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10 Negative Effects of Anxiety on Your Brain


Anxiety is a debilitating condition, causing sufferers to constantly experience stress, worry, and uneasiness. As a chronic medical problem, anxiety can wreak havoc on your body and your brain, causing panic attacks, heart trouble, and even deadly strokes. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of anxiety is its potential to damage your brain, sometimes even permanently. Read on to learn about ten of the most disturbing negative effects that anxiety can have on your brain.

Stroke:

Perhaps the scariest effect of anxiety on the brain is the increased risk of stroke. When "fight or flight" hormones are constantly on the attack, your heart risk and subsequent stroke risk goes up. In fact, research from Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association indicates that middle-aged men with symptoms of psychological distress including anxiety are "more than three times as likely to have a fatal stroke" than those who do not have problems with anxiety.

Dead hippocampus cells:

Overloading your stress system can have a huge impact on stress hormones. As the sympathetic nervous system (the one responsible for stress) works so hard, some stress hormones just don’t know when to stop. When this happens, and stress hormones are active in the brain for too long, they can injure and even kill hippocampus brain cells. Although all of the parts of your brain are obviously essential, the hippocampus is even more vital because it’s needed for memory and learning.

SSRIs can result in memory loss, disorientation:

Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs, are typically used to treat chronic anxiety disorders. But one aspect of the drugs that’s sure to induce further anxiety is the possibility for memory loss and disorientation as a side effect. There are reports of "memory loss, tics, and jerking side effects" in SSRI patients, with the possibility of long-term brain damage from use of the drugs.

Early memory decline:

We already know that lingering stress hormones can take out brain cells in your hippocampus, the area of the brain that’s responsible for memory. So naturally, it’s easy to understand that anxiety can lead to early memory decline. This is especially true for elderly people who suffer from both depression and anxiety, as they are risk factors for memory problems.

Cognitive performance:

Academic researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Illinois, and Duke University have discovered that anxiety-inducing distraction can have a major impact on cognitive performance. Clearly, if you’re preoccupied by anxiety, it’s difficult to think about much else. The research clearly showed that there is a "detrimental impact of emotion distraction."

Lack of concentration:

Following along the same lines as cognitive performance, problems with anxiety can cause a lack of concentration. Anxietyfreechildren.com explores the effects of anxiety and concentration on school performance, and has found that stress and fear can negatively impact concentration and school work, making it difficult for students to focus on tasks and find road blocks in their thought process. This leads to low grades, poor performance, and difficulty creating and maintaining relationships with their peers.

Hyperactive brain circuits:

Generalized anxiety disorder are at risk for hyperactive brain circuits, an abnormality in the brain. Researchers have identified increased metabolic rates in a variety of areas of the brain in both passive activity and during vigilance tasks, which leads them to believe that patients with GAD are at risk for hyperactive brain circuits.

Insomnia:

For many patients, anxiety and insomnia go hand in hand. Anxiety can cause insomnia, just as insomnia can lead to problems with anxiety. This sleep disorder can cause poor quality of sleep and difficulty functioning throughout the day. Insomnia is often one of the first symptoms of depression or anxiety.

Slowing of frontal-prefrontal lobe function:

With chronic stress and anxiety, your body and brain are kept in an always-on state of alert, which leads to long term effects on the brain. MRI scans have indicated that patients who suffer from chronic anxiety show a "significant slowing of prefrontal lobe function."

Loss of brain tissue:

In addition to the slowing of frontal-prefrontal lobe function, MRI scans indicate that chronic anxiety sufferers may also have a loss of brain tissue. This change, along with the aforementioned frontal-prefrontal lobe function slowing are "the basis of many forms of mental disturbance and mental illness."

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Mind Control - 11 Reasons Laughter Really May Be the Best Medicine of All


We’ve all heard the old saying that laughter is the best medicine, but new research is demonstrating that there may be some serious weight behind the adage. Numerous studies have shown that laughter can have a powerful effect on your well-being, happiness, and overall health and longevity, often in ways of which you aren’t even aware. Want to learn more? Read through our list of the health benefits of laughter to get a quick education on the matter. You may just find yourself wanting to watch a comedy, call up a funny friend, or even take a laughter yoga class after learning all the amazing benefits a good laugh can offer your overall health.
  1. It relaxes the whole body.

