How to sustain your energy as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?
Navigating Life's Energy with Grace and Spiritual Awareness
How to sustain your energy as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? When I was in college, I was advised to experiment – experiment with courses, with programs, with coaches, with extra-curriculars, with relationships, with careers. Maybe I was advised to experiment too much, which eventually led to burnout. That is when I realized that I take time to absorb experiences, as a multi-sensory fifth dimensional human being. What is a multi-sensory fifth dimensional human being? According to Sonia Choquette, a sincere believer in the power of intuition and clairvoyance in a person’s everyday life, we all have an active life force within us which is called the fifth dimension of perception. People who are highly in-tune with their emotional and spiritual states are very likely to receive downloads in their bodies from the universe in the form of intuition. Intuition is very real and it lives inside the body, that is why in many religious customs, such as Buddhism (Yoga) and Islam (Namaz), the body is used as a means of worship. What happens as a result of this bodily worship is that the body releases specs of trauma stored in our cells and rejuvenates the cells by reviving the life force within our bodies. You may ask me, “How is trauma stored in our cells”? According to Bessel Van Der Kolk, the author of “The Body Keeps the Score”, the human body forms an imprint of trauma on the genetic code of an individual and the body has to go through a journey of tremendous trauma alleviation to release that genetic imprint of trauma to heal on a visceral, cellular level. The more healed an individual is, the stronger and healthier is their intuitive response. People in-tune with their psycho-somatic and emotional depths can be called “Highly Sensitive People”. They don’t just feel feelings too strongly, but the way they perceive the world is far too deep and almost all-consuming. In spiritual societies, these people have had the chance of a spiritual awakening and cannot go to the third dimensional way of thinking and perception again. As a HSP, it is very easy to get overwhelmed by the overwhelming current of energies that surround you. How can you prevent overwhelm, burnout and losing yourself as a HSP? While I was told to experiment a lot – (and I did, in the subjects I studied – about the Ottoman Empire and Oceanography, about User Interface Design and Money, Banking and the Economy, about Entrepreneurship and Middle Eastern Literature – and many more), I had to expand my chest in order to receive these teachings as a form of fifth dimensional learning. Before joining Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, I was only conditioned to study one subject in depth, such as Business Studies for example. My college experience of heartbreak, exposure and travel took me through stages of awakening of perception into a fifth-dimensional way of thinking about and perceiving the world around me. This is not a detour – I will now help you identify three specific ways that HSPs can safely and proactively navigate the world around them – with discernment, ease and enjoyment. 1) Have a meditative practise I meditative five times a day, maybe sometimes even six. It may sound like a nuisance at first, but taking short fifteen minute breaks throughout the day helps me align myself according to the universe’s timeline. That helps me release my stored energy into the atmosphere that clears my energy spectrum for me. It helps me stay grounded. 2) Have a body revival practise Be it dance, yoga or pilates, getting the energy in your body moving is almost as important as oxygen. Not only is it a form of self-expression, but it helps your body undergo an energy shift and discard negative thinking patterns (Yes, I said negative thinking patterns because the way your physical body influences your genetic code and the chemical combination of the cells in your body heavily influences your thinking patterns. As a lot of trauma and other feelings like rage, anger, disgust or distrust are stored physically in our body, they manifest in our physicality as illnesses. So changing the movement of your body has a significant impact on the way you think and perceive reality). 3) Have a charity goal Learn about an organization, an institution or a person who is in need of money, your attention or your friendship – all three constitute charity. Charity is given to someone who cannot return you the same favour. It is giving without expecting a return, unlike an investment which has a fixed rate of return after a period of time. Charity is giving without expectation, but increasing the frequency of love and changing your aura from self-absorbent to radiant. Giving a proportion from what you have not only increases what you had originally but also signals a magnitude of abundance to the universe which changes the vibrational frequency of your being. You don’t give charity just for the sole intention of helping others. You give charity for the sole intention of helping yourself. Yes – us human beings are exactly that desperate and that much in need of help. According to Talmudic wisdom, the person who gives charity is more in need that the person who receives charity. Now you may ask – Amna, how do practising meditation, having a physical revival practise and spending in charity alleviate the sufferings of a HSP? For a HSP, connecting with stronger energetic frequencies is a highly advanced survival mechanism. You see, the entire universe is a microcosm and all of us human beings bring forth our energies and are connected to each other through our vibrations and energetic chords. When we embrace the laws of energy and recognize that within each of us, lies a significant chunk of spiritual dimension, we allow manifestation of these metaphysical realities into our daily lives. This abundance of white light coming from a Divine source helps HSPs strengthen their energetic fields so that no matter what they are doing or how much of it they are doing, they are always protected by a divine light which surrounds their aura (their personal energetic field). For more information about ethereality, transcendence and non-denominational spirituality, please feel free to reach out to me at amnatariq1108@gmail.com. Thank you so much – may you be pleased with this little piece of writing I have for you readers!
