Balanced Sensitivity

The aim of Dr. Berzin’s book “Developing Balanced Sensitivity” and the corresponding program is to develop a balanced type of sensitivity, a sensitivity that is healthy, helpful, and avoids the two extremes of being oversensitive and being insensitive.

To become more properly sensitive to others or to ourselves, we need to strengthen or to change the operating level of certain mental factors that are already present.

Disturbing emotions also arise from projecting and believing in deceptive appearances, especially dualistic ones.

Take others’ feelings seriously, to care about how you treat them.

Methods for developing balanced sensitivity, a state of mind that is non-judgmental, caring and emotionally balanced.

To dispel our hypersensitive response, we need to deconstruct the deceptive appearances of our mind.

Understanding the mind and mental activity is crucial for balancing our sensitivity as it enables us to tap the naturally occurring internal resources of our mind and heart.

Presentation of the six exercises through which we explore various methods for developing or enhancing the positive type of sensitivity and for reducing or eliminating the negative type.