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22 Signs That You’re A Highly Sensitive Person | Evolving Times

22 Signs That You’re A Highly Sensitive Person

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For most of my life I considered myself a fairly thick-skinned, typical guy. Sensitive male role models were hard to find growing up in the seventies in a middle-class Boston suburb. Back then “sensitivity” was not a trait encouraged in men. So I followed in the footsteps of the male role models I had; mostly stoic, emotionally unavailable, intellectually focused men.

That worked for a while. But at some point during the past 18 or so years that I have been actively and sometimes intensively engaged in personal growth, I have discovered that behind the walls and under the layers of distance and detachment lives a highly sensitive person.

This awakening sensitivity has, at times, felt more like a burden than a blessing. But ultimately, and only quite recently, I have come to accept my sensitivity as a gift and a powerful ally on my journey of personal evolution.

When I began this journey, the term Highly Sensitive Person was not widely known (if at all). But as more has been written about Highly Sensitive People and the concept has gained wider (though certainly not universal) acceptance I have come to recognize and accept myself as a Highly Sensitive Person.

It is estimated that 20% of the human population would test positive for what Carl Jung called Innate Sensitiveness. This innate sensitivity has been well researched and the term Highly Sensitive Person was coined in 1996 by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. and explored in her book, The Highly Sensitive Person: How To Thrive When The World Overwhelms You

Wikipedia has this definition of Highly Sensitive Person:

A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a person having the innate trait of high sensitivity (or innate sensitiveness as Carl Gustav Jung originally coined it). According to Elaine N. Aron and colleagues as well as other researchers, highly sensitive people, which would represent about a fifth of the population, process sensory data much more deeply and thoroughly due to a biological difference in their nervous systems. This is a specific trait with key consequences that in the past has often been confused with innate shyness, inhibitedness, innate fearfulness, introversion, and so on. The existence of the trait of innate sensitivity was demonstrated using a test that was shown to have both internal and external validity.

While the idea of highly sensitive people is still shrugged off by the mainstream press and health-care community, I have no doubt that, just as people have different levels of visual acuity, hearing, intelligence and physical grace, there are also varying levels of what I call vibrational sensitivity.

No matter what any scientist tells you, there is no diagnostic device presently available that is as sensitive as the human body. When properly tuned, our physical bodies have the ability to perceive and respond to our environment with an accuracy that far exceeds the capacity of our present technology. And some of us have bodies that are naturally tuned to be more sensitive to our vibrational environment.

So, for better or worse, that puts highly sensitive people in the unenviable position of being the canaries in the coalmine. Our sensitivity to the aural, environmental, and vibrational pollution that is prevalent in our world means that we often display physical, emotional and vibrational symptoms long before others less sensitive than us.

That’s the bad news.

But fear not, there is good news! If you are a highly sensitive person, your sensitivity indicates that your body is more highly tuned than most people’s. And, with a bit of effort, training and regular practice, you can learn to leverage your sensitivity to create success and take your life to the next level. I have! More on that later.

For now, let’s look at some of the “symptoms” of highly sensitive people because, if you’re like I was, you might not even know that you’re highly sensitive. And when you don’t know that you’re highly sensitive it can be very difficult and uncomfortable to live in this world filled with less sensitive people who don’t understand why you have to cover your ears when an ambulance goes by, or leave a restaurant that smells like bleach, or sit under a full-spectrum light during the winter.

So if you have ever wondered if you are highly sensitive, here is a list of signs that could indicate that you are a Highly Sensitive Person. (I’ve added some personal notes to a few of the items on the list).

1. Can you hear things others cannot, especially high-pitched sounds?
Do you hear sirens long before anyone else? Does the high-pitched hum of a partially dimmed light fixture get under your skin when no one else seems to notice? Does the whirring fan in your computer distract you? Is it difficult for you to sleep in the same room as a refrigerator? Do you need to cover your ears when a loud siren passes by? Do you use earplugs at concerts or on planes?

2. Do you notice smells that others miss?
I have a weird olfactory sense: When it comes to nice, natural smells such as roses and lilacs, I have to put my nose right into the flower in order to smell it. But when it comes to not-so-nice smells I am highly attuned. I can smell cigarette smoke from 50-feet away when I’m outside and the wind is blowing in the opposite direction. When I walk into a restaurant that has just cleaned up with chlorine bleach, I often have to turn around a leave because the smell is overpowering. And don’t get me started on some of the unnatural perfumes that have nearly made me… well I think you get the idea!

