Sensitivity and Boundaries

How can one distinguish between healthy sensitivity and losing oneself in others’ emotions? Rupert says: ‘I suspect it’s more the latter – as you’re very sensitive to people’s feelings but in the past, you tended to feel another person’s feelings so strongly that you lose yourself in them. You need to also maintain a boundary, which enables you to then be able to help them. What you are describing sounds like you’ve gone so deeply into your experience that your own thoughts and feelings have become so transparent that they’re barely there. Your next-door neighbour’s emotion doesn’t have any power over you either.’

From event 06 June - 13 July, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 6–13 June 2025

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