What is sensitivity?
Being sensitive means you notice things, you care about people’s feelings, and you often think deeply before you speak. It means taking the time to feel, absorb and process, rather than rushing into action. And, for a lot of people, being sensitive isn’t just a passing mood — it’s an essential part of who they are and the gifts they carry.
Most highly sensitive people grow up with the message that there’s something wrong with them — but there isn’t. Their sensitivity is a normal, healthy trait that comes with a lot of advantages and some disadvantages. With sensitive people, everything is turned up to an 11. Most people don’t realize they’re broadcasting their emotions at an 11. Everything inside and outside is frequently very ‘loud. When you’re sensitive, your nervous system processes everything very deeply. That means you can’t help but pick up on noises, feelings, textures, and social cues that other people miss. It also means that any kind of high-stimulus environment can quickly become way too overwhelming and “loud.”
Being sensitive can mean being a live receptor for any and all emotions in the area. Sensitive people are more tuned-in to emotions, with more active mirror neurons than less sensitive people have. In fact, many sensitive people feel that they absorb the emotions of others whether they want to or not. When you are sensitive you can tell what is going on inside people too. You are aware of feelings that exist inside your body, as well as the feelings inside the bodies of every other person in your space at any given time. Sensitive people often notice things others don’t notice, and the good news is that it often makes them much better at their work and in personal relationships. And sometimes it hurts, especially if a loved one in their life doesn’t understand their sensitivity.
In the bigger spiritual picture, sensitivity is a superpower. Because a sensitive person feels so much themselves, they are usually more empathic, kind, loving and compassionate to everyone they encounter. Because they have a finely tuned nervous system they can “tune up” to the frequency and energy pattern of another being to naturally receive and take in impressions, intuitions, and perceptions from all dimensions of their being, which makes for gifted counselors, actors, healers and shaman etc.. Their natural vulnerability and openness due to their sensitivity makes for deeply intimate, caring relationships and their natural empathy makes for gifted artistic, creative expression.
To play in the bigger spiritual Game of Awareness in life.. it is necessary to see/listen/feel with great sensitivity and open awareness that casts an extremely large net of reception/perception. Once we are looking through the lens of Unity consciousness, we are simply not on the same Game board as ordinary ego/mind, 3D reality with very different rules of the Game and results, that require much more subtlety, sensitivity, symbolic/metaphorical thinking and awareness to play. So cultivating our sensitivity (on all levels of being) and thus our awareness, just makes sense to enter into larger domains and holograms of spiritual experience.
This leads us to the question of:
“How do we cultivate our sensitivity on all levels of being?” What can we do to encourage sensitivity of perception/awareness? Answering that question and working with what we become aware of, is the practice to work with this moon between Soul Salons. Practice sensory perception: listening, feeling, seeing with an acuity and sensitivity that casts a wider net of awareness in all the circumstances of your life. Sensitivity opens the door to vast realms of interdimensional spiritual experience. Step through! As you do, it becomes literally another version or iteration of your life!