3. Do you know what other people need before they ask?
This post, Intuition or Observation & Analysis, provides a great example of this.

4. Do you notice the flicker on older computer screens or older fluorescent fixtures?
I’m still amazed at how often I used to sit down at someone else’s computer and wonder how they were able to work on it with the refresh rate set so low. If they were not looking over my shoulder I would usually go in and quickly increase the refresh rate which took away the flicker and provided me with some relief.

5. Do you get “overwhelmed” by joy when you experience great beauty: A beautiful sunset, an incredible musical performance, the smile of your child?
High vibrational sensitivity is not always triggered by “negative” experiences. Positive, beautiful, sublime experiences can also awaken that sensitivity. But again, the difference and occasionally the difficulty for sensitive people is the intensity of the experience. Highly sensitive people can be truly overwhelmed by a beautiful experience, which is fine if you are alone on the beach watching a spectacular sunset, but may not be so great if you happen to look out the window at work just at the peak moment of that beautiful sunset.

6. Do you feel threatened or uneasy in large crowds or big cities?
Sometimes I enjoy going into San Francisco, and other times I just can’t wait to get out. But no matter how I’m feeling while I’m there, I always notice a distinct sense of calmness descending upon me as I leave the City. It’s as if I’m passing through an invisible energy boundary as I cross the Golden Gate Bridge.

7. Do you have “emotional radar” that picks up on what others are feeling?
Do you know what people are feeling before they tell you? Do you ever walk into a room and sense that there has been an argument?

8. Do you pick up physical symptoms from other people?
Have you ever been feeling great and then run into a friend who had a headache and suddenly noticed a headache coming on? I once massaged a friend’s knee after she tweaked it during a yoga class. When I was done, she felt great, but I could hardly walk!

9. Does reading or hearing about bad news have a dramatic impact on your mood?
Once upon a time I was a news and information junkie. Knowing what was happening in the world was important. As my sensitivity awakened, however, I began to recognize that the news is almost exclusively low-vibration information and had a dramatic and usually negative impact on me. A few years ago I did a week long news fast to see if it would make a difference. It did! Soon after that, I stopped watching, listening to or reading the news on a regular basis. And while I still don’t watch or listen to the news, I am now able to read the paper or gather snippets of news from the Internet without noticing a dramatic effect on my mood.

10. If you see a bad car accident does it affect you for the entire day?
Most people have a reaction when seeing an accident but for some highly sensitive people the effect can be dramatic and long lasting.

11. Have you been diagnosed with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and/or do you experience a noticeable drop in your energy and mood during the winter?

12. Have you ever had a transcendent or mystical experience?
Highly sensitive people are naturally more open to experiences of bliss, ecstasy and spiritual awakening.

13. Do you have a strong reaction when you drink caffeine or when you attempt to stop?
Everything we put into our bodies has both a physical and energetic effect. For most people the physical effects of caffeine are not that dramatic. But sensitive people also feel the energetic effects of that caffeine and the combination can be quite powerful.

14. Do you have food sensitivities or allergies?
Most of us are putting stuff into our bodies that was never meant to go there. This is fine for people who are not highly sensitive (not really!) but if you are highly sensitive your body may tell you, in no uncertain terms, what you can and cannot put into it.

15. Do you have allergies or asthma?
As with food allergies, environmental allergies can indicate that you are reacting to allergens on both a physical and energetic level.

16. Are you a “lightweight?”
A friend of mine used to say that I could “get drunk from sniffing the bottlecap!” And she wasn’t that far off. My karate buddies nicknamed me Ed “No Mas” Mills because of my tendency to get a little rambunctious after a couple of beers. If one glass of wine puts you under the table you might be highly sensitive.

17. Are you sensitive to over-the-counter, prescribed or illegal drugs?
Can you take half the recommended dosage of a drug and experience a noticeable effect? Have you had an overwhelming experience when experimenting with other drugs?

18. If you have ever had surgery, did it take longer to recover from the effects of the anesthesia than from the surgery itself?
For many sensitive people anesthesia can have a long-lasting and powerful effect. Anesthesia impacts not only the physical body but also the energy body by putting you into a completely unnatural state. It’s a neither here nor there state that can wreak havoc on a sensitive person’s system.

19. Is being in a calm, peaceful environment very important for you?
Does clutter, stress you out? Do harsh, disharmonious colors fluster you? Do you feel at peace in a beautiful garden? Is it important for you to create a “sanctuary” within your home?

