By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 8/4/2012
I’ve been working on a few books right now including the sequel to HELP! I’M SENSITIVE, YOUR TURTLE SHELL. Designing the book is just as fun as writing the book for me. I’ve been playing with little essay headers.
cute little chapter drawing inspired by Speedy
doodling some ideas
I like this little guy.
symbol of transformation
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 7/23/2012
How super neat cool! I’m offering new Care of the Sensitive bundle packages. Choose from the Simple package, just the class, to a FAB-U-LOUS package of an empath lesson teleclass and a private lesson or a custom flower essence! Oooooooh! Check them out and sign up anytime throughout July and August HERE.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 7/9/2012
LeAnne Ball let me know that they will be replaying the really fun interview I had on her show concerning being an empath and my book. It’s tonite at 7pm EST and you can listen to it by joining www.para-x.com.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 5/25/2012
I’ve started book 2 in my Help! I’m Sensitive series and wouldn’t you know it, I’m learning the lessons and tools right away. Good thing to help others, a little uncomfortable for me. I’m still such a nerd about all of this–I get super-excited about seeing the book going into the local library, etc. I like seeing my name printed on the book. That’s really fun considering since I was six years old I wanted to illustrate and write books, so there’s this deep satisfaction in me. Perhaps I should be more guru-like or “professional”, but that’s not my style. I can probably, then, rule out traveling all over the world with my “I will help you stop being sensitive now in 30 days” seminar with the infomercial.
I just ordered a bunch to put into local stores. A little scary, but fun.
I like the idea of providing real world examples in my book and real tools to apply it. It’s frustrating to me at least, when I read about the problem I’m having in a book and I’m left sitting there with it with nowhere to go. Or, if I am offered “spiritual” tools and lessons that I can’t really apply into my life in a practical, everyday life sense. That one seems to really push my buttons.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 4/3/2012
As a sensitive, do you have the habit of popping out? I mean, do you find yourself leaving your body a great deal when either under attack or on overwhelm? Many of us developed this “skill” as child empaths either from an abuse situation, or in my case, from having an illness. As a child, to avoid feeling pain, I’d often find myself “sitting on the ceiling” looking down. I do believe today, this trick allows me to communicate with spirit so easily, or even talk to animals that are halfway across the world. But how do you control this gift? It’s not conducive to many conversations if one moment you are there and the next you are blurry-eyed and vacant, right? (Although with some threatening or clueless people, they don’t even notice you leave.)
I look to Tool #38 from Help! I’m Sensitive.
Problem 38: Leaving your body
Sensitive tool: Grounding
Lisa Campion has a great article on her blog about grounding and shielding for Empaths. She says that empaths, when overloaded, leave their bodies. I can attest to that!
During a period of time, whenever I felt emotionally attacked I’d find myself seeing a symbol and leaving my body to some astral place. From some detective work, I realized that this was a skill I learned in childhood when I had bad stomach problems and I didn’t want to be in my body in pain. So, I’d find myself sitting next to the ceiling looking down.
This skill helps me in my work locate a lost animal or talk to someone who has passed, but doesn’t need to be there in my everyday life. The tool needed here is grounding. I am stronger when I stand tall and firm in my space. Once I felt less vulnerable and stronger and was able to speak my feelings, I left less and less.
Feeling your legs and reaffirming that you are safe is the tool to use here. Carry a tourmaline rock in your pocket. Its healing qualities will pull you right back in and keep you on the earth.
It’s also important to notice, where and with whom you feel this urge to leave. Why are you feeling unsafe? Can you speak your mind or your fears to that person? Perhaps, empathically you are registering that this person is unsafe for you. Honor this as best you can, limit your exposure, and then always make sure there is extra protections for you put in place whenever you have to deal with this person.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 4/3/2012
As a sensitive, do you have the habit of popping out? I mean, do you find yourself leaving your body a great deal when either under attack or on overwhelm? Many of us developed this “skill” as child empaths either from an abuse situation, or in my case, from having an illness. As a child, to avoid feeling pain, I’d often find myself “sitting on the ceiling” looking down. I do believe today, this trick allows me to communicate with spirit so easily, or even talk to animals that are halfway across the world. But how do you control this gift? It’s not conducive to many conversations if one moment you are there and the next you are blurry-eyed and vacant, right? (Although with some threatening or clueless people, they don’t even notice you leave.)
I look to Tool #38 from Help! I’m Sensitive.
Problem 38: Leaving your body
Sensitive tool: Grounding
Lisa Campion has a great article on her blog about grounding and shielding for Empaths. She says that empaths, when overloaded, leave their bodies. I can attest to that!
