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Emotions & Eating
by Joan EsherickWe all need to eat. Food is a basic life necessity, but it can mean so much more to us than merely taking in enough food to keep hunger at bay. We eat when we're sad, happy, bored, lonely, excited, and for many other reasons. Many people have complicated relationships with food and their emotions. For many of us, eating is a way to escape painful feelings. For others, no good feeling can go without a celebratory meal--and maybe even some overeating. But all this emotional eating can lead to serious health consequences, including obesity--the state of being very overweight. Learn more about why people's emotions push them to eat the way they do, and discover how people develop unhealthy emotional relationships with food. When you understand the risks of eating because of your emotions, you'll be able to understand your body's needs better--and you'll know how to stick with healthy eating, no matter how you're feeling.
Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics (Human–Computer Interaction Series)
by Rebekah Rousi Jaana Leikas Pertti SaariluomaUnderstanding emotions is becoming ever more valuable in design, both in terms of what people prefer as well as in relation to how they behave in relation to it. Approaches to conceptualising emotions in technology design, how emotions can be operationalised and how they can be measured are paramount to ascertaining the core principles of design. Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics provides a multi-dimensional approach to studying, designing and comprehending emotions in design. It presents emotions as understood through basic human-technology research, applied design practice, culture and aesthetics, ethical approaches to emotional design, and ethics as a cultural framework for emotions in design experience. Core elements running through the book are: cognitive science – cognitive-affective theories of emotions (i.e., Appraisal); culture – the ways in which our minds are trained to recognise, respond to and influence design; and ethics – a deep cultural framework of interpretations of good versus evil. This ethical understanding brings culture and cognition together to form genuine emotional experience. This book is essential reading for designers, technology developers, HCI and cognitive science scholars, educators and students (at both undergraduate and graduate levels) in terms of emotional design methods and tools, systematic measurement of emotion in design experience, cultural theory underpinning how emotions operate in the production and interaction of design, and how ethics influence basic (primal) and higher level emotional reactions. The broader scope equips design practitioners, developers and scholars with that ‘something more’ in terms of understanding how emotional experience of technology can be positioned in relation to cultural discourse and ethics.
Emotions in the Moral Life
by Robert C. RobertsRobert C. Roberts extends to the moral life the account of emotions presented in his Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (2003), that they are "concern-based construals." In this book the author explains how emotions can be a basis for moral judgments, how they account for the deeper moral identity of actions we perform, how they are constitutive of morally valenced personal relationships like friendship, enmity, collegiality and parenthood, and how both pleasant and unpleasant emotions interact with our personal wellbeing (eudaimonia). He argues that none of these dimensions of emotions' values is reducible to any of the others. He continues by sketching how all of these moral dimensions contribute to emotions' participation, in diverse ways, in our virtues and vices.
Emotions in the Practice of Psychotherapy
by Robert PlutchikThe circumplex model of emotions has been an extremely valuable paradigm for understanding personality, psychopathology, and interpersonal relations over the past 30 years. In this volume, Robert Plutchik extends his model to inform the practice of psychotherapy across all theoretical orientations and therapeutic modalities. Beginning with a description of the role of emotions in symptom formation, Plutchik demonstrates how the circumplex model has relevance not only to emotions, but to personality traits, personality disorders, and ego defenses as well. He presents a unique compendium of therapist tactics for uncovering emotions and encouraging their expression. He examines the many distinctions between social conversation and therapeutic communication and describes specific strategies of intervention found to be helpful to therapeutic enterprise.
The Empath Experience: What to Do When You Feel Everything
by Sydney CamposLearn to lead an empowered life with this supportive and positive guide for those who are discovering their empath abilities and looking for information to help in understanding their gift, as well as how to embrace it and thrive in everyday life.Maybe you find that being in a public place is totally overwhelming. Maybe you&’ve noticed that your friends, loved ones, and even acquaintances tend to unload all of their problems on you, looking for advice on what to do. And maybe you can pick up on a person&’s energy so closely you begin to feel their emotions. All of this indicates that you might be an empath—someone who has the ability to feel the emotions and energy of other people. Being a highly sensitive person may seem like a burden at times, but doesn&’t have to be. Being an empath is a gift that you can use to your advantage. In TheEmpath Experience, you&’ll find detailed information on what it means to be an empath and the different ways this gift can influence your life in positive ways. In addition, you&’ll find supportive advice from a fellow empath on how to embrace the positive aspects of this special talent, get in touch with and understand your emotions, and tips and techniques to help you feel your best—even when someone else may be feeling their worst.
