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Why HSP Creatives are Intensely Focused - and Easily Exhausted
Hello, Dear Reader.
Whether you’re celebrating spring, Easter, Passover, or Eid (or something else entirely), I am sending you peace, happiness, and joy. 🪷
The reason Highly Sensitive People often feel depleted and exhausted is due to our connection with other beings on a spiritual, soul and sacred level. By this, I mean our connection with others is beyond the superficial — it’s one that we feel in the pit of our stomachs, in our hearts, minds, and souls.
And, this connection isn’t only with those we meet in person (which would still be exhausting), I’m talking about *everyone* in the human experience — every single hopeful contestant appearing on The Voice, the student we notice being left out of their social group, a construction worker battling it out in the heat…
Plants and Animals and Trees - Oh My
Beyond the human realm, we also connect with plants and animals. For me at least, every time I see a dead animal on the road or spot the same dying plant that seemingly no one is caring for at my yoga studio, I feel its pain.
It’s this understanding and intense interconnectedness makes us both wise as well as targets for intense feeling and sorrow. The dying plant in my yoga studio? It calls to me every time I visit — I try to remind myself to bring scissors to class so I can trim its sad brown edges and I often water it using the remaining contents of my water bottle.
Soul Connections = Fuel or Fatigue?
How can we channel these soul connections into our reality? Is this even possible?
For me, after many years of therapy, growth, and medication, I’ve finally learned how to successfully “turn off” some of the less helpful experiences of deep connection. For instance, in the past, if I spotted a dead animal on the street, I’d mourn it for the entire day — sometimes for days on end.
While this is a beautiful expression of compassion, the anguish prevented me from experiencing positive emotions and from doing my school work, connecting with friends, or focusing on important issues. So, while I appreciate this “gift”, I personally had to learn how to disengage.
We’ve also discussed about how we can morph our feelings of melancholy into an appreciation of beauty which can then fuel our art.
I shared how to use prompts (especially those involving the natural world) to inform our creativity and art.
Of course, our ability to hone in on glorious details such as cherishing The Golden Hour, allows us to use our connectedness with the natural world as a positive method for fueling artistry and remove creative blocks.
In my full-time role where I work as the director of communications for a non-profit, I’m able to use my passion for human rights and social justice to enhance our organization’s marketing-communications and excel in my role. It’s deeply important for HSPs to find work that meshes with our authenticity and desire to make the world a better place.
As Highly Sensitive Creatives, we must be realistic and vigilent in our understanding of our connectedness with the world around us and, as much as possible, use these soul connections with people, plants, and animals to fuel our art and better ourselves as human beings.
What do you think, Creative HSP? Does your soul connection with the world help you with your creativity — or hurt you?
Please share your thoughts here, “like” this post if you connect with it, and share with like-minded friends, family, and colleagues.
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Until Next Time, Creative HSP — Stay Real.
Lisa
It has helped me to remember that other than human people, our plant and animal friends, experience ill health and death differently than human people. I remember when a beloved kitty named Geo was dying from a disease our vet couldn't diagnose. I asked Geo if he was OK if we ended his life and he said "yes". Geo didn't feel sorry for himself or angry at me. His quiet acceptance was extremely reassuring for me that I was doing the right thing.
I believe every Being in our world has wisdom and some type of consciousness and there's a lot I learn by talking with them. They're often wiser than I am.
Yep. When I was a kid, before I went to bed, I’d line up my teddies so they were together in the dark, and nobody felt left out. I am better at not absorbing everything, but sometimes I do it without realising. Then I find myself getting teary further down the line, and realising these are not my tears. Energetic boundaries are a work in progress.