Am I too sensitive? How your intuition invites healing

Students who are drawn to spiritual study often find themselves to be coined “too sensitive.” It’s true – we are deep feelers, thinkers and might be impacted by the tides of life more dramatically than others. While sensitivity can be a sign of an intuitive or creative nature, it can sometimes feel like a curse in the face of the cruelty of the world. 

Faye Fitzgerald, founder of the Training in Power Academy, has a unique perspective on how to manage our sensitivity. Below is an excerpt from an interview on the topic, where we discuss how she has navigated her journey to finding her potential as an innate sensitive and spiritually gifted person. 

Were you a sensitive child? What was that like for you?

I could see energy flows and I knew things, though I couldn’t always explain why or how.

It’s very difficult for those of us who work in what would be considered Law or Power to live without Truth, even as children. You can’t walk around lying to people so you just learn to be quiet and I was extremely quiet. I had a stepfather who made sure we had no opinion, so I didn’t talk for years. I cultivated my own inner world and grew up in a very tough environment.

So I don’t think one can afford to live a life of being sensitive to the point of breaking yourself. Because I believe that has already been done to us for the most part, or else the world would be more sensitive. I think you have to get to the point where you recognize that sensitivity is a tool and a powerful force of intuitive knowingness.

You are talking about the balance of not collapsing into the sensitivity, but being able to navigate it.

That’s right, finding a balance rather than being overcome with emotions and feelings to the point where you are paralyzed and you can’t function. I see this with people who deal with anxiety, depression or phobias where they’re really just stopped because the emotion is so magnified. 

People become so angry because they really think they should be able to control everything from their intellect. What I try to teach them is that there is a correct message in all of these feelings; they just need to learn how to interpret the information.

How did you find that balance for yourself? 

I went to Source and I’m starting to call it the ‘Source Dimension’ now because I understand the vastness of this area of sensitivity. I looked at the tough love of this area and the level of sensitivity to feel all and know all, and I learned. 

I don’t know that humanity really understands how vile humans can be to each other, and it’s always a big shock when that awareness comes home. When you see the concentration camps of World War II or the killing fields of Cambodia, it’s a sickness that pervades our species that I believe we are attempting to cure. I sometimes refer to this earth as the ‘hospital plane’.

What have you built into the foundational course work you teach in order to help people come to their sensitivities in a healthy way?

We are in the business of souls. We work with people at a soul level, that they will come on board and start to get well. By that I mean that they start to perceive the areas where they really are dysfunctional. This occurs when people start to realize who they really are and that they are not the patterning or trauma that has been imposed on them.

From here they start to recognize they have a nobility of nature and that puts them in a position to be able to heal themselves. With that, they come into a Lawful position of Self First. Some think this sounds selfish, but what we mean is that one must tend to their own self before helping another, so you are not a leaky bucket anymore.

Once you are filling yourself with light and power, you are going to learn how to wield this power and heal with it. So as you go along you heal more and you have more power and light, which gives you more power to heal. This creates a great strength and wellness in an individual who is willing to do this work.

How can we be more sensitive to each other as on this ‘hospital plane’?

There can be a double standard sometimes, we look at our artists and we expect them to be sensitive and then we look at someone like a truck driver with the expectation that they’re not. And they get mad, because they want to be treated with sensitivity and respect and yet they have to put on this obnoxious show that they’re not sensitive. It’s a delicate ride through humanity.

I’m very loving with people, but I tend to be very formal. I’m very respectful and honoring of people and I’ve never gone wrong with it. This means there is no contemptuousness or people taking advantage of each other and respecting each other’s differences. Formality, sincerity, respect and honoring are all signs of you honoring and respecting yourself, which is important. Give it to yourself and then you can give it to another. That is the key to guarding the sensitivity of others.