Watch this 20 second video posted to YouTube by Deborah Bennett.  Notice the first 8 seconds that this highly sensitive plant is being provided with an ideal level of stimulation to demonstrate the stunning beauty and precision of its exquisite responsiveness to touch.  The remaining 12 seconds the stimulation level continues to increase.  The magical leaf-by-leaf response is replaced by various sections closing up at once, some that haven't even been directly touched.

Imagine someone saying to the plant, you are too sensitive!

The plant is not too sensitive - it is just a sensitive plant.  The plant is especially sensitive to touch and responds to the smallest amount of tactile stimulation.  That is an inborn trait for this plant.  About 20% of various species, plants, animals and humans are born with the trait of high sensitivity. Sensitivity manifests in various ways in human beings: sensitivity to light, sound, touch, smell, beauty, inner life, art, music, emotions, proximity of others, foods...the list goes on. 

You can  hear the voices - you are too sensitive, there is something wrong with you, you are overreacting...  NO, you are a sensitive person, a character trait you were born with, and so you are responding or reacting in some way to stimulation.  Perhaps you are tensing up, perhaps you are getting louder, perhaps quieter.  What does your body feel like, what are the sensations? Whatever your response, it's one way you respond to being overstimulated.

Witness yourself and begin to notice the behaviors and sensations that follow for you when you are overstimulated.  Next time these behaviors and sensations occur, begin to think, "Oh, I'm feeling overstimulated."  See if you can adjust the level of stimulation coming your way.

In time you will internalize this basic truth about yourself and one day someone will say, "You are too sensitive", and you will say, "No, I'm not too sensitive, I was born sensitive and I am overstimulated right now".

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