I’ve been thinking about this. What would be the most helpful and practical.
The one I’m reading now feels really good. Apparently it was based on research that the author did, but now instead of directing it to academic audiences, he’s adapting it and translating it to be readable by a general audience.
This is reflected in the writing style.
But the bottom line is, I think this stuff is pretty practical and practicable.
The website of Elaine Aron is a good place to start.
www.hsperson.com
She lists out a bunch of resources there.
If I think of or come across any particularly helpful resources, I’ll add them here.
I still find myself constantly having new realizations about high sensitivity, and I first learned about the concept 24 years ago. There’s a big difference between conceptual understanding and really grounded feeling-understanding.
Sometimes, experiential insights feel so elusive. The subliminals seem to really help.
The other day (or maybe the other month), I had a bolt of insight, and it seems relevant to you too, so I want to attempt to express it. Like most experiential insights, it may sound very straight-forward when translated into words, but that’s the alchemy of communication. Might as well try anyway.
I’ll try to make it into a metaphor.
Imagine that as a human being you’re a wound-up ball of yarn.
There are objects interwoven among the yarn. I can’t find a picture of that, but just imagine that they’re like little Monopoly objects or game pieces.
Imagine that they’re just interwoven amidst the yarn and sticking out here or there.
Some of those pieces we like, some we detest, most we ignore. But they’re all physically there, so they all impact us, whether we’re aware of them or not.
Those pieces represent our characteristics—-of our personalities and experiences and so on.
Because the yarn is all wound up, it’s not immediately obvious which of those interwoven pieces are directly connected to each other. We kind of explore and find out over time as we pull the yarn and see what happens. We pull on one piece and then, if we’re paying attention, we notice that another piece on another part of the ball of yarn, got tugged and moved. We can start to see the connections.
Okay, there’s the metaphor. And now here’s what I noticed.
Some of my personal characteristics that I’d found to be so oppressive, unfortunate, weak, and so on, are directly connected to other characteristics that are my most treasured. Some of them are so directly connected that they’re basically the same thing.
They’re the strength expression and the weakness expression of the exact same underlying quality.
It struck me that if I had gotten rid of my high sensitivity, I would have gotten rid of some of the most valued parts of my experience of life.
It was kind of a trip to see and feel it so clearly. They were literally the same thing.
It really came home when I was reading the description of the astrological archetype Cancer. I think that Cancer may be the high sensitivity archetype par excellence.
When I saw the weaknesses/challenge areas and the strength areas written clearly right next to each other, it was like 
“oh.”
I don’t want to get rid of this stuff at all. I wasn’t even understanding it properly.
Hmm…so i guess I’m saying that, ironically, one of the most practical things that I’ve read that was helpful to me as a highly sensitive person was the psychological description of the Cancer archetype.
I don’t know your astrology chart, but I’d say that there’s a good chance that the energy of Cancer/4th House (and Virgo/6th House) are represented in there in some significant way.
Anyway, I’ll paste the description of the Cancer archetype in the following post. Have to make the type small so that it will all fit. But you can magnify it.
