Mirroring Care

Our brains themselves are structured to promote collaboration and care.
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into 
Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today

Caregiving is a collaboration between all the people involved in the circle of care. But in order to collaborate we need to effectively empathize with and understand one another. What forms the basis of our ability to do this? Our brains themselves are structured to promote collaboration and care.

In the past few years studies have shown that special cells in our brains called "mirror neurons" are central to our ability to know and understand one another.

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