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The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook By Elaine Aron ( Broadway )
Release Date: 1999-06-08
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Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? If so, this workbook is for you.
Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? Do you have a rich inner life and intense dreams? Did parents or teachers call you "too shy" or "too sensitive"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
High sensitivity is a trait shared by 20 percent of the population, according to Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist and workshop leader and the bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person. The enormous response to her book led Dr. Aron to create The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook, designed to honor that long-ignored, trampled-on part of yourself--your sensitivity. A collection of exercises and activities for both individuals and groups, this workbook will help you identify the HSP trait in yourself, nurture the new, positive self-image you deserve, and create a fuller, richer life. You will be able to:
Identify your specific sensitivities with self-assessment tests
Reframe past experiences in a more positive light
Interpret dreams and relate them to your sensitivity
Cope with overarousal through relaxation, breathing, and visualization techniques
Describe your trait in a work interview or to an unsympathetic family member, new friend, doctor, or therapist
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Amazon.com Review
Can 1.2 billion exceptionally nervous nervous systems be wrong? No way, says depth psychologist Elaine Aron, bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person. An HSP herself, Aron is also the reigning expert on the subject, and this workbook exists to make you a more helpful expert on yourself. It can be read in conjunction with her more narrative book--the chapter headings match--or without it. "You should use this workbook in any way you darn well please," says Aron in a typical free-yourself comment. So what is an HSP? Aron thinks one-fifth of humanity is born with more finely tuned perceptions than the rest. In primitive times, HSPs were the first to spot the lion lurking in the bush, the last to shoot the arrow--and the likeliest to hit the lion in one shot. Later, HSPs became the tempering priestly advisors to the more aggressive warrior kings. To be an HSP is a challenge and an opportunity, she argues. This book contains self-tests to determine whether you're an HSP, and if so, which kind: introverted, extroverted, sensation seeking, and other plausible categories. Some HSPs yearn for "earlids" to shut out sound, for instance. There are plenty of blanks to fill in as you analyze your childhood, health concerns, work history, and psychic wounds, with plenty of guidance on how to do it--sample entries as intriguing as someone else's diary. If you've ever wished you could go back and retort to somebody who said something hurtful that made you speechless, Aron has the exercise to channel your resentment into insight. She gives a quick course in dream analysis (Freud couldn't outdo her job on a dream about The A-Team's Mr. T and a tiger), and rather boldly invites you to envision and prepare for your death. There's also a practical guide to setting up HSP discussion groups with enough structure to prevent fizzle and poor focus.
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 I had high hopes... ( julieb2 )
I had high hopes for this book but it did not help me. I already know I'm highly sensitive, and so is my daughter (5 years old). Not sensitive in a cry baby way*, but sensitive as in aware of everything, aware of emotions in the room, aware of the lady bug across the yard, aware of things most people walk on by. I was hoping this book would help me (and my daughter) with building some boundaries, help to quit taking other people's "bad stuff" as our own, quit thinking the worst when bad emotions do happen. As an HSP, I do hurt more, deeply. I also love more deeply too. Also, I didn't like the point in the book about HSPs not being risk takers. I have always been a major risk taker, as an HSP, I hurt more deeply, therefore, I remember not to do the thing that hurt me again, and I am also way more adept at coming up with new ways to do things that keep me from getting hurt, frustrated, tired, etc., again next time I do certain things. It seems like a lot of the population are not very good at lessons-learned. I wish I was more blissful unaware of better ways of doing things, of pain of others, sometimes it really drains my energy. I have always been a risk taker, even in small things like fashion, I'm always ahead of the game, but maybe I'm just more aware of the trends or start a new trend because I am different than others. I will still be looking for a book that discusses what I addressed above.
*some people may see it that way though
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 Wonderful companion ( spam811 )
I bought The Highly Sensitive Person a few years ago and felt that someone understood me for the first time. When a workbook to accompany the original was released I couldn't wait to buy it. I was not disappointed. It can be used as a stand alone text but I have been rereading the original and doing the exercises in the workbook at the same time. Elaine Aron is sensitive to us HSPs. Her workbook is not at all overwhelming and can be done at your own pace and as in depth as you want to go. I thank Elaine for standing up for those of us that while at times may be in the shadows are certainly not invisible. We are capable, strong, caring individuals and Elaine Aron, being one herself, is very in tune with the world as it affects us.
I recommend purchasing both the original text and the workbook.
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The perfect companion to the HSP book. ( marilyndal )
If you are serious about understanding being a highly sensitive person and want to, ". . . Thrive When the World Overwhelms You," this book can be very helpful. It caused me to think hard about what I'd read in The Highly Sensitive Person; consider what I must do to overcome any obstacles and make positive changes in my life.
Sometimes - even when I know what I must do - I procrastinate, then let things that can be helpful to me go by the wayside. This workbook made me plow ahead and do what had to be done. I appreciate that.
The two volumes, The Highly Sensitive Person and the woorkbook are certaily well worth the time, effort and few dollars invested in them.
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 Sensitive types ( typee22 )
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) are already sensitive to the role a book like this can play in their ability to take an active approach to self-understanding. Once one's status as an HSP is established, by way of this book's sensitively provided self-tests, the book then goes on to provide the tools to categorise one's sensitivity-type (ST) even further. The rude and insensitive sector of the population (RAIPs) would no doubt be surprised to learn that there are several types of HSP, with different levels of sensitivity depending on the life domain. Introverted, creative, sociable, and worried HSPs everywhere will be grateful to have these tools at their fingertips to increase the depth of their self-awareness on the HSP scale.
My own self-awareness journey, however, has been hampered from the beginning by the gaudy colouring of this book's pink and yellow striped cover, with bright green and red overlaid font. Can't the publishers provide a version of the book suitable for highly photosensitive types like myself? We HPSPs are too often undervalued and ignored by the HSP community in general.
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 Learned helplessness repackaged as coping skills ( auro1075 )
The highly sensitive person, a creature undefined in this text and rooted nowhere in the realms of psychology or sociology, deserves much better than being pandered to and infantilized. Rather than teach coping mechanisms and skills for interpreting interpersonal communication, Aron's advice encourages narcissistic behavior and serves to convince the reader that they are fundamentally different from others in an undefined way, incapable of functioning on a basic social level, and rudderless without her help.
The section on relationships, which advocates arguing by dodging valid questions, should be particularly ignored.
I never leave negative reviews on this site, but I feel I should warn prospective buyers. Avoid this book.
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