What would you do as a very sensitive being on earth?

[Rose from India]

Ok so during my childhood I was considered to be very sensitive with low immune system, later while growing up I didn’t like the way how I was being described. So I wanted to be this tough strong girl who everyone would look up on. 

And so I tried to be sooo insensitive to things that used to make me easily cry before. I hardened myself so that people don’t call me weak or sensitive. I was very tomboyish, very impulsive trying to prove myself I am the toughest. 


Then spiritual awakening happened! In my college. 

That literally shook my world and broke the huge wall I had around my heart. Then little by little I tried to trust , forgive myself and open myself to people around me out of love. 

And being a HR for 5 years now(age:28), I feel so so heavy around people . I feel so sensitive like super hyper sensitive and would love to go and live somewhere near where there are so many trees. 

My heart feels pulled towards doing plantation and gardening work and leave the HR. Now I don’t feel very ambitious to make money which I used to before. I used to be very ambitious. Now I just want to live among the trees and hug and love anyone who are lost and in need of love. I’m so not interested to go back to working crazy to make money coz I feel so sensitive. 


Has anyone been in a similar situation? Or am I going through depression ? Lol

[IndigoSalvia]

Ok so during my childhood I was considered to be very sensitive with low immune system, later while growing up I didn’t like the way how I was being described. So I wanted to be this tough strong girl who everyone would look up on. 

And so I tried to be sooo insensitive to things that used to make me easily cry before. I hardened myself so that people don’t call me weak or sensitive. I was very tomboyish, very impulsive trying to prove myself I am the toughest.

I could have written some of those words myself, Rose of India. I was a very sensitive child as well. I seemed to feel others' energies easily. I cried easily if I sensed pain around me. I've always had a sensitive digestive system, and in high school, became vegetarian and later vegan (for ethical/philosophical, environmental, energetic, and body reasons).

Though I didn't notice and begin to understand it until later in life, I "take on" energies quite easily. It's like I have a sensitivity volume knob, and I came into this life with it turned up high. I am learning how to consciously and lovingly adjust and balance that 'sensitivity knob'. This sensitivity has been both a blessing and a curse for me personally. Thus, there were times, when I turned it way down low, I walled myself off because I couldn't stabilize myself otherwise. Other times, I turned it up high; I plunged into the experience, immersed myself (and sometimes depleted). And, I now, see my sensitivity as a gift. It has opened my heart many times over. 

Throughout my life it has been a factor in my everyday life, from little to big decisions. When I became aware of my sensitivity, I began to understand it and now, I can try to balance it consciously. How do I "maximize" this gift of sensitivity and yet also stay in overall balance?

 I feel so sensitive like super hyper sensitive and would love to go and live somewhere near where there are so many trees. 

My heart feels pulled towards doing plantation and gardening work and leave the HR. Now I don’t feel very ambitious to make money which I used to before. I used to be very ambitious. Now I just want to live among the trees and hug and love anyone who are lost and in need of love. I’m so not interested to go back to working crazy to make money coz I feel so sensitive. 

Yes, there are times when I want to retreat, for example, to nature and animals. My heart has always longed to be in a slower-paced life surrounded by animals and nature, and humans as well.   During the pandemic lockdowns and such, I had the opportunity through many catalysts to evaluate my life. Nowadays, I'm trying to make that dream my reality, which will be a depart in some ways from my current everyday life, including career and money (like you mention). I'm in the planning and first step stages, bringing it into my daily life as much as I can. 

I share my own journey because I hear you asking questions about sensitivity-balancing within career, heart-longings, etc. and how this all comes together to create the picture of our lives, so to speak. 

Feeling heavy around people? Me too. I can get that way: a feeling of depletion, weighed down, sluggishness. That's my "overdone" point, a point in which I have expended myself (or taken on too much). If I'm in awareness, I can - in the moment - balance myself; if not, I usually retreat to re-balance. It's like a heart-heaviness that can spread to a whole-body heaviness, irritability, fatigue ... feels like an "overload" state. 

