Walking Through Transitions – Page 50 – Understanding your sensitive self

An Introduction to Dream Interpretation: How Going down into the Well of my Dreams has Helped Me

November 18, 2015 By: Ritu Kaushalcomment

As a sensitive person, I have always had vivid dreams, especially at times of major changes. Most recently, this happened when I moved from India to the United States a few years back. My dreams were again filled with symbolic images.

One of them was of weddings taking place. While I was newly-married myself, these images continued to appear over the next three years. This was a time of change for me, a time when different parts of my psyche were coming together and something new was coming into being. […]

INFP and a Sensitive Creative? Why Authenticity might be More Important than Originality.

November 18, 2015 By: Ritu Kaushal8 Comments

I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s book on the creative process, Big Magic, yesterday and something she wrote stood out to me as talking to me directly as an INFP. Sparks shot up in her writing when she discussed how we hold ourselves back as sensitive creatives, how we confuse what creativity really means. […]

Manage Overwhelm by Tapping into the Alpha State

November 18, 2015 By: Ritu Kaushal2 Comments

Sometime last year, I was lucky enough to attend a concert by Steven Halpern, a Grammy-nominated musician who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of New Age music. It was the first time that I was introduced to brainwave entrainment music – music that alters brainwave frequencies, which results in an altered state of consciousness. […]

My Early Experiences with Being an Empath

November 18, 2015 By: Ritu Kaushalcomment

An interesting thing has happened from the time I started using the word empath in my writing. It’s a word that I had resisted identifying with, and yet, it describes some core aspects of my sensitivity. Or rather, the core aspect, the ability to experience other people’s feelings as if they were my own. […]

An Overthinking Mind and a Perceptive Body

November 18, 2015 By: Ritu Kaushal2 Comments

In Penney Peirce’s’ book The Intuitive Way, there is a section called “The Language of the Body.” The body is constantly talking to us, but we’ve been so schooled in the language of the mind that we don’t know how to listen to it. We ride rough-shod over what our body is trying to tell us, and instead vote in favor of our mind. Or at least, I do. […]