    Feeling tense? A good laugh may be just the thing to help you loosen up. Laughter uses numerous muscles throughout the body, and while these muscles are engaged many other muscles in your body relax. After you laugh, the muscles you use to laugh relax as well, leaving you much less tense than before and often feeling much more energetic. Additionally, muscles can also become tense due to not getting enough oxygen, something laughter can also help to remedy by increasing the flow of oxygen in the body.
  2. It boosts the immune system.

    According to research published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine,laughter could be a key factor in helping to boost the immune system. The biggest way in which laughter helps to boost the immune system is by reducing stress, which can negatively affect health in a wide range of ways. Some studies suggest that laughter may also boost the level of protective white blood cells in the body, especially a type that attacks cancer cells, and can also increase the level of infection-fighting antibodies and other types of immune cells.
  3. It triggers the release of endorphins.

    If a good belly laugh leaves you feeling high on life, you’re not just imagining things. Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. These chemicals can give individuals a sense of overall well-being and may even temporarily reduce pain and discomfort.
  4. It protects the heart.

    Laughter is especially crucial when it comes to maintaining a healthy heart, or so research suggests. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, both of which can help to protect you from heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues. More specifically, laughter helps to improve the inner lining of the blood vessels, called the endothelium, causing vessels to relax and expand, which increases blood flow. This is beneficial to both your heart and your brain, both of which require a steady flow of oxygen.
  5. It reduces blood sugar levels.

    Whether you’re diabetic or not, you shouldn’t discount the importance of laughter in helping to lower blood sugar levels. Regular laughter has been shown to significantly reduce levels of glucose in the body, a factor which can be important to both diabetics and non-diabetics alike.To see the biggest change, get in some good laughs immediately following a meal.
  6. It helps maintain or restore a positive emotional outlook.

    Depression is a serious issue, but research suggests that it could help to do a bit of laughing if you’re feeling down. In a study of depressed and suicidal senior citizens, research found that the patients who recovered the best were those who had a sense of humor. In these adults, laughter was found to reduce levels of depression and insomnia and to improve mental cognition and sleep quality. In addition, the release of endorphins caused by laughter can have a powerful effect on mood, improving outlook and general sense of well-being.
  7. It increases blood flow.

    The increased blood flow that comes along with laughing can help just about every part of your body. With increased blood flow come increased levels of oxygen in the body, which can help boost the heart and the brain, and in some cases have even been shown to improve creativity. If that wasn’t already enough, this increase in blood flow may also help to reduce digestive problems and speeds up healing.
  8. It helps us to cope with difficult situations.

    There’s no way around it: some things in life are just hard to deal with. Yet laughter can help make difficult situations easier to cope with. In a study of medical professionals who work with the terminally ill, those who worked in an environment where humor was used judged their workplaces to be more effective and reported greater job satisfaction and less stress. Similar results were found in the elderly, with those using humor reporting a better ability to cope, leading to greater life satisfaction.
  9. It strengthens relationships.

    New research into laughter suggests that it may have emerged as a common human behavior tens of thousands of years ago, and could have played a pivotal role in human evolution. Why? Laughter helps to promote group bonding and can act as a sort of social glue that helps even disparate groups come together. Even today it’s hard to deny the power of laughter to build and strengthen relationships with friends, family, and coworkers. And those with strong social ties often report better health and a better outlook on life than those with weaker ties.
  10. It reduces stress.

    Perhaps one of the best benefits of laughter is its ability to reduce stress. Laughter lowers the amount of the stress hormone cortisol in the body by slowing the body’s stress response. In place of those stress hormones, laughter prompts the body to pump out loads of healthy hormones and chemicals instead, like serotonin and interleukins. The result is a big impact on your overall health, as stress has been linked to serious conditions like heart disease, depression, and cancer.
  11. It has effects similar to exercise.

    While you shouldn’t stop working out, new research suggests that laughter can give you many of the same effects. Cardiologist Michael Miller found that in a study of 20 healthy people, laughter did as much good for their arteries as aerobic activity. Miller’s findings are hardly isolated. Laughter researcher William Fry found that it took 10 minutes on a rowing machine for his heart rate to reach the same level as after just one minute of hearty laughter. It even burns calories, at the rate of 50 calories per 10-15 minutes.

