The HSP’s “High-Sensitivity Everyday Toolbox” (Heidi’s Playbook)
I thought that writing on one topic every day would be a really tough call. What could I possibly have to say each day that would matter to me and all of you? I asked myself this question for the last couple of months . . . until today. Because I realized, suddenly, that the subject of high sensitivity is a never-ending fruit ripe for the picking.
Every day is a whopper-tunity!
Every day my life as an HSP offers me whopper-tunities to practice the tools I teach. To reach into my knowingness and my ever-evolving awareness and come up with some way of being in the world that doesn’t feel like a struggle, and instead feels like a cool puzzle I’m putting together. One minute it’s a relationship puzzle, the next it’s a dealing-with-negativity puzzle or a being-in-a-crowded-place puzzle. I may look like your average person going about her business, but inside? I’m doing everything I suggest to you.
- I’m asking myself if my psychic octopus is out.
- I’m asking myself if I’m soaking up someone else’s energy/emotions/thoughts like a psychic sponge.
- I’m reflecting on whether I’m feeling aligned or like a twizzle stick on steroids.
- If I recognize I’m not in alignment, I ask myself what’s affecting me, why I’m reacting, what I’m reacting to, and then deciding to get back into alignment.
- Once I decide to get back into alignment, I pull out my trusty psychic octopus and get started.
It happened again today.
I was in the car with someone who was talking about all sorts of things that were wrong in the world. And, while I could not possibly disagree with her opinions on climate change and other important worldly events, I also felt myself shutting down so I wouldn’t take in that energy of “I hate this . . .” and “I hate when . . .” and “I hate when people . . .”. I felt my jaw tense as I clamped my mouth shut. I felt my breathing move high up in my chest. I didn’t respond because I could not even nod my head without feeling that I would be indicating I was good with how they were expressing what they were thinking…the frequency of the words alone was distressing.
You see, while I might agree that the world is going through a tough time, I believe there is a certain perfection in all of it, even in my own HSP-ness, and even in my friend’s need to express her discouraged outlook. So, I don’t want to nod along as if to say, “Yes, I feel that way, too.” If I do that, I will be vibrating in that same energy of discouragement and distress, which I know very well from experience, will only invite me to spiral down into a place I really do not want to be.
I am a committed self-guided HSP with an HSP-ness toolbox that rocks!
I love this person with whom I was traveling. I love my time with them. What I need to love more, however, is my alignment within myself. Because, as an HSP committed to celebrating my sensitivities and uplifting the world, I need to address that first before I can shine my own light.
And we all know you need a toolbox full of great tools to do that.
Let me know how you feel about this topic.
Because it matters.
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