Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight Quotes

“If we feel overwhelmed, our nervous systems drive us to defend against overstimulation and preserve the self. To grasp this concept requires a paradigm shift from viewing behavior as primarily psychologically motivated to seeing it as an end product of sensory processing. What”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“fast, loud, bright “bytes” and few islands of calm—makes everyone feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and stressed.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“This permits self-efficacy—the feeling that one’s actions result in needs being met.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Activity will build greater self-efficacy—the belief that you have some mastery over the events in your life and can better meet challenges as they arise.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“In truth, sensory defensiveness masks one’s essence. Until it’s lifted, you can’t truly know your nature.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Just as you learned helplessness, you can learn hope and optimism. Activity will build greater self-efficacy—the belief that you have some mastery over the events in your life and can better meet challenges as they arise.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Given the correct sensory diet, you should begin to see changes almost immediately—within a day or two. Once you begin to see that change is possible, you will begin to feel a greater sense of mastery.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“A carefully planned sensory diet, the optimum sensorimotor activities you need to feel alert and in effortless control and to perform at your peak can provide an electrochemical fix that offers short-term and long-term relief.1”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Yet problems with sensory modulation, from sensory defensiveness to sensory seeking, might underlie much of what appears to be psychological at root.1 Perhaps one day in some future edition, sensory affective disorder will be added to the list.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Research shows that if you place a “breathing bear” set at a normal neonatal rate inside the incubator of a premature infant, it will scoot over to the bear and soon start to entrain to the bear’s rhythms.12 Before long it is breathing at a more normal rate, developing better respiration and sleeping more quietly.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Now imagine life where the sensory valve is open too wide and sensations gush in without barriers of protection. One feels too much, too soon, and for too long. One is sensory defensive.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“But if arousal continues to escalate beyond the demands of the task at hand—high arousal is fine during sex but not while eating dinner—we start to feel anxious, disorganized, hyperalert, and unable to meet our demands.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Health professionals who fail to realize or accept SI dysfunction as legitimate, misdiagnose and mistreat the behavior as anxiety. But just analyzing one’s difficulty with succeeding in life or learning positive self-talk will not bring about change. The nervous system must be fixed at the level of the brain stem.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World

“Sensory modulation is the brain’s ability to organize itself, inhibiting or suppressing irrelevant information and allowing one to focus on relevant information.”
― Sharon Heller, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World