Too Sensitive

When I first read the description of "Highly Sensitive People" I knew I had found a box I fit in. That's saying a lot coming from someone who has always rebelled against fitting anywhere.

As a normally optimistic, high achieving person, I have found something to explain how easily I am derailed. The knowledge helps me cope.

My life is wonderful. I have a job that feeds me on many levels. I have a happy home life. I am healthy. Yet I am experiencing a feeling of uncomfortable ennui. I know where it is coming from, and it's outside of me. Knowing doesn't help.

I was in the studio by 7 am this morning. Long ago I learned a trick of "acting as if". I think I read it first in a Tony Robbins book. He gave an illustration of a patient with severe depression. He asked her how she would act if she were not depressed, and made her model that behavior. She discovered that when she "acted as if" she were not depressed, she actually felt better and it lessened her symptoms. So that's what I'm doing.