The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity & Depression

by Kyra Mesich

Book Overview

" The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide is an outstanding contribution to body-mind healing and has our highest recommendation. Dr. Mesich explains the relationship between emotional sensitivity and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595098002
• ISBN13: 9780595098002
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Writers Club Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An eye-opening book!

Although I knew basically what the book would discuss, I was still surprised when I read it. It has a lot of really interesting ideas and very helpful tips and suggestions. This book is worth getting and keeping. I have already seen success in my daily life using the wisdom I gained from the book. It also is easy to read, has a personal tone, and plenty of good stories from the author's own life to illustrate points.

Didn't know I was sensitive, but I was always sick.

I would like to add my story to the other comments. I never thought that I was a highly sensitive person when I picked up this book, but I have been sick my entire life (migraines, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc. etc. etc.)and have tried just about everything to make my life less painful. I decided to try the primary flower essence of Yarrow, per Dr. Mesich's recommendation. Within 2 days I started noticing dramatic changes in my health. I mean, really bizarre and unexpected changes. For example, I have always suffered from night sweats, and they vanished. It was usually painful to take a shower and shampoo because my skin was too sensitive, and all of a sudden my skin no longer felt raw. I have always worn glacier sunglasses, because my eyes hurt, even on a cloudy day, and that symptom vanished also. I purchased some more of the "protection" flower essences she recommends, and each worked in a different way, but they made my health even stronger, I had more energy, I had less headaches, etc. It was only after my health improved that I was able to notice my extreme sensitivity to certain things, such as noise, and negative people. I had been so ill most of the time, that I didn't know what my triggers were. My health had simply been overwhelmed.I've made more physical progress in 3 months than in the last 20 years, and all because of this book. It would take pages to describe all the changes in my body and health that have happened, and are still happening.If you or anyone you know is perpetually ill with one thing or another, ***get this book and try it***.

A totally different perspective

Many people are aware of the symptoms of depression, and the prevailing strategies to alleviate these symptoms. We are constantly being urged to ask our doctor to prescribe anti-depression medication. But this perspective only reinforces the idea that depression is a liability to be suppressed.Dr. Mesich offers a totally different perspective. Dr. Mesich has discovered that people who suffer from the symptoms of depression tend to be sensitive to the emotions of other people. In this book, Dr. Mesich challenges the reader to think of emotional sensitivity as a gift to be nurtured, and offers the reader several strategies to achieve this goal.

Developing Positive Sensitivity

The biggest question sensitive people have is, why are they so sensitive, why do they react so differently to the world than the "average" person? In her book, The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, Dr. Kyra Mesich effectively tackles that question, and also provides information for living with the empathic abilities that are inherent in all of us. Based on her own personal experiences of debilitating sensitivity while working as a psychologist, she discovered that visualization, meditation and flower essence therapy are crucial components in the development of positive sensitivity and empathy. Dr. Mesich believes that sensitivity is an issue of our times; it touches all types of personalities, ages, economic levels--it crosses all boundaries, and is therefore confusing to psychologists and people in general. People who work as nurses, doctors, health practitioners, teachers, lawyers, counselors--all people who try to impact other people in a positive way--are especially susceptible to experiencing dysfunctional effects of empathy if they are not aware of the phenomenon. Additionally, emotional sensitivity is more often activated in situations with people who mirror our own emotional pain or psychological issues. By not understanding the nature of sensitivity, it can result in recurrent anxiety or depression. This book, containing actual case examples of empathic children and adults, provides valuable insight and explanations for many people who have not yet discovered the source of their emotional pain. Various chapters focus on how to ease empathy so it does not feel painfully overwhelming, how to be more aware of empathic communication--which will prevent confusion with one's own emotions--and how to positively develop empathy for the useful information it can provide. This is a very readable book containing illuminating, useful, and, for many people, comforting and healing information.

An original and compelling contribution

The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer To Emotional Sensitivity & Depression focuses on empathic ability, the ability to literally feel other people's emotional experiences and its role in recurrent depression, anxiety, and the painful aspects of emotional sensitivity to the denial and repression of the existence of psychic phenomena. With her articulate, "reader friendly" text, Kyra Mesich demystifies empathic ability while explaining the relationship between emotional sensitivity and psychic sensitivity. The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide is an original and compelling contribution to students of alternative medicine, metaphysical studies, and self-help reading lists.