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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Hidden Lives Revealed

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Humans survive through automatic judgment – our minds excel at making instant assumptions. Not that cave – smells bad. He creeps me out. She’s hiding something. All fine and good, until we ignore input that challenges those assumptions.
In the serene first-class compartment of a TGV train in France last summer, the French businessman next to [...]

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Interview | Paulina Bustamante

Monday, December 8, 2008

Paulina Bustamante pursues her dream of acting with an all-encompassing joy that’s infectious. She’s honing her acting skills at Vancouver’s Lyric School of Acting, using her high sensitivity as an asset. In person, Paulina shines (even more so when she’s talking about acting). Her hands gesture. Her eyes sparkle and connect. She laughs often and [...]

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Why Germany is Great for HSPs

Friday, December 5, 2008

Surprised? I was too when I first started spending time in Germany. Now I want to move there. Here’s a sampling of why:
Quietude is respected. Yes, there are laws about noise, which may not suit everyone, but which means that there are actually quiet times that can be counted on. Also, there’s a general presumption [...]

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Book | One Small Step Can Change Your Life

Monday, December 1, 2008

Preparing for an earthquake is too freaky. I only accomplished it by taking what I called nanosteps, steps so infinitesimal I was done before the heebie-jeebies set in. Author and artist SARK, in her book Make Your Creative Dreams Real, calls such small steps microMOVEments. Robert Maurer has gone even further and written a book [...]

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