What is interesting to me is that you are in HR, and often, interacting with interpersonal issues. That may hold clues for you? Or be a catalyst for exploring?

Our hearts guide us, our focus held tightly upon that which we seek/manifest.

[Diana]

I can relate to both of you, Rose of India and IndigoSalvia. One difference with me is as a child I never cried except when I was just born—my mother has told me I used to cry and wail (although I was healthy) until I turned blue literally from not breathing properly (I joke that I had decided this place was not for me and I was thinking, Get me out of here! ). I think I didn't cry at all as a child because I was sort of in a state of continual shock over things, and I can recall being horrified and galvanized in certain situations.

As an adult now this is quite different. I can be reduced to tears when I see suffering. I have to be careful to shield myself to a certain extent or I spiral down too far. In my thinking, I am not much good to this world if I am depressed and in despair, so I balance the empathy/sensitivity with this necessary shielding. For example, I never watch shows about animal suffering due to the meat/dairy industry, or watch footage of war scenes (in which it is not only people who suffer but animals and plants as well). This shielding for me is necessary in order for me to be a functional human being in service to the world. 

For me, isolating myself is also not an option. I love being alone and being in nature. I live outside a city on a dirt road and feed and water (I'm in the desert) the local animals.  Right now the frogs are singing in my tiny pond at night and that means they are spawning. Soon there will be hundreds of polliwogs (I call them woggers) and I feed them cooked spinach in case there isn't enough algae growing. When it comes to interfacing with people I limit this. I too have similar reactions when I am around others in a group or party for an extended time—the next day I am drained, tired, heavy, almost like a hangover. I have a chiropractor friend who told me that he deals with this issue by doing Tai Chi, so he can process everyone's energy he works on.

Back to not isolating myself. For me, I feel it is part of being of service to put myself out there, but I balance this with my own well-being. So I endeavor to strike a sweet spot of going out and about and spending time in my sanctuary (my home). I have worked at home almost my entire adult life so I have been lucky there. Additionally, I maintain peak health as best I can—mind, body, and spirit. And finally, when I do see suffering, and knowing that it is happening all the time here, I endeavor to accept the conditions of this planet and let myself feel the pain instead of resisting it—this sounds paradoxical to what I said about shielding myself, but it isn't. I know myself well enough to know my limits, and that I am a work in progress, and I accept that, too.

As Ra put it, we are the "brothers and sisters of sorrow" and it is no wonder. I stand in solidarity with both of you, and all those who wander here. <3

[Spiritualchaos]

We can relate entirely, as we have been sensitive to all stimuli our whole life. 

In an emotional sense, we are sensitive to others energies, to their emotions and to our own. We feel pure emotions quite deeply, as they have been guiding us through our life for as long as we remember. We are move to tears from the simplest of things, as we feel everything quite deeply. We are very intuitive and empathic and sometimes feel others feelings as our own so deeply we can get confused as to what are our feelings and what feelings are coming from others.

We are overwhelmed by absolutely everything growing up and in to our adult life. Loud noises and sounds were too much for us, and still are as we have been sleeping with ear plugs since 2012. Being around a lot of people for a long period of time can be extremely draining and overwhelming. We feel physically exhausted, and experience chronic pain to the sensitivities we have.

We have difficulty with the smell of perfumes, soaps, and most chemicals, as we are allergic to most things to some degree. 

If there is a way to experience extreme sensitivity, we have done so. We suffered from crippling anxiety and depression for years because of how we absorb all the energy around us from everyone's emotions and had not yet learned how to control this overwhelming amount of emotions we feel on a daily basis. 

Saying this, we’d like to add that it gets easier as you start to understand why it's happening to us, why you feel these sensitivities on such an extreme level. With acceptance, the path ahead gets clearer, and you find forgiveness and understanding for the gifts you were given that never felt like gifts to you until you understand why they are happening. In this acceptance comes love, for yourself and your person, who is struggling to find our way along the path together.

