The Artsy Cure

Ever wondered if transporting yourself in a fictional world can make you a better person in real life? Well, the good news is that it kind of does, not in a moral sense, but it might help you increase your empathy! Many research studies have suggested that both the experience of reading fiction and the extent to which a reader feels ‘transported’ by the narrative are linked with empathy. And not only through reading, few studies even show that empathizing to characters in movies might help in increasing your emotional intelligence and empathy. Narrative empathy means the sharing of feelings and perspective-taking which is induced by hearing, viewing, reading or imagining narratives of another’s situation.  Empathy is one’s ability to understand and experience another person’s psychological or affective state (i.e., imagine the self in someone else’s shoes; Borke 1971; Krebs 1970; Zahn-Waxler and Radke-Yarrow 1990). Two components of empathy are Cognitive and Affective. Cognitive em...

T he rejections of daily life if not treated can be very damaging to the mental health of an individual, when we experience it we feel most alone, outcast and neglected. Rejection coming from a Latin noun ‘ r ē icere ’, “which means to throw back” and when we face rejection it literally does throw back our self confidence, se lf esteem and motivation . Rejection can be defined as a refused proposal, idea or a suggestion. R ejection is something that has been experienced by each one of us in profuse ways, weather it was an idea in a group project or a romantic rejection , it is perhaps one of the earliest psychological wound that is experienced by all of us as it is an unavoidable aspect of human life . T he rejections of daily life if not treated can be very damaging to the mental health of an individual, when we experience it we feel most alone, outcast and neglected. Studies show tha t rejection has the similar effects to those of physical pains on our brain. When we are re...