Posts Tagged ‘productivity’
Duality And The Mastery Of The Exquisite
Duality is something that many of us embrace as a way to develop perceptual sophistication. You know… …love vs. hate… …light vs. dark… …yin vs. yang… …good vs. bad… …masculine vs. feminine… It’s a start! Duality Can Be Like Fool’s Gold Discovering duality can be exciting. It is a way to start to grapple…
Read MoreRocking The Boat: An Important Life Skill
Do you want to rock the boat? Make art! Abstract art does many things but it is best at rocking the boat and causing us to see things in a new way. Rocking the boat is an important life skill, and one that highly sensitive people should embrace. Mindless Activity Currently, we are besieged by change. Given…
Read MoreWhy Impatience Is SO Bad For You
Impatience is so bad for you. It is one of the most seductive emotional states. It is a great way to make life more difficult and relationships challenging. Impatience is like playing a child’s game of bumper cars with real life and adult consequences. Worshipping At The Altar Of Speed I find the adoration of…
Read MoreEmbrace Respect: It’s Good For Your Health
Respect is something we all want. Even HSPs. Why is it so elusive? Why Respect Is Important Respect is so important for our well-being that we feel our positive energy grow when around it and we feel our energy become depleted when we are disrespected. For highly sensitive people, the issue of being respected is particularly acute…
Read MoreWhat Time Pressure Costs Us
How do you feel about the time pressure of this impatient world we live in? Personally, I hate it, yet I often feel that slow is “wrong”. Slow means getting run off the road by someone faster. Slow means “missing the boat” because you can only miss it by being slow. The fast pace of…
Read MoreSocial Habits And Sensitive People: The Four Tendencies
Once in a while, we come across concepts that are game changers for us as HSPs. This month, I would like to share something that has helped me in my own journey as an artistic HSP and might help you too. It comes from the work of New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin, The…
Read MoreTake A Vacation from Fear!
I would love a vacation from fear. I have been thinking about fear lately, mostly because our cultural system just seems to be one form of fear or another and it never stops. It doesn’t make sense, really. Why would anyone want to live that way? It all seems quite irrational which is why I…
Read MoreIs The Quick Fix Killing Us?
Is the quick fix killing us? Until the capitalistic system emerged which harnessed nature to satisfy unmet human needs, the history of the human race had been a history of poverty and misery. Our current economic system came into being to solve the problem of poverty and now it seems to be returning us to poverty.…
Read MoreTime Issues For Highly Sensitive People
Hurry up! Hurry up! Do you ever feel that many people around you are too quick and too impatient? I know that I do. It’s a weird problem, because as slow as HSPs may seem to non-HSPs, non-HSPs seem superficial to HSPs. It can be a challenge to handle it. Time Issues: A Conflict For…
Read MoreTyranny of the Clock
People in an economic system based on production learn to live with the tyranny of the clock. Although people have been tracking time since the early days of humans, our relationship with time has become different. Time used to be related to something going on in nature. People measured the hours of sunshine, the seasons,…
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