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Embrace Your Sensitivity and Find the Authentic Work You Were Put Here to Do

with special guest Jenna Avery

Do you experience life deeply? Has anyone ever called you “too sensitive”? You might be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Jenna Avery, “The Life Coach for Sensitive Souls,” is here with us to help Highly Sensitive People discover the five gifts of being highly sensitive, and how HSPs can embrace the sensitive, meaningful, Authentic Work they were put here to do.

Jenna Avery is a highly sensitive soul, coach, and intuitive. She is also the creator of Embrace Your Essential Self, to guide sensitive souls toward creating lives aligned with their sensitivity and the truth of their essential nature.

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Your Co=Creation Cafe Host,

Nancy Barry-Jansson
AffirmingSpirit.com

I have learned an amazing number of useful things from my masseuse Marolyn. I’ve been seeing her regularly for years, long before my divorce in 2001. She always helps me keep my life in perspective, while making my body feel marvelous!

For example, after my divorce she kept telling me how much happier and healthier I seemed. She said I seemed so much more alive. She also tells me that I am more in touch with what is happening in my own body than most people she meets.

After my recent bike accident, something she said showed me that I have some sort of sixth sense around others. I can feel immediately if they care about me or not, and if I sense any level of disrespect or disinterest, I generally end the relationship. I thought everybody was like this! It’s funny how we assume that everyone else’s experience of life is just like ours.

Marolyn turned me on to an interesting book recently called: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you, by psychologist Elaine N. Aron. There I learned how unusual I truly am! Dr. Aron has studied this phenomenon for years and has found that only around 15% of Americans are “highly sensitive.”

What does that mean? She offers a self-test at the end of her preface which questions how sensitive you are to subtleties in your environment, other people’s moods, pain, spending too much time around others, bright lights or loud noises, to name only a few examples. Sensitivity to caffeine and other stimulants is also mentioned, as well as startling easily.

I’ve always known I was a little more sensitive than most, but this book explains so many of the problems I’ve had relating to others my whole life, problems like not being able to spend long periods of time around others and needing lots of time alone. Dr. Aron has researched this topic for five years with in-depth interviews, clinical experience, and hundreds of consultations with HSPs.

BTW, I learned from this book that both my new husband and I are highly sensitive people. That explained a lot to me about how we clicked so quickly when we met, and why we can spend more time together without getting on each other’s nerves. We are both very sensitive to being highly sensitive!

The Humane Society of the United States recently distributed a video from an undercover investigation at the Hallmark Meat Company in California. Let me first say that I am a meat eater. I do not agree with the guerrilla tactics of radical organizations such as PETA. And I am content with the idea of raising and farming of animals for consumption. But after watching this video, I will certainly think twice the next time I purchase red meat.

While this new footage may be news to some, the inhumane practices of the meat and dairy industry they have been long documented by the HSUS and even popularized by films such as The Corporation. Sadly, videos like these are rarely covered in mainstream media. Furthermore, unlike the HSUS, organizations like PETA have been hurting the cruelty awareness campaign, making a very serious problem seem fringe-fanatical. This video, alone, would have drawn minimal press coverage and has only been brought to light because it led to the largest beef recall in history.

While the publics moral acumen towards these atrocities may be stunted, we are understandably alert to its potential danger to the consumer. Many of the cows in the video are classified as “downer cows” and are banned from consumption because of their links to mad cow disease. The video shows several of these cows being prodded, electrocuted and dragged in order to pass USDA inspections. It is clear that this industry is willing to take inconceivable measures to get their products approved and shipped to the market.

Some say that a large scale boycott would cause the meat industry to perform even more egregious offenses to hold onto already razor sharp margins. Perhaps the best way to address this issue is to take a look at the energy and petrol industries. I recently spoke to a friend about my experience designing an white paper environmentally friendly jet. The premise of the operation was that passengers would happily pay a duty or premium knowing that their environmental footprint would be reduced compared to conventional air travel. What seemed like a financially laughable plan a year ago now begets a new industry founded on this principle. People care about their image. And these days, environmentally aware is synonymous with conscientious, educated, and affluent. It is therefore no surprise that the Prius is one of Toyota’s best selling cars.

Organic, hormone-free, free range chicken and cattle have been on the market for years, but are noticeably more expensive than your average Safeway fare. And it seems unlikely that such a mundane product would compel the consumer to vie for a product that they can’t be seen driving in. While I try not to make this a habit, I, again, advocate governmental support/regulation. Subsidize these safe-practice companies so that they can compete with the likes of Hallmark. Even the burgeoning alternative energy industry is getting help from the government in terms of rebates and funding. The one thing more important to people than their image is their health. Whats preventing us from doing the same thing for the food industry?