
THE GUIDE
2. SENSITIVITY
MAIN ESSAY
RIPPLE EFFECT
HEALTHY M.O.
THE PROCESS
SHIFT GEARS

In spite of how far we’ve come as a society, I find that our perspective of sensitivity (especially in men) is still rather negating ~ as something to be feared, as a liability, or a weakness to be ‘toughened’ up, overcome, or medicated away.
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I know of many creative humans who struggle with the stigma of being ‘too sensitive’, whether they identify with being a Highly Sensitive Person, an Empath, an Intuitive, or a Sensory Defensive. Such people tend to isolate themselves from the world in an act of self-protection, become overwhelmed or damaged by trying to suppress their natural tendencies, or try to force themselves to be and act contrary to their nature in order to fit in to societal norms.
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But our sensitivity is a strength, and once understood and mastered, our unique abilities are tools to help us see and process the deep and subtle energies of life ~ ideally, they make us more embodied, more present, and more capable of connecting to ourselves and others.
2. SENSITIVITY & INTUITION
Essay by Katarzyna Vedah. April 1, 2018
In some cultures, such extra-sensory people are respected as the shaman-healer-artists who use their sensitivity to address the energetic health needs of others, serving a psycho-spiritual function in their community.
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But sensitivity can come at a price. Like the Wounded Healer, many of our gifts can come out of deep pain, abuse, and trauma, setting us on a journey into the darkness so as to return to the world with gained wisdom and light to share with others.
Learning to hear our intuition or inner voice, for example, can come from repeated exposure to life-threatening experiences. In this way, intuition is not a sixth sense – it’s the first. It’s what we are inherently born with ~ our built-in survival mechanism, our gut-instinct. And each of us is naturally sensitive in our own way.
However, over time, most of us are conditioned out of our intuitive sense. We may then be taught to follow others’ voices, commands, and viewpoints over our own inner knowing.
We may even be rewarded to go against our own perceptions so as to not conflict with or inconvenience others, and we may be punished for speaking our truth if it doesn’t match societal norms or interests.
In order to live in the world with sensitivity, we need to take stock of what we’ve been exposed to, and what we continue to allow into our lives. As we take responsibility for our regular psychic hygiene, we become more aware of what we allow to affect us, be it via our environment, associations, energy/information, as well as our own habitual thoughts, feeling-states and self-talk.
VIDEO (YouTube):
Power of Highly Sensitive People (TED)
Listen to Your Intuition (After Skool)
When to Trust Intuition (Tim Ferriss)
Practical Intuition – Laura Day (Cyacyl)
BOOK: Practical Intuition. By Laura Day
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DOCUMENTARY: Trailer
Sensitive (Will Harper)
Toxic Hot Seat (Walker & Redford)

RIPPLE EFFECT
CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS TO ENGAGE THE CAPACITY TO FEEL

THE SUBTLE & THE SENSITIVE
FILM (YouTube): Trailer
Safe (Todd Haynes) - Trigger Warning
Sensitivity Training (Melissa Finell)
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
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FILM REVIEW (YouTube): Spoilers!
The Fountain (Like Stories of Old)
MUSIC (YouTube):
Estas Tonne - Rebirth of a Thought
ART / VIDEO (YouTube):
WORD / POETRY: RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield
but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure.
- Rabindranath Tagore - Bengali poet - 1916

ARE YOU
A HIGHLY
SENSITIVE
PERSON (HSP)?
VIDEO (YouTube): Kati Morton
What is Sensory Processing Disorder?
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The Sensory Connection Program
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BOOK: By Sharon Heller
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
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VIDEO (YouTube):
Highly Sensitive Person (Kati Morton)
Problems HSPs Understand (Psych2Go)
Life as a HSP (Sheer Lev)
HSP Trauma (Candace van Dell)
Highly Sensitive Person (Google)
VIDEOS (YouTube): Shari Dyer
Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron
Highly Sensitive Boys & Men - Ted Zeff
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VIDEOS (YouTube): Candace van Dell
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ARTICLE: Psychology Today
Male Sensitivity Power. Tom Falkenstein
WEB / ARTICLE / BOOK:
Highly Sensitive Person. Elaine N. Aron
Strong, Sensitive Boy. Dr. Ted Zeff
Highly Sensitive Man. Tom Falkenstein

THE PROCESS
PRACTICAL REINFORCEMENT FOR SELF-CARE & DAY-TO-DAY LIVING

WHAT IS
MULTIPLE CHEMICAL
SENSITIVITY (MCS)?
VIDEO (YouTube):
Chemical Sensitivity (The Feed SBS)
Demystifying MCS (PSAC-AFPC)
MCS Affect Millions (Viv PhD)
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MCS: Reflections by Dr. L. Christine Oliver (Richard Startzman)​
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Ecological Approach to Disease
(Science & Environmental Health)
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WEBSITE: Seriously Sensitive to Pollution
WEBSITE: Ecological Medicine
WEB / ARTICLE: David Suzuki Foundation
Be Sensitive to Those With Environmental Sensitivities
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VIDEO: Dynamic Neural Retraining System
MCS, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Chronic Fatigue, Food Sensitivities
Chronic Pain, IBS, Chemical Sensitivity
Annie Hopper Presentation, AAEM
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SHIFT GEARS
EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES, AWARENESS & CONSCIOUSNESS

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE AN EMPATH
VIDEO (YouTube): Frank James
The Truth About Being an Empath
VIDEO (YouTube):
Empath or Just Sensitive? (Tertia Riegler)
Empaths & Toxic People (Stephanie Lyn)
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VIDEOS (YouTube): Gigi Young
How to Deal with Being an Empath
How to Deal with Toxic Relationships
VIDEO (YouTube): Melanie Tonia Evans
VIDEO (YouTube): Lisa Campion
Developing Your Spiritual Immunity
BOOK: Energy Healing for Empaths
VIDEOS (YouTube): Gigi Young
What Causes Bad Energy in Your Home?
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VIDEO (YouTube): Christina Lopes
Why an Empath Struggles in Life