ENERGETIC LITERACY
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out what you have; and then armed with your answer, Wisdom Seek - er, I’m going to take you through each option, score by score, and break down what they mean. Then I’ll offer you strategies to im - prove all your relationships, regardless of another person’s sensitiv- ity pettiness and own score on the scale. We’ll consider three things: 1) What you might envy, because whichever score another person has, if it’s different from yours, you might have the habit of respond - ing with a certain kind of envy; 2) Please don’t envy, because these folks pay a price, with whichever Sensitivity Score, either in the past, or pays for it now, or will pay a price for it in the future; and 3) Su - per-practical ways to best communicate with this kind of person. Scoring 1 on the Energy Spirituality Sensitivity Scale: You’re exceptionally well adjusted to life as it is—fearlessly no- ticing, and accepting, objective reality. Along with that, you’ve got minimum sensitivity, as people go. Consider yourself to be rugged! Whatyoumightenvy: They’rejustsoeasygoing, comparedtoyou. But don’t envy, please, because these folks pay a price: They miss out on information you and others find real - ly fascinating, juicy, insightful. Moreover, those 1s don’t seem to know they’re missing out. In fact, they may act pretty smug, as if their extreme insensitivity makes them superior, which would cause others to (justifiably) find them somewhat annoying. How best to communicate with this kind of person? Talk about objective reality: What people say and do; physical ob- jects; what would show in a YouTube video. Highly Insensitive Persons tend to be talented at understanding objective reality.
Your score on this Sensitivity Scale is one of those things you agreed to when signing on the dotted line, namely when agreeing to your “Life Contract” for this incarnation. You see, your innate de- gree of sensitivity is part of the big picture of your purpose and po- tential for this lifetime. And keep this in mind: What you’ve got for your degree of personal sensitivity isn’t just permanent. It’s good. Wisdom Seeker, do you realize how this kind of knowledge has the potential to help you? Know thyself and thy Sensitivity Score! Of course you can benefit from more wisdom about that key as - pect of who you are. However, with great sensitivity can come a common form of pettiness—Sensitivity Pettiness. Chances are, even a brilliant Wisdom Seeker like you… sometimes even you… has fallen into this certain sort of pettiness. Never on purpose, but still… It shows up in many ways, how folks with different Sen - sitivity Scores can feel weird about those who score differently. In case it’s relevant, I’d like also to provide you with strategies that will help you stop envying, or despising, or whatever other funky way you’ve been adjusting to the fact that different people will score dif - ferently from you on the Energy Spirituality Sensitivity Scale. Long before you knew a thing about Energetic Literacy, or this particu- lar scale, you probably felt these differences inwardly, intuitively. Your Sensitivity Scale Score and What It Means So where do you fall within the sensitivity scale? What if you’re not sure whether you’re a Sensitive Person or an HSP? Take Dr. Elaine Aron’s classic test, at www.hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/. This Sensitivity Scale includes a range of scores from 1 to 20. Find
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