The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion: Daily Exercises for Calming Your Senses in an Overstimulating World [Paperback]

Ted Zeff PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1572244933 | ISBN-13: 978-1572244931 | Edition: 1

Day-to-Day Help for Highly Sensitive People

About one in every five of us has a nervous system that is especially acute and finely tuned. If you're in this group, on one hand, it's a great gift. You're creative, compassionate, and you deeply appreciate subtlety and beauty in the world. On the other hand, you may be more easily disturbed by noise, bright lights, strong scents, crowds, and time pressure than the less sensitive among us.

In his first book, The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, author Ted Zeff presented ways to manage your heightened sensitivity. Now, in this take-along daily companion, he offers practical tips and exercises you can use to find inner peace in any environment. Each chapter of The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion addresses overstimulation as it occurs in a specific aspect of life: relationships, work, daily pressures, exercise, and more.

Let this book be your pocket-sized guide to finding the calm you need to enjoy and thrive with your heightened sensitivity without feeling overwhelmed.

Many new ideas to help highly sensitive people thrive.
-Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person

The Highly Sensitive Person's Daily Companion is a wellspring of practice advice for people who feel chronically overwhelmed. This proactive guide will help you take control of your environment, your relationships, and your emotions.
-Linda Johnsen, author of Lost Masters and A Thousand Suns

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Reprising his successful first book, The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, author Ted Zeff offers new daily practices and skill-building exercises to help you survive in our over-stimulating world.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572244933
• ISBN-13: 978-1572244931
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Ted Zeff received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1981 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and has completed post-graduate studies in nutrition, ayurveda and meditation.

Dr. Zeff teaches classes in stress reduction and healing insomnia for Hill Physicians Medical Group and also has a private practice counseling sensitive people in the Bay Area and via telephone throughout the world.

At Ted Zeff's popular website, www.hspsurvival.com people obtain information about the trait of high sensitivity and learn coping strategies. People can also sign up for a phone instruction consultation or purchase or download The Highly Sensitive Person's Healing Program.

Ted Zeff is the author of five books:

The Psychological and Physiological Effects of Meditation and the Physical Isolation Tank on Type A Behavior

Searching for God Part I

Searching for God Part II

The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide

The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion

The Strong, Sensitive Boy

Dr. Zeff has given numerous interviews about Highly Sensitive People, including on National Public Radio and such television shows such as Good Morning Bay Area. He has lectured internationally about Highly Sensitive People in such countries as Denmark and Holland and has been a featured speaker at the Highly Sensitive Person's annual gatherings in the United States. Ted Zeff's books have been translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, Danish and Polish.

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really helped me make positive changes in my life, May 8, 2007

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J. Allen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion: Daily Exercises for Calming Your Senses in an Overstimulating World (Paperback)

When I read Ted Zeff's book "The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide" I was impressed with all of the innovative suggestions in the book. Unfortunately, just like New Year's resolutions I've made over the years, within a few weeks I found it difficult for me to keep following his many ideas for bringing more peace into my life.

However, I discovered Zeff's new book, "The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion" which is just what I needed to help me maintain my commitment to make the changes that I want to implement in my life. There is a different area to focus on each week and the daily reinforcement has been so helpful to get me going in the right direction. For example, I knew that trying some of Dr.Zeff's suggestions for centering myself when I wake up and calming myself down at night would help me, but it was hard to make the changes by myself. However, by following his suggestions every day for a week, I'm now regularly following a daily routine and feel confident that I'll maintain my new schedule.

This is definitely the book for you if you want to make permanent changes in your life so that you won't be knocked off center by insensitive people and too much stimulation.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical tips and exercises for the Highly Sensitive Person, April 5, 2007

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R. Anderman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion: Daily Exercises for Calming Your Senses in an Overstimulating World (Paperback)

I read Dr. Zeff's first book, "The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide" and found his suggestions very helpful for me to cope with overstimulation as a sensitive person. "The Highly Sensitve Person's Companion" is divided into 52 weekly sections whereby the reader can spend sufficient time practicing and integrating the practical suggestions into their daily life.

I've already begun to implement the ideas in the sections on calming the senses and dealing with a stressful job and find myself more centered at work and am finally able to deeply relax when I come home from my job. I'm also taking several mini-retreats during the week after which I feel revitalized and am better able to deal with my intense daily schedule.

From developing a specific diet and exercise program to creating peaceful relationships, this book is truly a godsend for the sensitive person. The final section deals with the sensitive person's soul and has helped me to develop an awareness of my life's purpose and see my daily sensitivity challenges in the proper perspective.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A LOT OF GREAT ADVICE FOR THE SENSITIVE PERSON, August 6, 2007

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S. Macindoe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Highly Sensitive Person's Companion: Daily Exercises for Calming Your Senses in an Overstimulating World (Paperback)

This book is chock full of information to help the sensitive person function at an optimal level in our tense society. I've been practicing Dr. Zeff's weekly techniques and have found them helpful. One of his chapters dealing with resolving conflicts with difficult people at work has been a lifesaver. After many months of putting up with an insensitive co-worker, we now have worked out a solution and I can finally feel calm at work. That chapter alone was worth the price of the book.

I have been following his suggestions of eating heavy, warm, moist foods and now feel more grounded from my new diet. I've also enjoyed practicing his different meditation techniques. So many great suggestions!