How to Love Your Sensitivity: Embrace Your Energetic Nature

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How to Love Your Sensitivity: Embrace Your Energetic Nature

You feel things deeply, and this can be both a gift and a challenge. To live harmoniously with this aspect of yourself, you need to learn to embrace your sensitivity. In this blog post, let’s explore some tips and tricks on how to love your sensitivity and accept yourself fully.

Recognise It as a Strength

The first step to embracing your sensitivity is to shift your perspective. Instead of seeing it as a weakness, recognize it as a strength. Sensitivity allows you to pick up on subtle nuances that others may miss. This can make you an excellent listener and an empathetic friend. It can also make you more creative and intuitive in your work. It can help you feel deep emotions - you know that deep sense of bliss you feel, seemingly from nowhere? That is thanks to your sensitivity. By recognising the strengths that come with your sensitivity, you can start to appreciate it for what it is, a gift.

Create a Safe Space

Highly sensitive people can be easily overwhelmed by their environment. Therefore, creating a safe space is essential to feeling at ease. This could mean setting up your home in a way that feels calming to you, or it could be as simple as finding a quiet corner to retreat to when things get too much. Whatever it is, create a space that feels nurturing and supportive, and you'll find it much easier to be at peace with your sensitivity.

Practice Self-Care

Self-care is crucial for everyone, but it's especially vital for highly sensitive people. Make sure you take time to recharge your batteries, whether that's by spending time alone, practicing meditation, or taking a relaxing bath. When you take care of yourself, you're better able to cope with the emotional ups and downs that can come with being sensitive.

Set Boundaries

One of the biggest challenges that sensitive people face is that they can take on other people's emotions as their own. This can be exhausting and overwhelming. Setting boundaries is crucial to protecting your energy and feeling grounded. It could mean saying no to social events when you're feeling drained or limiting your time with people that feel hard to be around. Whatever it is, make sure you're creating the necessary boundaries to preserve your emotional well-being.

Connect With Your Inner Child

At times all humans can tend be overly critical and harsh to themselves, particularly when highly sensitive. Imagine yourself as a child, would you berate your child self as harshly as you do your adult self for being sensitive? No, probably not.

Connecting with your Inner Child is a quick way to shift your perspective to embody self compassion and understanding. Everyone has multiple parts and aspects within themselves. These aspects tend to be labelled as “good” and “bad”. Although, building your own relationship with these parts, centred in self compassion is a key component to self acceptance, empowerment and embracing who you truely are.

Find Your Tribe

Finally, finding people who understand and support your sensitivity is another key to feeling accepted and loved. Seek out like-minded individuals who share your interests and values, and who won't judge you for being sensitive. Having a community of people who understand what you're going through can be incredibly healing and uplifting.

Remember…

Being sensitive is not a curse, but a blessing. Embracing your sensitivity means recognising it as a strength, creating a safe space, practicing self-care, setting boundaries, embodying self compassion and finding your tribe. By doing so, you'll live more harmoniously with your sensitive nature and experience more joy and fulfilment in your life. Remember, your sensitivity is a beautiful part of who you are, so try to love and appreciate it as much as possible.

A lot of my clients, like myself are highly sensitive. I understand the battle of accepting yourself as sensitive and truely seeing this aspect of yourself as the gift that it is. If you feel called to exploring your gifts and accepting and loving all parts of yourself, book a session with me below.

I would be honoured to assist you on this magnificent journey of self love and embracing who you truely are.

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