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In response to the amount of interest shown in just one week since homeopath, Linda Beaver, wrote about Sensitive Children, Linda shares more of her thoughts and reflections on sensitivity.
Sensitive people are more susceptible to trauma but it’s also true that trauma can heighten the senses. Highly sensitive people can be caught in this cycle of escalating drama. Some sensitive people are easily crushed like Aluminium. Some go to pieces easily like globules of Mercury. Sensitivity often means permeability so sensitive people can pick up energies but also toxins, bugs and entities. All of this easily puts the sensitive person in a reactive position. To counteract this, sensitive people need to utilise their gifts, look after their energy and know their limits.
Some sensitive people have been constantly overexcited and have yet to learn what it is like to, ‘return to normal body chemistry’. Many feel on the outer or fringe of their family or community, yet to discover that the fringe is the intricate design that gives the cloth a decorative edge. Highly sensitive people work best going at their own pace or under the wing of a good leader who understands how to bring out the best in them. They make poor managers as they can blow problems out of proportion or micromanage staff.
Sensitive people
Sensitive people need to see the positive ways in which they are different to the majority around them. Without this awareness it is not uncommon for sensitive children and adults to be frequently unwell, have fluctuating highs and lows, or experience anxiety. If you belong on the edge then trying to be in the middle will very likely be awkward, uncomfortable and often painful.
Sammy Johnson says
Thank you guys
Another sensitive person says
A note to Sammy – As part of our ongoing conversation about being one of the beautiful sensitive people that Linda Beaver is talking about. She has put into words what we have been discussing – that is the need to see the positive ways in which we are different to the majority around us. Even with this awareness I still have fluctuating highs and lows, and anxiety and feelings of being on the edge. You and I have celebrated giving up trying to be in the middle but it is still frequently pretty hard. I don’t mind when my sensitivity is seen as “arty” and therefore it’s ok to be on the fringe. Today i’m having a good day and can manage to join in a discussion here while i’m having a break in between pouring acrylic paint laced with lemon oil onto a canvas. 🙂
Art helps me says
Emotional health is my challenge becuase I am a highly sensitive person. I have such a sensitive nervous system and I really feel other peoples pain and problems so I have trouble processing my feelings. I hate this aggressive, competitive culture and the injustices it creates. I am an artist. I processes information so deeply that I have problems relating to people who don’t do that. I have found that the easiest way to think about emotions is to think of them as responses to external stimuli. They are the result of me trying to relate to people or to things happening around me. Other emotions come from a deeper place. My emotions sometimes come straight from being empathetic (perhaps overly). I’ve been told to try to think of these emotions in another way to think of them simply as information: information about what is working and what is not working in our lives. Well that advice sometimes allows me to acknowledge emotions and release them but it’s not an easy thing to live in a world that’s harsh.