Legal highs making the drug war obsolete

If you want any evidence that drugs have won the drug war, you just need to read the scientific studies on legal highs.
If you’re not keeping track of the ‘legal high’ scene it’s important to remember that the first examples, synthetic cannabinoids sold as ‘Spice’ and ‘K2′ incense, were only detected in 2009.
Shortly after amphetamine-a-like stimulant drugs, largely based on variations on pipradrol and the cathinones appeared, and now ketamine-like drugs such as methoxetamine have become widespread.
Since 1997, 150 new psychoactive substances were reported. Almost a third of those appeared in 2010.
Last year, the US government banned several of these drugs although the effect has been minimal as the legal high laboratories have over-run the trenches of the drug warriors.
A new study just published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology tracked the chemical composition of legal highs as the bans were introduced.
A key question was whether the legal high firms would just try and use the same banned chemicals and sell them under a different name.
The research team found that since the ban only 4.9% of the products contained any trace of the recently banned drugs. The remaining 95.1% of products contained drugs not covered by the law.
The chemicals in legal highs have fundamentally changed since the 2011 ban and the labs have outrun the authorities in less than a year.
Another new study has looked at legal highs derived from pipradrol – a drug developed in 1940s for treating obesity, depression, ADHD and narcolepsy.
It was made illegal in made countries during the 70s due to its potential for abuse because it gives an amphetamine-like high.
The study found that legal high labs have just been running through variations of the banned drug using simple modifications of the original molecule to make new unregulated versions.
The following paragraph is from this study and even if you’re not a chemist, you can get an impression of how the drug is been tweaked in the most minor ways to create new legal versions.
Modifications include: addition of halogen, alkyl or alkoxy groups on one or both of the phenyl rings or addition of alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkyl and hydroxyalkyl groups on the nitrogen atom. Other modifications that have been reported include the substitution of a piperidine ring with an azepane ring (7-membered ring), a morpholine ring or a pyridine ring or the fusion of a piperidine ring with a benzene ring. These molecules, producing amphetamine-like effects, increase the choice of new stimulants to be used as legal highs in the coming years.
New, unknown and poorly understand psychoactive chemicals are appearing faster than they can be regulated.
The market is being driven by a demand for drugs that have the same effects as existing legal highs but won’t get you thrown in prison.
The drug war isn’t only being lost, it’s being made obsolete.

The 7 Hardest Languages to Master


The 7 Hardest Languages to Master

The benefits of bilingualism have been established time and time again. You’ll be better at everything! Your mind will never grow old! You’ll be able to pick up chicks! But have you ever tried learning another language? It’s not as easy as taking a class or two. It takes years of practice and immersion to really master a language, and that’s just for the languages similar to your own. These seven tongues are among the most difficult in the world for English speakers. Start with any of them now, andmaybe you’ll be able to do more than order food and ask where the bathroom is by the time you die.
  1. Arabic

    Arabic is becoming an increasingly important language in our world, but it’s a hard one for English speakers to pick up. Besides the initial setbacks of learning the Arabic alphabet in which most letters have four different forms and getting used to reading from right to left, many Arabic writers leave out the vowels, making it hard for a beginner to get the hang of vocabulary and comprehension. Then try pronouncing Arabic sounds, which can be very different from sounds we’re used to making in English, and figuring out the order of words and genders that words take on. With all of these foreign concepts to sort out, an Arabic student will take about a year in the classroom full-time and a year in-country to become proficient.
  2. Basque

    You may not have even heard of this language spoken in Northern Spain and Southwest France, but we can bet you’d have a heck of a time learning it. Not even all of the Basque people speak this complicated language. Part of what makes it so difficult is that it is unrelated to any of the traditional European languages. In fact, linguists aren’t totally sure where it originated. In Basque, you can add suffixes, prefixes, and infixes to simple words, resulting in lots of long, complicated vocabulary. The grammar also differs enormously from Romance languages, from the way verbs are formed to how you use objects in sentences.
  3. Japanese

