Too sensitive? What if it were your best-kept strength

“You're too sensitive.” Inès heard that sentence her whole life. At school, when she cried over an injustice. At the office, when a harmless remark went through her like an arrow. At 34, she had ended up believing it: she was simply too much. I've welcomed many people who apologised for crying in my practice. They're often the ones who move forward the fastest.

High sensitivity is a nervous system that picks up more information than average: sounds, lights, the micro-expressions on a face, the tension in a room before a single word is spoken. It isn't a weakness of character, it's a radar tuned to a high frequency. And every signal it catches triggers a micro-reaction: the heart speeds up, the muscles tense, the breath shortens. Multiply that by hundreds of signals a day, add a noisy open-plan office and non-stop notifications, and you get a body that comes home drained, with an urgent need for silence. That's not fragility, it's arithmetic.

You can't turn down a radar's sensitivity. What you can do is teach the nervous system to come back to calm after each wave. That's what conscious breathing does: by lengthening the out-breath, you engage the body's natural brake. What you feel stays intact; it's the overload that shrinks. Next time the flood rises, step away for two minutes, one hand on your belly: breathe in through the nose for 4 seconds, out through the mouth for 6, ten cycles. You're not suppressing anything, you're emptying the buffer, the way you clear an overflowing inbox. The radar can then start picking up signals again without overflowing, and you recover the other side of your nature: fine intuition, empathy, that rare ability to perceive what others don't see.

Your sensitivity was never the problem: it's the lack of regulation that exhausts you. To give your nervous system a real release, deep and well-held, discover the NeuroSens method.

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