Product Description: Day-to-Day Help for Highly Sensitive People
About one in every five of us has a nervous system that is especially acute and finely tuned. If you're in this group, on one hand, it's a great gift. You're creative, compassionate, and you deeply appreciate subtlety and beauty in the world. On the other hand, you may be more easily disturbed by noise, bright lights, strong scents, crowds, and time pressure than the less sensitive among us.
In his first book, The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, author Ted Zeff presented ways to manage your heightened sensitivity. Now, in this take-along daily companion, he offers practical tips and exercises you can use to find inner peace in any environment. Each chapter of the book addresses overstimulation as it occurs in a specific aspect of life: relationships, work, daily pressures, exercise, and more.
Let this book be your pocket-sized guide to finding the calm you need to enjoy and thrive with your heightened sensitivity without feeling overwhelmed.
Very good I work as a psychotherapist and often see clients feeling a lot of self-reproach and poor self-esteem because they think there is something wrong with them since they are so finely attuned to their environment. They are easily overwhelmed, burnt out, or deflated due to their reactions to their home or work environments. If I suspect they may be an HSP I refer them to Dr. Zeff's book and they have reported feeling relief that there really is nothing wrong with them and that there are many people like them i.e. 20% of the population. The book offers specific strategies to cope with overstimulation which are immensely helpful.
A very funny guide for empowering jerks This book is a series of unintentionally hilarious ideas that whiny people are supposed to use to make every part of their world conform to their slightest whim, because apparently no discomfort is too tiny to make all those around them work hard to ameliorate it. It's good that the book's estimate of 20% of the population being HSP is incredibly overstated, so that the rest of us will have some vain hope of making these people happy, or more to the point, shut up about it all.
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A LOT OF GREAT ADVICE FOR THE SENSITIVE PERSON
This book is chock full of information to help the sensitive person function at an optimal level in our tense society. I've been practicing Dr. Zeff's weekly techniques and have found them helpful. One of his chapters dealing with resolving conflicts with difficult people at work has been a lifesaver. After many months of putting up with an insensitive co-worker, we now have worked out a solution and I can finally feel calm at work. That chapter alone was worth the price of the book.
I have been following his suggestions of eating heavy, warm, moist foods and now feel more grounded from my new diet. I've also enjoyed practicing his different meditation techniques. So many great suggestions!
Lots of gems but bad nutrition advice There is good advice in this book, particularly regarding sleep, which according to the author's bio is his speciality. Sleep is one of my biggest problems so from that perspective the book is helpful. There are is also good advice on meditation, visulaization, etc. presented very concisely, which I like.
However his nutrional advice follows the low-fat, semi vegetarian mantra. Get with the program, Dr. Zeff. Thanks largely to Sally Fallon, people are waking up to the fact that a diet high in good traditional fats is what you need -- particularly if yours is a nervous, high strung personality.
The other problem I have with the book is the feeling I'm being talked down to, like a child. The truth is I don't fully believe in the HSP premise to begin with - although I find it useful to think about. I believe HSP's are one end of a spectrum of personality types, not that it's a definitive trait -- as Elaine Aron, originator of the term, insist it be in order to have validity.
In summary there's plenty of good advice here, but the bad dietary advice and patronizing tone are turn-offs.
This book really helped me make positive changes in my life
When I read Ted Zeff's book "The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide" I was impressed with all of the innovative suggestions in the book. Unfortunately, just like New Year's resolutions I've made over the years, within a few weeks I found it difficult for me to keep following his many ideas for bringing more peace into my life.
However, I discovered Zeff's new book, "The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion" which is just what I needed to help me maintain my commitment to make the changes that I want to implement in my life. There is a different area to focus on each week and the daily reinforcement has been so helpful to get me going in the right direction. For example, I knew that trying some of Dr.Zeff's suggestions for centering myself when I wake up and calming myself down at night would help me, but it was hard to make the changes by myself. However, by following his suggestions every day for a week, I'm now regularly following a daily routine and feel confident that I'll maintain my new schedule.
This is definitely the book for you if you want to make permanent changes in your life so that you won't be knocked off center by insensitive people and too much stimulation.
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