Welcome to HSP Health!
Highly sensitive people are different, have different biologies and different needs. Knowing the biological needs of the highly sensitive person and the signs of stress in HSP's is vital to designing a strong stress and health management program that an HSP needs for a thriving, healthy life.
One in five persons is a highly sensitive person (HSP) according to Elaine Aron, Ph.D., the foremost authority on HSP's. There is a misperception that the characteristic of being highly sensitive means the same as high emotionality. In actuality, highly sensitive refers to a sensitive nervous system which picks up more sensory inputs of all kinds. The HSP's busy nervous system gives them a higher susceptibility to stress, stress related health problems and therefore a greater need for stress relief.
Stress and health are two of the biggest life challenges for highly sensitive people. Stress can cripple an HSP's ability to function which makes stress reduction and management critically important to the well being of HSP's. Highly sensitive people suffer from a great variety of disorders that stress can make worse. An effective health plan for HSP's not only addresses basic stress management needs, but also, creates a healthy lifestyle which, in turn, allows the abilities and talents of an HSP to flower.
Because HSPs are also more right brained than non-HSP's, their more holistic method of processing information of all kinds is a demanding comprehensive process and adds to the need of HSP's to manage their stresses well.
The Importance of Highly Sensitive People
15-20% of people are highly sensitive. That is a huge number: as many as 1 billion people or more on the planet! And important, indeed! It is HSP sensitivity that provides highly sensitive people with the capacity to see what others may miss. It is HSP sensitivity that sees a need for change, or a tipping point that a non-HSP might not see. It is HSP sensitivity that proposes a larger perspective and therefore uniquely constructive solutions to problems. In our highly complex world, HSP's are not only important but increasingly necessary if we want a world that works.
HSP's are natural visionaries, peacemakers, creatives and humanitarians.
HSP's are also people who notice patterns and therefore how to change them, contributing in important ways to the evolution of the human race. HSP's are important, although being outnumbered they may not necessarily be aware of their value.
HSP Perspective
HSP sensitivity provides a natural transpersonal perspective. An HSP is usually a highly compassionate person, who prefers collaborative processes to adversarial ones. Highly sensitive people are natural visionaries, peacemakers, creatives and humanitarians. One of an HSP's greatest needs is to treasure their health so that they may play their important role in human life.
