When we see any film with disturbing situations, such as death, injustice, suffering, abuse, we can feel like that person says that pain. We put ourselves in the place of that character and we come to feel empathy, to see the suffering of another person, the areas of our brain that regulate in pain are activated and moves our human capacity to feel.
Our own emotional state affects our capacity for empathy. Emotions change the way our brain responds to other people, even when they suffer.
When we feel bad emotionally, this emotional state affects how we relate to our environment.
Our mood can be contagious, it handles behavior in many ways. We have for example to control our friendships and beyond that when consuming food, we consume the less healthy things for our body.
There may be people around us, who are without mood and depressed, those states can be contagious and make us feel bad.
A negative state of mind can spread even through social networks, emotions emotions are very powerful, it may be that having a better mood we experience less pain when we have a wound. Being positive first and foremost is like an analgesic-like effect.
Negative emotions are the opposite: when we feel a lot of pain the wound increases. Feeling badly affects our innate ability to respond to another person who feels pain. Negativity reduces empathy. It suppresses our brain's ability to be sensitive to the pain of others. Emotions can literally change the mood of our brain. And in doing so our own feelings modify how we perceive those of other people.
We have for example; A boss or boss, has been exposed to something negative, even something as simple as a movie, could be less sensitive to a colleague who suffers or even see it in a negative way. Our bad moods make us less receptive to other people's feelings.
Negative emotions diminish the empathy towards those people who do not belong in our frequent social circle.
We have many types of empathy, one of them is the "empathic anguish"; Many times we can have compassionate feelings, but this anguish is "the feeling of being overwhelmed" when something bad happens to another person, which in turn leads us to protect ourselves from negative emotions.
A person can feel a lot of anxiety or depression when faced with unusual situations in their life, they tend to focus primarily on their problems and become totally isolated.
Be more compassionate, it is possible to cultivate compassionate behavior.
We can be trained in compassionate and empathic feelings, our emotional responses to others are not fixed.
We can awaken our interior empathy, even in the face of the suffering of other people. We can achieve a little more positivity with good training, so we will pay more attention to the needs of others. We can improve the quality of our relationships, a key factor in the face of happiness itself.
Try to regulate your time better, in things that make you feel better, think about the effect that causes in the people around you.