69. Curious about Meditation?

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for those who have never tried meditation, are curious about it, or who have tried it but felt like they didn't "get" it. Meditation has helped me a lot over the past year. There was a time when I didn't think I could do it. I didn't understand what meditation was and whether I was doing it "right". I hope to reach other people, like me, who didn't think meditation would work for them. I hope this will inspire you to give it another try, because it can be rewarding.

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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.
0:18.1	Welcome to episode 69 of the HSP podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a show about
0:24.7	sensory processing sensitivity. I talk about topics relevant to highly sensitive people.
0:31.2	Before I jump into today's topic, I wanted to share a comment from the blog. Amy wrote,
0:38.7	When I first realized I was an HSP, I felt really let down and unsupported by society.
0:44.2	I'd suffered needlessly for years because I didn't have this crucial bit of information.
0:49.1	I've developed my own coping strategies, of course, but I always felt shame around them.
0:56.3	Now I'm trying to find and focus on the advantages because I've been so acutely aware of the disadvantages of being me for so long.
1:02.7	End quote. I wanted to share this with you because I wanted to help you realize that you're not
1:07.4	alone in the way you feel as a highly sensitive person. So many of us didn't know
1:12.2	about high sensitivity for most of our lives and learning about it made such a huge difference
1:16.8	in understanding ourselves and our place in the world. I wanted to talk briefly about meditation
1:23.5	today. This episode is for people who have not tried meditation and are curious about it,
1:29.1	or maybe you've sort of tried meditation, but you gave up really quickly because, well,
1:34.6	for whatever reason, you just didn't keep going with it. It's my hope that this might encourage
1:39.6	someone out there to try it for the first time, to just give it it a shot or to give it a try again if maybe
1:45.6	you had a poor first experience like I did. If you already meditate, to be honest, this episode
1:51.8	isn't going to do much for you. I am relatively new to meditation and it took quite a while
1:58.3	for me to be convinced that it was helping me, but even more
2:01.6	so that I was even doing it right. I'm willing to bet there are others like me out there who
2:06.6	are curious about meditation, but maybe you think it sounds too new agey or you don't know how to do
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