Jim Hallowes' HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE :: The Trait of High Sensitivity

Compass Imagery Insights into how to successfully navigate the unique situations and challenges that arise for people with the trait of high sensitivity and the people in their lives.

Welcome! First off, I want to give credit and thanks to the wonderful Dr. Elaine Aron who first introduced all of us to this important inherited trait of high sensitivity and who wrote the landmark 1996 book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. And, make sure you visit her website www.hsperson.com.

Now, as an introduction to the trait of high sensitivity, see if some of these statements resonate with you, or relate to someone important in your life...

You, your partner, or someone important to you have a heightened awareness of subtleties in your environment, whether it's sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.

You can become stressed out and upset when overwhelmed and may find it necessary to get away, maybe into a darkened room, to seek solitude, relief and comfort.

You are very creative.

You are very conscientious, hard working, and meticulous, but may become uncomfortable and less efficient or productive when being watched or scrutinized.

You feel compelled to file and organize things and thoughts, also enjoy simplicity and may become overwhelmed or even immobilized by chaos, clutter, or stress.

You are very uncomfortable when feeling things are getting out of your control.

You get a sense of comfort and well being when around a lake, river, stream, the ocean, or even a fountain.

You may experience mood swings, sometimes occurring almost instantly and can also be affected by other people's moods, emotions and problems.

You have a deep, rich, inner life, are very spiritual, and may also have vivid \s.

You are very intuitive and you feel that you can usually sense if someone isn't telling the truth or if something else is wrong.

You get concerned and think or worry about many things, and have also been told "you take things too personally."

You have had the experience of "cutting people out" of your life.

You were considered quiet, introverted, timid, or shy as a child.

Here are a few more to consider... Can be startled easily. Cautious in new situations. May have trouble sleeping. Extra sensitive to pain. Don't like crowds (unless they are kindred spirits). Avoids violent movies and TV shows. Has a deep respect and appreciation of nature, music and art.

Do some, or many, of these statements ring true for you, your partner, or someone important in your life? If so, you or they may be a highly sensitive person or "HSP." Whether you already know something about the trait and temperament of highly sensitive people, or if this is your first introduction to the subject, welcome! The goal and intent of this website is to impart information, provide support and be a resource to individuals with the trait of high sensitivity and for the people in their lives.


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My name is Jim Hallowes, and I want to email you some valuable free advice, news on the trait of high sensitivity, information about how to schedule your free coaching session and timely announcements on all our Events and Products of interest to Highly Sensitive People, along with bonus tips on communication skills and creating successful relationships as an HSP.

Lightbulb Image A lot has been discovered about the psychology and neuroscience of being a Highly Sensitive Person in the past few years and why you respond to events in your life in a way that sometimes seems so puzzling, far more than I can review in this website. But hopefully by highlighting some of the aspects of this trait for you, these few pages will give you some insight into why you often feel out of sync with the people around you.

I encourage you to check out the other pages here on the Highly Sensitive Person website for more information on the nature of what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person, and how the Trait of High Sensitivity can impact you in the areas of your Personal Relationships and communication skills, your Career, your Health and Well-being, and even your Spirituality, and how by learning more about this trait you can use these insights and tips to begin to make adjustments in your life, your thoughts and your attitude to take the fullest of advantages of being a person who experiences life on a level much more intensely than the average person. And I've also added a new page describing my personal Life Coaching for HSPs service, if you'd like to be personally guided by me into exploring your amazing trait on a one-on-one basis.

I've put together this site as a brief overview of some of the aspects of being a highly sensitive person because from my years of counseling and coaching HSPs, it has become clear that most people with the trait of high sensitivity often think that there's something wrong with them because they feel and respond so differently from most of the "normal" people they interact with every day. And even when they learn about how their brains and bodies work, and understand the science that explains these differences, they often still regard it as something of a disability.

It is my belief that this trait is not a burden, but rather a special gift because it opens you up to a wide world of amazing possibilities and potentials.

You have a great inheritance and you are in a class with a great many very successful, accomplished persons. But as it has been said, with great power comes great responsibility, and you have a responsibility to take care of yourself, to protect your gifts, and to understand that you have a special relationship with the people around you who are not so blessed.

What Do These Famous People Have in Common?