    When learning a language related to English, you at least have the advantage of knowing the alphabet and pronouncing words based on this system. Even if the pronunciations are slightly different, you have a general idea. No such luck with Japanese. Because the language is composed largely of symbols, you have to learn written words and pronunciation separately. And since you can’t use mnemonic devices to help you remember, thousands of symbols must be memorized without using the techniques we typically use in English. The State Department gives students learning Japanese about three times as long to learn the language as they gives those studying Spanish or French.
  4. Mandarin Chinese

    With so many Chinese speakers in the world, Mandarin is growing as an important language in business and modern life in general. This Chinese dialect is hard in similar ways to Japanese, as each character has its own pronunciation without giving phonetic clues within the word. This requires a lot of memorization to be able to read the language. A particularly difficult task for English-speaking students to undertake is understanding the tonal differences between words. In English, we use different tones to convey the meaning of a sentence — questions, commands, exclamations. In Chinese, there are four tones that can make one word mean four different things. On top of this, there are many homophones, or words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings. Some have as many as 30 meanings.
  5. Korean

    To learn Korean, you’ll have to learn many characters, many of which come from Chinese, on top of learning a phonetic alphabet to build words and two sets of numbers. It also takes time to understand the difference in speech patterns used when talking to or about someone with a higher status than you, wrapping cultural lessons into the language-learning process. Many English speakers will find the pronunciation difficult, with tensed and aspirated consonant sounds that probably won’t sound different to your untrained ears.
  6. Navajo

    The Navajo Nation stands in parts of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, and more than 170,000 people reportedly speak the Navajo language. But don’t expect it to be easy if you want to become one of these speakers. Besides a decreasing number of teachers, especially if you live away from the Navajo reservation, the structure of Navajo makes it pretty difficult for English speakers to pick up. It was even used during World War II to transmit messages because the Germans and Japanese couldn’t crack the code. Navajo uses prefixes on every verb, has up to 10 intonations on each vowel that can change the meaning of words, and many words can be very long. So if you want to learn Navajo, you’re going to have to work at it.
  7. Hungarian

    You know all those conjugations you had to memorize when you learned French or Spanish in high school (and then promptly forgot when you graduated)? In Hungarian, you’d have to learn twice as many; you can conjugate almost every verb in two different ways depending on the object of the sentence. The Hungarian word order also takes some getting used to since you can change around the words depending on what you want to emphasize. If this weren’t enough to make Hungarian confusing, many of the letter combinations make different sounds than we’re used to in English, such as “c” being pronounced like “ts” and “gy” pronounced as “di.”

Mind Control - Illuminati, the Freemasons Secret Organization


Translated from Indonesian from this web page: 


http://politik.kompasiana.com/2012/04/16/illuminati-organisasi-rahasia-freemason/



At that time I was still writing his thesis, I know a staff of college, he was only as a campus Office boy but he was critical of someone who likes to read books. when I'm browsing using the notebook in the room of student organizations (BEM), he invited me to browse on the strange symbols contained in a U.S. dollar money, and he shows the meaning of the symbols associated with freemasonry secret organization .. many people who do not know about the strange organization. The following history and description of the illuminati that I heard from my story and browsing teman2 in google,


Illuminati is an ancient brotherhood that was, and is believed to still exist today although there is no evidence - evidence the existence of this fraternity to date. Illuminati means New Enlightenment. The adherents of so-called Illuminati Illuminatus which means Enlightened One. Perfectibilists formerly Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811) of Jewish descent who was born and raised in Ingolstadt, have an educational background as a Jesuit who then became a Catholic priest and later organized House of Rothschild. Illuminatus is people - people who seek answers to what is called religion the mystery of God. According to them the science no longer the mystery of God, all have the answers. One is the famous Illuminatus Galileo Galilei an anthropologist who was forced to put the home for life by the church due to make a statement that the center of the universe is not the earth is the sun. The statement was deemed offensive to the church because it implies that God deliberately placed the center of life on other planets. Since then Illuminatus hunted by the church. They were hunted down and given the stamp of a new cross their chest and then killed. Illuminati and then move from the underground as a secret society of the most sought after by the church. The Illuminatus who escaped later met with other secret groups: the group of experts called the stone of Freemasonry or more commonly referred to as the Masons.


