New Year’s resolutions and HSPs: change and intuition

“Call it avoidance, complacency, indecisiveness, stubborness or noncompliance. Whatever the term or definition, I have often tried to find some way to delay change or run in the opposite direction from it.”

The challenge

In her post Change and the HSP, from her blog Inside the Mind of a Highly Sensitive Person, Helen Akers takes a look at some of the challenges HSPs encounter when compelled toward change, either by circumstances or by the insistent voice of our own intuition.

HSPs and change

“Apparently, having difficulty dealing with change is something that the majority of HSPs find themselves struggling with. I would suspect this is because, as a group, we are more cautious.

“We’re the ones that look before we leap, at least twice or as many times as it takes before we feel somewhat comfortable. We also don’t like the unknown, which is what change encompasses.”

Intuition as our guide

“Change is the arena where we should allow our intuition to guide us more. What I’ve relearned over the past four years is that our intuition usually already knows the answer. We can make all the “pros” and “cons” lists that we want, wrestle between what the heart wants and what the mind says is best, ask others for their input, and then recheck those lists to make sure we didn’t overlook any detail.

“In the end though, we still need to make a choice over which way to go, what change to make, when and how we will do it or play the “wait and see” game by doing nothing at all.”

Out of the cocoon

“HSPs go about change the same way a caterpillar metamorphisizes into a butterfly. It’s a slower process that requires incubation, hibernation and a trust of instinctive nature.

“HSPs would be cheating themselves and greater society of the outward reflection of their inner beauty if they didn’t allow themselves to do the same.”