What kinds of things can impact a sensitive person? How can you release the build-up of emotion that you are carrying around? How can you make your sensitivity into a superpower?
IN THIS PODCAST:
- What does a highly sensitive person look like?
- What are some things that affect highly sensitive people?
- How can you release the emotion?
WHAT DOES A HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON LOOK LIKE?
They can be:
- Smart: highly emotionally intelligent and perceptive,
- Deep thinkers: they consider so many different aspects of situations and people,
- Deep listeners: they can be brilliant listeners because they are perceptive, attentive and ask questions,
- Feeling heavy emotions often: melancholy, anger, anxiety even and can easily by watching a commercial, movie or listening to a moving song become overcome by emotion,
- Empathetic: they put others first and can imagine what it is like to be in someone else’s shoes,
- Patient: they are patient people who feel comfortable waiting for people and for things to happen because they know that everything moves in its own time.
Many highly sensitive people, myself included, have felt like they do not fit in, that they are an outsider because not many other people besides sensitive people react the same way to situations in life.
Sensitivity is not a weakness, and any person – no matter their gender – can be sensitive, it is not exclusive to women.
WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT AFFECT HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE?
- Words: how people speak can come across differently to highly sensitive people,
- Towards feelings and emotions of yours and of others,
- How people respond to you: if they are angry towards you,
- Being noticed by other people: highly sensitive people are very perceptive to being looked at and perceived by others,
- The five senses: sounds, tastes, smells, lights, and textures all are acutely perceived by sensitive people,
- Some sensitive people like to be asked permission first before they are touched,
- Sensitive people pick up on all kinds of subtle body language,
How does sensitivity show up for you?
HOW CAN YOU RELEASE THE EMOTION?
You get this unexpected wave of emotion that takes you by surprise and you may get tears in your eyes, or you may get embarrassed, or maybe overreact and then you judge yourself that you are caring too deeply or you care too much. Then you try to hold back the wall of emotion … does this sound familiar to you?
At this point, I always feel a whirlwind of emotion inside of me. Here, can you ask yourself how you can step back from this situation, and be a fly on the wall looking down at yourself?
- Be an objective observer: watch yourself with compassion and release the emotion that you have absorbed.
- Imagine a storm or a bath filled with water: let the storm out or pull the plug in the bathtub and release all the tension and emotion out of your body, letting it flow out and away from you.
When you notice [the storm] see if you can release it by talking to a family member, a friend, a coworker. Try to move the energy through you and out of your body by doing something physical like exercising, taking a walk, deep breathing. The idea is to decrease the size of the storm so it doesn’t scare you or others.
Release the storm so that it does not take you by surprise, or limit your actions. You are the only you on this planet, and you can share your sensitivity as a gift to the world in a way that feels comfortable and empowering to you.
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So you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive,” and perhaps you replay situations in your head, wondering if you said something wrong? You’re like a sponge, taking in every word, reading all situations, internalizing different energies, but you’re not sure what to do with all of this information. And you’re also not the only one asking yourself, “am I ok?” Lisa Lewis is here to tell you, “It’s totally ok to feel this way.”
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