There is a skill to being in empathic exchange with an other. A skill that resides in the awareness for not only how I am being impacted by you but also how I am impacting you. Such empathic awareness increases our human desire for authentic connection as well as our ability to achieve it. It also shows us that there is more to this process than mirror neuron responses or perspectival shift of “putting yourself in another’s shoes.” In this way the felt experience of empathy extends beyond the self’s experience to the mutual exchange between I and thou.