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How Empathy and Hypnotherapy Go Hand-in-Hand: Neuroscience, Self-Care, and Emotional Resilience

  • Writer: LCCH Asia
    LCCH Asia
  • Jul 16
  • 3 min read
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Ever felt deeply connected to someone's emotions, perhaps even overwhelmed by them? Or found yourself instinctively understanding another's unspoken feelings? That profound ability is empathy, a cornerstone of human connection and a vital trait for those in helping professions. But what happens when empathy leads to emotional burnout? This article explores the neuroscience behind empathy and reveals how hypnotherapy can be your most powerful tool for self-care and emotional resilience.


Understanding Empathy: The Neuroscience Behind Connection


Empathy is the ability to understand how others feel and to be compassionate towards them. Neuroscience research shows it occurs when two regions of the brain – the emotional and cognitive centers – work together. The first perceives or experiences emotion, while the second seeks to put meaning to it.


There is an empathy spectrum; some people have extremely low empathy, while others can feel overwhelmed by their emotional connection to others. Science is divided on whether empaths really exist. Researchers have identified bundles of cells called mirror neurons that could reflect what others are feeling. Higher concentration of these cells in some people could support the existence of empaths.


Emotional Engagement Begins in the Unconscious


Emotional engagement begins in the unconscious. People naturally respond to non-verbal cues, mirroring and matching facial expressions, responding to head nods, vocalizations, postures, movements, and the intonation of others. Understanding one’s own feelings is crucial to developing emotional intelligence; the more connected you are to your emotions, the greater your ability to feel for others.



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Many ’empaths’ go into the helping professions and become physicians, social workers, teachers or nurses. (Envato Elements pic)


Taking on Another's Perspective


Being able to take on the perspective of someone else – a cognitive function – is also part of empathy. This is a learnt skill that starts being developed in people from as young as the age of four.


Regulating and Modulating Emotion


The ability to regulate and modulate emotion is an important component, one that helps people empathize with someone else’s distress without losing themselves in the process.


Empathy in Helping Professions: The Advantages and Challenges


The ability to identify strongly with others is both an advantage and a challenge. Many “empaths” go into the helping professions and become physicians, nurses, dentists, physical therapists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, or even clinical hypnotherapists.


Hypnotherapy and Empathy: A Powerful Partnership for Self-Care


Studies show that empathy makes people better managers, healthcare workers, family members, and friends. But too much exposure to distress can be painful and could lead to emotional burnout.


Empaths or highly empathetic individuals in the helping professions can learn how to stop taking on the stress and symptoms of their patients and clients. They do this by scheduling breaks between clients to meditate, setting clear limits and boundaries, and taking adequate time outside of work to relax and rejuvenate.


For those who find themselves potentially overwhelmed by the feelings of others, clinical hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis offer an opportunity to let go of tensions and facilitate reconnection to one’s emotional senses. This makes hypnotherapy for empaths a vital tool.


It is an excellent method of self-care: just 20 minutes of regular practice helps reconnect you with your unconscious mind and provides deeper insights into your own emotions. This builds emotional resilience and provides a natural buffer between your own feelings and those of others, while releasing unwanted stress.


Hypnotherapy sessions don’t just help the client – practitioners, too, can gain new outlooks and insights by asking simple questions and listening to the answers; while leading someone into a state of hypnosis creates a safe and emotionally positive experience for both client and therapist.


Sheila Menon is the Principal of the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH) in Asia and Australia, and the CEO of the LSCCH Therapy Centre.


This post was featured on Free Malaysia Today. Read the original article here: How empathy and hypnotherapy go hand-in-hand | Free Malaysia Today (FMT)

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