20. Do you get claustrophobic when you spend too much time indoors?
For many sensitive people, being inside for too long leads to a feeling of claustrophobia, lethargy and/or irritation.

21. Is it important for you to spend time alone?
Highly sensitive people often feel better when alone. In extreme cases, this need to be alone can be debilitating to the point where being around others is almost impossible.

22. Do you experience dramatic mood swings, sometimes for no apparent reason?
Have you ever been sitting at work, or on the bus, or in a cafĂ©, feeling pretty good, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, started to feel sad, or angry? Highly sensitive people are more sensitive to both their own emotional content as well as the emotions of those around them. So if this happens to you, you may be connecting with something happening inside of you, but you might also be unintentionally “tuning in” to the emotional content of someone else.

23. Do you know when people are lying to you?
Have you ever just known that someone is telling you a lie, even when you have no “logical” reason to believe that to be so?

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Phone Has Something For Your Ear

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I love this mobile phone concept dubbed "Mooon+" by Sunman Kwon. It's even more awesome the designer's name has the word 'Sun' in it but I digress. See this phone has all the goodies; mulit-touchscreen, slick design, slim, and a camera. What I really like is the mouth piece detaches and turns into a bluetooth headset.

Wrote about it at Yanko Design.

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Bread Kills!

Bread Kills!

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4. Every piece of bread you eat brings you nearer to death.

5. Bread is associated with all the major diseases of the body. For example, nearly all sick people have eaten bread. The effects are obviously cumulative:

  • 99.9% of all people who die from cancer have eaten bread.
  • 100% of all soldiers have eaten bread.
  • 96.9% of all Communist sympathizers have eaten bread.
  • 99.7% of the people involved in air and auto accidents ate bread within 6 months preceding the accident.
  • 93.1% of juvenile delinquents came from homes where bread is served frequently.
6. Evidence points to the long-term effects of bread eating: Of all people born before 1839 who later dined on bread, there has been a 100% mortality rate.

7. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as a teaspoon of dough can be used to suffocate a lab rat. The average American eats more bread than that in one day!

8. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.

9. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and being fed only water begged for bread after as little as two days.

10. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

11. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

12. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

13. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

14. Most bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

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10 Things to Stop Doing and Improve Your Finances | Finance Blog

1. Eating out every Day

Eating out is an expensive way to live. It can be buying breakfast on the way to work or ordering a takeaway in the evening, you will find both take a high % of your disposable income. Even if we just get a takeaway coffee with pastry in the morning it can become very expensive if we make a regular habit of it. It takes a little more preparation, but eating at home will save us considerable money and it is also easier to eat what we want, rather than what restaurants are serving

2. Burying Your Head in the Sand.

I know many people who have problems with their personal finances and rather than trying to solve them they just try to ignore them. Unfortunately, trying to ignore issues of debt does not make them go away in any way. Instead what happens is that we end up with avoidable charges and interest payments. This is definitely a case where ignorance is not bliss. If necessary take the advice of others and find a way out of the debt.

3. Keeping up with the Joneses

If we are committed to keeping up appearances we can end up spending an awful lot of money on expensive brands. If you feel obliged to buy clothes from certain designer labels try changing your expectations. Maintain shows of wealth and fortune are not a reliable way to bring happiness and peace of mind; there will always be someone with more luxury goods than yourself. Change your mindset and look to buy something which offers good value.

4. Always Buying Brand New

There are many items where you can save considerable money through buying second hand. In particular this applies to cars, TVs and videos. Here you can make considerable savings with no loss of utility. This is not just making small savings, it involves making big savings.

5. Holding debt on Your Credit Card.

If you have a credit card debt and are paying interest at 17% your finances will inevitably continue to deteriorate. It is difficult to pay off the interest charges and reduce the credit card balance. Therefore, you can be paying a minimum payment for years and yet the debt will continue to grow. This is an example of how poor financial planning can make things worse. With a little planning and rearranging of your finances you can try to pay off the credit card debt saving yourself interest payments.

6. Feel Sorry For Yourself

If the idea of money just makes you depressed; if you always feel miserable because you don’t have enough money, then it will be difficult to do anything about it. When we just feel miserable at our state of personal finances we are not doing anything to improve it. With a negative mindset it becomes difficult to turn our fortunes around. We need to try and adopt a positive attitude, or at least an attitude where we think of steps we can take to alleviate the problem.

