Teaching Ourselves the Art of Joy

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It is easier for some of us to get caught up in worrying, overthinking and overprocessing. 

When I’m exceptionally tired, this state of mind influences and amplifies nearly every nuance; from the minute the sun taps the sky, with its colors, until nighttime deepens the queries.

Dr. Elain Aron, researcher, and psychologist for highly sensitive people (HSPs), refers to this as D.O.E.S.

D: Depth of processing. Highly sensitive people, go deep and do so naturally with everything.

O: Overstimulation. Too much of a good or not-so-good situation can really create havoc on sensitive souls.

E: Emotional reactivity and empathy. We feel others' emotions as well as our own. Therefore, we need daily doses of extra quiet.

S: Sensing the subtle. Sensitive people live inside the sensing world of the subtle. Every flicker, undertone, overreaction, every critical, or not critical word, (said or unsaid) is felt. Nature is part of our being.

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