Writer Pearl Buck famously commented, “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.” A number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs and alcohol as self-medication to ease the pain of that sensitivity, or as a way to enhance thinking and creativity. Sometimes [...]
Expressiveness = High EQ or Sensitivity We cry in response to many different kinds of experiences, not just painful ones. Keith Beasley described Emotional Quotient, or ‘Sensitivity’ in Mensa Magazine (United Kingdom Edition) in 1987: “The person with a high EQ is one who is easily ‘moved’ and who needs to openly express his or [...]
Dealing with sensitivity The photo is Christina Ricci as Wednesday in Addams Family Values (1993), which also featured David Krumholtz [now in the tv series Numb3rs] as a rather stereotypical highly sensitive kid, repressed and using an inhaler to cope with asthma. But Wednesday may represent another sort of coping with high sensitivity: responding to [...]
The image is from the book The Sensitive Self by Michael Eigen – who says in his article Sensitivity, “Without sensitivity what would life be like? Sensitivity nurtures us, gives life color, expressiveness, charm… Sensitivity, feeling and thinking feed each other, are part of each other. Thinking and feeling are ways sensitivity unfolds or grows.” [...]
“Without sensitivity what would life be like?” author Michael Eigen asks in an article. “Sensitivity nurtures us, gives life color, expressiveness, charm – provides a basis for terror. Sensitivity, feeling and thinking feed each other, are part of each other. “Thinking and feeling are ways sensitivity unfolds or grows… without the sensory sea we take [...]
Shyness and introversion may seem to be the same in some ways, at least on the surface.
They can overlap, and we may have both traits – but they are not the same thing. And they are not the same as the trait of high sensitivity.
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Self-Study Classes for Sensitive Souls – by Jenna Avery: “These self-study classes are the product of my many efforts to find ways to be a happy, healthy, highly sensitive soul. I investigated everything I could about energy skills, energetic boundary strengthening, interpersonal boundaries and more."
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