1. Reclaim the value of sensitivity.
Beginning to accept your sensitivity as valuable is critical to your healing. Often, this simply means allowing some openness to the possibility that your heightened sensitivity may be a gift, a resource and part of the unique life path you’re on.
You and your sensitivity may be exactly what we, your brothers and sisters, are waiting for.
This first task can also involve discovering and sorting the value and power that sensitivity can bring to your life and to others. This is the beginning of reconfiguring what sensitivity is in your life.
2. Know the nature of your unique sensitivity.
Paying attention to and observing how your sensitivity functions in your life, you learn what channels it uses and how it shows up. You will discern whether your sensitivity shows up as a strong empathy, deep knowingness, acute body sensations, sensitivity to inaudible or subtle sounds or spirit voices, visions, gut instincts and flashes of future possibilities.
You also begin listening to what your sensitivity is asking of you, which often includes adopting new self-care tasks or strategies — loving and caring for yourself better.
Often, your sensitive self has been trying to give you valuable messages about yourself, your wellbeing, your life journey or mythic path. Hearing these messages can be inspiring, reassuring and transformative.
3. Confront the archetypal identity pattern.
The common archetypes are the wicked witch, the mean stepsister, dragon, troll, monster or big bad wolf within yourself that opposes your sensitivity. At first, this archetype rears its head as a nasty inner critic who wants you to stay as far away from your sensitive nature as possible. It can be merciless and degrading about who you are as a sensitive person. It marginalises you from within.
This negative inner critic can be stood up against and reduced, then transformed and sometimes reformed into a supportive inner guide. Sometimes, such inner critics are so nasty there is no choice but to symbolically slay them.
After gaining some ground within, you have an increased inner strength to confront or hold your own, internally and externally, against the collective cultural critic of sensitivity.
Essentially, you are able to validate yourself, including your sensitivity, amidst the world. In doing so, you may find yourself as a potent source of transformation for yourself and others.
As you grow, you will find friends and communities with whom you can share yourself and your sensitivity transparently and be cherished, honoured and loved in return.
4. Come into the joyous and beautiful power of being sensitive.
This is the initiate’s homecoming, returning whole, wiser and empowered. You cultivate a loving alignment with your sensitivity, a weaving in and out of a beautiful fabric composed of repeated empowering patterns of the first 3 tasks. When you come to know, honour and reclaim your sensitivity, you are able to put it to good use in your life path.
As you heal the battle with your sensitive nature, you and your gifts blossom, and your sensitivity can become the white horse you ride on along your mythic life path.
Your sensitivity can become the heart of any life path: the core of the healer’s journey, the intuitive knowing a manager uses to carefully support staff, an artist’s inspiration, or a parent’s skill at listening to and guiding their child in life.