen and
reframe your intentions to allow for real interaction.
Contemporary life has come to include 1. working too much, 2. sleeping too
little, and 3. feeling disconnected from partners and family (largely because
of 1 and 2.) Our health and relationships suffer (as does our work.)
As author Ciaramicoli shows, this state of affairs can be changed
-
while
maintaining high performance success. His simple and realistic, yet powerful
and profound techniques show readers how to use empathy to perceive
accurately, use CBT to correct distorted thinking, and trigger our own
neurochemistry to produce calm, focused energy. He developed this unique,
three-pronged approach over 35 years working with clients struggling with
depression, anxiety, and addictions.
Over and over again, he has helped sufferers overcome old hurts and combat
performance anxiety, fears, and hypervigiliance. Ciaramicoli's is a truly
pioneering approach, and one that offers new promise to readers facing a
variety of stress-based concerns.
'We work too much, sleep too little, love with half a heart, and wonder why we
are unhappy and unhealthy," says Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli. Is this modern day's
inevitable life dilemma? The good news is it doesn't have to be. Effectively
employing empathy has a surprising number of benefits, including lowering
everyday stress levels and encouraging deeper, more meaningful connection
between people. In the realm of work, great leaders using empathy can better
tease out the potential in others by listening and learning who they are and
what they could do. In this episode, we talk about the debilitating effects of
stress, how we can rid ourselves of old negative stories about ourselves, and
how performance addiction can really derail us, among several other compelling
topics."
"We work too much, sleep too little, love with half a heart," says clinical
psychologist Arthur Ciaramicoli, author of THE STRESS SOLUTION, which provides
powerful techniques for using empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to deal
with a wide variety of stress related concerns.
Online
Course of the book, The Stress Solution:
Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop
Resilience
Discussion with: Arthur Ciaramicoli and Edwin Rutsch
Date: Thursday, August 11, 5pm PST/8pm EST
Clinical psychologist
Arthur Ciaramicoli,
author of
The Stress Solution
and Edwin Rutsch, founder and director of the
Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
are developing an interactive course to address and resolve the growing
stress, anxiety and fear in America. The role of empathy and how it changes
brain chemistry and creates open-minded thinking versus how stress produces
certain chemical changes that produces narrow, black and white thinking are
central components featured throughout the book.
Edwin and Arthur will interact and discuss chapter 3,
Empathic Listening
with 5 individuals online and we are seeking many others to participate by
writing in your reactions to the discussion or with any questions you may have
about the content of the discussion in real time. This initial trial session
will be for 50 minutes and is free of charge. You can read reviews of the book
on Amazon
.
If you are interested in being in the call please leave your email and name
below. Thank you very much for agreeing to participate as reducing stress and
increasing empathy is crucial to lessening the fear and prejudice in our
current society.
by Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, EdD, PhD, Empathy: The Salve for Prejudice The key to understanding prejudice is to use empathy to uncover the root of
the bias and the negative physical effects it causes.
Empathy is the capacity to understand and respond to the unique experiences of
another. It is not an emotion or a feeling but a capacity that is innately
present. Empathy is part of our genetic endowment; it is essentially our
ability to read others accurately, to see beyond the surface into the soul of
another human being.
"The new combination of CBT, the power of empathy and the addition of how to
change brain chemistry naturally is an integrative therapeutic method I have
developed over the last 35 years. This unique psychology perspective will
provide you with the most comprehensive approach to balance your mental and
physical health while reducing stress significantly. CBT corrects
distorted thinking and empathy calms the emotional brain so we can use this
capacity to perceive others and ourselves accurately and thoughtfully. How we
perceive is directly related to how much stress we accumulate. In addition
this approach teaches you how to produce your own natural brain chemicals that
create calm, focused energy to do and be the best you can be.
These three
components produce a synergy that enhances our lives and releases our
potential. Studies indicate that Americans have fewer friends; trust has
decreased as well as the degree of empathy shown to others, while prejudice
has increased and race relations have deteriorated. Half of Americans lie
awake at night due to job stress and three quarters indicate they suffer from
emotional or physical stress symptoms daily."
by Sandy Weiner in communication skills in dating, dating after divorce,
dating in midlife, self-esteem in dating
'How do you build the most intimate relationships? The key
ingredient is empathy. My radio guest, Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, EdD, PhD, is the
author of The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience.
He is a licensed clinical psychologist and the chief medical officer of
soundmindz.org, a popular mental health platform. He has been on the faculty
of Harvard Medical School and chief psychologist of Metrowest Medical Center.
Dr. Ciaramicoli shared valuable tips on how to improve your empathy so you can
create the most intimate relationships-in love, life, and work. Highlights
from the show below'
Stress is an issue for many people in the 21st century. Empathy is something
that many people are lacking and resilience is something that we can
definitely use in our lives. Dr. Ciaramicoli shares information in this
interview to help us make exciting changes in our lives to be happier, have
less stress and make interesting changes for ourselves and in our
relationships. You can join us and learn about the importance of showing
empathy to others but also to ourselves. You will also learn how empathy for
others will also lower your stress and anxiety level
- and that's just the
beginning of the discussion.
How to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, EdD, PhD, is the author of The Stress Solution: Using
Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop
Resilience. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and the chief medical
officer of soundmindz.org, a popular mental health platform. He has been on
the faculty of Harvard Medical School and chief psychologist of Metrowest
Medical Center.
Join us to learn how to improve your relationships by reducing your anxiety,
using empathy and cognitive behavorial therapy techniques.
The Stress Solution -
Arthur Ciaramicoli, PhD "We work too much, sleep too little, love with half a heart," says clinical
psychologist Arthur Ciaramicoli, author of THE STRESS SOLUTION, which provides
powerful techniques for using empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to deal
with a wide variety of stress related concerns.
MLK Day in Hopkinton,
Mass 2016
Youth Commission Chair Margie Wiggin introduces keynote speaker Dr. Arthur
Ciaramicoli on MLK Day 2016 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Dr. Ciaramicoli,
Hopkinton resident, is a clinical psychologist, the Chief Medical Officer for
SoundMindz.org, and an author of many books. His humorous stories and parables
will delight the viewer.
