overstimulation

Suffering The Human Blind Spot

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Suffering The Human Blindspots - HSP Health Blog

I am human and I have a blind spot. We all do. It has been called a lot of things: reactiveness, shortsightedness, mindlessness, ignorance. The labels really do not matter, because labels do not help us understand ourselves better. In fact, if we react to the labels, they may make our situation worse. What Is [...]

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An Easy Way To Discharge Stressed Out Energy

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An Easy Way To Discharge Stressed-Out Energy - HSP Health Blog

Nature is one of the most powerful and natural healing modalities available to us and yet it is largely untapped as a healing resource. We highly sensitive people are more vulnerable  to a stressed nervous system  from the high levels of stimulation that are so rampant in our western culture. Over my lifetime I have [...]

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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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How Highly Sensitive People Can Prevent Burnout

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How To Prevent Burnout - HSP Health Blog

  If you feel stretched beyond your limit you are not alone. The crushing workloads and stress of so many highly sensitive people  are a prescription for burnout. You would think that avoiding burnout would simply be a matter of not crossing a threshold of fatigue. Burnout is not that simple. Many people in our [...]

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Do You Suffer From Emergency Mind?

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Do You Suffer From Emergency Mind? - HSP Health Blog

When we afraid everything around us looms large and chaotic. Lately though it seems that fear has become the norm and we are living in a perpetual state of emergency. Perhaps it has always been this way but I am noticing something else at work that needs questioning. Emergencies Are Not Innocent Emergencies have become [...]

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The Problems You Have To Have…

by Maria
Problems: Amy Winehouse Dead at 27

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. 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 growing [...]

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The Importance Of Fatigue

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photo credit: Ryan Kilpatrick Listen to your fatigue. Fatigue is an important message from our bodies, emotions and spirits. Western thinking and cultural practices treat fatigue, at best, as an inconvenience. Such thinking is a mistake and particularly problematic for highly sensitive people. What Fatigue Does For Us All living things need renewal to be [...]

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How To Enjoy The Holidays

by Maria

 I was asked this week about how to enjoy the holidays to minimize overstimulation and exhaustion. These are my suggestions for HSP’s. Highly sensitive people are easily overwhelmed by the frenzy of the holiday season. The spirit of the season and their own generous spirits can easily result in HSP’s becoming overcommitted and overworked.  Here [...]

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Calming The Nervous System With Ayurveda

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photo credit: marc kjerland The nervous system is governed by the vata dosha according to Ayurveda. Doshas are the bioenergetic systems of the body and vata is one of three doshas which make up the human system: vata controls movement, pitta provides metabolism, and kapha governs tissue, bones and lubrication. Of course, it is actually [...]

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