Since joining the Freemasons, Illuminati became stronger due to be assisted by a network of Freemasonry which does not seem to have been made ​​aware of safe transport by the illuminati. Illuminati continues to be hunted by the church. They are labeled as Saxon Luciferian Conspiracy. Lucifer is often associated with Satan. So the Illuminati are also referred to as the saithan. This designation becomes the origin of the word Satan in the English language meaning devil However they are not Satanists, it is just propaganda of the church to the Illuminati that they are increasingly believed to be the enemy of society.


At first, he was a Catholic priest who later defected to the pioneers of the most persistent in opposing the religion Christianity and other religions. Movements secret  Illuminatievolved into a network that "menggurita" due to the support of family  Rothchild . Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812) was a very dominant character of banking in Germany and is called a dynasty , as his descendants held the kingdoms of the world banking network in Europe with ambitions to dominate the world economy. One of the sayings Rothchild famous are:


"Give me a chance to control the economy of a nation, and I would not care about who is in power (give me control over a nations economic, and I do not care WHO writes its laws)."
Motto  Rothchild gives strength and encouragement all members of the  Illuminati to not miss any aspect of the economy led them on a dictator who can master and control the government in the corners of the  world . In fact, one of America's 20th president, namely [[James Abram Garfield]] who are also members of the Illuminati said:


"Whoever controls the money or the economy of a nation, then he will rule the nations (That whomever controls the money or economies of nation, They would control the nation too)."
Adam Weishaupt was also a  Jesuit , professor of law and taught at  the University Ingoldstadt ,  Bavaria , Germany, until 1770. Disappointment himself against the dogmas of  Catholicism led him out of his position as pastor and began to devote themselves to the movement of  the Zionist to establish a one world government (one world government) which is believed to uphold human dignity by eliminating religion on earth, except the familiar demons (abolition of all religion, except Satanism).


For five years he compiled a book called [[The Novus Ordo Seclorum]] that contains the concepts, doctrine, and the theory of global governance. The book was completed on May 1, 1776. As a tribute to him, May 1, used as a day of celebration of the  Communist world.According to  Myron Pagan , strategic steps to realize his ambition Weishaupt wrote, among other things, as follows.


l. Illumination must master high-level officials from several levels of government positions, if necessary by means of dirty bribe, either with money or women. (Monetary and sex bribery was to used to Obtain the control of men already in high places in the Various Levels of all Governments and other fields of Endeavor).


2. Illumination of recruitment of potential student activists, who have the talent and of superior breeds to be trained as a prospective board member Illumination in the future.(The Illuminati WHO were on the faculty of colleges and universities were to cultivate students processing exceptional mental ability and WHO Well-Bred belong to families with international leanings and recommend them for special training in Internationalism).


3. Those who are trapped in the network Illumination, including students who have been trained and given special knowledge of the international community, as well as the ideals of Illumination Illumination will maketh as agents in several countries and was placed as an expert or specialist staff to assist key government officials. (All WHO Influential people were trapped to come under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students WHO had been specially educated and Trained, were to be used as agents and placed behind the scenes of all Governments as experts and specialists).


4. Illumination will control all channels of mass media, both electronic and printed media, government ownership and control in such a way as the only solution so as to shape public opinion. (They were to Obtain absolute control of the press so That all news and information Could be slanted to convince the Masses That a one word government is the only solution to our many and varied problems. They were also to own and control all the national radio and TV channels).


then I was browsing on the image of money one edge adjacent to the U.S. dollar symbol money has beheaded at the top of the pyramid-shaped in a triangular shape of his eyes there is one, which the Muslims are liars and symbols according to the Christians is the symbol of "anti-christ"

Almost every American looks at a one dollar bill on a daily basis, but few view it for it's historic significance. The Freemasons play a significant role in our government but go unseen by the average American. To show just how much They are INVOLVED, the back of the one dollar bill is an excellent place to look.


