How to Manage Our Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing as HSPs

"Depth of processing is one of the abilities that we have, and that's something that can serve us and can also turn against us.

“We can turn it in on ourselves if we allow our thoughts and our minds to overprocess, and if we fall into self judgement and criticism, especially when our energy gets low...

“One of the reasons I'm passionate about this is because I have a really creative mind - my mind is incredibly busy." Willow McIntosh

This is an excerpt from the Highly Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast Episode 150: How To Manage Low Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing.

Julie Bjelland, LMFT is a psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, and author of many resources to help highly sensitive people (HSPs) worldwide.

In this podcast episode, she is joined by Willow McIntosh, the founder of Inluminance and ‘leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement.’

In her Show Notes, Julie Bjelland writes:

The human mind is wired to look out for us which can often mean thinking worst-case scenarios and a negative view of things.

It takes conscious effort to maintain a positive outlook for us all, which of course is not always easy.

As HSPs we sometimes have a tendency to turn our powerful cognitive processing ability in on ourselves. When this is coupled with low energy or a pattern of self-doubt and low self-esteem our own minds can quickly become a very difficult place to be.

The trouble is, it can be difficult to identify what are just low-frequency thoughts of fear and which are coming from a place of knowing and self-alignment.

In this episode, we look at some of the techniques we can use on a daily basis to help maintain a peaceful state of being, including ways in which we can create peace of mind when our energy is low.

We will also look at why we end up in conflict with ourselves when we are simply trying to find a sense of belonging and safety.

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Listen to the full Highly Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast Episode 150: How To Manage Low Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing.

Julie Bjelland, LMFT provides many posts, books, podcast episodes, free webinars, courses, Sensitivity Quiz, the Sensitive Community and more at her Sensitive Empowerment site.

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Also see my article How to Manage Our Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing as HSPs:

Lady Gaga once commented about one of the common experiences of many artists: a racing mind: “The thoughts are unstoppable – but so is the music. It comes to me constantly.”

Also see quotes by psychologist Elaine Aron, who began researching the personality trait of high sensitivity, or Sensory Processing Sensitivity, in the early 1990s. She summarizes our experience as a highly sensitive person (HSP) with the acronym DOES...

Also a related post by Julie Bjelland: "What Drains and Fills Energy for an HSP?"
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