7. Being Lazy in Renewing policies

There is a competitive market for mortgages, finance and insurance. however, a significant % of customers never make any effort to find better deals and just renew with their existing provider because it is the easiest thing to do. In these cases we are throwing away potential savings of £100s. Our mortgage / insurance company will be happy because we are giving them the chance to make a high profit margin. They are benefitting from our inertia. If we spend a little time remortgaging and searching for a new insurance quote the time will definitely pay us back.

8. Assume You cannot increase Income.

Don’t feel your current job is the only source of income. If you look around you will be able to find alternative sources of income. Just a bit of extra income can make an important start for reducing debt.

9. Buy on Impulse.

Firms are very good at selling things. They try to exploit customers tendencies to buy on impulse and packaging.  See these tips for reducing overspending

10.  Renting Rather than Buying

Renting electric goods such as TVs and  DVDs is a very expensive way to enjoy the goods. It is much better to save up or even take a loan out rather than rent by the month. The short term gain of renting will soon become more expensive

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Wilkes-Barre and Northeastern PA News from the Associated Press | timesleader.com - The Times Leader

Lt. Governor Could Replace Spitzer in NY

By MICHAEL GORMLEY

(AP)

Less than two years after he reluctantly ran for lieutenant governor, David Paterson is suddenly in line to be only the third black governor since Reconstruction, and the first in New York.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right, joined by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, expresses his displeasure over the election of Thomas DiNapoli to serve as state comptroller, at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. in this Feb. 7, 2007 file photo. The New York Times is reporting Monday March 10, 2008 that Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring. On its Web site, the newspaper cites an anonymous administration official as the source and says Spitzer was meeting with his top aides. (AP Photo/Tim Roske,File) AP

"He's the next governor and probably quite soon," said Maurice Carroll, director of Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute and a longtime New York political reporter.

Attention turned to Paterson immediately after word surfaced Monday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been linked to a high-priced prostitution ring. In a brief appearance in front of reporters, Spitzer issued a vague apology and did not mention resignation.

If Spitzer quits, Paterson automatically becomes governor and would complete Spitzer's term, which ends Dec. 31, 2010.

There was no immediate comment from Paterson.

Paterson, a 53-year-old Democrat from Harlem who is mostly blind, is well respected by Republicans and Democrats.

Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch recently called Paterson "very capable, not withstanding his near sightlessness. It's never impeded his public actions or his personal actions, and he's really overcome it in an extraordinary way."

Paterson, who does not use a cane or a guide dog, can make out shapes and even people up close. He lost most of his sight as an infant when an infection damaged his optic nerve. He still talks of his fragile self-esteem in childhood and recalls not being invited to parties because "people thought I would fall and hurt myself."

Paterson's disability has never been an issue in Albany in his 20-year political career. He has memorized lengthy, impassioned speeches without missing a mark; cited arcane legal references in fast-paced floor debates; and won more victories for his party in the Senate than any other leader in the Legislature. His efforts brought Democrats to within a seat of taking the Senate majority for the first time in decades.

Critics and supporters alike all point to the intellect, compassion and humor that Paterson brings to the Statehouse. When Spitzer picked him to be his running mate in 2006, Paterson deadpanned: "I told Eliot, `Whenever you are trying to reform a system, you need a person with vision and a person who is a technician,' and that's what I am ... because I sure don't have vision."

"He's going to bring love to the executive branch and Legislature," said Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat. "He's a real mensch, plain and simple."

The only other black governors since Reconstruction were Deval Patrick, currently serving in Massachusetts, and L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, who left office in 1994.

Even New York Republicans have a healthy respect for Paterson.

"I don't think there's an issue David Paterson and I agree on, but he's one of the most decent, honorable guys I've ever met," said Rep. Peter King of Long Island, who already was referring to Paterson as "the new governor."

Paterson has enjoyed a good relationship with Spitzer's chief nemesis, Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. In pointed yet humorous floor debates, a kind of father-son relationship was evident between the younger Harlem Democrat and the rural, upstate Republican, who is 78.

Two years ago, Paterson was so focused on taking control of the Senate and becoming majority leader that he was surprised by Spitzer's offer to be lieutenant governor.

If he ascends to the governor's office, Paterson would also have an advantage in that he would have nearly three years remaining in Spitzer's term.

