Having spent a couple of weeks on holiday with my friend and her kids, it is still fresh in my consciousness about how children are, i.e. usually spontaneous! Everything is lived in the moment and how they feel is expressed readily and usually without any filters, as any worn out parent will tell you!  Becoming adult seems like a long, boring process of removing ourselves from our spontaneous feelings. So many of us walk around not really knowing what the truth is for us emotionally.

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The other day I read an article called ‘Study may explain roots of empathy’ which made me think about how close we should be with people or not? CHICAGO (Reuters) – ‘When people say “I feel your pain,” they do not mean it literally, but certain people really do feel something that appears to be an extreme form of empathy, British researchers said on Sunday.’

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