20% of the population is highly sensitive. Despite this number, the subject remains too often stigmatized. Highly sensitivity people can sometimes feel misunderstood, which will cause suffering. Here are some steps on how to better live with this gift and make it a strength.
Steps to take back your power:
1. Understand how you work
Understanding yourself is the first step to better live your life.
Highly sensitive people feel stimuli more strongly than the average person, whether at the level of physical sensations (related to the 5 senses) or at the level of emotions. Their high receptivity makes emotional waves become tsunamis and the intensity of these inner reactions can overwhelm them.
High sensitivity is an ability to precisely understand the world in great detail, and at the same time, to have a rich inner world, to be amazed, and to have strong values. It is a jewel to cherish and a gift to harness in order to be in touch with one's full capacities and live more serenely.
You can learn more about this trait in many sources of information now available, or by consulting a someone specialized in helping highly sensitive people.
2. Find personalized strategies and tools
Winning strategies
Several themes are common to many highly sensitive people. Nevertheless, individualized coaching remains ideal for refining one's skills in any relevant area:
Improving stress management, emotional management, learning to set healthy boundaries, increasing self-confidence, protecting yourself from toxic environments, calming your mind, etc.
These are examples themes to work on, which will considerably increase your quality of life in general and your personal fulfillment as well.
Effective tools
The infallible combination is to learn techniques that you can then use by yourself, and, in addition, to get help with what you cannot yet manage alone.
So, breathing exercises, meditation, and self-hypnosis can be integrated with guided hypnosis to help you take back your power.
Additionally, people with high sensitivity are particularly receptive to these techniques, which makes learning them even more effective!
We can then move from a situation where we are struggling to learn to keep our heads above water to having the ability to surf on the waves.
3) Surround yourself with the right people and, if necessary, get support
The environment in which we find ourselves can have an influence on how we feel and pull us up or down. This is even more true with highly sensitive people. Surrounding ourselves with people who share our values is essential in an approach to better understand ourselves in order to better live our lives.
If you choose to be accompanied by a therapist, it is important to choose a specialist who understands highly sensitive people in order to feel accepted and understood, and to understand their way of functioning in a more favorable light.
The majority of my clients are highly sensitive people. Whether their goal is to make their sensitivity a strength or something completely different, it is important to customize the therapeutic approach. For example, different tools are suggested according to the needs and desires of each person, including breathing techniques and meditation, hypnosis and self-hypnosis, and more.
If you recognize yourself as a highly sensitive person, and are curious about how to harness this inner strength, do not hesitate to contact me.
Laura Tchernin
Hypnotherapist based in Geneva
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