Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment

Dr. Elaine Aron, world-renowned author of the groundbreaking, internationally bestselling classic The Highly Sensitive Person, gives readers everything they need to find their path toward peace, equanimity, and simply feeling okay—no matter what’s happening in the world around them and how overwhelming it may be.

The seeker culture of the 1960s was the catalyst for what Aron sees as a quiet spiritual revolution, like a distant supernova, visible only now. Exploring new spiritual paths, more and more people were able to shift into a state of profound inner peace, clearer focus, and nearly unshakeable calm, even amid challenging times. Those paths to enlightenment worked for them. So, how do the rest of us get there?

In her most personal book yet, Dr. Aron offers the first ever objective overview of meditation methods and paths to enlightenment. Sharing practical explanations of spiritual practices as well as her own experiences from fifty-five years of meditation practice, she helps readers better understand the form of spirituality that suits them best. She also delves into the recent brain research regarding this end state, this shift that can occur.

Highly sensitive people, with their natural depth of thinking and feeling, as well as their greater need for inner peace, are instinctively drawn to such a spiritual journey, but this is a book for everyone. With Dr. Aron's signature empathy and profound caring, as well as her attention to science, this one-of-a-kind guide will help all of us embark on our own spiritual journey.

ELAINE N. ARON, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist and the internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, the groundbreaking, life-changing guide that has been in print for nearly thirty years and translated into 38 languages. She is also the author of Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens, The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Child, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. She earned her M.A. in clinical psychology from York University in Toronto, her Ph.D. in clinical depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Credited for first recognizing high sensitivity as an innate trait and pioneering the study of HSPs since 1990, she established the Foundation for the Study of Highly Sensitive Persons and has published numerous scientific articles on sensitivity in the leading journals in her field. She and her husband, Dr. Arthur Aron, are also considered two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be found online at hsperson.com.