During a period of time, whenever I felt emotionally attacked I’d find myself seeing a symbol and leaving my body to some astral place. From some detective work, I realized that this was a skill I learned in childhood when I had bad stomach problems and I didn’t want to be in my body in pain. So, I’d find myself sitting next to the ceiling looking down.
This skill helps me in my work locate a lost animal or talk to someone who has passed, but doesn’t need to be there in my everyday life. The tool needed here is grounding. I am stronger when I stand tall and firm in my space. Once I felt less vulnerable and stronger and was able to speak my feelings, I left less and less.
Feeling your legs and reaffirming that you are safe is the tool to use here. Carry a tourmaline rock in your pocket. Its healing qualities will pull you right back in and keep you on the earth.
It’s also important to notice, where and with whom you feel this urge to leave. Why are you feeling unsafe? Can you speak your mind or your fears to that person? Perhaps, empathically you are registering that this person is unsafe for you. Honor this as best you can, limit your exposure, and then always make sure there is extra protections for you put in place whenever you have to deal with this person.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 3/1/2012
Follow me as we pack our bags and head on over to Australia again! It’s the lovely and very wise Monique Williams and her blog and coaching site. Monique addresses Tip and Tool #49 and she does it beautifully.
http://moniquetwilliams.com/2012/03/01/a-tip-for-the-sensitive-just-walk-away/
Did you order a copy of your book yet? You can get the book right here from the Author!
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 2/29/2012
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 2/28/2012
Our next lovely tour destination is a trip to Australia! We head on over to visit Tarz (a.k.a, Indigo Cherub) at her White Cat Spirituality page on Facebook and at her blog. Here’s a little of what she’s been posting about the book:
Do you take on other people’s energy; can you feel the energy when you walk into a room; do you feel drained around certain people. I loved Ronni Hall’s book Help! I’m Sensitive! It explained a lot for me and gave me some useful skills to take back my energy ♥ please check out her website for book deets and some rad courses
I have also done 2 of Ronni’s courses, cost effective, informative and above all full of personality.– Tarz Jefferis
Here’s your tour directions: February 28th Tuesday: Blog review: http://whitecatspirituality.com/page8.php And if you are on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154589437973675/ (Tarz’s pages: ” I am a bringer of information because of my life purpose which is to spread peace and love. I love to blog, share and much more”)
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 12/12/2011
Like most of us that write or teach, I usually am learning what I need to share that week. With all this great lunar energy has come some good lessons and lots of insight. The lessons being learned haven’t been all too comfortable but big.
Yesterday I had a cranky or nasty fairy attack. I don’t have a great deal of patience as it is, but I was feeling super-impatient with others.
I went to Unity church yesterday feeling good and relaxed and found myself halfway through the morning cranky, drained and wanting to sleep. Keep in mind that the room was warm and even the Rev. complained that there were a few who were yawning through his lesson.
I concluded that I was picking up some nasty stuff including the general mood in the room of malaise. I did have a cranky encounter with one friend , who was being super-critical, and another who felt demanding to me because he was miffed I gave him the cold shoulder, so I figured I was picking up their stuff coming at me. That made logical sense and would explain my mood and energy drain.
Being an empath, which I am sure you can relate to, we can often pick up other folks’ stuff unknowingly even if they are thinking about us from far away. Discerning who and what it is you are picking up is crucial detective work. But what if what’s really happening is someone else’s SH*T is triggering your SH*T?
After a good night’s sleep asking for guidance, I realized that is exactly what occurred. Yes, I picked up on the mood of the room, but it was my interactions with my friends’ stuff that got me reeling and upset. ANGER is a great indicator that someone has blasted through your boundaries, which is a little of what had happened. But with new insight I realized that the big issue I had been working on from my past was being mirrored in their behavior towards me. They had just given me little clues.
When I woke up, I made a list of those behaviors that really peeved me and I could see there was a pattern developing. I continually got very upset when someone else demands of me with no regard to my needs, or is controlling and forceful while trampling my boundaries. This pattern was one that I grew up with and I probably wasn’t aware consciously that it upset me so much back then, but it stayed buried inside me until others push those specific buttons.
What I learned from this experience is not only that sometimes it isn’t empathic feeling I am picking up but those trigger buttons, but I also noticed that there isn’t a pat answer or explanation for every experience we have. If I had stopped there, and concluded that I was just sponging off someone’s feelings, or someone was psychic attacking me, or even that “bad spirits” were draining me, or, that I wasn’t “loving enough and they were only mirrors,” I wouldn’t have gotten to the meat of that particular situation. That is one big thing I have against some new age or spiritual teachings. Every story is different, and that means different answers and different solutions. Blanket answers like “it’s all just fear or love,” may be true at the core, but doesn’t give real world day to day conclusions. Nor is “just love others” when the human relationship is so complex with all our stuff bouncing off each other! And I don’t know about you, but when someone tramples my boundaries or is abusive to me, just throwing love their way when I am supposed to be speaking up for myself and screaming NO! is not my answer.
