Emotional intelligence (EI) has been mentioned in the media lately and how we all would be better off if people, especially our leaders and those in power, would display it. EI is a measure of our ability to be aware of, understand and manage emotions in self and others. If you possess good emotional intelligence you will be better able to handle everyday stress, develop and maintain more meaningful close relationships, be more socially competent and will experience higher levels of wellbeing. It also helps us to use our emotion to enhance performance and create better lives for ourselves and others. If those benefits don’t motivate you to work on your EI nothing will!

There is an emerging paradigm of interconnectedness in our universe. No matter what we think or do, we are all connected! Because there are no real boundaries, especially on an energetic level, it is even more necessary to create ‘personal space’, even if it is only by establishing makeshift boundaries.

The downside of being highly sensitive is that you are easily energy drained, the upside is that you are also easily energy boosted! The term differential susceptibility explains how some people are more susceptible than others to both supportive and adverse experiences/exposures.

Being highly sensitive in this world places big demands on your physical body as well on other levels of your being. My personal experience plus many years’ experience in private practice has given me the opportunity to ‘feel’ in myself and observe first-hand in my clients the many physiological reactions that can occur in the body in response to being highly sensitive.

In all relationships, if we don’t like and respect ourselves, how can we expect others to? On the other hand, if we do like and respect ourselves, it is much easier for others to do the same. Loving and fulfilling relationships are the result. HSP's in relationships ...

My experience with migraines when I was younger provides an example of how taking ‘meaning’ from one’s illness can be transformational (Emotion Healed & Harnessed, pg.’s 85-87).  After experiencing many migraines over the years, and with the benefit of hindsight, it finally dawned on me that they served a deeper purpose. Within a day or two after each migraine I would feel much calmer, with far less nervous tension in my body than I had prior to it. And this would continue for a week or so until my nervous tension and anxiety levels would gradually start to build again. I finally ‘got’ what my body was trying to tell me, and with that, reached a level of acceptance, and began to see my migraines as NOT just random events designed to cause me pain and discomfort. But, on the contrary, they had provided me with great insight and a way to ‘heal thyself’.