Empathic Attunement: The "Technique" of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
by Crayton E. Rowe David S. MacisaacEmpathic Attunement captures the essence of Kohut's contributions to self psychology and the mental health field. Straightforward, accurate, and practical, the authors introduce student and experienced clinician alike to the synthesis of Kohut's major concepts and their clinical applications. The authors highlight Kohut's emphasis on the empathic mode of data gathering from within the patient's experiences. Kohut considers empathy--the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person--to be the major tool of therapy.
The Empathic Ghost Hunter
by Steve Wilson Bety ComerfordThis book is different from your typical how-to guide for ghost hunting. It's designed to give the empath, and anyone sensitive to energy, tools for accepting things that go bump in the night. Empathic ghost hunters will learn to depend not only on the energy of the living, but that of the dead as they search out paranormal activity. Each chapter includes a story, taken from the authors' experiences in their own ghost-hunting practice, as well as a lesson for empaths or those wishing to better their empathy skills. Find out how to "lighten" a space, a house, or a life, by changing the energy, thereby allowing ghosts to move on. Discover what an empath feels and what he/she can do to work with the gift of empathy. Now you can unravel and demystify the phenomena of the paranormal, and bring light to a subject fraught with fear and misunderstanding.
Empathy: The Contribution of Neuroscience to Social Analysis
by Vincenzo AuriemmaThis book examines the concept of empathy in sociological and neuroscientific discourses using innovative perspectives from sociology and social neuroscience. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the author delves into the history of empathy and its social, cultural and semantic changes, and then reviews the conception of empathy in neuroscientific discourse.Distancing itself from the traditional neuroscientific literature of biological universalism, this volume offers an innovative perspective on empathy. It also opens a new avenue for neurosociology, which is presented as the discipline that can emphasize all the cultural and emotional aspects that govern empathy. Key themes addressed in the text are: empathy in all its meanings, from Hume to TenHouten; neurosociology as one possible avenue for embracing the cultural and neuroscientific aspects of empathy; and empirical research. A valuable resource for sociology students and academics in the field of empathy and neurosociology, this book is also of interest to those studying sociological thought, and social neuroscience.
Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice
by Martin L. HoffmanThis volume provides the first comprehensive account of prosocial moral development in children. The book's focus is empathy's contribution to altruism and compassion for others in physical, psychological, or economic distress; feelings of guilt over harming someone; feelings of anger at others who do harm; feelings of injustice when others do not receive their due.
Empathy-Based Ethics: A Way to Practice Humane Medicine
by David Ian JeffreyThis book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics. Empathy-based ethics is based on the patient–doctor relationship and seeks to encourage a more humane form of medical practice. The author argues that the current emphasis on the biomedical model of medicine and a detached concern form of professionalism have damaged the patient–doctor relationship. He investigates examples of the dehumanization of patients and demonstrates a contrasting view of humane care. The book presents empathy as a relational construct - it provides an in-depth analysis of the process of empathizing. It discusses an empathy-based ethics approach underpinned by clinical examples of the practical application of this new approach. It suggests how empathy-based ethics can be embedded in clinical practice, medical education and research. The book concludes by examining the challenges in implementing such an approach and looks to a future which redresses the current imbalance between biomedical and psychosocial approaches to medicine.
Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person: Husserlian Investigations of Social Experience and the Self (Phaenomenologica #233)
by James JardineThis text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.Jardine argues that Husserl’s analyses of selfhood and intersubjectivity are animated by the question of what's at stake in recognising an agent’s engagement as the situated response of a person, rather than simply as the comportment of an animal or living body. Drawing centrally from the freshly excavated Ideas II drafts and manuscripts, the author develops Husserl’s often fragmentary investigations of attention, habit, emotion, freedom, the common world, and action, and considers their implications for subjectivity and the experience of others. Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person also brings Husserlian phenomenology into dialogue with twenty-first century philosophical concerns, from accounts of selfhood and agency from analytic philosophy to the treatment of social experience in critical theory.The book shows the reader that transcendental phenomenology can be rejuvenated by engaging with a broader philosophical landscape and will appeal to researchers, students, and instructors in the field.
The Empathy Exams: Essays
by Leslie JamisonFrom personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize<P> Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others’—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
by Thomas Petraschka and Christiana WernerThis volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in understanding. When it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target person’s mental states, a process which is in turn seen as “understanding” this person. This volume, however, explores empathy’s role in understanding beyond mere mental state recognition. With contributions on processes of interpersonal understanding and understanding of literature and art, it provides readers with an overview over both differences and similarities regarding empathy’s epistemic role in two rather different areas. Since important roots of the debate about empathic understanding lie at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the historical section of the volume focusses specifically on this period. Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics and the history of philosophy, as well as in literary studies and art history.
Empecemos de cero
by Lucía FernándezLa popular figura de TikTok, Lucía Fernández, nos cuenta las luces y sombras de ser una influencer. Todo lo que escriba aquí va a quedar para siempre y eso nunca va a cambiar. ¡Hola, yo soy Lucía Fernández! Puede que algunos ya me conozcáis por las redes sociales o por mi canal de YouTube, pero quizás otros no sabéis nada de mí. Por eso, me gustaría que me conocierais a través de este libro donde he querido plasmar mis sentimientos. Empecemos de cero lo he dividido en dos partes, porque creo que así es como soy yo: en la primera tenéis a la Lucía que ve todo el mundo día a día y a través de las redes sociales, donde incluiré mi infancia y mi adolescencia (y algunos secretos), y en la segunda parte encontraréis lo que muy pocas personas pueden ver de mí, lo que siento en cada momento y que a veces me cuesta compartir. Bienvenidos a mi vida. Espero que disfrutéis este libro que es tan necesario para mí. ¡Nos vemos pronto!
Empieza a vivir: Con autocuidado, autoconocimiento, autoestima y autoconfianza
by Dr. Nicolás Romero RTVEEl doctor de la tele en La aventura del saber nos propone tirarnos a la piscina para que nos pasen mejores cosas en la vida. Empieza a vivir es un método de aprovechamiento personal para autoengañarnos menos, cambiar de mentalidad y reforzarnos para las crisis del futuro siguiendo cuatro autos: - Autocuidado. Mejora tu sistema inmunitario y las funciones de tu cerebro con inmunonutrición.- Autoconocimiento. Forma hábitos y habilidades que desarrollen tu talento potencial.- Autoestima. Identifica las personas que te dañan con la envidia y lastran tu vida.- Autoconfianza. Aumenta la seguridad y siente más control en las decisiones importantes. Con este libro, el doctor Nicolás Romero nos ofrece una herramienta útil para sentirnos más contentos con lo que somos y desarrollar el talento que ya tenemos, con ejemplos para que nos vaya mejor a partir de ahora.
Empire of Wild: A Novel
by Cherie DimalineA #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the most anticipated books of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers Weekly'Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood'Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant' New York Times'Close, tight, stark, beautiful - rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word. Dimaline has crafted something both current and timeless' NPR'Revelatory... Gritty and engaging, this story of a woman and her missing husband is one of candor, wit and tradition'Ms. Magazine Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice.She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus.With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Métis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.Inspired by traditional Métis legends, Cherie Dimaline has created a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel.
The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions throughout the Ages
by Marco M. Vigato• Traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, as well as the colonies and outposts formed by its survivors in Egypt, Göbekli Tepe, India, Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, and North and South America • Shows how pyramids and other megalithic monuments testify to the survival of a &“Sacred Science&” of Atlantean origin and how this Sacred Science provided the foundation for esoteric traditions and secret societies throughout the ages • Draws on more than 500 ancient and modern sources and the author&’s own personal exploration of hundreds of archaeological sites Exploring more than 100,000 years of Earth&’s history, Marco Vigato combines recent discoveries in the fields of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and genetics with the mystery teachings of antiquity to investigate the true origins of civilization. Establishing the historical and geological reality of Atlantis stretching all the way back to 432,000 BCE, he traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, revealing how civilization rose and fell several times over this lengthy span of time. The author shows that Atlantis did not vanish &“in one terrible day and night&” but survived in a variety of different forms well into the historical era. He reveals how the first Atlantean civilization lasted from 432,000 to 33,335 BCE, the second one from 21,142 to 10,961 BCE, and the third Atlantis civilization--the one celebrated by Plato--collapsed in 9600 BCE, after the Younger Dryas cataclysm. The author examines the role of Atlantean survivors in restarting civilization in different parts of the world, from Göbekli Tepe and Egypt to India, Mesopotamia, and the Americas. He explains how they created colonies and outposts around the globe, as evidenced by the colossal network of pyramids, earthen mounds, and other megalithic monuments they left behind. He shows how these monuments testify to the survival of a &“Sacred Science&” of Atlantean origin, and he documents the survival of the primeval Atlantean Tradition through various secret societies into the modern era. Drawing on more than 500 ancient and modern sources and his own personal exploration of hundreds of archaeological sites around the world, the author shows not only that Atlantis was real but that the whole world is now being called to become a New Atlantis and awaken into a new Golden Age.