The left side of the bill displays an unfinished pyramid with the all seeing eye above it. The unfinished pyramid is significant for two Reasons. The first is the reason That the pyramid is unfinished. The Freemasons believe That Their work will go unfinished in their lifetime on earth, and it Continues on into the afterlife. If the square and compass, symbols of the Freemasons, are put over the pyramid, it spells the word Mason. Above the pyramid is the all seeing eye representing the Illuminati. The true secret connection Organizations Between these two is unclear. Some Historians believe Evidence That They have branched off from the Freemasons the Illuminati, while others argue there is little connection. Above the eye of the Illuminati are the Latin words "Annuit Coeptis", roughly translating to He favors us. Often Freemason manuals talk about worshiping their "Dark God". Although the Freemasons publically deny it, many past members and religious leaders warn of the hidden beliefs and rituals Stanic. The ribbon under the pyramid contains the latin words Novus Ordo Seclorum, roughly translating into a "a new order for the ages". The exact meaning of this phrase is also one of some debate. Conspiracy Theorist argue That this refers to the coming of a New World Order where the lives of non-Freemasons will be Strictly regulated and controlled, however it may simply refer to the emergence of a new country. On the bottom of the pyramid are the roman numerals MDCCLXXVI or 1776. There is little argument That this represents the signing of the Delcaration of Independence.

how about 2 dollars U.S. money, let's check it out!

A. The face of Thomas Jefferson (third president of the United States and members of the Bavarian Illuminati) is set such that the nose, forehead, ears and eyes to form one-eyed pyramid symbol. And would not it strange that both eyes facing the other direction / cross-eyed?
 2. Number 6 is "special" for the Illuminati is strongly associated with the life of Thomas Jefferson. He has six children, his wife died on 6 September, and sculpture legacy, "Jefferson Memorial" stands as tall as 6 feet.

3. Now look at the symbol on the right side of the seal:
numbers listed at the bottom of 1789, which was the year in which the Illuminati make their major actions. As George Washington made ​​the U.S. president and the start of the French Revolution. And there are key images, which some people interpret it as a mind opener, demonstrates the power and influence of the Illuminati (or symbol of the Monarch Mind Control , etc.). At the top there is a balance, which states a balance between the old world powers ( the Freemasons , the Bavarian Illuminati , etc.) and the new world power (a mixture of the secret organization that led to the New World Order ). There is also a hidden row of 13 stars, is no less important to the Illuminati. The figure shows 13 offspring and 13 groups that receive "enlightenment" (denoted by asterisks).
4. Sources say that John Trumbull , painter drawing back of the drawing 47 people total.But the original prints are only 42 people for five other people is the enemy of the Illuminati.

5. Some people who appear in the picture is showing the signs of the Illuminati: sit with legs crossed and hand gestures such as finger "metal":
6. Appearance of several important figures Illuminati, such as George Clinton , ancestor of President Bill Clinton and Stephen Hopkins , were powerful at the time and the only person in the picture wearing a hat, which indicates that the position is very important for the Illuminati.

7. Sources say that the words "Two Dollars" in the bottom corner is a play on words ofOwl's Lard To which is secret code for members to recruit new members. Owl refers to the owl who became the core of the teaching of Bohemian Grove and Lard refers to the symbol of wealth in those days.

8. And many more that can be searched if the reader carefully.
hmm, ga if Indonesia had experienced any financial crisis because of the dollar increase in the stock index in Indonesia.
that's all for this time. enjoy reading and sharing! =)

