Spirituality and High Sensitivity with Elaine Aron

About this episode

Elaine Aron discusses her research on high sensitivity and its implications for spirituality and relationships.

Elaine Aron is a clinical and research psychologist who received her advanced training at Pacific Graduate Institute and the Jung Institute in San Francisco. Her research on sensory processing sensitivity and, along with her husband, Arthur Aron, the study of close relationships, is widely published in academic journals. She is best known as the world’s leading expert on the “Highly Sensitive Person” or HSP, a term she ascribed to a significant minority of people she discovered had the innate trait of high sensitivity. Her book , The Highly Sensitive Person, became an international bestseller, translated into 32 languages, and has been in print for nearly thirty years. She followed that up with other books based on her research on the subject: The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Person Workbook, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Child, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. She maintains a newsletter and other resources at her website. Her latest book, which we discuss (among other things) in this interview, is Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment. The conversation…

People in this episode

Host: Mind Body Spirit.fm

Guest: Elaine Aron

Topics covered

• high sensitivity
• spirituality
• psychology
• meditation
• relationships

Keywords

• Highly Sensitive Person
• sensory processing sensitivity
• meditation methods
• enlightenment
• psychotherapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pacific Graduate Institute, Jung Institute

Books & works: The Highly Sensitive Person, Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens: An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment

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