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Abraham Lincoln....Carl Jung....Apple's Steve Jobs....Princess Diana. They are all HSP! (Highly Sensitive Persons) or what I also refer to as "Alphas" — those people who have an on going tug-of-war between their head and their heart, individuals who are in touch with both their Masculine and Feminine Energies.

HSP "Meetup" in West L.A. on Aug. 20, 8-9:30 p.m.

If you live in Southern California you are invited to our HSP "Meetups" in Los Angeles are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month. To find out more about the L.A. Meetups visit the Highly Sensitive People Meetup site to learn more, sign up and join our HSP Meetup group, and to RSVP for our next "Meetup." And because I'm also a Certified WANT^® Institute Educator in Androgynous Semantic Realignment (ASR),™ her trademarked system of language and communication, I'm able to discuss Dr. Pat Allen's work, too. (See note on Coaching, below.)

We meet at the new SHARE Center, 6666 Green Valley Circle, Culver City, across the 405 Freeway from the Hughes Center, from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Suggested $10 donation is appreciated to help pay for the room. By the way, for those of you not able to attend our monthly meetings, we've tried an experiment and videotaped the most recent session. A DVD (and maybe even a downloadable video) will soon be available to show what happens at a typical HSP Meetup. If you're interested in viewing this, please sign into the Meetup page and let me know!

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These are sure to be interesting evenings learning about and discussing the trait of high sensitivity. If you're an HSP, they'll be evenings of learning to understand yourself better, and if you're a Non-HSP you'll learn how to better understand those Highly Sensitive People in your life. Because HSPs make up about 20% of the population, you are sure to come into contact with many of them, so why not make the most of those relationships; social, business and romantic?

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What Some Of My Clients Have Told Me....

"Jim, your sessions have been a huge part of me getting myself back! Your warmth and charm is a place I can go when I just can't take the world, as it is a place for skills to learn how to manage as an HSP in this world." — Theresa
"Thank you! Thank you! You are responsible for changing my life for the better! Much Better!" — Darron S.
"Jim Hallowes' coaching and his work with Highly Sensitive People opened up a whole new awareness about my son and myself that gave me more relief and answers than anything else. He gave me more understanding of HSP and how we don't need to be fixed. I want to thank you for this gift of knowledge you are giving people. It has been truly helpful." — Tammy Hiatt Monaco, Life and Wellness Coach

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Disclaimer: Jim Hallowes is not a medical doctor or a clinical psychologist. As a Certified WANT^® Institute ASR Cognitive Behavioral Coach, he works with people who are coping with life but who want to thrive and succeed even more. Any forms of assistance offered by Jim are self-developmental in nature, and do not replace medical or clinical psychological treatment. People who have a medical problem should contact their licensed medical doctor or other suitable qualified professional. Highly Sensitive People is the registered trademark of James M. Hallowes. Please note that Dr. Pat Allen's legal counsel has sent me a letter which directs me to state here that: "The WANT^® Institute is not affiliated with this website/newsletter and does not sponsor or endorse the content of this website/newsletter or the services of Jim Hallowes." and "ASR (Androgenous Semantic Realignment) is a trademark of the WANT^® Institute."

Listen to Jim Hallowes' latest interviews

KPFK logo I was the in-studio guest on Los Angeles' radio popular long-running The Aware Show with Lisa Garr, on KPFK 90.7 FM, talking about the trait of high sensitivity and Highly Sensitive People. According to Lisa, The Aware Show is "dedicated to communicating information to inspire positive growth and change. Our goal is an increased awareness and healing on an individual and planetary level." Listen to the complete show or you can order an audio CD-ROM from the Highly Sensitive People Gift Store.

I have also been invited by the people at GenConnect to join their Panel of Experts as the resident authority on HSP, along with Dr. Pat Allen as their expert on Relationship and Communication Issues. If you're not familiar with GenConnect, it's an on-line "Facebook"-type forum where you can interact with a wide variety of knowledgeable coaches, lecturers and authors on topics of self-development, and mingle with a community of like-minded individuals. They were also the co-sponsors (along with MORE Magazine) of the recent "Reinvention-Convention" in New York City which we both attended. Their website is really a great place to get a lot of up-to-the-minute information on a variety of topics, and of course you can view our Jim Hallowes and Dr. Pat Allen video segments there as well, at GenConnect.com/Experts.

