Highly Sensitive: Understanding Your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity - Softcover

Brown, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076843260X ISBN 13: 9780768432602

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Highly Sensitive, Understanding your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity speaks to five areas of difficulty for highly sensitive people:

• 1. Difficulties with the design
• 2. Difficulty hearing God and being confident in that hearing
• 3. Trust
• 4. Boundaries
• 5. Sense of worth and belonging

• It gives practical guidelines to sort through a jumble of sensory data--helps you sort "me from thee!"
• It gives strategies to build or repair inner structures
• It provides help to rein life in so it becomes manageable
• It 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 life
• Normalizes spiritual sensitivity

About this title

About the Author

With the dual gifting of teacher and intercessor, Carol Brown has lived the life of a highly sensitive burden bearer and can speak to the difficulties arising from sensitivity—spiritual and otherwise. Her sense of humor, practical advice, and gentle touch demystify a topic that can be confusing. She makes you want to stand tall and be sensitive! Her passion is to see the Saints repaired, and then equipped to walk in their destiny as “sons” (those who inherit).

From the Back Cover

Highly Sensitive is a valuable companion piece to Carol Brown's previous book, The Mystery of Spiritual Sensitivity. This volume not only provides a precise summary of the topics covered in the prequel, but counsels you on the steps and spiritual practices that will help you--the highly sensitive burden bearer--to shine in your gifting. Highly Sensitive propels you forward into a healing and maturing process that involves a steep but exhilerating learning curve--well worth the journey.

All the dots are connected through personal testimonies, biblical support and spiritual insight--you will clearly see God's bigger picture for your life. This book looks at how empathetic burden bearing affects the individual and how you can recover from negative responses to high sensitivity on emotional, spiritual and psychological levels.

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 Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076843260X
• ISBN 13: 9780768432602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288