Author: Catherine Strang
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Are You A Highly Sensitive Person?
Here is a link to the classic self test for determining whether or not you are an HSP – https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/ If you’re interested in my experience of being an HSP please go here – I’d love to know who identify’s with this trait also! https://catherinestrang.com/2022/02/07/being-a-highly-sensitive-person/
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Being a Highly Sensitive Person
I have been a sensitive person, an HSP as we are called now, my whole life. As a child, born in the 60’s, it was experienced as shyness, and also in my case as “pricklyness”. As a young adult I coped through being in jobs or places with other sensitive people so was sheltered to […]
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Join Me Today On YouTube!
Today is my first YouTube live session on Being Present and the focus will be the body. If you are experiencing any kind of physical issue then please join me at 6pm (London/GMT time) for a deeply soothing journey into the body to fully explore the sensory and cognitive aspects of what is happening within you. […]
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I’m Starting A YouTube Livestream!
Next Wednesday, 26th January 2022, I’m finally beginning a fortnightly meditation series which will go out via YouTube. This will be free with the overall theme of being present, within this we can explore many different themes but all aimed towards increasing inner peace and a sense of deepening mastery over one self wherever we […]
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Free Classes in the New Year
Early in the New Year I will be starting a free, fortnightly class on youtube. It will be live and about 45 minutes long. Centered around meditation and on the theme of just being with whatever that days topic is, each session aiming to bring peace of mind, stillness and balance. Next week I will […]
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Deep Weariness and Melancholia – Are You Experiencing This?
Due to events seen and unseen in the world this passage of time we are going through – from mid November to the December Solstice – is difficult, perhaps outright painful. We are being shaken up even more and anyone who is more than normally sensitive will be feeling this. I am daily struggling with […]
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Mental Stimuli And Fatigue
What does over stimulus of the mind have to do with tiredness? Unless we are completely focused upon something the normal way of being for most of us is to respond or react to several different stimuli an hour, or even minute by minute. What this does to the brain is a sort of jangling […]
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Emotions and Exhaustion
There have been several times in my life where I have been in a state of ongoing fatigue that only lifted when I released the emotions stuck below the surface. Each experience of this was different. I used different methods, it was either layers of emotion or a deep seated belief that when removed released […]
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How Do You Know If You’ve Slept Deeply?
Carrying on with the fatigue theme we cannot look at tiredness without of course considering sleep quality. Good quality sleep rests on completing the whole sleep cycle. If going through a period of greater stress, reaching the deep stages of sleep is usually unlikely. If this is prolonged then obviously exhaustion will result to some […]
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Food, Stress And Being Tired
We live in an increasingly toxic world – toxins in our food, packaging, water, environment, medication… Add to this a deficiency of essential nutrients contributing to general tiredness, ill health and very often mental and emotional health issues. We unfortunately have to work harder than ever just to maintain reasonably good health. So what are […]