Many people feel they are sensitive people.

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They feel it when someone raises their voice.

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They know from our subtle actions that we are upset.

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This hyper-vigilance is a self-defense mechanism they have developed over time.

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Perhaps since they were a child.

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Maybe they didn't feel safe and had to know everything that was going on around them.

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Yet this kind of sensitivity is very self centered.

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They are very aware of anything that affects them.

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They can feel it in the air when someone is upset.

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And they are the first to notice even subtle changes in a person's manner.

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This sensitivity can be a gift.

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And it can be a curse.

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Either way, it is only one form of sensitivity.

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For if we are just sensitive to things that affect us, that does not mean we are sensitive to what affects others.

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We may feel threatened by how someone moves.

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Yet we may not notice that they are moving that way out of their own pain.

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We may not notice when something we do ourselves how it affects another person.

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True sensitivity is born out of presence, not trauma.

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When we experience trauma as a child we may learn to be sensitive to our environment.

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Yet when we are able to heal our trauma we can become truly sensitive as we become more present.

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In our ability to be present, we ;earn how to sensitive to another human being.

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Not just ourselves.

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When someone is energetically sensitive they may just be hyper-vigilant to protect themselves.

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This does not mean they are truly sensitive to what is going on to other people.

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Real sensitivity is not just being aware to what might affect you, but what might affect other people as well.

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Truly feeling what the person in front of you is going through without exchanging word is real sensitivity.

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And that form of sensitivity is something we can cultivate over time.

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By doing our own internal work.

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By working through our own trauma.

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And by learning what it is that makes us feel unsafe.

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For when we nurture feeling safe within us, we are able to be more present.

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And that presence bring real sensitivity with it.

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Not just for ourselves, but for everyone else as well.

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Are you sensitive around things for yourself but not other? How an you cultivate more safety to be truly present?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant