Yes, that’s me. I never realized that my difficulties with crowds
and family holiday gatherings were because I fell into the “highly sensitive category”. I always thought that I was being
unreasonable and difficult if I wanted to leave an event early. Then I discovered a book entitled “The Highly Sensitive Person” by Elaine Aron. About
15-20% of the population is in the highly sensitive category, and the majority
of my clients are also highly sensitive.
With my students, the percentage is higher than in the general population,
but not as high as with my clients.
The major issue with
a highly sensitive person is that they tend to get over stimulated easily. This might happen in social gatherings or at
work, interactions with verbally or energetically aggressive people, loud
sounds or lights, or even some medications.
I always said that I could get high on an aspirin! They then develop unhealthy and non
productive behaviors to cope with that overstimulation. This might involve numbing out with drugs or
alcohol, having anger issues, or even withdrawing from society altogether. If you
suspect that you might be in this category, you can take a test on the internet
here. Then if you are a highly sensitive,
I recommend that you get the book if you don’t have it already.
The reason I am
bringing this up now is that I have hit a major snafu with my Controlled Remote
Viewing training. I started my training
with Lori Williams last December. She
teaches Lyn Buchanan’s CRV protocol.
With the holidays and all, I didn’t start working targets until early
January. It was then that I realized
that the training was not really good.
It is all on line. Even if you take the courses in person, which I did
twice, there is no one-on-one personal work with Lori. It is hard to even get questions answered.
When I realized that
the training wasn’t the way it should be, I tried to switch to another of Lyn’s
instructors, also on line only, but she was booked up and couldn’t take me. So I went through the 3 courses and did a lot
of research to try and fill in the blanks.
At that point, the other instructor was able to take me for tutoring to help
fill in the blanks.
Here is where the
trouble started. Even thought I gave her
a specific list of the basics that I needed help with, after a few very
productive sessions, she began to give me some pretty advanced techniques to
learn. The problem was that with a still
shaky foundation in the work, I wasn’t getting it. This is where the over stimulation came into
play. I was not able to adequately
integrate the new techniques, and they began to pile up on me. My stress levels started to rise, and I
totally screwed up that week’s homework target.
Crash!!! I think that I cried off
and on for about a week before telling that instructor that her methods weren’t
working for me, and I had to discontinue working with her. I had really been thrown off of my game, and
it took that whole week to recover.
It had been so so
very long since I got myself into an overstimulation situation. Years in fact! Being highly sensitive is not something that ever
goes away, or can be healed out of you. It
is a matter of creating a lifestyle that is harmonious with that trait, which I
have done. Even with all of the years of
teaching workshops, and traveling through crowded airports and foreign
countries, I never got overstimulated, so this took me by surprise.
What have I done with
my CRV training? I am still very
passionate about learning this, and even in spite of the difficulties, I have
done much better at it than the majority of Lori’s students. I will be starting over with my third
instructor in mid-August. It is a different
method, and will be in person with only one other student. I will not name names now, but will divulge
that information after I have been to the first class. Hoping that the third time will be the
charm! If any of you are considering CRV
training, please get in touch and we can talk about all of the options
available.
BTW—the photo above
was taken from my yard this morning. As
I crossed to the back of the yard to catch this shot, my outdoor cat Mr.
Snowflake followed me and started yelling!
Really loud. I think he was
hungry.
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