Highly Sensitive: Understanding Your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity - Hardcover

Brown, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0768412463 ISBN 13: 9780768412468

Publisher: Destiny Image, 2010

Synopsis

- Speaks to five areas of difficulty for highly sensitive people: 1. Difficulties with the design2. Difficulty hearing God and being confident in that hearing3. Trust4. Boundaries5. Sense of worth and belonging- Gives practical guidelines to sort through a jumble of sensory data--helps you sort "me from thee!"- Gives strategies to build or repair inner structures- Provides help to rein life in so it becomes manageable- Takes you from A-Z in scripture to show how God sees the believer- Companion volume to "The""Mystery of Spiritual Sensitivity" which gives voice and vocabulary to how many people experience lifeNormalizes spiritual sensitivity

About this title

From the Author

Companion volume to The Mystery of Spiritual Sensitivity, Highly Sensitive helps you rein life in so that it is more manageable. It helps you sort through the abundance of sensory data that bambards you daily. The Mystery helped you understand and heal from the hurts caused from being highly sensitive. This book, Highly Sensitive, helps you live a joy filled life instead of "coping." It is an attempt to help you see yourself through the same lense that Jesus looks at you!

As I came to the end, I told the Lord that I was all written out but the book was not finished--how did He want the book to end? What happened next was the most amazing experience I have ever had. It was as if He came and stood behind me with a hand on my shoulder. I watched as the last chapter flowed onto the computer screen. I didn't want it to end!

From the Inside Flap

Symptoms of High Sensitivity/Characteristics of a Burden Bearer

Do you:

• Have difficulty with bright lights, loud noises and large crowds (overstimulation)
• Need "recovery" time away from stimulation, noise or activity
• Sometimes ask pointed questions that others consider inappropriate (They thought they had hidden their trouble better than that!)
• Have a vivid imagination
• Stay attuned to family needs and try to "help," in whatever way you can
• Stay attuned to and are affected by others' moods
• Have time of excessive emotion--responses seem extreme, whether it be grief, anger, sadness or tears over physical hurts
• Have times of uncharacteristic behavior when you "don't act like yourself"
• Have tender feelings that are easily hurt
• Appear shy and quiet
• Feel vulnerable to sadness or depression
• Feel you lose your individuality around strong personalities or intense inner turmoil or trouble
• See things others cannot see
• Cut the tags out of your shirts and sweaters because they irritate

You may be coping with a highly sensitive nervous system, which is core to burden bearing and sensing the heart of God. It is a good thing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Destiny Image
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0768412463
• ISBN 13: 9780768412468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 284