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How to Heal Toxic Energy

By Sandra Ingerman — 2011

If we want to change the world we need to focus on changing ourselves. And this includes the need to be more conscious of the thoughts we send out.

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Life and Simulated Death with Mirror Touch Synaesthesia

Since she was young, Luna Jones has had the “superhuman” ability to feel everything you (and everyone else) feels. Is it a burden or a gift?

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Matteo di Maio
2020
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Some People with Synaesthesia Feel Other People’s Sensations of Touch – Painful and Pleasurable

Interactions between self-other representation and vicarious perception are thought to be important to how we all experience empathy.

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Michael Banissy
2021
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The Mirror-Touch Synesthetes Who Can Literally Feel Your Pain

People with the unique neurological condition aren't just sensitive to the emotions and physical sensations of others—they feel them like it's their own.

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Layla Haidrani
2017
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Help Arrives for Mirror-Touch Synesthetes

Pioneering therapist Dr. Judith Orloff counsels the highly empathic.

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Maureen Seaberg
2015
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3 Ways to Embrace Neurodiversity in the Workplace

In a work world dominated by automation, digitalization, and increasing incivility, the need for one group of workers, those whom I call “sensitive strivers,” has never been greater.

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Melody Wilding
2021
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Identity and Neurodiversity

Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?

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International Bipolar Foundation
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‘We Can Literally Feel Our Patients’ Pain’: From a Neuroscientist to a Massage Therapist, We Speak to Some of the Rare Few Healthcare Professionals with ‘Mirror-Touch Synesthesia’

Mirror-touch synesthesia is a rare neurological trait that makes people highly empathic, allowing them to feel what others do by looking at or touching them.

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Natalie Rahhal
2018
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Do People with Synethesia Draw Out Expression in the Autistic?

Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.

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Maureen Seaberg
2021
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Highly Sensitive People

When research psychologist and psychotherapist Elaine Aron published The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, many people felt a jolt of recognition.

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Maggie Oman Shannon
2000
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8 Ways Highly Sensitive People Make the World a Better Place

Highly sensitive people might be different from the general population, but they are different in a way that could be useful—and perhaps crucial—to the function of society.

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GoodTherapy.org Staff
2015
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