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Overcoming The Desire To Take The Easy Way Out

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Overcome The Desire To Take The Easy Way Out

Do you sometimes take the easy way out? We all do. Have you ever wondered why that is? Have you ever wondered what to do about it? Why Do We Take The Easy Way Out So here’s the deal. We humans all like pleasure. There is nothing wrong with that. When we take the easy [...]

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Is Independence Real?

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Are We Really Independent? - HSP Health Blog

Independence and autonomy are cherished goals in many people’s lives. I am all for standing on one’s own two feet. However, I notice more and more how autonomy and independence can become distorted. Is Independence Real? Here in the US we are all about independence. So much so that we have little in the way [...]

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Identity And Thoughts: Changing The Narrative For Highly Sensitive People

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Would You Like To Control Your Thoughts? - HSP Health Blog

Do your thoughts drive you crazy? Do you ruminate a lot and feel that you are going around in circles? Do you think that your thoughts control you? What Are Our Thoughts? Our thoughts are mental pictures that we create.  They often seem automatic and out-of-control. They are a natural consequence of our interaction with [...]

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HSP Identity: A Plant In The Right Place

by Lisa McLoughlin
HSP Identity: A Plant In The Right Place - HSP Health Blog

My name is Lisa McLoughlin and I am from Green Alder coaching, based in the UK. I would like to share a personal account of my journey to discover that I am an HSP. Is There Something Wrong With Me? Most of my life I felt like a weed— not belonging to my environment. Being [...]

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Sensitive And Powerful: Can You Be Both?

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Sensitive And Powerful - HSP Health Blog

Powerful? Then you can’t be sensitive. This is the message we receive from the time we are young. Of course it is based on an idea about strength and power. So perhaps we need to reexamine these ideas and see if they make any sense. What Is Power? According to Merriam Webster dictionary, power comes [...]

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

by Maria

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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Naysayers And HSP’s

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Do naysayers drive you up the wall? Highly sensitive people can have difficulty with naysayers. Particularly if they consider themselves wiser than the naysayers – which, frankly, can be quite often. Extroverts can be hard for highly sensitive people to understand because they often seem brash and aggressive but not necessarily insightful. Highly sensitive people [...]

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5 Reasons Why We Need Highly Sensitive People

by Maria

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?

by Maria
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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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