[flofrog]

oh I definitely think the plants and trees and any animal love us, or are ready to . They just are cautious, often...

[IndigoSalvia]

I can relate entirely, as I have been sensitive to all stimuli my whole life. 

In an emotional sense, I am sensitive to others energies, to their emotions and to my own. I feel pure emotions quite deeply, as they have been guiding me through my life for as long as I could remember. I am moved to tears from the simplest of things, as I feel everything quite deeply. I am very intuitive and empathic and sometimes feel others feelings as my own so deeply I can get confused as to what are my feelings and what feelings are coming from another.

I was overwhelmed by absolutely everything growing up and in to my adult life. Loud noises and sounds were too much for me, and still are as I have been sleeping with ear plugs since 2012. Being around a lot of people for a long period of time can be extremely draining and overwhelming. I feel physically exhausted, and experience chronic pain to the sensitivity my soul has to the Earth's frequencies.

I have difficulty with the smell of perfumes, soaps, and most chemicals, as I am allergic to most things to some degree. 

If there is a way to experience extreme sensitivity, I have done so. I suffered from crippling anxiety and depression for years because of how I absorbed all the energy around me from everyone's emotions and had not yet learned how to control this overwhelming amount of emotions I felt on a daily basis. 

Saying this, I'd like to add that it gets easier as you start to understand why it's happening to you, why you feel these sensitivities on such an extreme level. With acceptance, the path ahead gets clearer, and you find forgiveness and understanding for the gifts you were given that never felt like gifts to you until you understood why they were happening. In this acceptance comes love, for yourself and for other selves, who are struggling to find their way along the same path.

Q'uo - December 25, 2010

My sister, there are many reasons that an entity may be sensitive. However, in the majority of cases where there is an overriding sensitivity of the physical body on the level of an entity of the healing persuasion saying to you at one time or another that perhaps you are allergic to the planet, in such cases it is chosen to have a super-sensitive physical vehicle in order that the energy body might stay at a tuning which is not convenient for those of the normal sensitivities upon third-density planets such as Earth. This instrument, for instance, is often known to say that she feels that the hypersensitive physical vehicle that she has is connected with her ability to channel.

If you will think of wiring and how wiring works, you can see that a wiring that would be especially effective in inner planes or time/space work such as healing, teaching or channeling, the ability to clear the, shall we say, miasma of heavy planetary energies, would enable such an instrument to have a more clarified and accurate contact with conceptual communication which would offer the possibility of bringing through information that may be helpful to spiritual seekers. That is this instrument’s rationale and, as she would say, “her story.” You may try that on to see how well it fits your situation.

In general, a hypersensitive physical vehicle tends to be evidence of a person’s coming from elsewhere, so that this planet is not the planet of origin. This planet is not the vibration or the frequency which has been experienced as an ongoing state, but rather there has been experience in other densities, in other environments that are more comfortably accommodating of the sensitivities involved in an entity’s energy body, so that such an entity can know that he or she has made a significant sacrifice and has chosen willingly and in full knowledge ahead of time to enter into the miasma of what this instrument would call “the world of Maya,” the earth atmosphere, the heavy chemical atmosphere of Planet Earth, in order to serve the infinite Creator by serving others.

Now, we are not suggesting that everyone who has a hypersensitive vehicle is destined to be or should be a channel, a healer, or a teacher. Many wanderers have chosen to come to the earth plane at this time simply to hold the light; that is to say, not necessarily to hold the light but to hold a place where the Creator’s light may shine through.

Yes, it took me quite some time to recognize, explore and finally get to a place of working with my 'sensitivities'. 

Diana brought up an interesting point about shielding and this subtle balancing that we may do between exposure and sanctuary, so to speak, balancing putting ourselves out there and stepping back. 

How do you shield yourselves? Or work with balancing, getting to the sweet spot ... not too much, not too little, but just right? 

If I'm in a big crowd, I'll escape to a quiet spot for some grounding and breathing, and just take a break from all of the energies, emotions, cross-talk, etc. I also talk with myself in my head, grounding myself back on love and light. 

