Sage-Tips

How do you comfort a sensitive person?

Effectively managing the HSPs on your team comes down to empowering them to embrace their strengths while equipping them with tools to manage their emotionality.

1. Start a conversation about stress.
2. Coach them to cope with stimulating situations.
3. Tactfully deliver criticism.
4. Connect their work to something meaningful.

How should a highly sensitive person rest?

Here are a few simple habits for HSPs to maximize their Zzz’s:

1. Get out into nature during the day.
2. Eat nourishing foods, like those high in healthy fat.
3. Create a home meditation practice.
4. Limit coffee, sugar, and alcohol, especially before bed.
5. Engage in physical activity during the day.

How do you communicate with a highly sensitive person?

How to Communicate With a Highly Sensitive Person

1. Accept diversity.
2. Respect boundaries.
3. Pay attention to their body language.
4. Keep lines of communication open.
5. Use the sandwich approach.
6. Don’t invalidate their emotions.
7. Plan out heavy conversations.
8. Keep emotions level.

How do you deal with hypersensitivity to touch?

Give or ask for advance warning of touch. Having a heads-up on what’s coming can make it easier to cope with touch sensitivity. For example, you may need a hair stylist to say, “I’m going to start by drizzling warm water on your head.”

How do you help someone who is overstimulated?

Here are some tips I have for you, as a person who finds herself often overstimulated.

1. Try to limit your screen time. Emphasis on the word try.
2. Find your safe space.
3. Listen to your own favourite playlist, podcast, or audiobook.
4. Set boundaries with others and ask for some quiet space alone.
5. Mindfulness.

How do you survive a highly sensitive person?

THE BASICS

1. 1) Get enough sleep.
2. 2) Eat healthy foods regularly throughout the day.
3. 3) Wear noise-reducing headphones.
4. 4) Plan for decompression time.
5. 5) Have at least one quiet room or space to retreat to in your home.
6. 6) Give yourself time and space to get things done.
7. 7) Limit caffeine.
8. 8) Keep the lights down low.

How do I stop being highly sensitive?

How to Treat Hypersensitivity

1. Honor your sensitivity.
2. Step back.
3. Block it out.
4. Tone it down.
5. Reduce extraneous stimulation.
6. Make sure you’ve had enough sleep: Rest or take a nap before facing a situation that will be highly stimulating or after an intense one to regroup.

What should you not say to HSP?

10 Worst Things You Can Say to a Highly Sensitive Person

• You need to go faster.
• Its not that big of a deal.
• I know how you feel.
• You are too emotional.
• It doesnt have to be perfect.
• That smell is not that strong.
• Why does it take you so long to eat?
• Really, you need another break?

How do you desensitize touch?

Rub lotion or powder on the legs, hands, and arms while singing (for distraction purposes). Let them also rub the lotion or powder on you, especially if they won’t tolerate it on their own extremities. Pretend face washing or shaving- with different textures of cloth or towels.

How do you calm someone down with sensory overload?

Some tips include counting to ten, walking away, listening to music, or watching a calming video or reading a book. Develop an exit strategy in the event of sensory overload. Talk to your child about ways he or she can stay calm or change environments if they start to feel overwhelmed.

How do you deal with highly sensitive people?

Take criticism from them as a compliment. Highly sensitive people are born with a really acute awarenesses to detail. So they will be very likely to point out something that needs to be improved. Listening to their advice will most likely produce the best outcome when cooking a nice meal, or when shooting a still ­life image.

Why is it important to have a peaceful home for sensitive people?

It helps you to stay grounded, It can also help you to build resilience to stress. All of this should make it worth the effort for anyone, but this is particularly true for the highly sensitive person. This can mean having your home be soothing and relatively free of conflict.

Are highly sensitive people weak or broken?

Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weak or broken. But to feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the characteristic of a truly alive and compassionate human being. It is not the sensitive person who is broken, it is society’s understanding that has become dysfunctional and emotionally incapacitated.

What are the characteristics of a sensitive person?

They are highly in tune with other peoples emotions, as well as their own, and are aware if one isn’t happy. Even if person is sitting far away from them at the dinner table. Because sensitive people are so in tune, life can be pretty exhausting for them.