Empirical Reason and Sensory Experience (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science #60)
by Miloš Vuletić Ori BeckThe volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents. The volume is centered around five cutting-edge essays by leading authors in these areas—Anil Gupta, Andrea Kern, Christopher Peacocke, Susanna Schellenberg and Crispin Wright—along with no less than thirty contributions scrutinizing and critically discussing the essays, prompting detailed rejoinders from the lead authors. The volume closes with an extensive debate between Annalisa Coliva, Gupta and Wright. Taken as a whole, the volume covers much ground in epistemology of perception and displays a variety of approaches and perspectives through fruitful and accessible exchanges. It will be of interest not only to researchers working in perceptual epistemology but also to students new to the subject.
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
by Wilfrid SellarsThis book presents Sellars' entire philosophical system and his attack on the Myth of the Given, which raised doubts about the very idea of epistemology.
Empowered Fertility: A Practical Twelve Step Guide
by Claire Hall Dr Devora LiebermanThis clear, perceptive and incredibly helpful book enables women to empower themselves to deal with the difficult and emotionally fraught issues surrounding infertility.Written by experienced counsellor Claire Hall and fertility expert Dr Devora Lieberman, Empowered Fertility is a practical guide for women to help them through the experience of infertility and emerge with their mental wellbeing, friendships, relationships and finances intact. It contains clear, well-structured information and offers practical guidance.Each section of the book gives the reader information and support to address physical, psychological, emotional and social challenges that can arise when dealing with infertility, and also with IVF treatment. Subjects include managing expectations, dealing with fear, releasing control and handling changes in relationships.The reader can make use of the coaching tools and exercises to help with each step. For those who are starting or are in the midst of IVF treatment, the last section of the book forms an IVF Cycle Handbook, to guide women through their experience.
Empowered, Sexy, and Free: Discover Your Unique Brilliance and Dare to Be the Creatrix of Your Life
by Jolie DawnA delightfully fresh and irreverent take on living well, based not on changing you but on fully being you Have you ever wondered why you don’t feel empowered, sexy, and free? This refreshingly authentic book will help you recognize and release whatever energetic baggage is weighing you down, from difficult relationship dynamics to financial challenges to feeling a lack of clarity in purpose — it’s all here for you to discover. Author Jolie Dawn admits that the process won’t always be comfortable, but she promises and shows through her personal stories of addiction, family trauma, internalized sexual shame, and debilitating self-doubt that a fearless, bold life is possible. The daily practices and tools she offers come from her lived experience of successfully transforming her life from the inside out. You’ll discover the power to radiate your inner light, dare to be your truest self, and expand the heart of every human who witnesses your divine feminine essence.
Empowering Behavior Change in Patients: Practical Strategies for the Healthcare Professional (Lifestyle Medicine)
by Beth Frates Mark D. FariesEmpowering Behavior Change in Patients: Practical Strategies for the Healthcare Professional reviews medical research and pairs it with behavior change theories to create counseling strategies and tools that equip the reader to empower others to adopt and sustain change. With contributions by leading physicians, PhDs, health coaches and other experts in behavior change, the book presents a variety of perspectives, backgrounds and educational experiences encouraging readers to alter their counseling practices to include more behavior change and coaching strategies. Features Guidance from renowned behavior change experts as well as medical students and healthcare professional students in training to create a unique mix of well-established theories and practices, review articles and research, and tools and strategies, in addition to perspectives on change to use when counseling individuals with chronic conditions and those looking to prevent disease Presents healthcare providers with tools to be empowering messengers by relaying this information to patients in relatable, inspiring ways Features successful case studies throughout and provides examples of language to use when counseling individuals Provides cutting-edge examples of the effectiveness of group visits to help create sustainable change which is a healthcare trend that is up and coming Shares concrete strategies to help readers move forward in their own behavior change journeys as well as help others, either patients, colleagues, or loved ones to make strides toward optimal health and well-being Implements lifestyle medicine concepts and principles Each chapter includes a summary and takeaway points for the reader A volume in the Lifestyle Medicine series, this book is for those in healthcare looking to empower people to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles based on the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, including routine physical activity, nutritious eating patterns, sound sleep, positive social connections, stress resilience, and avoidance of risky substances. This book is a solid resource for information on behavior change in healthcare benefiting not only the healthcare industry and students, but also parents, teachers, and anyone who cares for an individual with a chronic condition such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, or obesity, and for those looking to prevent the onset of disease.
