No matter what I read, all authors who write about high sensitivity agree on one topic: avoidance is not a reasonable solution to deal with a highly sensitive perception.

I have also had this experience with myself and other highly sensitive people and can confirm this.

At first glance, avoidance is actually something quite natural. Our body-mind system always uses an avoidance strategy when it can protect us as a useful coping mechanism.

This is especially true in difficult situations. Introverts and HSPs, also often want to solve excessive demands, for example due to overstimulation or in social situations where many people are involved, with avoidance. 

So the field of application is large, ranging from small unpleasant situations to larger traumatic events.

And basically the mechanism is also positive, because it preserves and protects us.

But what happens when we start to avoid more and more things because we have the feeling that they could be unpleasant or possibly overwhelm us?

We fall into the avoidance trap. Because by allowing less and less, our comfort zone shrinks bit by bit. 

This robs us of flexibility in life, quality of life and, above all, the space for further development, which sometimes requires leaving the comfort zone, especially for introverts and HSPs.

Instead, we move back and forth in our ever-shrinking comfort zone like in a cage that has become too small.

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