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How Breathwork and Affirmations Help Highly Sensitive People Clear Their Mind

And Shield Their Energy

Parag Shah
5 min readAug 19, 2022

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Highly sensitive people have the gift of empathy and the ability to feel other people’s emotions as their own. This gift is a blessing for people we care about, but it has a downside for us. HSPs are emotional and energetic sponges. We constantly absorb other people’s feelings and energy and feel them as our own. That’s how we know what others are feeling and who to reach out to with words of encouragement and support. However, when we are not aware of what is ours and what is not, it causes clutter and confusion in our mental and emotional bodies. If left unchecked, it can lead to emotional exhaustion and, at times, loss of identity.

Imagine a kind-hearted hostess who welcomes everyone into her house with lots of love. It’s a very generous gesture, but the truth is that most of the guests will not clean the mess they create. If this continues for a long time without the hostess addressing the issue, not only will her house begin to resemble a junkyard, but she will also lose the ability to distinguish her belongings from those left behind by random strangers.

HSPs deal with a similar situation in terms of thoughts and feelings. We are very welcoming of other people. As a side-effect, our mental space gets cluttered with…

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Parag Shah
Parag Shah

Written by Parag Shah

I write about 'swadharma' and living your truth.

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