To keep things simple and sound, and to not drift further into the world of out-thereness (which I love to do at times), I’ve broken down the Human Mind-Brain Combo into two types of people that cover this planet. And yes, I understand numerous traditions and schools of thought identify many more categories of behaviour and personality types, but I’m stepping back into the parent directory and dealing with a simpler, more relatable scope.
Leaving the finer details for the professionals, our focus is on two groups, the Majority (90%), and the Minority (10%).
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The General Mind (“The Herd”)
The General Mind represents roughly 90% of humans. These are the everyday folk who generally experience less sensitivity and are more focused on immediate surroundings. This group also includes the less-sensitive or narrow-minded, which are the more extreme versions of this type.
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The Highly Sensitive Mind
The Highly Sensitive Mind constitutes about 10% of the population. These individuals, often perceived as the ‘slightly out-there folks’ or ‘misfits,’ tend to experience more behavioural challenges growing up. However, they may also show exceptional talent in specific, often specialised areas.
Every so often nature slaps the status quo with a sizable challenge, producing a Highly Sensitive Person who often struggles with integrating everyday stimuli due to their heightened awareness. They can sense and potentially translate information from a broader range of reality that remains unseen or unfelt by their General Mind counterparts.
The broader field is a less visible range of stimuli on life’s spectrum, or a less noticeable wavelength permeating throughout existence. Perhaps comparing meta-information or ‘information about information’ to this is a better way to explain this phenomenon. Most people only focus on a thing or piece of information directly in front of them, whereas Highly Sensitive individuals can’t help but sense beyond the thing or piece of information that is in plain sight. Thus, we go a layer or two beyond the object, or any typical expectation that an experience may bring us, letting our minds wander into the attributes of surrounding things and thoughts, leading us to veer off on all sorts of unpredictable tangents.
In the end, it’s the deeper layers that cause Highly Sensitive people to find things either very intriguing or not intriguing at all, often defying superficial values.
Many cultures label people who are successful in translating things beyond sight a ‘Medium’, but this term can come with a lot of stigma regarding superstition or metaphysical traditions. And I’m not talking about that here. If anything, a ‘Medium’ is simply a bridge between different sensory systems.
Highly Sensitive Chaos
In the untamed days earlier in my life, my day-to-day behaviour often got weighed down by an addiction to unconventional intrigue repeating over and over. These processes would eventually hinder my ability to translate incoming conventional information into a clear message, so I was stuck with static or Raw Static for lack of a better term.
You see, when your mind is sensitive and undisciplined, it’s very easy to latch on to stimulating thoughts and fall into habitual distraction as a way to ease any internal overload causing stress. It’s difficult to learn and pick up the wholesome patterns from the good side of the broader field when attentive energy is always consumed by dopamine-packed information altering my baseline, and leaving me standing in the mud so to speak.
All up, this undisciplined approach to my sensitive mind both limited my options in life AND placed a higher demand on the surrounding Herd. This is why a Mindware Update like this could help others in the same way it has with me. By understanding and respecting the two types of minds we can better appreciate the diversity of human experience. Whether you identify with the General Mind or the Highly Sensitive Mind, each has unique strengths and challenges. By recognising and harnessing these differences, we can foster better understanding and collaboration in our society.
