The Psychic Octopus: The Perfect Tool for High Sensitives

The psychic octopus is absolutely without a doubt the best tool I have ever come across for HSPs. It’s the single tool that changed my life. Applying it is not only easy, one you get the hang of it, but endlessly helpful, endlessly soothing, and endlessly effective.

Are you globbing onto someone else’s energy?

Learning to know the difference between your Unique Energetic Signature, your personal energy and other people’s energy is the basis for everything when you’re an HSP. Here’s why. When you’re highly sensitive, when you’re a “high sensitive,” as you now know you are and have probably always been told you are, you feel things that other people don’t seem to feel, and you feel them on a level that often feels overwhelming, even disturbing. Over time, your feelings can become so intense that you live a life of concern, fear, even anxiety and depression.

Controlling these reactions to your environment becomes a pervasive need. In order to save yourself from the pain and discomfort you feel, most people who are high sensitive learn to shut down, deny, or otherwise distract themselves from, or avoid, those feelings at all cost. The problem is, none of these options is helpful in the long run. They all rise out of fear, lack, and defensiveness, as opposed to acceptance, worthiness, and love for self…love for who we really are, and love for the world around us. This includes feeling hate, not love, for our own sensitivities and for the magnificent gifts they truly are.

We are spirit in biodegradable human suits!

We are all more than our physical selves; we are spirit in a human body, a human form that come into and leaves the physical world. Another way to say this is that we are simply all energetic beings. And if we’re all energetic beings, it’s only a short step to knowing that we are all connected energetically, through our energetic fields of vibration, in some way. When we realize this, we also realize that if we’re constantly open, constantly feeling all the energies around us, the good, the bad and the ugly feelings of the people and places in our environment, it’s all too easy to lose our own sense of self in the process. If we’re busy feeling what other people are feeling, how do we know what we are really feeling? How do we know if what we’re feeling is truly ours?

How do we know that we are living a life driven by our own thoughts and beliefs and sensations? That we’re being guided by connection with source and loving intention, as opposed to other people’s thoughts and other people’s intentions? Frankly, we don’t.

Be the octopus!

Here’s what to do. Start by picturing yourself as an octopus. That’s right, an octopus. You know, one with all its far-reaching tentacles, all those feelers that octopuses have. You are able to reach near and far, and curve around and into things you can go through and past in order to explore and probe and find and identify what’s around you. You are free to seek and react to all that’s out there.

Here’s the difference, though, between you and the octopus. You are doing this seeking and probing on an energetic level. You have your own personal psychic octopus. So what’s the problem? Well, the problem comes in when you’re not aware that you’re using your energetic tentacles to tap into other people’s energy bodies–their emotions and experiences.

You’re not aware that you have built your relationships on this ability to know how other people think and feel. And you do it to the extent that you are actually feeling what they think and feel might seem like a good thing. It might seem like it gives you a sense of empathy and compassion to know what they feel. But in actuality, it keeps you from knowing yourself.

You’re literally taking on the feelings of other people. So you lose the sense of who you really are. It keeps you from being centered and aligned. And then it’s all too easy to lose yourself in a relationship, to forget what you really want and to find yourself basically out of touch with who you really are in your essence. Did you ever say you felt “beside yourself”?

How to reel in your psychic tentacles (or wring out psychic sponge)

That’s probably because you were—energetically beside yourself, that is. But when your octopus is in, when you’ve reeled in your psychic tentacles, you’re no longer at the mercy of other people’s stuff. You’re no longer in constant reactive mode that keeps you off center, off kilter, because it’s only when you remain in your own energy that you have the ability to truly be a guiding, present, presence for anyone else.

Practice how it feels to pull in these psychic tentacles. When you pull in your tentacles, when you’re fully engaged in your own energetic pulse, you have no leftover strands of energy, so to speak, that are trolling around, seeking to tap into, or engage, or feel what’s inside anyone else. This not only allows you to have complete freedom to be who you are, but invites you to feel safe and protected wherever you are whoever is in your space, and whatever shows up in your sphere.

When your psychic octopus tentacles are “in,” you’re free!

Another reason this is so wonderful is because you begin to accept the person who you really are in your essence without feeling the need to put up a protective barrier against the world or against other people. You pull your tentacles in, as opposed to pushing away from and building a wall against.

Simply put, being aware of your psychic octopus is not only the gateway to freedom, but the first, most critical, leg of the journey on your roadmap to your own magnificence!

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Okay, so you’re a high sensitive. A Highly Sensitive Person. An HSP.

Or are you? How do you know?

Here are just a few of the criteria that indicate you are one of us (for a more full assessment, link here). *Add “more than the people around you” to each of these statements.*

• You are sensitive to loud noises…more than the people around you….
• You avoid large crowds. When you’re in them, you feel anxious or overwhelmed or fearful…
• You cry. A lot…
• You feel as if you not only empathize with how people feel, but actually feel what they’re feeling…
• You feel as if you spend your life trying to protect yourself from the people, things, and feelings you believe will hurt you…

How did I become such an expert on high sensitivity? By being an HSP my entire life. Ever since I drew my first breath and started gasping for relief from the intensity of the world at large. And by learning how to relish my sensitivities instead of trying to manage them, fix them, complain about them, revere them above all else to where they rationalized all my decisions and actions, and/or reject them…none of which approaches ever worked anyway.

I’ll be talking about things like how HSPs engage with the world of Covid at some point, as well as HSPs and the world of addiction, but for now let’s stay general to get a sense of the big picture.

Living as an HSP in a world where logic and reason supposedly reign immediately sends us the message that we are not on the right path, that we are missing something or are broken or inept. That we have to force ourselves to conform or stay in a corner for fear of being discovered. Especially those of us who are aware we hear from spirit. Fageddaboudit. Talk about needing to hide!

I only point out the negative here to reflect on the positive, however. So…here it comes, the biggest, most critical, most life-changing message of all:

Your experiences—the way you feel and go about experiencing your life—are only indicators of high sensitivity.

“What, you say? That’s it?” I know. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. But hear me out.

What if I told you that your tendency to cough at inopportune moments (like while you’re in the middle of a solo passage during a concert) were really an indicator that you are being self-critical? What if your tendency to trip and fall and hurt yourself were really an indicator that feeling vulnerable helps you feel taken care of?

The what ifs go on forever. Indicators vary from person to person, and yet tend to follow trends based on the internalized issues we face.

Clients come to me with all sorts of “issues.” Although they often come in wanting to hear from their loved ones who have passed, more often than not, sessions become as much about their own perceived inability to cope. Doesn’t matter whether it’s coping with loss or fear or anxiety or physical ailments or guilt or shame. What matters is that as an intuitive medium it’s about helping you connect with your highest self to bring you into awareness around the brilliantly sensitive person you are.

Once you understand the theory behind indicators, you can see how much of our lives are spent mislabeling what feels real, appears real, and the people around us tell us is real:

• That our physical problems are simply a result of a body that needs fixing
• that our anxiety in crowds is a problem we need to get over
• that all our sensitivities are annoying to others who simply don’t want to be bothered

Believe me, I get it. Wholeheartedly. With the investment of someone living it every single day. What I’d like you to know is that things are not always what they seem. That YOU are not necessarily what others have agreed you are or you have bought into believing you are. That there is so much more to living life as a “vacationing angel in a biodegradable human suit” than meets the eye.

• Think about it.
• Think differently.
• Think with your heart first.

And start to live like the amazing HSP you truly are.

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