Highly Sensitive: Understanding Your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity - Softcover

Brown, Carol A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0768434653 ISBN 13: 9780768434651

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

God Created Some People to be Highly Sensitive

Discover why you are the way you are…and enjoy your gift!

Highly Sensitive: Understanding Your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity 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 (true identity, burden bearing, aspects of high sensitivity, healing), 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 exhilarating learning curve—well worth the journey.

“This book is in response to many readers asking me, ‘Now what? Where do I go from here?’” writes author Carol Brown. Highly Sensitive examines and frankly discusses five growth areas most burden bearers have in common:

1. 1. Having confidence that you hear from God.
2. 2. Trusting God, self, and others.
3. 3. Discerning between burdens and “my own stuff.”
4. 4. Making and keeping boundaries.
5. 5. Identity (sense of worth and belonging).

All of 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 and repair damage from negative responses to high sensitivity on emotional, spiritual, and psychological levels.

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 Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0768434653
• ISBN 13: 9780768434651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288