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Why HSPs’ Tendency to Worry about the Real Meaning of our Life may Make Us Healthier

June 15, 2014 By Elaine 3 Comments

It’s Healthier to Live a Life Full of Meaning than a Life Full of Pleasure Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: June 2014 The other research I want to tell you about is not about HSPs directly, but I think you will find it very pertinent. Often I hear HSPs question why, compared to non-HSPs, […]

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New research on the brain activity of HSPs

June 15, 2014 By Elaine 4 Comments

HSPs’ Brain Activation, Compared to Non-HSPs, Indicates More Empathy and Awareness Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: June 2014 Big news! A very important scientific article about the brain activity of HSPs has just been published. After four years of work by six authors (Bianca P. Acevedo; me; my husband, Arthur Aron; Matthew-Donald Sangster; Nancy […]

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Would you be willing to sit at the bedside of a dying stranger and comfort them?

March 15, 2014 By Elaine 4 Comments

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: March 2014 When I wrote the 60 or so items that eventually became the 27 items of the HSP Scale, the title of this article was one of the items. Obviously I wrote it because I thought HSPs would be likely to agree with it, and I was right. […]

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Discussing Your Trait with Therapists

November 15, 2013 By Elaine Leave a Comment

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 Many of you will see a psychotherapist at some point in your life or have already. Whether this is because you are in enormous distress, want to further explore the meaning of your life, or are merely curious, your choice of therapist will impact your life enormously. […]

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On Making Decisions

November 15, 2013 By Elaine 2 Comments

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 Do you have trouble making decisions? I do, and it seems to be true of most HSPs. Indeed, having made many difficult ones in my life, I joke that I have “decision trauma” from truly agonizing over some especially painful choices, in which whatever I did would […]

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An HSP (Me) Visits New Zealand

November 15, 2013 By Elaine Leave a Comment

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 A year ago my husband and I were invited to Wellington, home of Victoria University, for a small, prestigious interdisciplinary conference, October 31 through November 3, on close relationships. This is his specialty and one of mine, so it was an honor indeed, especially my being invited […]

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A Brief Reminder for the Holidays

November 15, 2013 By Elaine 2 Comments

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 You know what you have to do: Fight the commercialization, which affects you as it creeps in, presenting things you can feel expected to do because everyone else does. Think consciously and deliberately how you will make this a meaningful time for you and others. At the same time, watch your expectations, […]

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Why this Might be Nearly the Last Issue of Comfort Zone

November 15, 2013 By Elaine Leave a Comment

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 The plan is to modernize into a blog format, so that you can write comments to each other stimulated by my posts, creating more of a sense of community on this website. I have vowed not to be lured into responding to contents, but I expect that […]

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“Your Sensitive Style”–Something Up from Down Under

August 25, 2013 By Elaine 2 Comments

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2013 Knowledge about sensory-processing sensitivity has been slow to enter the business world. That is changing with New Zealander, Janine Ramsey (now living in Australia). I met Janine in Santa Barbara at an HSP gathering, where she showed me a presentation she was hoping to give to companies on […]

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My Next Step Was a Walk–with 2500 Others

August 15, 2013 By Elaine Leave a Comment

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2013 Saturday, August 3, I walked two miles with 2500 other people through a struggling town and then beside an ugly, smelly oil refinery and up to its gate–not my usual hike. It was part of 350.org‘s Summer Heat action, all around the U.S., to inform our government, […]

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