| "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for | | | | - You feel responsible for other people's happiness, |
| dealing with the darknesses of other people." Carl | | | | especially your loved ones' |
| Jung | | | | - You suffer from inexplicable fatigue, especially after |
| Over the years, as I have been getting to grips with | | | | being in the company of other people |
| my own hypersensitive nature, I find more and more | | | | - When your friends or relatives feel bad, you will |
| high sensitive persons finding their way to my | | | | spend hours talking on the phone with them, doing |
| practice. | | | | little favors for them, anything to make them feel |
| While every client is unique, and every story is | | | | better, even if it tires and stresses you out |
| different, there are issues in the lives of | | | | - You not only feel but take on board other people's |
| hypersensitive people (HSP's) that recur time and | | | | feelings and physical symptoms like stomach aches, |
| time again in my practice. If you feel you may be | | | | headaches, stiff neck and shoulders, etc. |
| hypersensitive yourself, you may benefit from some | | | | In the years I have been practicing past-life therapy |
| of the things I have discovered when working with | | | | and inner child work, I have found there is one |
| hypersensitivity - my clients' and my own! | | | | important aspect of hypersensitivity, of being able to |
| Yes, it is possible to sense other people's feelings - | | | | feel others' emotions, that is almost never explained |
| as a HSP, it is very likely you are subconsciously | | | | to us as we grow up. It is so simple it is |
| 'tuning in' to them all the time. | | | | mind-boggling. When I tell my clients this, I can see |
| As HSP children, we are not always born to parents | | | | them sit back and go: 'Oh. Well. No-one ever told me |
| who know how to deal with this. They may be HSP | | | | that.' And then the relief sets in. |
| themselves, but having had to repress their own | | | | Do you want to know the secret to dealing with |
| sensitivity, especially their 'undesirable' feelings, they | | | | hypersensitivity? It is very simple. And it is not a |
| could not help you deal with it. | | | | secret. Here it is: |
| When sensitive children are born to troubled parents | | | | Just because you are able to sense other people's |
| (and they often are, more about this in a next | | | | feelings, doesn't mean you are responsible for those |
| article), they often start 'tuning in' to their parents' | | | | feelings. |
| feelings from birth, subconsciously trying to alleviate | | | | Told you it was simple? |
| their parents' bad feelings - so their parents will be | | | | Now, please read it again. Let it sink in. |
| happy. As children, we don't realize this is not how it | | | | When you find yourself sensing other people's |
| works. We want our parents to be at peace so we | | | | feelings, worrying about them, sensing them as bodily |
| can be at peace. We want our parents to be happy | | | | symptoms, remind yourself: just because I can feel |
| so we can be happy. | | | | them doesn't mean I have to deal with them. Take a |
| Worse, when sensitive children are born into families | | | | breath, gently release the other's feelings with your |
| where there is violence or emotional abuse, they will | | | | breath, and let them flow into the earth, of release |
| often try to act as 'containers' for the bad feelings | | | | them in the hands of the other person's guardian |
| they sense in the atmosphere. | | | | angel. Just don't hang on to them. |
| Whilst doing this, they will be constantly using their | | | | You don't have to solve other people's problems. In |
| 'psychic antennae' to assess whether they are safe - | | | | fact, it's learning to deal with these problems that |
| a form of hyperalertness you also see in those who | | | | helps them grow as human beings - taking people's |
| suffer from PTSD. | | | | problems away from them would be arrogant indeed! |
| Because hypersensivites can sense danger coming | | | | Now, knowing this may not be the cure-all to the |
| (anger, violence, and so forth) they will use these | | | | problems with hypersensitivity - especially when your |
| 'psychic antennae' to survive, which is a good thing at | | | | inner child has become dependant on solving other |
| the time - but as they grow up, start their own | | | | people's crises for their sense of safety or |
| families and the danger has gone, they do not turn | | | | self-worth. |
| off these psychic antennae. They are still surviving | | | | If this is the case and you still find it difficult not to |
| instead of living. | | | | make yourself responsible for other people's feelings, |
| So, as you have grown up as a hypersensitive child, | | | | you may want to read my next article: Healing your |
| you may recognize one or more of these | | | | Inner Child! |
| 'symptoms': | | | | |