Under exertion, muscles abandon the habitual route that produces energy and leaves water as its by-product. Acid increases amidst the muscular cells and pain follows.
A top-level athlete builds an efficient acid-washing mechanism. This takes quite some time.
The same is true with empathy. When you try to embrace empathy without proper preparation you end up producing a mental by-product which is read by the brain cells as disappointment.
Disappointment means lack of empathy under way. True empathy comes from the heart and its by-product is self-enrichment.
There are many more brain neurons transporting from the feelings zones to the thought zones then the reverse. This is why feelings can shape thoughts but thoughts never reshape feelings.
Some of us are able to use inner thoughts to appreciate feelings. During the process we allow our relatively newer thought brain cells to feed from older, memory cells. This is what wiser men mean by telling us to listen to our hearts.
Can you spot the child in you patiently listening to the wiser man? By doing so you gain access to the frequency of the heart.
Mood can add either norepinephrine or endorphin to the fluid bathing brain cells.
If you´re in a low mood norepinephrine prevails. It then enhances autodialogue. You will hear yourself saying how this could have been done better and how that could have rewarded you more.
If a mood shift comes in endorfin is released. It then weakens self-pity connections between memory nerve cells. It disengages neurons momentarily so that they can connect in different ensambles. This in turn generates fresh ideas.
But remember - your task is not to generate those fresh ideas. It is to be able to bring about a mood shift.
