Fundamentally, highly sensitive people are in thinking:
- hormonally “always ready for mental effort“,
- reflective,
- forward-thinking,
- mindful of dangers,
- empathetic,
- weighing – “what if?“,
- able to hear, read, and feel between the lines.
Do highly sensitive people think slowly?
highly sensitive persons (HSP) they do all this simultaneously and think on multiple levels. They are very fast. Unless they have to describe their emotional state ad hoc. Then they need time to truly reflect.
Sometimes the impression arises that HSPs think rather slowly. Compared to an average sensitive person, the highly sensitive brain processes much more information in the same amount of time, and sometimes this then takes longer. But the result is then deeply thought out/felt.
In a seminar, Liane is unexpectedly asked by the trainer how she feels about the content. She reacts confused, stammers, and asks for more time to put her feelings into words.
Because they think ahead and are aware of dangers, they are sometimes perceived as pessimists.
HSPs often think for others
Many HSP neigen auch dazu, für den Anderen zu denken. Sie machen sich auch darüber Gedanken, was das Gegenüber wohl (über sie) denkt, oder wie mögliche Reaktionen auf das eigene Handeln sein könnten. Ich erlebe immer wieder, dass Hochsensible die eigenen Gedanken über den anderen als Wahrheit definieren. Gerade in der Partnerschaft bietet das Potenzial für Konflikte. Häufig liegen HSP mit ihrer Einschätzung richtig, aber eben nicht immer. Es ist wichtig für eine Begegnung auf Augenhöhe, die Einschätzung stets zu überprüfen.
Highly sensitive people and decisions
When the HSP the connection between head and gut feeling is lost, it is often very difficult to make decisions. Decisions then take a long time because the pros and cons are weighed up several times on different levels.
"Big" decisions then cause extreme stress and thoughts go in circles.
If there is a good connection between head and gut, they usually decide intuitively, but still check the facts.
You can find more detailed information on the topic of "Thinking as a strength of highly sensitive people" in this video
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