A Highly Sensitive Person's Life
When you feel joy, discomfort, emotions, and empathy intensely
I moved to Southern California from the East Coast a few years ago. One thing I’ve noticed here is that there are so many flowers, and they are so beautiful. I’m not even a person who is “into” flowers, really.
Many times when I am out for a walk, I see a stray flower that completely captures my attention. Like this one. 
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Highly sensitive people are often deeply moved by beauty in art and nature. This is a pretty cool aspect of being an HSP.
In Episode 12 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I talk about interesting stuff like Stedhal Syndrome and the beauty threshold.
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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.
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I learned about something called Stendhal Syndrome today. It’s “a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction…when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world.” (wikipedia)
Flashback. I had a creative writing class in college and we had to write poems in different formats. I was not into poetry, but I was into getting good grades so I worked hard on the assignments. [Read more…]
Simply learning about what it means to be an HSP can change the way you see yourself and your place within the world.
