Author Nik: KarenGosling
Name: Karen Gosling
Pain is felt in the body in the present. All pain is felt today. You cannot physically feel something yesterday or tomorrow. You can remember the pain of the past, and anticipate a pain in the future, but you can only feel pain in the present.
Highly sensitive people (HSPs) really do exist! In fact they make up about 20 per cent of the population. The HSP has a sensitive nervous system, a basically neural trait. It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, and will be on guard for potential \”danger\”. For example, grey clouds, wet pavements. It also means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long, bombarded by sights and sounds until you are exhausted in a nervous-system sort of way.
A person with an anxious personality experiences an overreaction to threatening stimuli in his or her environment, resulting in the body having a greater stress response than another person might have to the same event. The anxious person is less able to tolerate the normal uncertainties about the future and the \”dangers\” that may arise. This may be about external events – such as terrorist attacks or planes crashing – or relationship or health issues: \”What if he doesn\’t really love me?\” or \”What if I\’ve got cancer?\”