68. Self-realizations from a few years of knowing I'm an HSP
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Discovering the concept of high sensitivity and learning you are a Highly Sensitive Person can be a major life moment for some people.
It was for me!
Now that I've been living with this knowledge for a few years (and learning more all the time!), I reflected in this episode on some positive realizations I've had about myself since learning I'm an HSP.
Making this list felt really good; I hope it may serve as a prompt to consider your own experiences. How has your life changed since learning about HSPs?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely. |
| 0:11.1 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to episode 68 of the highly sensitive person podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Kelly, and this is the two-year anniversary of this podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | I just realized this the other day, and it's hard to believe. |
| 0:34.0 | Anyway, today's topic is realizations that I've had about myself since learning about high sensitivity. |
| 0:41.4 | The reason I want to talk about this is because sometimes when people learn about high sensitivity or introversion or extroversion or any personality traits, they wonder, what does it matter? |
| 0:52.8 | So you realize you're an HSP. Why is that important? How does that knowledge change your life? But oh boy, it does, right? I think many of us had that aha moment when learning about high sensitivity and realizing how it described us perfectly. I mean, I get emails and comments all the time from people |
| 1:11.9 | saying that their life was changed when they discovered that highly sensitive people were a thing. |
| 1:18.2 | It seems like the main thing we HSPs realized most of all is that we aren't wrong or weird, |
| 1:24.2 | we're normal. Since learning about HSPs a few years ago, I've come a long way too. |
| 1:30.3 | And I wanted to share with you some of the main things that I've come to realize in hopes that |
| 1:34.7 | maybe you can realize ways this knowledge has affected you too. So, realization number one is that my |
| 1:43.0 | intuition is valuable and I should trust myself more. |
| 1:47.8 | So first of all, what is intuition? |
| 1:50.5 | It's something you know or consider from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. |
| 1:57.2 | I grew up believing in facts and research and thinking that arbitrary feelings like instinct or |
| 2:03.4 | intuition were worthless. When my intuition told me something, I ignored it. I thought, |
| 2:09.5 | why would I trust this unexplainable feeling? How do I know this is correct or valid? I honestly |
| 2:15.6 | thought that intuition, at least mine, should be ignored. It's not real |
| 2:20.6 | or logical. It's useless. This really was what I believed for most of my life. Now I know that |
| 2:27.4 | this is wrong and sad. Intuition is more than just random feelings. They are feelings that come about due to the massive amount |
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