For those with a high sensitivity in the feeling body,
the intensity of the inner experience can be overwhelming.

In a world that harshly judges feelings,
it’s easy to believe we are too much,
too sensitive, too intense, too dysregulated —
or that we must be deeply traumatised.

For those who drown in relentless tides of sensation,
therapy and spiritual practice often fails us.
Unable to reach the core of our experience,
we search endlessly for the cause of our wrongness.

But what if we’re asking the wrong question? 
What if we’re collectively misperceiving feelings?

In a culture obsessed with healing or transcending them,
we don’t see how judgement and resistance
create the very contraction we’re lost within.

“Feeling” is the raw vibration and sensation
beneath the emotions and stories that entrance us.
As we learn to welcome them,
something entirely different begins to unfold..

A heightened sensitivity in the feeling body
often signals an ability to sense the subtle body:
the domain of the unconscious.

This is where the curse begins to reveal its gifts.
Navigating the unconscious is not only deeply soothing,
it is profoundly paradoxical and illuminating.

Your heightened sensitivity brings increased specificity.
Esoteric tantric teachings that remain abstract to most
make embodied sense to the hyper feeler.

The shadow is not our enemy.
It is what we reject and deny, both personally and collectively:
pockets of trapped energy and un-lived experience
longing to be received.

How we meet these energies shapes how we feel them,
and how they respond.
These unconscious forces shape our present reality.
Bringing the underlying sensations into awareness
is the path of both somatic psychotherapy and meditation.

Coming down into the body,
staying present with how these forces live inside us,
and learning to feel them,
is how insight becomes illuminated and embodied.

Yet at the root of our being, deep in our body, 
lies the collective field of consciousness.
It is the ground of being we are born into.
We did not arrive as a clean slate.

If we relate only through the personal,
we remain stuck at the tip of the iceberg,
unable to access the deeper forces beneath.
Yet in our culture we are intoxicated by the personal.

For hyper feeler, this creates two problems.
Firstly, our bodies are swimming more fully in the collective field.
What is unconscious to most, is vibrating loudly in our bodies.
If we feel into feelings, it’s like pouring petrol on a flame.

This not only amplifies the intensity in our bodies,
making it nearly impossible to digest experience,
but if we interpret all these sensations as personal,
we will be in therapy forever.

At the heart of Tantric teachings lies a simple truth:
we are woven from a fundamental polarity of energies —
electric (masculine) and magnetic (feminine).
Together they create the vibrational pulse of existence.

Whilst these words are limited and loaded,
too small to capture the complexity of experience,
they illuminate habits of energy and attention
that form the substructure of our inner world.

We unconsciously dominate our inner experience.
We trap energy in the body and pierce into sensation,
trying to know it, master it, transcend it.
We strain upward into clarity and certainty,
and make effort our way of being.

In this, we disconnect from the spiritual dimension
of our human experience: the sacred within the immanent.

If you cannot feel the gentle vibration of subtle energy
pulsing through your body in a deeply nourishing way,
that absence is the felt sense of separation.
We unknowingly brace against, and distort, our own life force.

And when we drift into soft, blurry, untethered states of being,
we pull ourselves back, with judgement,
into the version of the “present” we think we should be in.
We try to eliminate what we believe is wrong or broken,
and leave the present moment of what is.

Without learning to inhabit the subtle energy body,
to receive what has been rejected,
we circle endlessly, lost in a labyrinth of misperception.
For most, this is subtle terrain.
But for the hyper feeler, it offers the specificity we have been longing for.

Hyper feelers live with a heightened intensity of feeling in the body.
For most, these sensations rise and fall like a background hum.
For us, it is relentless, amplified and all-consuming —
like standing beside speakers turned up full volume.

Most people see this intensity as a problem,
something we need to fix or heal.
But for many of us, it is the way we were born,
and heightened by the way we reject and deny it.

Therapy, spiritual practice and trauma work
can bring insight, integration and a certain level of relief.
Yet the core intensity, when we are activated, 
often returns just as strong as ever,
leaving us with shame and a sense of brokenness. 

This type of sensitivity feels physical,
but is more accurately an energetic and subtle‑body sensitivity:
an attunement to the movement of energy
and the foundational realm of the unconscious,
what Buddhists refer to as Vedanā (Feeling).

When we keep relating to this sensitivity
only through the lens of the personal trauma,
and keep working with it on the physical plane alone, 
we cannot access the depths of our being.

Buddhism describes this deeper dimension
as the “second veil”:
a foundational realm of being we are all misperceiving.
Rather than a flaw or problem,
it can be seen as condensed radiance,
trapped and distorted by ancient fear. Collectively.

In a world that has pathologised and exiled feeling,
hyper feelers become the collective scapegoats:
constantly seen as problematic.

With an outer reflection that confirms wrongness
and an inner connection to intense shadowy currents
the loop becomes sealed:
It’s hard not to believe: “something is wrong with me.” 

Yet I see it very differently.
Hyper feelers are innate creatures of the depths,
powerfully attuned to the subtle vibrations of energy.
A lifelong devotion to inner work, born of necessity,
has cultivated unique strengths:

Humility & Sweetness
Living with what the collective rejects
keeps us close to the innocence within the exiled.

Ready to Drop Story
A life of inner work that doesn’t resolve the core
ripens us to let go of personal narrative:
a task most find impossible.

Native to Subtlety
What is complex to others lands clearly in our bodies.
For the hyper feeler, the “subtle body” is not subtle!
We navigate unconscious realms with surprising ease.

Practice by Necessity
Because intensity calls to us daily, practice is not optional.
The depths of the present keeps pulling us in.

This paradoxical journey
of meeting intensity differently
reveals what was long forgotten:
the vibrational dimension of sacredness
woven into our very being.