Highly Sensitive People Need a Higher Vibration

I was amazed to learn that Albert Einstein (who was a highly sensitive person himself) was the first scientist who began to explore the quality of "vibration" in the universe. He determined that all matter is just another expression of fundamental energy, and everything in the universe — the sun, the earth, our bodies, our lives, the words we speak and the thoughts we have — is nothing more than a vibration of energy.

The rate each of these energies vibrates is called its frequency, and scientists are discovering that it's possible to experience entirely different states of consciousness, as well as stimulating powerful energy centers in the brain and functions such as creativity and mood enhancement, just by subtly "tuning" their frequencies. And the more highly tuned nervous system of an HSP benefits the most utilizing them.

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The groundbreaking movie "The Secret" was one of the first popular discussions of vibrations and the Law of Attraction, and new methodologies and products are coming onto the market with increasing "frequency" these days.

But there's nothing new about it. Actually, many of these techniques have been known for centuries, but were extremely difficult to work with. For instance, the solfeggio frequencies were used in Ancient Gregorian Chants, which were held to be capable of spiritually inspiring mankind to be more Godlike and improve our sense of well-being. But over the centuries use of these frequencies was lost because changes were made in our western musical scales, altering the music's ability to tune our higher matrices of thought. The ancient knowledge was almost lost to the ages.

What is new is that today access to these life-changing frequencies has become extremely easy. I've just been introduced to a new method of tuning your internal vibrations by the founders of MindPowerMP3.com who have just released a series of powerful audio tracks designed to help people, especially HSPs, gain greater control over their vibrational state.

As a special promotion, they've set up a special limited-time webpage where you can download without any charge or obligation up to 20 of their most powerful recordings. This is a fantastic opportunity to sample one of the most up-to-date self-improvement technologies available today. Download the MP3s, try them out, apply this audio technique to your own life, and see fantastic results in only a few days. And it will cost you absolutely nothing.

Today's digital technologies makes precise tuning of these frequencies extremely economical, and they can be added to specially recorded MP3 tracks, which mix these fundamental frequencies with beautifully recorded classical music.

Applying these frequencies in your life, just by listening to these special tracks (preferably with headphones to focus the energies) will:

Increase perception and awareness by building new neural pathways in your brain — science calls it brainwave entrainment
Balance your heart chakra to become more tolerant, optimistic, compassionate, resourceful and even humorous
Enhance your ability to learn and focus by tuning in to the Earth/Gaia rejuvenating frequency of 7.83 Hz — called the Schumann Resonance or the "Earth's Heartbeat"
Relieve stress, accelerate healing and strengthen your immune system. In fact, scientific studies have demonstrated this conclusively

So since this is a limited time promotional offer, I'm happy to make it available here on the Highly Sensitive People website. Accessing this gift is easy — just visit the site below to discover more and to download your 5 free MP3s and also get 2 free reports explaining much more about this amazing new (yet amazingly old) technology. Here's the link to the special offer page:

www.HighlySensitivePeople.com/suggests/20FreeTracks

I'm proud that the people at MindPowerMP3 have allowed me to become an affiliate for their groundbreaking new technology and FTC regulations require I mention this whenever I present any information about exciting new third-party products for the benefit of my readers.

How Your Mind Shapes Your Personal Reality

It may sound like a cliché, but that doesn't make it any less true when I remind you that you are a unique individual. There will never be another person in this world who has your personality, your unique mixture of strengths and weaknesses, and your breadth of emotional experiences. And it follows then that you are here to live your unique life, your way and on terms that are uniquely determined by your own set of personal wants, not-wants and life goals.

You are not here to serve the wants and agendas of the people you work for, the people you live with, the government or the media. Your only responsibility toward them is to love them and wish only the best for them, and to share with them your own individual set of talents, skills and creativity to foster a happier and more productive world for all of us.

To this end, your main responsibility, however, is to be yourself. To create what you want in your own life, and have the things you desire in life without any sense of guilt or selfishness, knowing that you are a worthy person and deserve only the best richness of experience that life has to offer.

Unfortunately though, many people find themselves trapped in a box that they mistakenly

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Trapped by your Mindset call "reality." It may be a literal box, like an office cubicle in which they spend most of their waking hours, or it may be metaphorical like those French mimes demonstate by pressing their hands against invisible walls. It is most often a mental box that limits your thoughts and emotions to a short-list of things you feel you "should" do or be, or "should-not" think or ever have.

