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Binding: Perfect Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.232
EAN: 9780553062182
ISBN: 0553062182
Label: Broadway Books
Manufacturer: Broadway Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 251
Publication Date: June 02, 1997
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release Date: June 02, 1997
Sales Rank: 4901
Studio: Broadway Books
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Are you a highly sensitive person?
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you 'too shy' or 'too sensitive' according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the Highly Sensitive Person, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychotherapist, workshop leader and highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.
In The Highly Sensitive Person , you will discover:
* Self-assessment tests to help you identify your particular sensitivities
* Ways to reframe your past experiences in a positive light and gain greater self-esteem in the process
* Insight into how high sensitivity affects both work and personal relationships
* Tips on how to deal with overarousal
* Informations on medications and when to seek help
* Techniques to enrich the soul and spirit
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Are you an HSP? Are you easily overwhelmed by stimuli? Affected by other people's moods? Easily startled? Do you need to withdraw during busy times to a private, quiet place? Do you get nervous or shaky if someone is observing you or competing with you? HSP, shorthand for 'highly sensitive person,' describes 15 to 20 percent of the population. Being sensitive is a normal trait--nothing defective about it. But you may not realize that, because society rewards the outgoing personality and treats shyness and sensitivity as something to be overcome. According to author Elaine Aron (herself an HSP), sensitive people have the unusual ability to sense subtleties, spot or avoid errors, concentrate deeply, and delve deeply. This book helps HSPs to understand themselves and their sensitive trait and its impact on personal history, career, relationships, and inner life. The book offers advice for typical problems. For example, you learn strategies for coping with overarousal, overcoming social discomfort, being in love relationships, managing job challenges, and much more. The author covers a lot of material clearly, in an approachable style, using case studies, self-tests, and exercises to bring the information home. The book is essential for you if you are an HSP--you'll learn a lot about yourself. It's also useful for people in a relationship with an HSP. --Joan Price
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I dare say I enrolled in Psychology in college to try and discover what made me so different. Now 17 years out of college, I have finally figured it out! Hallelujah! This author's theory explains EVERYTHING about my oddities. I feel less alone. Now I need the Cliffs Notes version so my spouse can get filled in without having to read the whole book.
What's it like to be Highly Sensitive? I can't schedule more than one or two meetings or appointments on any given day or I will feel ... Read More
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All of my life I have been an HSP and felt as though I had landed on the wrong planet; this book describing the traits of the Highly Sensitive Person and how best to arrange your life to maximize the calm that you can find as you go from day to day is a delight! I'm still an HSP but I no longer feel alone with these traits.
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I was really into these theories for a while but now really believe some of these can be re-framed using physiological explanations. Consider High Sensation Seeking (HSS). Could this be explained by ADD or ADHD? Also consider Highly Sensitive Person. Could this be explained by an overactive limbic system ? I came up with these explanations after reading the following books:
1. "Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD"
2. "Healing ... Read More
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I haven't finished it yet as it stirs up a lot of memories and I have to process a bit at at time, but the information is very reassuring, normalizing, and validates my experience of myself. I can also see the traits clearly in others that share this attribute. I am very grateful for this book.
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Not only is there nothing wrong with me, my HSP traits are an asset! Finally, a positive book on being highly sensitive. Dare I say, this book is my bible. I made my brother read it too, and he found it extremely helpful also. I am grateful for this book. Thank you Elaine.
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