Why Do I Need Self-Care? ——– Because you are worth it. Self-Care is critical for sensitives and empaths to thrive in all areas of their life. Your sensitivities do not mean you are weak, broken or less than someone who is not sensitive. You came into the world able to perceive what 80% of the population cannot. Your sensitive traits and those of the other 1.4 billion HSPs’ serve to support the rest of humanity and the world. Highly sensitive people are the worlds innovators, creatives, leaders, therapist, doctors., coaches, teachers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, problem solvers, change agents, HR, healers, philosophers, and philanthropist… As a highly sensitive, too much of anything, such as large gatherings, noise or chemical scents is overwhelming to your system. This doesn’t mean you are “high maintenance” in a bad way, but rather high maintenance so that you can function to your highest ability, and allow yourself to be the best you. You have sensitive superpowers that don’t function well when you are not well. To be your best requires you to respect and cherish your mind, body, and spirit.
Your sensitivity is an asset, not a liability.
Don’t let your sensitivity traits limit your capacity to do what is important to you and calling you to do, like lead, speak, and shine brightly. Learning how to thrive authentically while living your purpose and passions will give you the freedom to love, live and matter.
Your self-care will allow you to operate from a healthy, positive, balanced and empowered state of being.
– Marilyn O ́Malley
Are You a Highly Sensitive Person? Take the Test ——– Check each statement if it is somewhat true -> true for you. If you can relate to some or most of these statements then you are Highly Sensitive.
- I have an acute awareness of my environments
- I have a rich and complex inner life (live a lot in my head imagining)
- I have a strong intuition
- I am deeply moved by people, culture, animals, and experiences in nature
- I take on other people’s feelings and I know how to help them before they do ~Empathy
- I don’t like making mistakes or forgetting things
- I find it unpleasant to have a lot going on around me and on my plate
- I’ve been labeled as too emotional or shy
- I need to make private time for myself every day, otherwise, I’m stressed out
- I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine (tea, coffee and dark chocolate)
The Top 5 Are SuperPowers, honor and develop your sensitive self with the assistance of this self-care guide.
Empathy – the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. ——– Self-Care for an Empath:
- Train yourself to stop reading or picking up on other people’s energy all the time. Give yourself breaks and you don’t have to isolate to do this.
- Create moments of peace and calm throughout the day.
- Frequently, check in with yourself to see what you are feeling and need. Give yourself what you need.
- Check in and clear any feelings, emotions, and pain that is not yours
- Put up an energetic screen to help you keep other people’s energy at a distance and not take it on as your own.
- Set healthy boundaries, don’t make other people more important than you, it’s disempowering.
- Practice compassion and rigorous self-care with yourself.
- Ground yourself in nature, with animals or using water (shower, bath, swim, drink) daily.
- Empath, Are You Feeling Crazy with the way the world is today? Video
Click on this link to listen on how you can Create Healthy Boundaries: Manage other peoples energy – Create Boundaries.
Highly Creative & Complex Inner Life ——– –Self-care of your very creative and complex inner life:
- Meditate, learn how to manage your cluttered mind and not let it run unfocused.
- Create a positive mindset, stay focused on possibilities instead of fears and limitations.
- Journal your feelings and thoughts to get them out of your head rather than play them over and over.
- Create a place to put all the ideas that are interesting to you (idea journal, word doc on desktop…)
- Understand that not every idea you get is to be implemented NOW or even in the future. Just because you think it doesn’t mean you need to create it.
- Schedule your day on a daily sheet and record reminders of those things that come up that aren’t priority, so you’re not trying to remember everything in your head.
- Stay focused on one goal at a time. Set a timer (15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes)
Learn How to Begin Meditating with this video.
Overstimulation by Your Environment (Home or Office) ——– Self-care to minimize overstimulation
- Plan your day on a daily calendar every morning and stick to it.
- Create nourishing, grounding, and beautiful environments.
- Declutter and clear anything that doesn’t feel good or reminds you of a negative experience.
- Stop watching and listening to the news or violent TV and movies.
- If busy office, too loud… listen to your music. Lights too bright, wear tinted glasses. Too much action – put plants up to block out activity around you, at airports where a hat to block out all the action around you and listen to music/calming sounds
- Manage your mind by focusing on the present moment instead of anticipating what you don’t want and manage your energy so you feel grounded, present, and vital.
