As some of you know, I have stepped back from some of my HSP activities (not the research) to write a book on something different, not on HSPs. I already knew I needed to back off, but the pandemic brought it home to me, that I specifically wanted to move away from the job of […]
HSPs and Spirituality
Big Picture Living During a Time of Global Crisis
Lately, I have been speaking about one way to reduce anxiety (a normal feeling for HSPs): Look at the big picture. I advise it now more than ever: Maintain the big picture. How? Ask yourself, what are your real risks? (Don’t minimize, but don’t catastrophize either.) What will things be like a year from now? Even two […]
A Gift to Add Sparkle to the Gifts You Already Have
I have a gift for you. I found it while reading and listening to Ken Wilber, a brilliant philosopher-psychologist-spiritual-teacher guy who has developed something called “integral psychology,” a theory that summarizes years of research by others on human development. I like a lot of it—not all of course. But central to integral theory is that […]
Types of Meditation
I very often suggest meditation to HSPs for reducing and recovering from over-stimulation. But I realize that when someone recommends meditation or says they meditate or are going to teach it to you, it sounds as though meditation is just one thing. But really they may as well say, “I recommend pills.” That is, there […]
The Power of Inner Silence for HSPs
Last year I was asked by a Korean publisher to write what I would say if I were giving my “last lecture.” This was for a Korean-language anthology, in which many authors (most you would recognize) were offering their answer. For me the subject was easy–inner silence. You as an HSP understand my choice intuitively, […]
What about a pilgrimage?
Summer is vacation time, so whether you can travel this summer or not, let’s talk about real HSP travel. As some of you know, last summer my husband and I embarked on a six-month “sabbatical,” as he called it. For me it was a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is defined as an “intentional journey, possibly a […]
A Table for Four: My Dinner with C. G. Jung, Martin Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Along with all the other exciting things that have happened this fall, I also had accepted and published a manuscript that I’d like to share with you. In it, three men—Jung, Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—are invited to dinner with me in my active imagination. Each devoted their lives to healing the collective psyche, decimated […]
With this Movie We Will Be Much More “Out”—Perhaps It’s Time to Be Much More “In” as Well
With this movie, Sensitive, The Untold Story, the story is going to be told. We HSPs will become much more visible. Of course, thank goodness, your sensitivity can remain invisible when you choose it to be. Remember I did a post about being invisible? https://hsperson.com/invisible-yet-definitive-part-of-yourself/. The comments on that are interesting, too, and some of […]
Some New Thoughts to Add to Last Issue’s Discussion of Enlightenment
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2004. Since last May’s issue, where I wrote “Sensitive Spirituality: HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment,” I found a very relevant article by David Tresan, a Jungian analyst. It is titled “This New Science of Ours [referring to Jungian psychology]: A More or Less Systematic History of Consciousness and Transcendence.” […]
HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2004. Although this article does not often mention HSPs, meditation is a practice well suited to HSPs. Enlightenment, whatever that is, seems to pertain to us as well. So I am going to tackle both subjects at once. Why I Meditate—And Don’t Discuss It Very Much Over the […]