Hypersensitivity

Posted to Facebook Apr. 16th.
I recently stuck my nose into a book called "The Highly Sensitive Person" by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.  In it she describes people who may experience any or all of the following: acute physical senses such as smell, taste, or touch; being deeply affected by other's moods and emotions; a need to withdraw from busy days and over stimulation; annoyance or overwhelm-ment when needing to do too many things; uncomfortableness with violent movies/TV shows; uncomfortableness with loud noises; a history of being called too sensitive or shy; an aversion to, or uncomfortableness with, changes in ones life.

In LOP I wrote about being hypersensitive.  It was what I experienced after my depression and when I was no longer choosing to be, as Pink Floyd calls it, 'comfortabley numb'.  I had probably been 'highly sensitive' my whole life but had never been taught what it was, or how to use it.  I had been taught by Western society that emotions and acute awareness were things to dull, ignore, control, stifle, and avoid. 

I have come to see that my sensitive emotions, and acute awareness, are actually a finely tuned guidance system helping me to discern who I really am (WIRA).  It no longer feels like hypersensitivity is an uncomfortable, unwanted thing, but a valuable, finely crafted, precisely set, Geiger counter that has the ability to guide me through life with immense skill and precision.

LOP is listening to what our hypersensitivity is helping us to know, and discover, about ourselves.