<center id="e206k"></center> Is it easy for you to feel scared? Does art make you cry? Do you feel other people's feelings? On the other hand, do you tend to be overwhelmed by crowds, bright lights or strong perfume? Bad news--or maybe good. You could be an HSP, a highly sensitive person.
How can we understand what's happening inside an HSP? The term was coined in 1996 by psychologist Elaine Aron and she argued that sensitive brains are uniquely tired to process their environment at a deep level. Her theory's most striking claim is that physical and emotional sensitivity are one and the same. A complicated attention to body language strengthens empathy（共鳴）; responsiveness to subtle physical signals creates rich sensations in HSPs, but can also overwhelm.
In the workplace, HSPs are usually the highest performers, yet the first to get tired out. They can struggle in relationships, as they tend to be people-pleasing. The ability to connect is of huge value and higher sensitivity is linked with creativity, brilliance and higher IQ. The trait is shared by pioneers across science, business and the arts--anyone who notices details others don't, makes connections they can't.
No matter what you call it, sensitivity is defined as the ability to sense, process, and respond deeply to one's environment. People who are sensitive naturally pick up more information from their environment, process it more deeply, and are ultimately more shaped by it. Much of this deep processing happens involuntarily and many sensitive people aren't even aware that they do it. A better word for sensitive might be responsive. If you are a highly sensitive person, your body and mind respond more to the world around you. You respond more to heartbreak, pain and loss, but you also respond more to beauty, new ideas and joy. You go deep where others only skim the surface. You keep thinking when others have given up and moved on to something else.
