HEALTH
The Five Steps
to Healing the Highly
Sensitive Person
By Dave Markowitz
If you are a Highly Sensitive Person
(HSP), or empath, you are not alone.
There are an estimated 40 million
HSPs in America alone. HSPs often
face unique challenges; mainly, healing modalities that work for most people don’t always work for us.
A
lso, it is very difficult to thrive
in a culture where our sensitivities are seen as something to cure or repress –
rather than be embraced.
Yet, when understood and
used appropriately, our empathic abilities can be a divine gift – one that
allows us to heal, thrive, and to better serve all
humankind.
I was a successful medical intuitive and energy healer for years but in denial of my extreme
sensitivity to others’ energies. One day, I had a
most unusual wakeup call. The catalyst was an
atypical evening out with friends, visiting several bars. I drank no alcohol, only water, the entire evening; but because of my sensitivities, I
found myself getting drunk – yes, drunk – as
in slur-my-words, unable-to-walk-a-straight-line
drunk. Even in this empathic stupor, I knew this
was a message not just for me but also for thousands of other highly sensitive people.
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As a way of training me to better handle being
an HSP, the Universe then sent me a string of
highly sensitive clients. Moreover, these clients
had some astonishing similarities: