Bertold Keinar - Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive: An Experiential Guide to Working with Subtle Energies

Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive

A fascinating exploration of our connection with the universe, backed by a strategic set of practical exercises to help us find our place in itour balance, fulfillment, and joy. The authors friendly tone engages readers in a dialogue with themselves and helps them find the answers to all unspoken questions with ease.

~ DIMITAR RIKOV, editor in chief at SoftPress Publishing, Bulgaria

This book is true medicine for sensitive souls. Such guiding text was desperately needed and is also proof that God sends the right teachings at the right time. Bertold Keinar gives us simple yet profound tools to reach paradise on Earth and help us save ourselves and our species.

~ THEODORA IOSSIFOVA, founder and owner of Epica Center for New Medicine, Bulgaria, and founder and president of the Jerusalem Testament Foundation

Being highly sensitive is normally viewed as a burden. This book insists that it can also be turned into a blessing. Furthermore, it supplies us with a toolboxa set of exercisesfor achieving this. If you are sensitive (and who isnt?), then this book is for you.

~ NOAM URBACH, owner of Shoket Contemporary Art, Israel

Contents

Introduction

T here are many Highly Sensitive People (HSP) nowadays, walking around on our planet. Many of us were granted the permission to reincarnate during these times, times of transformation of Planet Earth. We, who decided to come here now, are thus developed souls sensitive. Not all developed souls are sensitive, but those who have received this tool have been entrusted with it. We would be comfortable living in a balanced society, but Western society makes us suffer. By Western society I do not mean actually where you live but how you live (your rhythms and habits; you could live in Tibet or Nepal and live a Western life).

Many books have been written about spiritual development, practices and theory, but most of them, although they cover many topics of healthy lifestyle, energetic practices and meditation, dont directly address the problems (and where there is a problem there is an opportunity) facing sensitives in daily life. Very few books explain the logic and the structure ofthe reason forsensitivity, let alone the benefits of it from a spiritual perspective.

To be honest, I have never come across a book dealing with the topic of sensitives that is written from the perspective of a balanced person. Most of them seem to be written by people whose perception and thinking is dominated by the left side of the brain, and is thus imbalanced. The imbalance, the dominance of the left side of the brain in our lives, is the fundamental cause of suffering for sensitives. People like me who are authors and teachers and would like to help others can only help someone reach their own level, not beyond.

Sensitivity is a complex situation that needs a complex approach. Well, complex in the sense of how many aspects of life it affects. But in another way, everything is simple.

Our reality is multidimensional and we are multidimensional creatures. But we try to solve problems from the perspective of linear thinkingin other words, only from the left hemisphere of the brain. This means that we are trying to solve problems within the boundaries and with the way of thinking that created them. Our society does not look to solve problems but to eliminate the symptoms so as to make the subject comfortable for society and productive for the economy.

One example is the way we see and deal with emotions, mind, consciousness and subconsciousness. We see them as physiological phenomena and try to train them in the same way. We dont give them proper learning or attitude or try to balance them. We do not understand them at all, so how can we balance them?

Hypersensitivity, sensitivity and empathy do affect the physical body very much; however, as they come from our energetic bodies rather than the physical, they have to be addressed from this perspective. Sensitivity is a talent or a tool that our soul takes before incarnating, but this tool is so strong that we see it as a part of a persons nature or character. It cannot be taken away but it can be adjusted and controlled. The purpose of the tool we call sensitivity is to take in big amounts of information on a subtle level. It is a gift if we know how to use it, but a painful curse when we dont.

In this book you will find the reasons and explanations for your sensitivity, and the practical solutions to turn it from a burden to a blessing. The simple truth is: the bigger the potential for suffering, the bigger the potential for flourishing and happiness.

The Western reader is accustomed to receiving a lot of information and explanations from books (this is a logical and left-side-of-the-brain approach). We believe that if we read about transformation then we will experience it. But too much information without practice is actually doing more harm than good. The left side of the brainin fact, the whole brainis just one of the ways we receive and analyze information. For sensitive people, overengagement of the brain, particularly its left side, brings a lot of stress, discomfort and suffering.

The book includes information, explanations and practices. One of the purposes of the book is to switch your attention from the left side of the brain into balanced, whole-brain activity and to the other senses. The exercises are aimed at helping you to develop and balance what you already have and are designed to reflect your subtle structure. You must learn to do things from the perspectives you have, your sensitivity and beyond, step by step reducing the dominance of the left side of the brain.

I have written this book very much from my perspective: the perspective of a sensitive person, balanced and with strong intuition. A while ago, I was also living this suffering and imbalance, trying to fit into society and imitate its behavior.

The book contains all the information I think and hope might benefit you. I have largely assumed that I am writing for a reader who is on or is about to start on a spiritual path; but the exercises are for everyoneanyone can incorporate them into their life. So, if you dont like or agree with some parts, if things do not connect or resonate with you, or even if you find some of my words absurd, feel free to skip those partsas long as you do keep in some way doing the exercises. Remember, we reach understanding and knowledge through experience, not theory. This books exercises are experiences and they will teach you about their nature and your nature. You may not like all of the exercises or feel that theyre compatible with you or yield much in the way of results, but I would still advise that you do all of them. The first reason to do the exercises is for the effect it has on us; but the experience we gain from doing them is also valuable and important. I would like you to try to find a way to keep at and succeed in those exercises that generate relatively lesser results. This is all part of self-learning.

The book is structured in a way that reflects a persons inner balance, rather than being a purely left-side-of-the-brain creation. It contains a lot of heart, goodwill and love. Read from the heart, understand it with intuition and give it time.