How about this?
“I am a highly sensitive person, I need to set boundaries, and limitations around what I can or cannot do. I have to insolate myself from certain situations because I just am more sensitive. It is how I have always been. Over time I seem to be more sensitive as well but I can't really do anything about it but avoid what triggers me.”
But what if I told you something new. What if I offered to you that you are not stuck with this all like you might think you are? What if your sensitivity to lights, smells, sounds, strong emotions, and your ability to sense other people’s energies so easily, is a result of an overactive stress response in your nervous system. What if I told you all of this was a result of your protector part of your brain sending off false signals? What if you really could rewire your brain and bring your body and nervous system to a place of regulation, sense of safety and you aren’t so sensitive like you think you are?
Did you know that our bodies functions can be greatly impacted when in a chronic state of stress for too long? Functions like detoxification, immunity, digestion, inflammatory response, and more do not work properly. You have individuals taking pills for all manner of things to force their body to detox, digest, regulate blood sugar, blood pressure, heart rate, lower inflammation and more. Did you know that these pills are only forcing your body to do what it isn’t able to do on its own? Stop and think about it for a minute. There is nothing wrong with this. Sometimes we do need a little help. But what if instead of popping a pill for every ailment, whether that’s prescription or natural, I told you there is a way for your body to do these functions on its own again? What if you are not so stuck after all?
At one point in my chronic illness, I was taking 40 pills a day. I was sensitive to light, sounds, smells (even healthy smells), certain foods, heat, and more. I remember one day thinking, (as weird as this sounds) I don’t know anyone in the old folks home with my diagnosis. I wonder if I will even make it to that age? I had all those sad thoughts about just living in this state the rest of my life. I was so sick I was literally just accepting this awful way of living I was now stuck with. Until… I found out that not all is as it seems. All of this was actually a result of my brain and nervous system being stuck in survival mode and I COULD CHANGE THAT! Oh what joy, once the work began, for the first time in awhile I felt hope. I walked outside on the first day of starting this work and for once I started to notice something else then survival. The sky was bluer, the birds were singing it seemed. My life was on the brink of something new and beautiful. I had such a long way to go yet but….I started to feel like my life could be different. And sure enough, it got very different in a way I am so grateful for. Are you ready to take the leap as well?
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