I try to listen to my MBS and when it starts getting overwhelmed or drained or off-balance, that's my clue to take a little space and process, restore stability. 

Interesting quote from Quo, btw. 

This discussion has me wondering: how have you learned to "step into" this 'sensitivity gift' to help ... to "use" it as the gift that it is? clumsy wording but hope it makes sense.

[Sacred Fool]

Personally, I'm not overly sensitive to life on this planet to the extent that I have to plan how to protect myself or avoid things.  But maybe that's because I've adjusted my lifestyle to  mainly avoid disharmonious stuff.  I've live without a television for most of my life, for example.

The following Q'uo passage might be of some small use.  It does not discuss sensitivity, but the relationship between the analytical and intuitive elements of the mind.  Perhaps if one looks at it in these terms and thinks about nurturing the intuitive side of self, the problems of sensitivity could lessen somewhat?

Do not see the mind that is critical and the mind that intuits as two sides of a coin or two separate things. See rather, to use our favorite image, that portion of the tree which is above the ground, which blossoms and rocks in the breeze of summer, and stands naked and proud against the winter cold as the conscious mind, in intimate contact with the illusion, able to flower, blossom and expand, and able also to hunch the back, stiffen the self, and be protective against difficult influences. See the intuitive mind as a great underground system of the roots of this same living tree. In winter and in summer alike, they are in contact with the Creator, drinking in nourishment from earth and water, storing, nurturing and keeping watch over the life of that visible tree which nods above the ground. There are far more roots to the mind than there are visible trunks and branches, and the ends of the roots lies in the center of the Sun. Thus, the deeper mind has the opportunity to contact intelligent infinity itself, eternity and everness.

How precious is the entire being, the entire consciousness that you call the mind and that is truly yourself. May you see it in a loving and holistic way. May you glory in your branches, in your thoughts, in your ramifications, in your distinctions, and in your conclusions as you go onward from conclusion to conclusion. But may your faith be in the system of roots that links you to eternity, and may your will be more and more to place the tree above ground in the service of that greater consciousness which lies within the nurturing darkness of earth and water and, finally, fire.

  

[Spiritualchaos]

Regarding shielding ourselves, we have found some methods that work. For one, we had to move out of the city. Being in the city, where everyone’s energy affects everyone around them, is not easy for sensitive people. We feel overwhelmed all the time. We moved to a smaller city in the mountains, and found just being around an abundance of nature makes a huge difference on how we feel. We spend multiple hours a day sitting outside, just being one with nature or going for walks. It helps greatly to keep clear, balanced, and happy.

The physical sensitivities were easier to control when we removed most of the harsh chemicals from our life. We switched to all natural soaps that are vegan, we use shampoo and conditioner bars instead of anything with heavy chemicals, we try using products that are hypoallergenic or scent-free. We stopped talking pharmaceutical medication, we use vinegar to clean instead of heavy cleaners, we even stop wearing clothing that wasn’t soft as harsh clothing irritates our skin easily. Meditating daily also helps as we never get a very good nights rest and we feel more rested from meditation, and more clear minded. 

Regarding crowds, in the city we used to walk around with headphones playing music, and it made it easier to focus and not get so overwhelmed by the energy we are absorbing. We memorize patterns and try to avoid crowds now, by going out on mornings before the majority of the population goes out. We find ways to minimize our exposure to too much energy so we can function. 

For us, we have begun to learn to step into this sensitivity more recently. Our sensitivity is linked heavily to the gifts we have brought into this life, which is empathy, intuition and pattern recognition. With these gifts, we have been able to follow the pure emotions (which are much clearer to recognize once you quiet your mind) that are helping us to figure out the purpose of this lifetime, which is to love.

