What if sensitivity was in high demand? Not only high sensitivity, but sensitivity in general. What if the rareness of your particular sensitive traits prompted competition for your time, attention, and insights?
Recruiters have to be turned away by your assistants. You’ve set the cost of tapping into your skills high, and yet there’s a long list of people and businesses waiting for you to have time for them. Facilitators help you manage the details of your life so you can focus on what you enjoy the most, what you’re best at. There’s enough time for mulling and pondering in peace, enough free time, enough stimulation, enough access to information of all kinds. You set the tone. You know what you need in order to allow your sensitive qualities to shine, to help others, to shift perspectives, to mend and heal. You are, without a doubt, strong and in control.
This is not a fantasy. Look around. There are examples everywhere of people allowing their unique sensitivities to take them far. A scientist tunes in to the world of bees and shows us why they are struggling and how we can help them (and receives offers of collaboration and funding). An author follows a trail through the confusion and reports back in language that makes the tops of our heads lift off (and rises to the top of the bestseller lists). And many others, all over the world, in infinite variety.
You may not be famous or turning away offers (yet), but you can certainly trust that your sensitivities are worth loving and fostering. Find a way to share them.
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Hi Grace, I’ve been following your blog for a little while and have enjoyed it immensely so far! This post, especially, spoke to me because I’ve found you’re absolutely right–people *want* my sensitivity (and are willing to pay for it). In my case, I use it to help deliver web designs that press all the right buttons for a client’s audience, and I simply couldn’t do as good a job if I weren’t HS.
Reading your post I was aware of how I used to really struggle with this issue–and how now that I don’t, I hadn’t realized just how much different it’s made my business. So, thank you! Your post brought some delightful illumination into my life today.
All my best,
Jessica
Thank you, Jessica, both for your comment about the blog and for being an example of the success this article sought to describe. I can’t get enough examples of real people making real progress with self-acceptance. You help us all.
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