Mind Control - 10 Tips for Highly Sensitive People



10 Tips for Highly Sensitive People When I completed Elaine Aron’s Highly Sensitive Person Self-Test, I checked 24 statements. Out of 27.
I checked everything from being bothered by bright lights and loud noises to getting startled easily to trying to avoid mistakes to not watching violent movies or TV shows.
Maybe you can relate.
While there are many differences among highly sensitive people (HSPs), we have one thing in common: HSPs have a sensitive nervous system that makes it harder to filter out stimuli and easier to get overwhelmed by our environment.
For instance, the sound of sirens and other loud noises might reverberate like nails on a chalkboard through your head. (They do in mine.)  Crowds might make you especially uncomfortable, while strong smells make you feel sick.
Being highly sensitive isn’t a disorder, aliment or flaw; it’s simply an innate trait, according to Ted Zeff, PhD, author of three books on HSPs, including The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide and The Strong, Sensitive Boy.
Unfortunately, because we’re not like most people, HSPs tend to worry that something is wrong with them. (According to HSP pioneer Elaine Aron’s research, about 20 percent of the population is an HSP.) As an HSP himself, as a boy, Zeff recalled feeling shame for his sensitivity in a society that associates masculinity with being aggressive, tough and stoic.
Today, the idea of masculinity has largely remained the same in our culture with a few added pressures on both genders. Our world is a fast-paced one, filled with even bigger crowds, louder noises and shorter deadlines. Even the pressure to constantly stay plugged in with social media, email and texting can be tough on someone who requires regular peace and quiet.
But there are ways you can effectively cope. Below, Zeff shares his tips on how highly sensitive people can traverse today’s overstimulated world.
1. Set a bedtime and morning routine.
For at least an hour or two before bedtime, shut down all electronic equipment and engage in calming activities, such as reading an uplifting book, Zeff said. Keep the morning calm, too. Spend 30 minutes centering yourself by practicing yoga or meditation, he said. You also might journal or read, he said.
2. Identify your triggers.
Again, all HSPs are different, so it’s important to determine what stimuli trigger your discomfort. For instance, Zeff’s friend, an architect and fellow HSP, didn’t mind the deafening noise during his home remodel. (He could tell the workers to stop any time.) Similarly, one person might pass on violent movies, while another lives for them.
3. Plan ahead.
If you’re sensitive to loud noises and crowds, avoid seeing new movies on a Saturday night or eating out at peak times, Zeff said. Instead, see an early showing or go on a weekday, and have an early dinner when restaurants tend to be less busy, he said.
4. Work around triggers.
Planning ahead doesn’t mean avoiding the activities you love. For instance, Zeff loves to travel. But traveling is one of the noisiest, people-packed things you can do. To tune out triggering noises, Zeff brings his iPod with calming music, earplugs and construction-style earmuffs. He also books hotel rooms on the top floor, at the rear, which tend to be quieter. When he’s staying with family, he brings a white noise machine. If noise also bothers you, consider noise-canceling headphones or CDs with soothing sounds.
5. Investigate current stressors and solutions.
If you’re in a super stressful job, consider why you’re staying, and be open to all options, Zeff said. One of his clients, a chef, worked in an upscale restaurant in San Francisco. The stress got so bad that he developed ulcers and digestive problems and had trouble sleeping. Because he was living in such a pricey place, he believed that he had to make this much money. He and Zeff discussed moving to a calmer, more affordable area. Months after, he got a job two hours away from San Francisco, and his rent was half the price. And even better, his health problems went away.
6. Remember your gifts.
Even though being highly sensitive isn’t a flaw, you still might feel bad that you’re easily bothered by things that others aren’t. There have been many times that I wished I enjoyed roller-coasters like everyone else (as if riding roller-coasters somehow makes you brave), didn’t freak out when I heard a loud bang or wasn’t so sensitive to others’ critical comments. Many times I’ve felt embarrassed or weak or strange.
But HSPs also tend to have many positive qualities, including being creative, conscientious, loyal and deeply appreciative of the arts, Zeff said. (Douglas Eby, a Psych Central blogger, shares five gifts of being highly sensitive.)
7. Take mini retreats.
Zeff stressed the importance of downtime. He suggested getting away at least once a month and relaxing several days a week. Enjoy nature (if you live in an urban area, visit a park) or get a massage, he said. Add calm into your week with activities like aromatherapy, he added.
8. Engage in gentle exercise.
Zeff recommended hatha yoga, tai chi and walking. If you like exercising at the gym, pick a facility that’s not so noisy or wear a headset, he said. It’s also better to exercise before 6 p.m. or 7 p.m., because it takes a few hours for your nervous system to calm down, he said.
9. Speak up.
Non-HSPs simply don’t notice loud noises or strong smells or other stimuli that might be bothering you, so speak up. For instance, say your co-worker talks loudly on the phone. If you think they’ll be open to adjusting their behavior, first build a rapport with them, Zeff said. Then explain that while they’re not doing anything wrong, you have a trait that makes it tougher to tune out stimuli (which about 20 percent of people have), he said. You don’t want to interfere with their lifestyle, but maybe they could speak more softly or when you’re on break, he said.
HSPs also tend to get more upset over hurtful comments, Zeff said. “If someone [has] an abrasive personality, speak up.” But remember to be polite. “Don’t become an insensitive sensitive person demanding everyone…shut up.”
10. If seeing a therapist, see someone who knows about HSPs.
Interview three therapists and ask if they’ve read books about HSPs (such as Elaine Aron’s Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients or Zeff’s books) or are at least familiar with the concept and willing to learn, he said.

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