Hi Lob, Lobster wrote:
>>I don't like the term "hypersensitive" it sounds like a disease. >> >> > >Hi Desi . . . > >Does it cause you distress >or dis ease? > > Sometimes. But much more often it causes me great joy and pleasure. Sometimes being human and being alive cause me distress and diss ease Does that make it a disease? There is much more time that I intensely enjoy my life then time I spend in pain. And even in the midst of pain, there is still so much joy in me, that I want to continue living. :-) >then in some senses it is . . . > > > I am what I am. And sometimes experience pain and sometimes pleasure. WHAT gives me pleasure and WHAT gives me pain, is highly dependent on what I am: mainly on being sensitive. All pros have cons, all cons have pros. Though ignorance, predudice, self doubt and insecurity, etc. add a lot to suffering and can cause a lot of unnessesary suffering. Raising awareness and self awareness can end a lot of such suffering. We all need to go by our strengths. Those make us tick and can help to overcome weaknesses. >>I like to talk of highly sensitive and high sensitivity. >> >> > >OK >Sometimes we can be too sensitive for our own good >Don't you think? > > Actually I don't think so. When high sensitivity causes disbalance, in my experience, it usually is a warning signal of some sort. I used to think that having stomach acid was a problem. And I took about 10 stomach tablets a day, to suppress this symptom. I needed more and more stomach tablets. Then I discovered that I could not digest wheet. Since I cut that out of my diet, I hardly ever need the stomach tablets. Very occasionally I still do. And usually I discover that I accidentely ate something that had wheet in it after all. So now I know that there is nothing wrong with my stomach, but I'm just being warned that I'm putting the wrong fuel into my body. Then my body doen't run, I get extremely tired and my tummy starts to protest. Isn't my tummy a wonderful friend and helper?! And you know what... in spite of the fact that I put the wrong fuel in for 42 years, my tummy is still whole and healthy :-) No car will stay whole when you continue to put sugar in the tank every day. LOL! When my sensitivity bothers me, I am REALLY warned for something. I am warned that I am overstimulated, exposed to something harmful, manipulated or dealing with someone who intends to harm me, or being persuaded or tricked to cross my bounderies, or told that I am headding towards danger and should turn around, etc. It pays off to listen to those signals and then for the most part, when all is well, I am in a good place, not exposed to danger or unhealthy things, I immensly enjoy my hightend perception. This wonderful radiance, realness and aliveness of the world. >>Has a much better sound to it. >> >> > >OK > > :-) > > > >>However, (IMO) highly sensitive people are treated in an inferior way in >>this society. Our particular talents are not valued, we are seen as weak >>and often diagnosed with mental illnesses. Only because the norm is to >>be less sensitive, more agressive and oriented on the external world. >> >> > >The two can be combined . . . > > Yes I know. >>Highly sensitive people are often very gifted, artistic, intelligent and >>have innate wisdom. Yet we often underachieve and are regarded as >>inferior. Therefor we easily end up in a lower income scale than we >>could have achieved if there was more space for us to educate ourselves >>in a way that works for us, and more appreciation for what we have to offer. >> >> > >What are you offering? > > What I do best. I quite often listen to people and have a good sense of who they are, where they are, what they need. I've helped friends sometimes to "feel" out the right path of treatment they needed to heal, from sometimes serious illnesses. I offer distant healing. I am a very good brainstormer. My basic energy is in"receiving" bright flashes of inspiration. That happens to me all the time. That is what i like to offer people FreeFlow. I've written articles about sensitivity that brought people to awareness about this. Contemplation on the subject helps people. A lot really. > > > >>And therefor we often end up in bad housing situations that are too >>noisy and we get exposed to too many toxins. Because the problem of >>poverty is, that one can have not enough influence over ones enviroment. >>This is a bad situation, brought about by prejudice, lack of knowedge >>and mere convention. >>I think it is high time something changed here. >>Emancipation appears to be nessesary to me. >> >> > >Wot ya gonna do - FreeFlow? > > Amongst other things. I was well on my way actally. I was writing articles and giving talks here in the country when the chronique fatigue set in, and I had to stop just about everything. It isdifficult to pick up where i left. I'm also a bit scared. I have the feeling that i have to go against a lot of resistance and that it is a steep mountain, of glass or something. Very hard to climb up against. But it IS where I am going. It IS right direction and that what arouses compassion in me. >>ecause I DO intend to stand up for myself and other highly sensitive >>people. >>This is a matter that needs emancipation. >>I made a choise to do this, years ago. >> >> > >And . . ? > > Am pulling myself together again to be able to pick up where I left. > >OK > > > >>And our needs, to be able to develop these qualities, so that we can be >>of better service to this world. >>Needs like a wholesome enviroment to live in, enough free space in >>school and work situations to experiment and explore and come up with >>original ideas. Essential, basic needs like this. >> >> > >How? > > I have for instance been at the treshold of the first school in this country, inspired on the system first used in the Sudberry Valley school in Latin America (sure you can google this up). In the Netherlands it is called lit. translated "Everywise." It is a schooling system that goes by the natural interests of children and stimulates them to develop their own innate talents and wisdom and explore the world. The teachers guide them in doing that and the school has the facilities available. Rather than submit all children to a fixed curriculum. Children LOVE to learn by their own nature.You don't have to force them. You can simply oblige them. In the beginning I went to the meetings and brainstormed about how starting the school and I wrote some articles in a spiritual magazine. I've stepped in more such projects and played similar roles. I was networking a lot and initiating and helping to initiate. I'm still doing some of that inside LETS and I want to go more direction FreeFlow in a similar way. The way I see things, is responsible for the choises I make. Where I direct my energy. Pushing through there and keeping at it is hard for me. >>Yet I would like some support, of other sensitive people, who know what >>I am talking about. >>Not so much for me personally, though it would help. >>But most of all for many generations to come. >> >>Love, >>Desi >> >> > >You are all talk Desi >and talk is cheap > > Talk is what I am good at. I've helped many people by making use of verbal skills before. I am sure I can do it again. >How can we help? >What are you intending to do? > > > >Lobster > > You are already helping It is hard for me to focus on FreeFlow. Or anything else for that matter. There is some kind of difficult resistance to overcome. It helps to talk about it. It helps to share my thoughts and feelings. So your questions help. It helps when people listen. When they don't judge, or critisize. Enthusiasm helps in this stage. I think I could use some Metta.... And a light touch :-) Humour and playfulness, in the communications usually help me going through the blanks and resistances when working on a creation. Right now I also need some space to ramble. Not all that I say in this stage is completely thought out and through. I feel I have to save energy and not get into discussions. I cannot aford to be tempted to either defend or explain myself or get into some mea culpa mode. Sometimes that is helpful, but at this moment I have to refrain from it. to protect the space i need to create. It will help when people here understand that. Maybe I should start a FreeFlow Yahoo-group and just happily and playfully start brainstorming about it. Then it will help when people join. and ramble and brainstorm with me :-) It is a logical next step. Probably shortly after my housewarming party will be a good moment. I let ya'all know. 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