"If he becomes governor, he can move forward with what he wants to do as governor and start to set a tone," said Lee Miringoff of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. "The state will have been shaken by all these revelations. And I think he's someone who is widely respected, and he has a lot of experience in the corridors of Albany."

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FINALLYYYYYYYY Dollar Rebounds Against Major Currencies | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Dollar Rebounds Against Major CurrenciesBy ERIN CONROY AP Business Writer© 2008 The Associated PressTOOLSEmail Get section feedPrint Subscribe NOWComments RecommendNEW YORK — The dollar slumped to a new low against the euro Tuesday but rebounded against major currencies after central banks in Britain, Europe and the United States announced a relief plan for stressed financial markets.The euro was pushed to a record $1.5495 on a better-than-expected reading of investor sentiment from Germany, Europe's biggest economy.The rise in the ZEW institute's monthly confidence index defied analyst predictions of a slight decline and sent the euro above the previous high-water mark of $1.5463, set Friday.But when the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and theDollar Rebounds Against Major Currencies
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NEW YORK — The dollar slumped to a new low against the euro Tuesday but rebounded against major currencies after central banks in Britain, Europe and the United States announced a relief plan for stressed financial markets.

The euro was pushed to a record $1.5495 on a better-than-expected reading of investor sentiment from Germany, Europe's biggest economy.

The rise in the ZEW institute's monthly confidence index defied analyst predictions of a slight decline and sent the euro above the previous high-water mark of $1.5463, set Friday.

But when the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England announced that they were joining with other central banks to provide more relief in the credit crisis, the euro slid to $1.5281.

The euro clawed back to $1.5319 in late New York trading _ below the $1.5352 it bought late Monday. The dollar also rose against the British pound, which fell to $2.0029 from $2.0101.

In other trading, the dollar climbed to 104.17 yen from 102.40 yen, and rose to 1.0337 Swiss francs from 1.0185 Swiss francs late Monday. The U.S. currency also edged up to 1.0067 Canadian dollars from 1.0024 Canadian dollars.

"The dollar is up quite a bit across the board after the announcement, and I think that's because the news is being looked at as helpful for capital and mortgage markets," said David Gilmore, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics in Essex, Conn. "Some people feel it could remove pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates, and this has boosted a market that has gone into hibernation in the last couple of days."

Ashraf Laidi, chief foreign exchange strategist for CMC Markets in New York, agreed that the announcement pushed the euro lower because it all but eliminated the chance for a rate cut by the Fed before its next meeting.

"This coordinated central bank injection of liquidity totally cancels the changes of an inter-meeting rate cut for the Fed and this provides temporary support for the U.S. dollar," Laidi said. "As we know, rate cuts are bad for the U.S. dollar and inter-meeting rate cuts are very bad for the U.S. dollar."

The decision, he said, would allow the Fed to make "the anticipated 50 basis point rate cut on March 15." Currently, the Fed's interest rate stands at 3 percent _ compared with 4 percent for the euro zone, where the ECB has left rates unchanged since last summer.

Bank of England announced that they were joining with other central banks to provide more relief in the credit crisis, the euro slid to $1.5281.The euro clawed back to $1.5319 in late New York trading _ below the $1.5352 it bought late Monday. The dollar also rose against the British pound, which fell to $2.0029 from $2.0101.In other trading, the dollar climbed to 104.17 yen from 102.40 yen, and rose to 1.0337 Swiss francs from 1.0185 Swiss francs late Monday. The U.S. currency also edged up to 1.0067 Canadian dollars from 1.0024 Canadian dollars."The dollar is up quite a bit across the board after the announcement, and I think that's because the news is being looked at as helpful for capital and mortgage markets," said David Gilmore, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics in Essex, Conn. "Some people feel it could remove pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates, and this has boosted a market that has gone into hibernation in the last couple of days."Ashraf Laidi, chief foreign exchange strategist for CMC Markets in New York, agreed that the announcement pushed the euro lower because it all but eliminated the chance for a rate cut by the Fed before its next meeting."This coordinated central bank injection of liquidity totally cancels the changes of an inter-meeting rate cut for the Fed and this provides temporary support for the U.S. dollar," Laidi said. "As we know, rate cuts are bad for the U.S. dollar and inter-meeting rate cuts are very bad for the U.S. dollar."The decision, he said, would allow the Fed to make "the anticipated 50 basis point rate cut on March 15." Currently, the Fed's interest rate stands at 3 percent _ compared with 4 percent for the euro zone, where the ECB has left rates unchanged since last summer.
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