Empowering Intuitives: A Spiritual Toolkit for this Modern World
by Dr Michelle WalkerEmpowering Intuitives is a short read for a lifetime of happiness. It is a spiritual self-help guide that provides a productive and inspiring way to view life and the surrounding environment, while learning to be grateful --- even for the little things!This book unlocks the secrets for finding peace, happiness, and true well-being that everyone has within themselves. Each chapter defines, explores, and exemplifies spiritual abilities and mindsets, while unraveling the causes of present-day negative experiences.Included exercises can be done by adults or with intuitive children to help prepare them for their adult life as an intuitive. Tools are also provided to use as exercises in developing and understanding a spiritual mindset, for both adults and children. Learning how to deal with and/or remove the negative aspects of life by replacing them with positive thoughts, movements, and actions can have a powerful impact on every life.This is a truly inspiring and motivating book that will allow individuals the freedom to explore their sensory perceptions as well as provide guidance to live life as an intuitive.
Empowering Intuitives: A Spiritual Tool Kit For This Modern World
by Dr Michelle WalkerEmpowering Intuitives is a short read for a lifetime of happiness. It is a spiritual self-help guide that provides a productive and inspiring way to view life and the surrounding environment, while learning to be grateful --- even for the little things! <p><p> This book unlocks the secrets for finding peace, happiness, and true well-being that everyone has within themselves. Each chapter defines, explores, and exemplifies spiritual abilities and mindsets, while unraveling the causes of present-day negative experiences. <p> Included exercises can be done by adults or with intuitive children to help prepare them for their adult life as an intuitive. Tools are also provided to use as exercises in developing and understanding a spiritual mindset, for both adults and children. Learning how to deal with and/or remove the negative aspects of life by replacing them with positive thoughts, movements, and actions can have a powerful impact on every life. <p> This is a truly inspiring and motivating book that will allow individuals the freedom to explore their sensory perceptions as well as provide guidance to live life as an intuitive.
Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive: An Experiential Guide to Working with Subtle Energies
by Bertold Keinar• Details 30 progressive exercises to help clear, balance, and protect your energy field, release fears, and support you in daily life • Explores how to energetically cleanse and master your emotions and thoughts, balance your subtle energy bodies, and gain inner peace and calm • Explains for each exercise what it is useful for, how to tell the technique is working, and what you are developing through the practice, such as activating your pineal gland, charging up with prana energy, or protecting your system from energy vampires Sensitivity is a gift if you discover how to embrace your unique nature fully. In Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive, empath Bertold Keinar presents easy solutions for the everyday challenges of the highly sensitive, whether at work, at home, with friends, or out in the world, and helps you master your emotions and thoughts. He explains the levels of our subtle energy bodies--the etheric, the emotional, and the mental--showing how they are impacted in our daily activities and environment and how we can support ourselves in consciously working with them. Exploring the nature of the sensitive, he emphasizes how important it is for empathic people to understand and experience their own core essence and learn how to not be overwhelmed by their sensitivity to the world. He offers a gradually progressive series of 30 structured practices to help clear, balance, and protect your energy field, release fears, and allow you to gain lasting stability and equanimity in daily life. Focusing on energetic and emotional balance, the techniques in the book help you work with your sensitivity and build protection for your subtle energy bodies and your subconscious mind, allowing you to balance your inner world. For each exercise the author explains what the practice is useful for, how to tell that the technique is working, and what you are developing through the exercises, such as activating your pineal gland, charging up with prana energy, protecting your system from energy vampires, or quieting the mind. Allowing sensitives to stop sacrificing important parts of their unique nature in order to fit in, this guide supports highly sensitive people to become more comfortable with their heightened awareness, protect their energetic systems, and embrace full participation in society, where their gifts are sorely needed.