Experience, memory and neuropsychological correlates
When you experience something, this experience creates a mark on our memory , are generated partnerships, build bridges between old memories and new experiences, and create / activate and strengthen the interneuronal circuits that connect the structures involved in that image-sound – perfume , tactile, etc.. Then in a particular part of the brain that experience, complete and associated with emotions and feelings that are really short memory and is stored until it is related to or collected by the individual at another time perhaps similar, perhaps only due partly to the total experience.
In the subject empathic experiences serve as maps to follow the path to understand the other, your brain gives you instant comparison and identification, but found no similar experience to be taken as a model, the subject is able to recreate empathy from the simple yet profound perception of the emotionality of the other, emotional circumstance and naturally derived. And from that understanding will create real and visceral reaction, and organize your answer. This type of reaction is consistent heals, which helps, which accompanies it. The reaction is based on a non-empathic vision, one that falls easily into critical and non-visceral understanding of the other, more affection mediate the help, not heal it requires, creates a sense of loneliness and helplessness to He who receives an injustice rather than a word akin to the situation and emotionality.
It is believed that empathy, as all linked to cognitive capacity implies a higher brain function, and it is known that the limbic system adds perceptual in character. The close amalgam that emerges from these three systems of brain processing (cognitive-perceptual-emotional) level of empathy arises from a given individual and is worth commenting that the average population does not have a high degree of empathy but a functional level that is enough to identify with the other in situations that are part of your past experiences or present but not allowed to come close to understanding the situations that have not lived by himself or in some cases not even dare to consider as a possibility in their lives .
The classic example and clearer is those persons who do not feel able to face change, criticize or highlight weak areas of those who did were able to generate themselves a painful but necessary metamorphosis, and who actually see strongest and capable than themselves but they can not empathize with them because they can not find in their brains a similar action, and the inconsistency arises or incongruent reaction that could hurt an intense emotional relationship may in its essence.
Conclusion
Criticism from a tie is not destructive emotional and social ties, and the inconsistency of the reactions may suggest a lack of self-analysis and self-knowledge by someone who lacks a developed empathic nature, are characteristics that often occur together.
The solution in these cases, focused on the goal of saving a loving relationship, is that “whoever does not see himself or another” to accept his blindness and try to access some form of psychological therapy that achieves a appropriate degree of empathy and congruence sociable in their reactions.