This morning, I read something on the lovely Brainpickings website by the fierce and kind Pema Chodron that highly sensitive people like us need to think about. This is what she says: “The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hangups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.” […]
Are you a highly sensitive person who often feels like an Outsider?
Sometimes, as highly sensitive people, we might find it hard to get our needs met. We might feel very different from others. We might sometimes feel like we are on the outside, looking in. We might think that no one hears us or understands the intensity of our emotions.
Re-post: Being a Highly Sensitive Writer
As a highly sensitive person who writes, putting myself out there hasn’t been easy for me. I am also an INFP, so criticism cuts me quick. When I started this blog, I was scared of receiving criticism, scared of making mistakes. One of my weaknesses is over-thinking, so I tried to control the future with my mind. But after I decided to just do it and see what happens, I have sometimes easily and sometimes, just about hobbled through writing this blog. […]
Highly Sensitive and Creative? How Cracking an Egg can Help Your Creativity
Here’s an exercise to practice for breaking through resistance as a sensitive creative. Whenever I have done it, I have felt slightly heretical, as if I am doing something that I don’t have permission for. It is from Eric Maisel’s book Creativity for Life. All you need to do, before you start your creative work for the day — your writing or painting or software designing — is to crack an egg! […]
Are you an Empath who feels other people’s emotions in your own body?
Lately, I have been coming across insights about being an empath and a highly sensitive person that are telling me a little more about myself, and wiping down the mirror so I can see more of my true self. Something I read recently might resonate with you as well. It’s about what some people call clairsentience, or the ability to know something through our sense of touch.
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