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5 Ways HSP’s Can Minimize Social Anxiety

by 02.01.2012 Introvert Personality
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photo credit: nandadevieast For highly sensitive people, social anxiety is an especially serious problem because HSP’s are different and because their values, perceptions and experiences often do not mirror the Western competitive model. You know how it feels when you have a social event to attend and your anxiety levels start to rise. HSP’s are [...]

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Causes Of Social Phobia

by 01.27.2012 Dealing with Anxiety
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photo credit: CMMooney It is useful for highly sensitive people to understand the causes of social phobia which often result in the crippling self consciousness and which can contribute to the HSP tendency to have an introverted personality. Social Phobia is sometimes referred to either as Generalized Social Phobia, which NIMH states is the most [...]

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Book Review Of H.I.S.S. Of The A.S.P.

by 01.25.2012 Autoimmune Diseases and Disorders

This book review of H.I.S.S. of the A.S.P. is about a brilliant book that is one of the best books about sensitive people available today, and in my opinion, a must read for all highly sensitive people. In 2003, David Ritchey, an independent psychological researcher, published his groundbreaking work: The HISS of the ASP.  The [...]

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How Does Stress Become A Stress Disorder?

by 01.20.2012 HSP Diseases
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photo credit: scott1723 How does stress become a stress disorder? We all suffer from stress which is a natural part of life.  Our challenging culture and busy lives are so ingrained that we have become too accepting of stressors so that we may minimize their effects. Stress has many damaging consequences that are easy to [...]

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A Holiday Wish

by 12.23.2011 Healthy Living

It has been a strange holiday season this year.  Perhaps because of the mercury retrograde or perhaps because of all the change in the air. For me, it has been a season of thinking, this time about appreciation.  No, not the why don’t they appreciate me whine.  Something different. I was thinking about our current [...]

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Are We All Becoming Highly Sensitive People?

by Maria 11.16.2011 Genetic Diseases

  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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Those Energy Thieves

by 11.14.2011 Energy Healing

It can take a lot of energy to deal with all of the energy thieves on our lives. Some energy thieves are obvious – television and social drama top the list. Others are not so obvious. In this consumer age our time and energy are some of the things being consumed. The volume and complexity [...]

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Class and Superiority

by Maria 08.15.2011 Perspective
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photo credit: m.gifford Why are class and superiority important subjects for highly sensitive people? Social anxiety is a serious problem for highly sensitive people, since HSP’s values are different from those of the dominant culture –  a culture that pursues competition above quality of life.  Finding a way to be in and live in the [...]

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The Problems You Have To Have…

by 08.11.2011 Healthy Thinking
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photo credit: ssoosay If you are having the problems you don’t have to have, you are not having the problems that you have to have. Huh? It’s a saying I have to remind myself that cluttering up my life with problems that are unnecessary is a great way to not get to the “problems” of [...]

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Meditation Helps PTSD

by Maria 08.02.2011 Ayurveda
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photo credit: CyboRoZ Meditation Helps PTSD according to a recent 2008 study of five Iraq/Afghanistan veterans who has served up to two years and experienced moderate to moderately heavy fighting. According to this release by the Behavioral Medicine Report, the study was conducted by Norman Rosenthal, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical [...]

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