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By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 11/29/2011
Tip #1: Avoid the Mall
“The mall. To a sensitive person, these two words bring angst and fear to the heart. Add the “holiday season” to those two words, and there’s panic and dread.
For holiday shopping trips, stick to outside malls so you can feel a sense of space and air around you, and you don’t feel trapped within the stuck, overwhelming energies.
Another good idea is to stick to small, neighboring “mom and pop” stores. There’s a slower pace, owners and clerks you can have leisurely conversations with, and a lot less customers per square inch.
If you are feeling truly sensitive, order everything online! The computer world is made for sensitive people to be able to turn on and off the outside world. I love Etsy which carries many homemade craft items. Amazon.com is a great resource for books and other items and their delivery time is fast and reliable.
If you are dragged into a mall, stay calm and remember to breathe. Staying grounded is the key. Holding onto a cart provides support when your legs feel like jelly. Stick close to windows and find quiet corners of stores to sit in. And, it’s perfectly fine to excuse yourself to go outside to get a little air.”
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 9/14/2011
Our beagle girl, Lilibeth, lived under the bed most of her long life. Now, don’t get me wrong, we weren’t these horrible abusers who forced her there. She had her rather timid side and somewhere along the way, learned that under the bed was a safe place to watch for dangers. She often stole things of interest and dragged them into her beagle lair and we’d find the funniest things, often what was missing. What Lilibeth taught me, as a sensitive person, was maintaining the gentle balance between being under the bed and coming out from under the bed. Not an easy task.
In my enthusiasm, I can be too “out” and social and find myself picking up on everyone’s feelings, tired, and seriously overloaded. My first signs of overload can be a head cold, ungroundedness that looks like I’m a complete airhead, or the worse one, bitchiness and a short temper.It will feel like my skin is too uncomfortable to wear.
Too “in” looks a little like I’m a crazy person–a tiny bit paranoid, fearful, claustrophobic and obsessed with figuring out the big puzzles of the world. That’s the extreme. You know when you are too “in” when you get that weird look in your eye and the world seems scary and threatening.
I do like the under the bed technique but there are too many dustballs under there so I can’t stay too long.
For an empath, balancing the two really is about being very aware of what your body is feeling and listening. With the energies going around right now, it’s no wonder we are all inclined to stay under a little longer. And that’s okay, as long as we venture out a bit also. The world needs your energy.
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For more tips for the Sensitive, buy my eBook, Help! I’m Sensitive. Or, consider booking a reading.
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By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 7/26/2011
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 7/26/2011
Myers Briggs has a very cool system to help people find their “type,” helping them clarify what jobs, work places, etc., would be best for them. I am in a small percentile of folks, like many of my readers, clients and students that are sensitive, that are INFJs. NFs are the intuitive feelers of the world. We experience the world through our feeling.
What I think is very nice about this classification is that when I try to be someone I am not, looking at an INFJ definition, I realize that I am unique in how I handle the world, and that’s just fine. I am encouraged to work with how I am, not against it, not act like someone I am not, such as a ISTP. What a concept. That means if I try to apply for a job as a hostess at a busy restaurant, I might get it, but I won’t last very long with that constant people stimulation. I’d fry out. I would also fail at a job that was only repetitive work that didn’t use my mind or imagination. I’d probably escape through the nearest window.
I look back at the jobs I had when I was younger and I now see how I was squeezing a circle into a square job. Then I’d berate myself when I’d fail at it! I’ve had lots of retail jobs in those early years, and though I was good at helping customers and enjoyed it, I was extremely unfulfilled not creating anything or using my mind to solve problems. My funnest job but the one I failed the most at was working at Burger King on the night shift as a teen. I was terrible at repetitive cooking, would forget the details on how to make food, and all I wanted to do was socialize and learn my coworkers’ stories.
When you think of your work or situation choices, work WITH who you are, not against. The Myers Brigg classification is one tool that really assists with finding the right places for your talents and shifts your perception from “there’s something wrong with me” to “maybe this is just a bad match for my strengths and abilities.”
And if you live in an area where most of the jobs are not matches for your classifications, make your own, like I did. Find a need that matches what only you can give.
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By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 5/16/2011
I am noticing with my friends, clients and myself, that we are becoming more sensitive and more psychic in our abilities. Are we evolving?
Have you noticed that you can pick up more now what others are feeling or even thinking? I haven’t been able to watch tv shows lately that are dark at all. I rented a copy of Supernatural. It’s a tv series I used to watch and enjoy. I physically hurt through most of it; there was that much violence and cruelty. This wasn’t entertainment. Maybe I am not the too sensitive one. Maybe it’s the world who is getting so numb they can stand this level of darkness assaulting our eyes. I can’t do that anymore.
