What is Joy for a highly sensitive or high sensory person?
"What does it look and feel like to be truly happy as an HSP?"
"You can feel so much peace and bliss in nature."
This is a brief excerpt from HSP Podcast episode 96: "What is Joy for an HSP?" with hosts Julie Bjelland, the founder of Sensitive Empowerment, and Willow McIntosh, the founder of Inluminance and “leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement.”
Show Notes for the original episode:
Joy! What does it look and feel like to be truly happy as an HSP? What is it exactly we are striving for? Are we often comparing our happiness to what it looks like in non HSPs?
The pursuit of happiness is a huge topic in itself and is often referred to as being only attained through the acceptance that we can’t be happy all the time.
However it goes deeper and research indicates that happiness means the pursuit of meaning, service and authentic social relationships.
Whilst there is certainly a need for meaning, service and authentic relationships for us, how should we be pursuing this as HSPs? What do these things really look like for us?
What do we value as most important in our lives as HSPs that perhaps is not being acknowledged when we compare to the happiness of non HSPs?
Are we truly recognising and honouring our needs?
Are we being honest about what truly makes us feel a sense of contentment, achievement and happiness?
Where might we be over processing or over complicating what happiness really means to us?
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Visit the Sensitive Empowerment site of Julie Bjelland to hear the full HSP Podcast episode 96: "What is Joy for an HSP?" and many other episodes.
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Related quote:
"It’s life-changing to realize you can feel so much peace and bliss in nature."
From Show Notes for another HSP Podcast episode - see article with the audio on my High Sensory Person site: How to Live Better With Sensory Overload.