“I’m too sensitive to watch most of the reality shows. It’s so painful for me.”  Amy Brenneman
We may have thoughts that are based on irrational beliefs about how life is, or how we “should be” - and those thoughts can become habitual responses, and be too broad or inaccurate to serve our personal growth.
For example, [...]

“You were very sensitive as a child; family and school problems, childhood illnesses, and the like all affected you more than others. Furthermore, you were different from other kids and almost surely suffered for that.” Elaine Aron, PhD
“I did not perform well socially in junior high. I was a strange girl and I was in [...]

Elaine Aron, PhD notes high sensitivity means “you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings” and also that you are “more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long.”
In addition to other sources of sensation and input, a highly stimulating environment may be one or more other people, [...]

A number of people claim to have had an idyllic or happy early life, the sort evoked by this photo: The Walk to Paradise Garden [1946] by W. Eugene Smith [from the page The child self / playing.]
But for many of us who have been highly sensitive all our lives, and had challenging experiences as [...]

Creativity coach and author Eric Maisel, PhD says “When you free neurons from their usual grip on small thoughts — ten worries, fifteen errands, and so on — and get to reclaim them.. you experience a ‘pregnant emptiness’ which is actually your whole mind, now recovered, readying itself to create.
“The ‘quieting’ serves the ‘exploding’ of [...]