Deep listening can make you feel more 'Kama Muta'

Deep listening can make you feel more 'Kama Muta'

Listening well can move you, literally, a new study finds. Within every human culture rests the potential for a distinctly positive emotional experience that’s variously characterized, in English, as feeling moved, emotionally touched, or heartwarming. Other languages rely on similar contact metaphors to describe this feeling, which has been labeled only recently by researchers as Kama Muta, a Sanskrit word for being “moved by love.” Kama Muta i…