[Robin]

Thank you very much Jenny and Wilfried for this valuable information and exchange. It’s reassuring to know that I’m not the only one facing this phenomenon. Thanks

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[Robin]

Dear Jenny,

Thank you for your message. I have been exploring for a long time the difference between high sensitivity as a personal trait and high sensitivity in combination with trauma I have experienced myself. In addition, I am exploring what the practice of shiatsu means for high sensitivity, as I believe it influences how this sensitivity is experienced and expressed.

The combination of high sensitivity, trauma, and the practice of shiatsu forms a distinct situation. Could this be the situation in which one ends up in that complete emptiness, that energetic emptiness and listlessness we are speaking about?

[Robin]

Dear Wilfried,

Thank you for the precious time you are investing in this exchange of emails, which gives me a great deal of insight. I also thank you for the very interesting article you included with your message.

To answer your question about what I have done so far to improve my situation, which regular practices or other supportive activities I engage in, and whether I have sought professional help, I can say the following:

Over the past twenty years, I have worked intensively on myself in various ways. I underwent three years of psychoanalysis and, over the past ten years, I have regularly been in supervision and in therapeutic conversations with a psychotherapist, through which I have nevertheless gained some insight into my (limiting) patterns. I practice meditation and have always been involved in the world of martial arts. In addition, I practice chi gong and yoga on a regular basis.

For a long time, I have had the impression that there is a wall I never seem to be able to get through.

Recently, after our correspondence in September, I also came into contact with an orthomolecular physician. He conducted a comprehensive blood analysis, which revealed certain vitamin deficiencies and other irregularities. I am currently taking quite a number of nutritional supplements.

In addition, I have had a lung problem over the past five years, which has been improving lately.

With warm and heartfelt greetings,

[Robin]

Hallo Jenny, Thank you for your response. I get the impression that there are certain similarities between what you describe and what I experience. What may not be unimportant to mention is that I have always — even before I started practicing shiatsu, since childhood – been very sensitive to noise, tension, smells, and atmospheres. That is why it’s interesting for me to ask you: are you also so finely sensitive (or highly sensitive)? I wonder whether people who are less sensitive would experience these symptoms less intensely.

That hopelessness you speak of is something I also experience when I’m in the situation you described. For me it feels not only like hopelessness, but also like a form of lethargy, without energy (completely kyo). I once described it as: this must be how someone who is dying feels – no energy left and completely empty.

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