Are you hypersensitive? These sports are made for you!

Is your sensitivity higher than average and you are looking for ways to manage it better? Sport is always a good regulator of emotions, but certain disciplines are particularly suitable for “hyper”.

It was Saverio Tomasella, Doctor of psychology and specialist in hypersensitivity, who observed it after 20 years of research: the most beneficial physical activities for highly sensitive people are those which help to develop balance. We think in particular of sports such as gymnastics, yoga, judo, roller skating, surfing, but also swimming.

“Balance exercises concretely help to recharge your batteries,” he writes in the bible of hypersensitivity, Hypersensitivity for Dummies. They avoid this tendency to disperse and allow us to find ourselves, to refocus, to come together. But also to rest and relax. “Those who practice them regularly have better, longer and deeper sleep,” he adds.

Superior effects of meditation

Balance training would even have greater effects than meditation (which can be particularly complicated for hypersensitive people even though they are told that it is “good for them”…). It would generate more rapid bodily relaxation, a release of tension, a natural amplification of breathing, mental appeasement through the return to sensations and this, without needing to think about it, because everything passes through the free play of the body in the ‘space.

Why does it work so well?

How to explain this phenomenon? Saverio Tomasella asked the question to an osteopath. Here is his answer: “The practice of balance connects the brain to the body’s sensors. More precisely, the brain areas stimulated and strengthened by physical activities developing balance are both the cerebellum, which is the central computer of the brain, it is involved in coordination, and the insula, the center of consciousness of self”.

Tree pose to get started

But how to put these benefits into practice on a daily basis? Start with this fairly simple yoga posture, called “tree pose”: standing, feet parallel, raise one leg to the side and place the sole of your foot on your ankle, your calf or your knee (for the more adventurous ). Raise your hands above your head, fixate on a point in front of you and try to hold the position for at least 15 seconds. The exercise focuses attention on the body, relaxes the eyes and the spine, frees the breath and calms the mind. It works for children, teenagers and adults!

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