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Highly Sensitive People
Becoming a Fully Developed HSP
If you are a Highly Sensitive Person you have incredible talents of enormous value to yourself, your community and our world.
And they're probably hidden. This site is about un-hiding them, about exploring the positive aspects of being a Highly Sensitive Person, developing them, maximizing them and putting them to good use for ourselves and the world.
There is a wealth of information about what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person. A great deal of this information has to do with identifying who is an HSP. There are also many resources about the problems highly sensitive people suffer in cultures where the traits of an HSP are not honored and many resources about the effects of trauma on highly sensitive people.
This site will not repeat that information. It is not about identifying and defining the problems being an HSP can include. Nor will it be concerned primarily with healing the traumatized HSP. Again, there is a wealth of resources for our healing. The HSP Resources page contains links to sites that describe what an HSP is, including self-tests, and sites that discuss our problems, traumas and healing.
Here we will explore the positive aspects of being highly sensitive, and we will begin by sharing stories, not of when being highly sensitive has been a problem, but of when it has been an asset, even if we didn't know it at the time. It is extremely healing and supportive when people share themselves. Often, we learn a great deal about ourselves from the stories of people like us. And, often we learn a great deal about ourselves when we put our stories into words.
On this site, I believe we will discover and, thereby, begin to develop our HSP assets, by sharing our stories, by looking back on our experiences with new, informed, enlightened eyes. At the birth of this site, I begin with sharing some of mine. I will continue to add mine as we go, and I invite you - I urge you - to email stories you would like to share about the times you can now see where being an HSP was an asset for you or perhaps for you and others. If you send them, and if they are appropriate, I will post them for us all to benefit from. Look at the list of HSP assets, read the books, visit the sites, explore the forums, discover your gifts. In this way many of us have begun to look back and, in a form of what Elaine Aron calls reframing, we begin to see ourselves differently, as gifted, blessed people with great value to others.
Let us consider what those assets are. If you read the literature about high sensitivity and if you visit HSP websites, you will find a variety of lists of those personality and temperament traits that are considered to be positive.
The Assets of Being Highly Sensitive
Intuition The ability to comprehend the past and predict the future. Creativity Solitude, great capacity for inner searching Focus, an ability to sense, see, and explore details and interconnections Conscientiousness High moral/ethical values Empathy Project directed Spiritual Imaginative Intelligent Compassionate Caring Creative Curious Passionate Hard working Good at organizing Meticulous Problem solvers Well developed aesthetic awareness Drawn to nature Drawn to the arts Highly perceptive
It is said we are the priestly-advisers, the wise ones, sages. But in our culture, in our families, we have often learned to quiet - sometimes crush - our assets. Let's bring them to life.
If you have a story or stories to share, please email them to me at Richard@Brownkatz.com or click here.
Contact Us Richard (cell) 813.763.1855 Sherri (cell) 813.763.6333 (home) 863.533.9161 2055 S. Floral Ave. #164 Bartow, FL 33830
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