Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel

Before You Know it Our bodies register and respond to the world before our conscious minds catch up.

When you have a health problem, it helps to know the causes so that you can address them.

There is a vast difference in the way your minded body responds when you touch someone accidentally or intentionally.

There is a controversial idea that (from a biological perspective) empathy is actually quite selfish.

Bodies are not organic machines.

I have a problem with the word ‘empathy’ because we commonly tend to conflate empathy with sympathy.

Emotions and pain so readily spread between people that researchers describe them as “contagious”.

There is an important difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence—however advanced AI becomes.

New clients are sometimes surprised to find that their Shiatsu treatment influenced their emotions as well as their energy levels.

Somatic empathy is not about being nice; nor is it something only ‘empaths’ experience.

[This article was first published in The Ecologist] To avoid disease, plants produce a wealth of antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral compounds.

Lying is incredibly effective, even when the lie is obvious.

Many years ago, I worked as a science consultant for an independent production company which made wildlife films.

Over tens of thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs with an ability to adopt facial expressions like ours.

There’s this strange thing, pain contagion.

"If you feel pain, you're alive.

Bodies are plastic—well, they show plasticity.

We know instinctively to hold someone’s hand when they are in pain.

The gender-sexual identity issue has been rumbling for a long time often pivoting around what is ‘natural’.

When my children were young, I took them to an entertainment park.