That sounds draining! Love that you are a dreamer and I hope that one day you will find a retreat with everything you need!
I am very noise sensitive but sometimes touch sensitive. It very much depends on who is causing the sensation as to how I react to it and I always thought it was dependent on how much I liked the person but actually now you have talked about energy I’m thinking that makes much more sense!
I used to work with children and when they were in pre-school (roughly 3-5 years) we used to do ‘peer massage’ which is where all the practitioners and children would pair up and we would do a guided massage with relaxing music. We had training for it and it was all to promote relaxation and the benefit of touch. It was a lovely part of the day 🥰
I am also suuuuuuper sound sensitive. One of my coworkers suggested I get some Loops. I had them but lost them. I also felt guilty for using them because others just had to listen to meltdowns in full volume lol. I might need to order more though. I have a lot of vocal stimmers this year and when 3 or 4 are going off at once, I am left almost incapacitated from overstimulation.
Does your capacity for sound differ when you can tell there is positive or neutral intent?
Guided massage with littles sounds so sweet 🥹😭 awwwww what an amazing life skill they were taught. They’ll probably remember that forever 🥹
I’m not sure that intent makes a difference but if I am tired and/or stressed my capacity to cope drops and I think that I often use up my level at work, I have a lot of residents who grind their teeth and make repetitive sounds and sentences and although I register it I somehow don’t hear it. Maybe because I can’t lose it at work or maybe because I don’t want to show to my residents that they are bothering me?!? I don’t know but after a day of blocking noise I then find myself more bothered by normal noise. So actually maybe intent does make a difference as the noise that my residents make are involuntary, similar to your students, and I can cope with it, just about.
I did try some cheaper ear plug things like Loop but I didn’t like the feeling in my ear 😂
Maybe I need to try Loop? Did they work before you lost them?
That sounds draining! Love that you are a dreamer and I hope that one day you will find a retreat with everything you need!
I am very noise sensitive but sometimes touch sensitive. It very much depends on who is causing the sensation as to how I react to it and I always thought it was dependent on how much I liked the person but actually now you have talked about energy I’m thinking that makes much more sense!
I used to work with children and when they were in pre-school (roughly 3-5 years) we used to do ‘peer massage’ which is where all the practitioners and children would pair up and we would do a guided massage with relaxing music. We had training for it and it was all to promote relaxation and the benefit of touch. It was a lovely part of the day 🥰
I am also suuuuuuper sound sensitive. One of my coworkers suggested I get some Loops. I had them but lost them. I also felt guilty for using them because others just had to listen to meltdowns in full volume lol. I might need to order more though. I have a lot of vocal stimmers this year and when 3 or 4 are going off at once, I am left almost incapacitated from overstimulation.
Does your capacity for sound differ when you can tell there is positive or neutral intent?
Guided massage with littles sounds so sweet 🥹😭 awwwww what an amazing life skill they were taught. They’ll probably remember that forever 🥹
I’m not sure that intent makes a difference but if I am tired and/or stressed my capacity to cope drops and I think that I often use up my level at work, I have a lot of residents who grind their teeth and make repetitive sounds and sentences and although I register it I somehow don’t hear it. Maybe because I can’t lose it at work or maybe because I don’t want to show to my residents that they are bothering me?!? I don’t know but after a day of blocking noise I then find myself more bothered by normal noise. So actually maybe intent does make a difference as the noise that my residents make are involuntary, similar to your students, and I can cope with it, just about.
I did try some cheaper ear plug things like Loop but I didn’t like the feeling in my ear 😂
Maybe I need to try Loop? Did they work before you lost them?