After having that happen, feeling so sensitive, I first thought, “Do I need to live in a box then, away from the world?” Many of my clients come to me wondering the same things.
And the answer I heard this morning was No. You don’t need to isolate. I think we’ve always been this sensitive, some of us. We came in wired this way. But then we accumulated a great deal of mud and fog to numb over our sensitivity. What we’ve been doing is clearing out the mud and being who we really are under all that crap. So, then, the darkness doesn’t feel right when you’ve just gotten rid of a ton of our own darkness. You no longer resonate. Why would you want a part of what you just got rid of?
Our light is coming back. We aren’t turning into light. We were light to start with! And then we got involved in earth school and layers of mud kept getting added until we didn’t recognize we were light at all. We thought we were dirt. And probably listening to voices growing up telling us we were flawed in some way for being sensitive, we really did believe we were dirt.
So, no. You aren’t too sensitive. You never were. We’ve had to adjust to being here. But now you have no choice as you work on your healing to be anyone but who you really are. One big shining light. Perhaps we are all just lightning bugs.
I think that is kinda cool.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 4/15/2011
For Summer, because we need a cool deal, sign up for the Care of the Sensitive class and you will receive FREE the 50 Tools for the Sensitive ebook. Between the class and the ebook, you will be now have the tools you need that you didn’t get for your toolbox as a child to navigate living in this crazy world as an empath.
Sign ups are until May 26th, (my Mom’s bday, how cool is that). Sign up and reserve your space now to get what you need.
Today’s free excerpt is from that class:
Weed Control: Clearing out gently.
For our sensitive souls, our intention to clear out our own negativity, or what we have picked up from others or our environment, should always be gentle. We already learned that some flower essences clear us out too strongly.
As sensitives, we know that a little goes a long way. I am sure you have had the experience of overreacting to too strong medication that for others, there is no reaction. Or you have had a healing from a healing practitioner that knocked you off your socks for days. We need to heal and clear baby steps at a time. I asked the Fairies for some gentle clearing tools.
TOOL: Pumpkin plant essence.(Ronni’s Potions, research notes above from The Fairy Field Guide) Pumpkin is a cleanser that is very gentle, and recommended to me by the Fairies. I was guided to make this essence from this particular pumpkin when our elderly beagle at the time had a horrible, goopy cough that needed clearing. My mind kept bringing my attention to the plump, orange pumpkin in the front yard. What if I could make an essence out of the pumpkin? Curiosity led to discovery. Turns out that is the one essence Lilibeth desperately needed to clear out her throat.
How do you know if you need clearing out? If you find that one minute you are singing and happy, and the next minute after interaction with others you feel weighed down, overly-emotional or upset, you may have taken on “stuff”.
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By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 4/4/2011
Here is my top 10 lists why being Empathic can suck and not suck.
The 10 Reasons Why Being Empathic Can Really Suck:
Empath, before you go jump off the bridge, I offer the 10 things that don’t suck about being an empath.
So, you see dear empath, you are gift to the earth and what looks like something wrong is something very right.
Fairy blessings,
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Want more tools? Sign up for the Care of the Sensitive class, or buy the 50 Tools for the Sensitive e-book. Or empath, sign up for an empathic/Guide reading with Ronni.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 2/4/2011
The e-book is completed! Pulled from my favorite entries here at this blog, with tons of new material written and new lessons learned, here are 50 tools to help you tame your sensitivity and use it as the gift it is. Go here to snatch up your copy.
This is a great companion piece to the Care of the Sensitive class, where you will learn how Nature tools can support your sensitive system.
By: Ronni A. Hall,
on 2/3/2011
It’s too cold! Today has been a great day to snuggle up to my girls, make some warm foods, and read and learn. It’s the perfect time of year for that. And coincidently, (great segue in, don’t you think?) the e-book I’ve spent over a year compiling, living and writing, will be ready tomorrow and I can’t contain my excitement. I love how our tough experiences in the end can benefit others if we share what we have learned.
Help! I’m Sensitive! 50 Tools to help you thrive and survive is located in the bookstore here at this site. Official announcements for the book come out tomorrow, but I couldn’t contain myself.
I’ve learned valuable techniques to help with my sensitivity including techniques like Mouse Theory and Psychic Vampires, filling in holes, turtle shell, changing aura pictures, dealing with other people throwing their fears at you, taking care of the number one need for empaths, why panic attacks can happen in malls, and much more. I’ve included my favorite entries here from my blog and included a great deal of tools from my arsenal given to me by my helpful team of Guides in the past year.
You can order the book now here today and start empowering yourself right away and have warm reading material for those cold nights.
