179 Reduce Overwhelm with the Science of Containment

In the journey of becoming and being an HSP in business and leadership, it's important to consistently engage in the process of shifting from an untrained HSP to a trained HSP. All in order to create with more ease. However, as HSPs we often get caught up in the false belief that in order to succeed in business and leadership we need to do it the same way as the other 80% who are not highly sensitive. So we forgo the value of paced process in exchange for "playing a bigger game hustle" which tends to toss us into the HSP Coping Cycle of Fear/Anxiety/Pushing/Hiding/Shame/Recovery, rather than motivating us to create productively. “The places where you are not inspired are actually the places where you are meant to be paying deep attention.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/184

In this podcast episode, I read an excerpt from my book "Different", where I vulnerably share my struggle to write my book. I came to realize I was guided to write it because I was meant to teach HSPs not just how to market and sell in their business differently, but how to step up and lead as a highly sensitive to create greater impact (and income) with a lot less effort through these extraordinary times. “My time to lead from my highly sensitive strengths has come.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/183

In this podcast episode, I discuss the importance of staying above the fray of socialized trends, especially as a highly sensitive in business and leadership. I share how our social self is born as a response to pressure from the world around us. And how if we stay stuck in this comparison trap we are privileging anxiety instead of choosing privilege of agency. Most importantly, I share what you can do instead. “Comparison is an act of giving in to the socialized trends.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/182

In this podcast episode, I go deep into what privilege of agency is, and what it isn't. I share my own journey of how I developed this concept and how I've used it to make massively impactful changes in how I operate. I discuss how it specifically relates to you as a highly sensitive in business and leadership and why this particular teaching is more important now than ever. So you will be able to step out of comparison traps and step up into your purpose and be the change you want to see in the world while also creating the personal success and freedom you desire. "When we are in our shadows and coping mechanisms we have given up our privilege of agency in service to someone else's needs." - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/181

As a highly sensitive in business and leadership, living on purpose is the ultimate form of self-care. This requires you to face your overwhelm and learn that, as A Course in Miracles states, "peace is part of you and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are."Your life purpose is not what you do, or something you find, but is instead something you choose in every decision, action and interaction. It's not a legacy we leave, but a legacy we live. Our life purpose takes courage to feel what we naturally don't want to feel. “Every relationship becomes a lesson of love.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/180

In this podcast episode, I go deep into what containment is NOT, what containment IS, and how we can shift from overwhelm and overprotection into focus and flow. I discuss how the act of developing discomfort resilience is the opposite of overprotection, and is instead about taking personal responsibility for your emotions, recognizing that they don't have to control you. It is not the automatic HSP response, but it is a doable, teachable and important skill to master in spite of what's happening around you and in the world at large, especially as a highly sensitive in business and leadership. “Suppressing, ignoring, soothing your emotions won't make them go away." - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/179

Did you know research shows that a person who sets (and achieves) goals tends to have higher motivation, higher self-esteem and a greater sense of self-confidence and autonomy? Setting an achievable goal also gives a boost to your systolic blood pressure (SBP). However, it wouldn't surprise me if, as a highly sensitive, your experience with goal setting has been quite different. Here's why: setting goals rooted in comparison or based on what you think you "should be" doing actually lowers your blood pressure. Which slows you down, and has you feel like you're trudging through mud - with no motivation to actually take the actions needed to accomplish the goal. “We are the balance to the other 80 percent.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/178

There's no reward for being over-busy except burnout. That old-century definition of success, "the busier you are the more you've gotten done" is over. As we continue to live through exceptional world events, learning to consciously use your nervous system to stay focused is much more effective for us HSPs in business and leadership than a never ending to-do list. “Consistency is more important than life.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/177

Listen in as I share how to counteract old patterns of setting New Year resolutions that leave you feeling unmotivated and unaccomplished and instead use the power of Intention to: access your highly sensitive strengths of deep thinking and deep feeling to deeply create what you desire shift the top 3 highly sensitive shadows into strengths use a simple, powerful practice to set intentions filled with trust and ease. “The power of divine free will is the power to re-return.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/176

In this episode you'll learn how to use hope to accelerate your ability to take action in your business by: optimizing end of year reflection and assessment setting yourself up for conscientious entrance into the new year tapping into your HSP visionary strength creating next levels of business growth. “Time is different now.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/175