This bias is very prevalent in Australian culture. The tough pioneering ethic of our collective origins had no time for sensitivity when facing survival in the harsh, unfamiliar and somewhat hostile environment of colonial Australia.  This bias blends well with the colonial English view of the feeling-inner-self as an unwanted aspect of our human experience, thus needing to be repressed and contained. The outward expressions of emotion, feeling and inner life were perceived as unhealthy, hysterical and shameful. This view still colours our cultural lenses. It can drive undercurrents of intimidation and the silencing of those more sensitive people and their voices in our communities. Ironically, this situation is vastly different from the very sensitive, intuitive and connected relationship Aboriginal people had with the harsh Australian continent, which allowed them to thrive and live in balance for millennia. They held (and continues to uphold) a high value for their sensitive and dreaming nature, and that nature allowed them to weave a unified life with the earth. The Aboriginal’s valuing of sensitivity offers us many intuitive keys and suggestions for possible healing pathways to reconnect to our sensitive, subtle, dreaming selves. Indigenous cultures and shamanic ways of living from around the world all point us to pathways of returning to balance. It is why I am dedicated to honouring them and their practices in every bit of my work and offerings.