Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive is a very important and useful book for those of us who identify as ’empaths’ or HSPs (highly sensitive persons). This is not about naval-gazing narcissism, but about those of us who are so sensitive that we literally hurt if we feel others are hurting – to animals or people, and also even to our beautiful planet. If you support MPs who cut disabled benefits or view Trump as someone to admire, then you’re not likely an empath. But if the thought of torture, war, abused animals or children or old people makes you want to cry, then you are likely are.
This book includes 30 progressive exercises to help protect your energy field, so you are not drained by the ‘bullying nature’ of much of the rest of the world. As an empath, you’re likely always told that you’re ‘too sensitive’. But in fact, your sensitivity is likely your strength, because without people like you, the whole world (mostly based on getting what each person wants at the expense of others) would go to hell in a handcart. If we want a kind just world with world peace, we need to still retain sensitivity, yet still have some kind of ‘mental health protection’ so you don’t get eaten up by the people to exploit you!
This book shows how to protect yourself from ‘energy vampires’ and has useful tips (like not watching nonstop horrible news programs) and shows how to embrace your kind sensitive nature, while still practicing enough self-care to not be overwhelmed by the world. Focusing on emotional balance, the author is a Reiki healer, dedicated to guiding sensitive people through techniques to help them thrive, so they can help others.
There are many HSP nowadays, walking around on our planet, many granted the permission to reincarnate during these times of transformation on Planet Earth. Sensitive people are sensitive because they feel energies, so they have to deal somehow with these energies. The book contains a lot of heart, goodwill and love. Read from the heart, understand it with intuition and give it time./blockquote>
how to understand & deal with anxiety
How to Understand & Deal with Anxiety is a super book by a qualified psychologist, beautifully laid out for anyone who needs help with anxiety or/and depression. The book includes practical tips for how to turn to a friend if you need one, with lists on who you trust and what you need to ask, and how to find professional help too. The book gives you an arsenal of tips and techniques to get you through bad days, and also how to help yourself and receive help from others.
If you feel overwhelmed by life, this book is here to help. A friendly and accessible guide to help you identify the source of your struggles, by learning the science behind how anxiety affects your mind and body, you’ll graduate to a better frame of mind. Learn to identify symptoms and triggers and learn breathing exercises and coping mechanisms, along with healthy lifestyle choices. It’s time to get you back to feeling like you again!
Katy Georgiou is a practicing clinical supervisor and gestalt pschotherapist accredited with UKCP and BACP. She works in private practice and for surgery counselling with a GP. She is founder of Sound Affects Podcast and regularly features on BBC Radio. She is also a former Samaritans helpline listener and has worked in NHS psychiatric hospitals and in HM government prisons.
what is a highly sensitive person?
HSPs (as we are commonly known!) are people who feel things more than others, and this can lead to huge mental health issues in a world that often doesn’t care. Most are likely pacifists and vegans, or simply people who can’t bear the thought of suffering of any kind, and get overwhelmed in this big bad world full of people who bully, harm and snigger (or simply forget upsetting images in the media after they see them). This makes it difficult to live in a world where it’s rare to meet other HSPs (and unfortunately, empaths can often attract narcissists who make use of their kind nature, and often make their lives even worse. Good signs of a highly sensitive person or empath are:
- Having to avoid violent news and TV shows
- Adoring all creatures (but especially animals!)
- Very artistic nature (either doing or reading/admiring)
- Loves peace & quiet, needs alone time to recharge
- Dislikes crowds, noise, bright lights
- Very spiritual often
- wants to know ‘why we are here’
So if you put them in a quiet place where they can spend time in prayer and be around animals and kind people, they will thrive. But if they end up surrounded by bullying people who force them to live a life out of alignment with their values, they will suffer. So rather than ‘try to change’, it helps to find out your true self, then go for that kind of life!
