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Author Archives: Karen Gosling
The Expression Of Emotional Pain
When you feel an emotional pain you are experiencing it now in the present tense. Even though you may remember something from yesterday that was painful or anticipate pain from a situation in the future, you actually only feel it today. Continue reading
Do Sensitive People Really Exist?
The highly sensitive person (HSP) is a reality! HSPs make up about 20 per cent of the population. Sensitivity is basically a neural trait and being sensitive means you have a sensitive nervous system. This means that as an HSP you are more aware of subtle things around you and you will be on guard for potential “danger”. For example, dark clouds or slippery pavements. Your nervous system will be easily overwhelmed if you are out for too long in a highly stimulating environment. Being bombarded by sights and sounds leaves you exhausted in a nervous system sort of way. Continue reading
Who Else Is Feeling Anxious? Understanding Fear And Anxiety
Anxious people experience overreactions to threatening things in their environment, which causes them to have a more severe stress response in their body than someone else would have to that stimulus. They are not able to tolerate uncertainty about the future very well as they fear many things that may go wrong. This could be about world events – including terrorism and plane crashes – or internal problems such as relationships (“What if he doesn’t really love me?”) or health concerns (“What if I’ve got cancer?”) Continue reading