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The Highly Sensitive Person
- By Elaine Aron
- Published 10/6/2007
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Elaine Aron
Elaine Aron graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of
California, Berkeley. She earned her M.A. at York University in Toronto
and her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, as well
as receiving training at the Jung Institute in San Francisco.
Dr. Elaine Aron is author of the books:
The
Highly Sensitive Person
The
Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook
The
Highly Sensitive Person in Love
The
Highly Sensitive Child
The Highly Sensitive Person - by Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.
Elaine Aron - from her site www.hsperson.com
If you find you are a highly sensitive person, or your child is, then you need to be aware of the following points:
* This trait is normal--it is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and indeed the same percentage seems to be present in all higher animals.
* Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties.
Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener (although they may be). But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply.
* Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed.
* This trait is not something new I discovered--it has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited.