Your Sensitivity is Your Strength (Not Your Weakness)

Most sensitive people don’t feel fit for the world. We often feel too weak or too difficult – or both. In recent years however, I took a 180 degree turn with the way I perceive my sensitivity. I stopped seeing it as a weakness but realized that my sensitivity is in fact my biggest strength.

Are we too sensitive or are they too numb?

Sensitivity is the art of being attuned. If we are sensitive, we can’t build a wall as well as others do. Like a river, our energy merges with the particles around us. We become one.

You cannot harm something, that you can feel as a part of you. You cannot harm a friend whose chest you are resting on. You cannot harm a tree whose branches provide you with shade. You cannot harm a piece of land your feet are standing on. It is impossible. Therefore, sensitive people have a much harder time hurting others. Sensitive people are the binding element of connection in a world that has increasingly become like a shark tank.

Feeling is living. Where would be all the beautiful art, music, poetry or fiction if it wasn’t for the people who can feel life deeply? Norman Cousin said: „The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.“ Every day you feel deeply you are truly alive. And if death is inevitable to life, wouldn’t I want to know I lived it to the fullest?

When the most sensitive part of an ecosystem suffers, you can be sure everyone is silently hurting. Everyone is silently longing for a soft, quiet space to land. Most people have put that desire in a little box and buried it deep down inside the fragments of their being. So maybe, sensitive people are humanitys teachers about what is REALLY healthy for a human being. We are gamechangers towards a world that actually feels good to live in – and nothing less.