- Remove distractions, phone, email, social media and message notices when not needed.
- Surround yourself with powerful objects, sounds or symbols that make you feel good; crystals, affirmations, pictures of people who love you, plants, energy tools…
- Schedule breaks throughout the day of nurturing time. Walk, short meditation…
This video will show you how to do Tapping To Ground Your Energy.
Overwhelmed with Too Much to Do? ——– Self-care to deal with overwhelm
- Create a plan of action, so you know the actions and steps needed. When you know the path to where you are going it doesn’t feel so overwhelming. Planning creates a sense of certainty.
- Sunday night look at what your week is like and after that just look at one day at a time. The week is too much.
- Chunk down the bigger projects into smaller action steps.
- Focus on one thing at a time, no multitasking or checking the phone.
- Set time limits for each action, that way you can’t over schedule and we tend to get things done within the time frame we set. If you say all day… you’ll take all day. Use time as an intention.
- Take short breaks in between timed sessions, move your body, sing, play with a pet, something fun or nourishing, drink water…
- Delegate or hire help.
- Eat and drink healthy to sustain energy.
- Ask for support and receive it.
- Breathe, close your eyes and take 5 breaths into your belly, through your nose. Breathe in 4 count, hold 2 count, exhale 4 count, hold 2 count. Calms you!
- 3 Easy Energy Tools to Clean Overwhelming and Unwanted Energies – Highly Sensitive People Video
This video will show you how to do Tapping to stop overwhelm and the flight or fight stress response.
Nervous System Frazzled ——– Self-Care for frazzled nervous system Take a break if you can. Even if 30 minutes to refresh your system.
- Create healthy boundaries, learn to say “NO” and ask for help.
- Kava Kava and Rescue Remedy are good for calming the nervous system if you’re anxious. Check with your health advisor.
- Pet an animal or spend time in nature.
- Receive bodywork: massage, reiki, acupuncture, sound healing, breathe work…
- If you’re feeling like it is your inner child not feeling safe, let her know she can relax and that you are in control and will take care of her. She doesn’t need to be on high alert. Then ask her what she needs, listen and take care of her. When we take care of ourselves, the part of our brain that is looking for danger will quiet down.
- Drink water and eat something that is fresh, nurturing and grounding
- Use EFT Tapping to reduce overwhelm and the fight or flight stress response.
- Meditate, journal, listen to yourself, find your internal guidance system and ask what you need and give it to yourself
- Stop listening to the news, watching horror or violent movies and TV shows, playing violent games…
- Stop being around negative, narcissistic and abusive people
- Stop tolerating what you don’t want or like in your life
- Get plenty of good sleep.
- Use energy medicine from Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine Book or her Daily Energy Practice
Learn more about How To Heal Your Inner Child in this blog post.
Energy Work———
- 3 Steps to Stop Worrying and Manifest Your Desires– Highly Sensitive Perfectionist
- 20 minute Heart & Sound Healing Meditation
- How to Harmonize Your Heart and Brain for Healing – Highly Sensitive
- Our Bodies Are Changing To Be In A New Energy – Highly Sensitive
- 3 Easy Energy Tools to Clean Overwhelming and Unwanted Energies – Highly Sensitive People
- 5 Essential Daily Energy Exercises for Highly Sensitives
- Tapping to Release Fears of Rejection, Inadequacy, and Powerlessness
- Energy Medicine like Donna Edens Daily Energy Practice
Daily Practice ——– It is important to make self-care a daily routine. Here are some practices to keep you healthy, grounded, energized and empowered:
- Check in to see how you are feeling and act accordingly to meet your needs
- Harmonize your Brain and Heart
- Quiet time or meditation
- Daily intentions/Plan for mind-body-spirit success. (Don’t over schedule)
- Clear other people’s energy multiple times a day
- Ground yourself multiple
- Create healthy boundaries around you, so others can’t suck on your energy
- Spend time in nature
- Stop people pleasing; learn to say “no” to everything that is not a “yes” to be authentically you
- Use your intuition to guide you
- Eat healthy
- Get good sleep
- Do something that brings you pleasure
- Move your body
Learn How to Stop Thinking Your Life and Start Feeling It through this video.
Go to Marilyn`s YouTube channel for more helpful videos!
love. live. matter.
– Marilyn O’Malley
