"I wish I wasn't so sensitive!"
 
This sentence is very common at doctor's appointments, specially in psychiatrists' and psychologists' clinics.
 
There are many people who have problems with their sensitivity. There are those who cry while watching a drama, those who can't sleep after watching war scenes in the news, those who get excited and raise their voices in disturbing situations, those who feel uncomfortable in certain places, those who fear darkness and other situations, or those who have asthmatic crises in situations of stress.
 
Is this sensitivity something harmful? Is it something that should be suppressed inside us? We don't think so. On the contrary, it is a wealth we acquired; but it is important to know how to use it.
 
The more sensitive you are, the more you feel things around you. Initially, the development of sensitivity is something you can't control. The individual feels what is happening and he lets himself get upset and submerged in that involving wave.
 
However, as time passes by, Man starts to distinguish between what he feels from the involving environment and what is his own thought, and educates his mind to maintain itself according to his highest interests.
 
The development of the personality allows the individual to know how to use his sensitivity in a way that is advantageous to himself and his fellow creatures, in a growing harmony with Nature.
 
Keeping a positive thought, being able to assume the most correct attitude in all situations, Man creates conditions to welcome the right intuition in the right moment, conjugating it with a calm, logical and superior thought.
 
Material pleasures and more primitive sensations were left behind. Intuitive capacity develops progressively.
 
The individual learns to avoid what is not useful, not to fear anything, to control his thoughts, his words and his actions, to trust himself and, above all, the universal laws. Nothing upsets him. He feels all right.
 
In Ourique, when the Christian forces were weaker than the Moslem forces, "an Eremite came the day before the battle, and forehold Divine Protection to D. Afonso Henriques " and when he was thanking God for his support, — according to the legend ? he may have seen Jesus, and this greatly inspired him to assume a victorious attitude on the day of battle, which was crucial to the founding of the kingdom of Portugal.
 
Beethoven composed some of the most beautiful symphonies when he was physically deaf; however, he would write them in a rush, saying that he heard them mentally, his job was just recording them on paper.
 
Pasteur said he had found, during the night in his dreams, the solution for some experiments he was doing in his lab; these solutions made fundamental changes in medical science in the 19th century.
It is interesting to quote the English thinker Paul Brunnton: "The mind is only an instrument, not the essential being of Man. It does not sustain itself. It is just an automatic and customary faculty. Modern man represents the victory of the mechanical mind over pure instinct, as man in the future will represent the victory of divine intuition over pure mind". 
 

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