We have been able to use these gifts to reach out to others when we are feeling their unhappiness or discomfort, or recognize that something is not right based on a change in routine, etc. etc. But to get to this point, we have to forgive ourselves. We have no problem finding forgiveness for others, but love for ourselves has always been more of a challenge. The more we can find love for each other, the more trust we have in the gifts we have, and then are able to better utilize them for further growth, for both of us who are looking to learn and grow into something more beautiful from all this chaos.

[IndigoSalvia]

Regarding shielding myself, I have found some methods that work. For one, I had to move out of the city. Being in the city, where everyone’s energy infringes on everyone around them, is not easy for sensitive people. I felt overwhelmed all the time. I moved to a smaller city in the mountains, and found just being around an abundance of nature makes a huge difference on how I feel. I spend multiple hours a day sitting outside, just being one with nature or going for walks. It helps greatly to keep clear, balanced, and happy.

The physical sensitivities were easier to control when I removed most of the harsh chemicals from my life. I switched to all natural soaps that are vegan, I use shampoo and conditioner bars instead of anything with heavy chemicals, I try using products that are hypoallergenic or scent-free. I stopped talking pharmaceutical medication, I use vinegar to clean instead of heavy cleaners, I even stopped wearing clothing that wasn’t soft as harsh clothing irritates my skin easily. Meditating daily also helps as I never get a very good nights rest and I feel more rested from meditation, and more clear minded. 

Regarding crowds, in the city I used to walk around with headphones playing music, and it made it easier to focus and not get so overwhelmed by the energy I was absorbing. I memorize patterns and try to avoid crowds now, by going out on mornings before the majority of the population goes out. I would find ways to minimize my exposure to too much energy so I can function. 

For me, I have begun to learn to step into this sensitivity more recently. My sensitivity is linked heavily to the gifts I have brought into this incarnation, which is empathy, intuition and pattern recognition. With these gifts, I have been able to follow the pure emotions (which are much clearer to recognize once you quiet your mind) that are helping me to figure out the mission of this incarnation. I have been able to use these gifts to reach out to others when I am feeling their unhappiness or discomfort, or recognize that something is not right based on a change in routine, etc. But to get to this point, I had to forgive myself. I had no problem finding forgiveness for others, but love for myself has always been more of a challenge. The more I can find love for myself, the more trust I have in the gifts I have, and then am able to better utilize them for further growth, for both myself and other-selves who are looking to learn/teach or teach/learn from this.

I had not thought about all of the accommodations I make for my sensitivities. But reading some of yours, I realize I do some of them as well. 

I live in a small, bedroom community of a larger metropolis and it suits me much better than being in the thick of a buzzing city. Despite the calmer surroundings, I still long for more nature, and a slower-paced lifestyle to enjoy the nature.  

A month or so ago, I found myself unexpectedly drawn to passive houses, sustainable, green-built, earth ship, etc. There's something so alluring about living in harmony with my local environment. I'm researching and drafting and dreaming. 

My interest in sustainable living -- harmonious living -- is undoubtedly related to my sensitivities.

[IndigoSalvia]

I'm still learning about my sensitivities. Inspired by this post, I've been trying to understand my own experiences.

When I think of the 5 basic senses (hearing, touch, taste, sight, and smell), my own sensitivity is affected by these 5 senses, but it is different.

I am sensitive to energies, for lack of a better understanding. But I can't see energy like some people see auras and chakras.

I might also call it an emotional sensitivity, but that doesn't fully describe it. I am definitely sensitive to others' suffering and pain; it instinctively stirs something within me that aches in my mind, body and spirit.

I am sensitive to what I call chaotic energy: lots of energies swirling around. For example, lots of people talking at once, whether there is disagreement or just simply lots of conversations at once. Underneath those voices, there is a lot of energy being exchanged, and though I can't see the energies themselves, I sense them.

Likewise, I'm sensitive to loud noises and lots of noises simultaneously (hyperacusis). I use accommodations so that I'm not overloaded and become unbalanced.

There isn't a single, simple term that I can use to describe my sensitivities. Thus, it remains somewhat elusive and mysterious to me.

How about others? How might you describe your unique sensitivities?