Here's what I do. I hope others might find something useful that might help them.
We start the day when the radio comes on at 6.45. Beautiful classical music from Radio 3 and only very short news bulletins, just a couple of minutes which is quite enough! I do about 15 minutes of Chi Gung to ground myself and I then might read a quality newspaper with breakfast - but I have to say today it was the RHS magazine as I couldn't face the papers. I'm finding gardening takes me to a serene place where I'm in touch with a different reality. Physical activity of all kinds is very helpful to release anger and upset as well as redirecting my thoughts. I don't do social media at all, never have, and I don't feel I'm missing anything except angst! My husband is not HSP and keeps himself pretty well informed so he'll tell me if there is anything urgent that I really need to know. I still find it hard to cope with what's going on so there are plenty of tears too and they help.
Kristina, thanks for sharing. Such helpful ideas for other HSPs as we all think about how to manage right now. The gardening sounds amazing. How wonderful and grounding to connect to nature in that way.
Very timely Genevieve - really good article... any help we can have with these traumatic world events is much appreciated. It's all so new that there simply isn't the literature written yet on these topics..
Thanks Michael. I'm so glad you found the newsletter helpful. Yes I agree. I think we're all struggling to learn how to strike the right balance at the moment.
Thank you Genevieve, so useful.
Here's what I do. I hope others might find something useful that might help them.
We start the day when the radio comes on at 6.45. Beautiful classical music from Radio 3 and only very short news bulletins, just a couple of minutes which is quite enough! I do about 15 minutes of Chi Gung to ground myself and I then might read a quality newspaper with breakfast - but I have to say today it was the RHS magazine as I couldn't face the papers. I'm finding gardening takes me to a serene place where I'm in touch with a different reality. Physical activity of all kinds is very helpful to release anger and upset as well as redirecting my thoughts. I don't do social media at all, never have, and I don't feel I'm missing anything except angst! My husband is not HSP and keeps himself pretty well informed so he'll tell me if there is anything urgent that I really need to know. I still find it hard to cope with what's going on so there are plenty of tears too and they help.
Kristina, thanks for sharing. Such helpful ideas for other HSPs as we all think about how to manage right now. The gardening sounds amazing. How wonderful and grounding to connect to nature in that way.
Very timely Genevieve - really good article... any help we can have with these traumatic world events is much appreciated. It's all so new that there simply isn't the literature written yet on these topics..
Thanks Michael. I'm so glad you found the newsletter helpful. Yes I agree. I think we're all struggling to learn how to strike the right balance at the moment.