We keep pet birds in cages for their own protection. But when we let society put us into a box of social and financial constrictions, or worse we keep ourselves in a psychological cage because we feel that somehow protects us, we do ourselves, society and God a grave disservice.

Some people live their entire lives in these boxes of limitations. Others eventually reach a point where, in the words of the newscaster in the movie "Network," they finally realize they are "mad as hell, and not going to take it any longer!"

I can confidently assure you that waiting until you reach a breaking point is not the best way to improve your life, your relationships and your financial circumstances. If you wait until the pain becomes that unbearable, you run a risk of making a decision driven by anguish and not intuition, one not informed by your connection to universal intelligence. What works better than waiting until you break under the strain and become desperate is to make a simple decision that today you will start to create your own reality instead of living someone else's reality and agenda. And take decisive action, under your control and your freedom of choice.

Can You Create Your Own Reality?

That sounds incredible, doesn't it? But again I can assure you that with each of us lies the power to create and guide our own unique experience of reality. It is a simple interplay between reshaping our mindset, making informed decisions, and applying the incredible discoveries being made in the fields of neuroscience and brain-psychology being done by today's leading researchers.

To this end, a powerful new program has recently been released that has already changed thousands of people's lives. If you've watched "The Secret" and read about the power of the Law of Attraction, you know it is possible for us to take command of our lives. But you may have also found that these simplistic approaches also seem to be "hit-and-miss" techniques, that sometimes work but often fail to produce longterm results.

There's a reason for this. Like most things in life, changing your personal reality is a bit more complicated than pasting up a visionboard, or what the teachers in "The Secret" talk about. Not impossibly complicated, but it's like baking a cake. If you leave out even one important instruction, say how hot to make the oven, your chances for success plummet.

In his new program called "Mind Alchemy: Bend Your Reality," Steve Aitchison will first show you exactly how your mind has been designed to work, and how you are not using it correctly. It's not your fault. We human beings don't come into this world with an owner's manual, so we spend a lot of our lives experimenting, sometimes succeeding but often failing. The best teachers are those who have failed a lot, and now know exactly some of the reasons that things may not work our for most people, and more importantly, what changes you need to make in your thoughts and mindset to make the right course corrections in life.

In Mind Alchemy Steve will show you exactly the steps needed to bring about desired changes in your life, or as Steve colorfully puts it: "To Bend Your Reality." He'll show you the principles underlying your awareness, and how you can tweak your brain to:

Discover what you need in life to be truly happy, and how to deal with the feelings that something is missing.
Find the partner of your dreams, and create an intimate relationship that has a sense of being mutually satisfying and fulfilling.
Take control of your future and eliminate any fears or uncertainties that undermine your confidence and self esteem.

For too many decades our western civilization mistakenly believed that reality is fixed and unchanging. But now research and new forms of enlightenment are showing us that physical reality is fluid, maleable and can even be influenced by our thoughts and emotions. It is no longer New Age, but now has become the New Science. And cutting-edge teachers like those in "The Secret" and now Steve Aitchison are forging new disciplines of teaching that show how you can manipulate your physical circumstances. As you go through each of his lessons in this powerful program, your reality will literally begin to change for the best.

So Are You Ready for a Change?

I know you may have tried to change your life in the past, as many of us do, and even embraced programs and teachings that promised success on a silver platter. Or maybe you've finally come to a point where you want to try something new and groundbreaking, just to see what kind of difference it will make in your life. In either case, the Mind Alchemy program is your next logical step.

We're all facing a brandnew world that is so different from things that were accepted only a few years ago, in which individuals, orgnizations and even countries are having to rethink their approach to existence. Using the Mind Alchemy program could be the next big step in bringing about change you your own reality, and could even change the world as you know it.

Again it may sound cliché but you owe it to yourself, and those you love, to check out this new approach to mental training. Click on this link to see what Mind Alchemy has to offer for your success, prosperity and most importantly of all, your peace of mind. Stop living according to other people's agendas, and take control of your own life today.

By the way, I'm working with Steve to promote this powerful new life-enhancing course because I believe in what he's trying to achieve in helping others to reach their fullest human potential. FTC regulations require stating here that of course by recommending any website or product for the benefit of my visitors it makes me an affiliate because the Highly Sensitive People website may be compensated, and that you should always perform your own due diligence before making any on-line commitments or purchases.

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