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Tips For The Urban HSP

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Tips For Urban HSPs

As an HSP, I sometimes think I must be truly nuts to be living in New York City, a place that seems like the very embodiment of the word “overstimulation.” Crowded, loud, bright and always on, it can be a nightmare for the senses. If you let it. I’ve lived here for nearly 15 years [...]

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Are Left-Handed People More Likely To Be Highly Sensitive?

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If you have an allergic reaction to a lot of noise are you highly sensitive? If you can’t stand crowds, are you highly sensitive? If you are left-handed, are you highly sensitive? Maybe. The Elusive Trait Of High Sensitivity The highly sensitive trait is not easy to pin down. There are many different types of [...]

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5 Reasons Why We Need Highly Sensitive People

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Why do we need highly sensitive people? HSP’s make up anywhere from 25% to 50% of the population (see Note below). Recently, highly sensitive people have received interest because of books like Elaine Aron’s The Highly Sensitive Person and Susan Cain’s book Quiet, which are helping us to understand more about the quiet members of our [...]

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Stress in the Womb

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photo credit: > ange < There is a growing awareness that stress in the womb plays a major role in the creation of genetic diseases and the highly sensitive trait.  Maternal stress during pregnancy results in higher levels of testosterone in the body and by extension a fetus. The higher levels of testosterone change brain [...]

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What Causes the HSP Trait?

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  photo credit: Fotosafarines What causes the HSP trait? In the 1980′s the findings of an important medical study were released.  The study laid a biological and scientific basis for understanding the highly sensitive trait. Dr. Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, conducted a study of 3000 people with Dr. Peter Behan, a neurologist at [...]

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Are We All Becoming Highly Sensitive People?

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  Are we all becoming HSP’s?  The question recently crossed my mind for a number of reasons: when I tell someone that I write about highly sensitive people, frequently people whisper to me that they are highly sensitive too. the recent love affairs we have had with the penguin, Happy Feet, in New Zealand and [...]

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