As has become usual, my blog is in two parts, the first with the research I selected to summarize for you, and the second, in keeping with my new book (Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment), about something “spiritual.” To see the second part, just scroll down. […]
Part I: A Selection of the Latest Research & Part II: Spiritual Experiences VS Awakening/Enlightenment
Because of my new book coming out March 31, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment), my blog posts now have two parts in each post—Part I will give brief reviews of a selection of recent research, and Part II will be in keeping with the tone of […]
Part I: Summary of Some of the Latest Interesting Research & Part II The Season of (Not) Light
Because of my new book coming out March 31,, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment), my blog posts now have two parts in each post—Part I will give brief reviews of a selection of recent research, and Part II will be in keeping with the tone of […]
Part I: Most Recent Research & Part II: Belief Versus Actual Experience
With my upcoming book, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment (coming out this April), I’ll be sharing two parts in each blog post—the first will explore research, HSP news, and current insights, while the second will offer a more spiritual reflection and deeper inner perspective. Part I: […]
Those Two Holiday Gifts
As I began doing with the last email, I begin this blog by sharing some of the latest research. My plan is that the second half of each blog is going to be more personal. This time it will contain the second of my two holiday gifts. But here is the latest research and my […]
Time to Say a Little about Aging, Medical Stuff, and HSPs—Plus a Research Study on Aging HSPs
Although I have been asked many times to write something for “older HSPs,” how we in particular may experience aging and the problems that come with it, I have resisted, resisted, resisted. So many people my age are obsessed with this stuff. Honestly, I have always thought the subject boring. We are all getting older. […]
Revisiting Vulnerable Narcissism and HSPs
In August 2022, I wrote a blog strongly questioning an article saying that high sensitivity (HS) can “overlap” with vulnerable narcissism (as opposed to the grandiose form). Scott Barry Kaufman wrote a good blog on this too. Vulnerable narcissists are a relatively new idea, a category of narcissists born from the observation that they are highly focused on themselves—”am […]
Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seekers—Giving Equal Love to Both Parts
This blog is about high sensitivity and high sensation seeking because I want you to stay informed about recent research and we just published an article on this subject by Bianca Acevedo, Art Aron, me, Tracy Cooper, and Robert Marhenke: “Sensory processing sensitivity and its relation to sensation seeking,” in the 2023 issue of Current Research in […]
Mental Health Awareness Month – Supporting HSPs & Highly Sensitive Youths – Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA
Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA May is mental health awareness month. For 2023, the Mental Health Awareness month campaign “is focused on how surroundings impact mental health, and we are calling for individuals to look around, look within.” In 1949, Mental Health America (MHA) designated May as Mental Health Month to raise awareness […]
Last of the 2022 Research
My plan is to finish up here telling you about the research done in 2022. In the future I will just choose one new study and write about what it brings up for me to talk to you about it. So as promised, here are the last good studies of 2022. I know some of you […]