Highly Sensitive People Need Gentle Healing

Having Sensory Perception Sensitivity affects every aspect of life and can make accessing healthcare particularly difficult.  Finding the right care, support, understanding and acceptance is crucial to restore and maintain your physical and mental health and general wellbeing.

Why highly sensitive people need gentle healing

Experiencing sensory overload, feeling your and others' emotions intensely, thinking deeply about everything and needing lots of alone time can make it very hard for HSPs to get the help that they need.

A 10 minute appointment with an unfamiliar G.P. after having waited in a busy, noisy, brightly lit waiting room or being referred to support groups can be extremely stressful.

There are other issues too. When taking allopathic medicine, HSPs often respond to it with more sensitivity so may need a lower dose and side effects may be more pronounced. As well as sensing emotional pain acutely, HSPs can also sense physical pain more intensely which has further implications for healthcare*.

Benefits of Sensory Perception Sensitivity

Your SPS does have benefits though. You may need a shorter course of some medications and many HSPs find talking therapies, particularly psychodynamic psychotherapy, extremely beneficial (more so than non-HSPs). Having SPS also means that you can have heightened awareness of changes in your health much sooner and have issues investigated and treated more quickly.

What works better for HSPs?

Gentleness, safety, and trust-based healing work much better for HSPs. HSPs in particular need to feel a sense of collaboration regarding their health and wellbeing. That they are "done with", not "done to" and treated as an equal.

Working on a one-to-one basis, in a safe, calm, quiet space with a person who understands your specific needs, who accepts you exactly as you are, and empowers you to develop agency are even more important to HSPs.

Some HSPs find online or phone consultations beneficial because they can choose and control the environment they are in, and being online or on the phone can provide a bit of distance from the other person which can reduce sensory stimuli.

Knowing what suits you is vital for living well and happily.

Why are the Bach flower remedies so popular with HSPs?

Dr Bach was an extremely sensitive and intuitive man himself and developed the flower remedies because he wanted to find a way of healing which was benign and non-invasive. He wanted people to be able to heal themselves, to have control of their own health. He was dissatisfied with the way allopathic medicine treated everybody the same way without taking into account the personality of the individual.

With great dedication he succeeded in creating a simple, safe, natural, holistic healing system which

• has no side effects and is non-toxic

• is individually tailored to your unique needs

• works gently and subtly

• encourages emotional balance by helping you move from overwhelm to calm

• works at a pace that is best for you and is in harmony with your mind, body and soul

• can respond to your immediate emotional needs so you don't get stuck in negative patterns

Dr Bach's flower remedies recognise that you are a unique individual and that your sensitivity is a strength to be accepted and respected, worked with and protected.

If you would like to talk about this some more, you can. Simply book a free Clarity Call or email me: laura@flowerremedies.co.uk. I look forward to hearing from you.

* "Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory"- Lucia Morellini, Alessia Izzo, Alessia Celeghin, Sara Palermo, Rosalba Morese

Photo: Laura Hughes