“The cleaner the hand, the calmer the mind” is a well-known concept in the hand reading world. Too many lines signal the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), a researched, diagnosable and terminal way of being in the world. If you have ‘full’ hands, with lines that go every which way, in an enormously complex array, you are undoubtedly ‘a Sensitive’.
HSP’s with their high wired nervous systems often find that to cope in life they have to organise their lives around their characteristics. Too many lines reveal a vulnerable, essentially introverted person, who tends to protect their ‘inner hermit’. They need alone time and their own space. Their auric field is delicate and fine; their empathic responses and intuitive perceptions are extremely acute. People with too many palmar lines receive intensely powerful impressions. They might easily be both clinically and emotionally ‘infected’, some present with fear of having being invaded by lower astral entities. Other’s moods and environmental vibrations overwhelm. Their family and friends see them as being too sensitive, overly emotional and even out of balance.
More neurotic than those with few lines in their palms, they tend to get shocking frights and adrenalin rushes at the slightest thing. Perhaps they are prone to hay fever or skin rashes or other stress related physical symptoms. Highly sensitive people can’t handle oppressive noise, get distressed if their eating schedule is disrupted, often feel cold and tire easily. Enough sleep is vital for their well-being.
HSP’s are often ‘morning’ people. Anxiety, worry and tension pervade; relaxation doesn’t come easily. There may be a pattern of swinging between ‘in’ times and then moving into an aroused, quite ‘wired’, over-stimulated, excitable state. An oppressively pervasive ‘happiness made guilty by duty’ makes its presence felt. These acutely sensitive souls are hard working, conscientious, vigilant perfectionists, who can’t ‘play’ till all details are done. In the arousal phases, they push themselves, busily exploring life, with lots of energy for doing a variety of things. They might have a stream of creative and visionary ideas, but energy-wise will find it impossible to sustain any steady consistency.
Many people with too many lines work in careers that involve counselling, or in some sort of advisory capacity. They process the subtle details and signs, sense and feel intuitively and think analytically about their thinking. In harnessing the flow of their intuitive perceptions, they can help others.
What tools and techniques might the HSP apply to maintain inner harmony, especially when feelings and sensations overwhelm? What might they do to reframe? More than the average person it is the HSP who is charged with the work of self-inquiry, with the how-to of accepting, respecting and embracing their tendency to over-arousal. Only by dropping into the acute sensations can they still themselves.
In a hand reading consultation, readers can point out to their highly sensitive client that with conscious awareness, simple activities, such as cooking, washing dishes or clothes and crafting are very remedial.
Other ways to put protective measures into place and to centre, ground and settle their nervous systems include meditation, prayer, finding ways to laugh, journaling, chanting, walking and dancing. Using the elements as medicine is recommended; gardening, immersing in water, making fires, or doing conscious breath work are soothing activities.
Jennifer Hirsch
Cell: +27 082 415 0653