Is Your Sensitivity a Strength or a Burden?
Interconnection v Overconnection
Sensitivity is a burden when we are overly affected by others. With a few tools, it can be a great strength. Our world is interconnected (spiritually, ecologically, technically, logistically, etc.). Interconnection is powerful.
Overconnection feels like a burden. That increasing sense of overconnection – in real life and through technology – can feel overwhelming and exhausting. This is especially true for sensitive people. The line between interconnection and overconnection can be blurry, especially when so many beings are experiencing and/or witnessing violence, suffering, and fear. Intense events and emotions are shared, often indiscriminately, online.
Empathic Absorption
For many of us, it’s easy to be deeply affected by other people’s experiences, as well as our own. When our compassion turns to empathic absorption, we take those experiences into our bodies and psyches. It can be problematic. Care givers and people in healing and helping professions are particularly vulnerable to experiencing empathic overload. Compassion fatigue is another term for this, but it’s not really accurate. Compassion and empathy take two different forms in the way our bodies react.
It’s crucial to strike a balance in what we absorb into our bodies.
Is Your Sensitivity a Strength or a Burden?
It Will Never Change
Many sensitive or empathic people think they can’t change how the world affects them; they’ll forever be reacting defensively, managing the results of their perpetual energetic openness.
That belief is not true!
Where and How to Get Tools
This is where the concepts of the Energy Ecosystem™ come in. This is where the tools in Shining Bright Without Burning Out help change the way we are affected by the world and can affect the world in turn. I’ve learned these tools from my own experiences of interconnection and overconnection and hear from others what an impact they can make.
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Do you have any boundaries classes or courses in owning your power coming up soon?
Hi Jessica
Ah we just had a boundaries class a few weeks ago! But I do have a class that’s related coming up on Tuesday November 12. It’s about inner and outer tools for managing chaos, intensity and change. Being clear about what is within the realm of our personal power and what is not is a theme of that class. Here is the Event listing on the Calendar page. Hope to see you there! And also the Shining Bright Without Burning Out Audio course is available any time and that is allll about boundaries. You can download that and do it at your own pace. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.