Understanding your sensitive self
We read Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo’s book Sensitive in the last edition of The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. One of the things that stood out to me was when they talked about the close intertwining of emotional and physical sensitivity:
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I am a deeply feeling person. But I don’t wear my feelings on my sleeve.
In fact, I think many people who know me casually may not even think of me as emotional. It’s almost like I have an exterior of calmness. And that’s all they can see.
Inside, the weather could be anything.
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I have been thinking about happiness lately, and my mind jumped to: What’s the opposite of happiness?
And I think the opposite of happiness is trying to be someone you are not.
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I was watching the animated movie Orion and the Dark recently. In it, a little boy called Orion who has an active (and often, overactive) imagination faces his fears in an epic journey with someone who he fears the most at first: a creature called Dark.
In the movie, as Orion spins out into worry, Dark tells him: “Kid, you’re either extremely disturbed or extremely creative.”
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Being in our body can feel really hard for many of us. This is especially true for those of us who have experienced any kind of trauma related to it.
Maybe, it was physical abuse, which now causes us to flee from our bodies and jump into our minds. Or maybe, it was an accident that left us feeling so small and vulnerable that being in our body feels very threatening now.
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