Heidi Sawyer - Highly Intuitive People: 7 Right-Brain Traits to Change the Lives of Intuitive-Sensitive People

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Ive been working with Highly Intuitive People for more than 17 years, and Ive discovered that other people have a radar for them. They seek their knowledge, beliefs and insight into all aspects of their lives from relationships to career paths. For the Highly Intuitive Person though, this feels like a thankless task. Unless they offer something that the person asking wants to hear, their insight is ignored, even though it turns out to be correct. When it all goes wrong, they are the ones who are there to pick up the pieces and then go through it all again.

No-one hears them, no-one is there for their world; they provide the comfort, the missing pieces and the listening ear, yet they do not feel it for themselves. This book is for those unheard intuitive people.

When I started out, I never asked for intuitive ability I didnt understand or want it. Like many Intuitive-Sensitives I felt lost in a sea of aloneness, surrounded by people who didnt seem to understand. Were labelled as the wise ones were perceptive, caring, emotionally generous with other people but have little understanding of ourselves. We panic at the prospect of conflict and withdraw at the moment of overwhelm. This book contains the information I would have liked when I began the instant answers I spent years searching for.

Some parts of the book will resonate with you more than others, but overall it will give you the healing tools for the Intuitive-Sensitive Person: a voice for your unheard world.

In the course of my work, people ask me these questions:

Why am I so sensitive, and how can I tone it down?

Why is it I feel other peoples emotions as though they are my own?

Why and how do I seem to see events in peoples lives before they occur?

How do I get rid of overwhelm?

Throughout my life Ive had the opportunity to experience many extremes. They have taught me the richness of human faith, given me character strengths I never knew existed, and taught me the power of the intuitive journey to restore a passion for life.

What follows is your guidebook as an Intuitive-Sensitive Person: soul-seeker extraordinaire. Itll give you the depth youve been searching for, the answers that have eluded you. It will help you heal, and provide the route map to connecting with your own kind.

The world is changing. Weve seen more developments in the last 15 years than in the previous 100, because of huge advances in technology. Those changes are set to continue, and as a species were having to adapt faster than evolution allows. But no matter what technology demands of us tomorrow and no matter how advanced it becomes, it will never be able to truly understand human empathy.

The change has already begun its happening now. Around the world, senior people in organizations are seeking employees with a unique skill: one that cant be outsourced to countries with a cheaper labour force or automated. Its a skill thats natural to all Intuitive-Sensitives, and one that will be in huge demand, much sooner than any of us can predict. If youve ever voiced your concerns at work but had them dismissed, only to find that time proved you right and on the next occasion all heads turned to you (even though you may not be in a position of authority), then this is set to continue.

True authority isnt handed down by those in power its given by the collective to those who deserve it. Intuitive-Sensitives are the secret leaders, and in perhaps only a few years from now, they will no longer be hidden, or silent.

Being thrust into the limelight will be overwhelming, so Ive written this book to help prepare you for this new demand on your nervous system. You can thrive in this new world. If I can do it, then so can you.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become; everything else is secondary.

STEVE JOBS

Back off, leave her alone shes had enough. Finally, someone had noticed I was finding the whole process more than a little overwhelming. Childbirth is the end of ones personal dignity at the best of times, but in my experience as an extreme Sensitive, it had become the choice point between life and death.

I lay clutching the side of the hospital trolley, trying not to cry. I was surrounded by 16 people its amazing how you can still manage to count when youre stressed with what felt like fence post wires poking out of my femoral arteries. I looked around for the surgeon a very nice woman whom Id met numerous times in the build-up to this situation hoping for some reassurance. She was standing in the corner with her hands covering her face, and she was moving into something much like the prayer position.

It was at that point that I had a blast of realization the reason the surgeon wouldnt look me in the eye was nothing to do with whether she liked me or not, it was because she didnt want to be haunted for years to come by the eyes of the mother she couldnt be sure of saving.

I lay back onto the trolley, my white-knuckled hands letting go of the sides, and said nothing. As I looked up at the ceiling more and more excited faces appeared above me, all introducing themselves. Apparently what I was about to go through was a once-in-a-lifetime, not-to-be-missed learning opportunity for any obstetric medicine intern.