Tami Simon feels something rising, and she has learned the cost of saying so out loud. She describes a way of knowing that arrives before the reasons do, a sensing she can't fully explain. When she brings the idea of a coming shift in consciousness to other people, what comes back is a look. "What planet are you on?" she says she is asked. "What have you been smoking?" In a brief conversation recorded for Sounds True, Simon puts this question to the Z's, the nonphysical voice that speaks through Lee Harris, author of Energy Speaks and Conversations with the Z's. The answer is not a forecast. It is a working manual for sensitive people: why the coming light will feel ordinary rather than glorious, why sensitivity and emotionality are different things, why intuition must stay clean of empathy, and why a sensitive person's real power looks less like feeling everything and more like being wide enough to hold it.
Simon is candid about the social friction. She has heard the Z's describe a future in which sensitivity is honored on Earth, and she has repeated that claim to people who were not ready for it. Her description of the reaction is specific: a sideways glance, a smile that signals concern more than curiosity. The Z's answer with something close to amusement. Of course people look at her that way, they say, because those people are "very far from what we are discussing."
The more interesting move comes next. Simon has been talking about a glorious time to come, and the Z's correct the word. "It won't feel glorious, by the way. It will feel normal. It will feel inevitable." (Sounds True video, 1:45)
"Glorious tends to be a more emotional reaction, and this is something we must also speak to."
— the Z's, speaking through Lee Harris, in a Sounds True video (1:55)
This is a small correction with large consequences. Spiritual change is often pictured as a peak: a flash of revelation, a rush of joy, a moment you will remember. The Z's refuse that picture. Glory is an emotion, and emotions rise and fall. What they describe is closer to a new baseline, a condition that settles in until it stops feeling like an event at all. For a reader who has been waiting for a dramatic opening, that may be the most useful part of the session. If the arrival of light feels ordinary, it has arrived. Waiting for fireworks may be the very thing that keeps a person from noticing it.
The central teaching of the session is compressed into four words: "Sensitivity is not emotionality." The Z's are precise about the difference. Emotionality, they say, is "very human," and it is "not stable." Emotions are constantly moving. They do not stay grounded.
Many sensitive people, the Z's observe, get overwhelmed with emotion and read that flood as evidence that something inside them is out of balance. The teaching reframes this. Emotion is a trigger and a signal. It is not the power of sensitivity itself. A sensitive person who is in constant emotional relay with the moods of the people and the world around them is, in the Z's terms, not grounded, and therefore not stable.
The Z's are careful not to dismiss feeling. "There isn't value in becoming emotional from time to time and getting deeply into emotions," they say. The distinction is about where a person stands while feeling. When the teaching speaks of holding the full width of sensitivity, it describes a stance from which emotion moves through you rather than pushing you around. Sensitivity, in this framing, is "strength," and it is explicitly not "feeling bombarded by sounds, noises, crowds." It is not "overwhelming empathy." (Sounds True video, 2:35)
That distinction matters practically. Anyone who has left a loud party drained, or felt someone else's grief lodge in their chest for days, knows the experience the Z's are describing. The teaching does not say those experiences are imaginary. It says they are symptoms of an unsteady core, not proof of a superior gift.
The most evocative image in the session is one of recognition. Most people have walked into a room and felt that someone there seemed "somehow wide," though they could not say why. The Z's name this quality directly: an auric field that a sensitive person develops, the sense of "becoming very wide in yourself."
They are equally clear about what it is not. The width they describe is not imposing, dominating, or domineering. Those qualities, the Z's say, are "human ego." The difference is in the source. A wide person is not pushing outward to take up space. They have stabilized what happens in their core, and so the field around them can be open. They are, in the session's words, "allowed to feel the world through" that width.
"It is you being in possession of your aura."
— the Z's, speaking through Lee Harris, in a Sounds True video (4:58)
The session also names what usually blocks this development. For many sensitive people, the Z's say, there are past wounds that get replayed, and relationship patterns that keep repeating, until a person is ready to let go of the paradigms holding them. When that release happens, sensitivity begins to become "what it was always designed to be": "intact, flowing, and available," rather than "compacted, wounded, stressed, or burdened." The width is not a technique added on top of a damaged system. It is what the system does once it is no longer fighting itself.
Within the session, a specific instruction stands out. Empathy and intuition, the Z's say, "need to be in very clean relationship to each other." Empathy must not overlap intuition, because if it does, "you will get distorted intuitive information."
The reasoning is compact: "Intuition is not emotional. Empathy is." (Sounds True video, 4:23) Read as a working principle, this suggests a simple question to ask when a knowing arrives. Is this coming through as information, or is it coloring itself with feeling? The Z's do not describe a step-by-step method here, and it would be overreach to invent one. But the principle is clear. A sensitive person who wants clear intuitive signal has to keep the emotional field from writing over it.
Simon's own description of her sensitivity shows why this matters to her. She says she "knows things" without knowing how she knows them, and that this sense of rising energy is something she feels strongly. For a person who trusts that kind of knowing, mixing it with empathic charge is a hazard, because the message gets bent before it arrives.
The Z's offer a reframe that is easy to remember. Simon, they say, is here to sow the seed of her truth, and some people will roll their eyes. The eye-rollers are the ones a speaker remembers, because "you are human," and humans remember resistance. But the people most worth remembering are often the ones who said nothing dismissive. The session describes the two, three, or four people who "slightly lit up" during the conversation, who "slightly recognized something."
"You gave a permission slip to them that something they also feel inside them is possible."
— the Z's, speaking through Lee Harris, in a Sounds True video (3:09)
This is a useful way to think about sharing anything you have come to understand through sensitivity. The audience you imagine is the room of skeptics. The audience that actually receives you is smaller and quieter, and it may have been waiting for exactly the permission you offered without knowing it.
The session turns to perfectionism with a surprisingly specific instruction. The Z's note that humans are goal-driven, and that a perfectionist can easily tell themselves, "I must become the most healthy sensitive I've ever been." Their answer is one word: "remove the must." Replace it with "I will endeavor to become the most healthy sensitive I've ever been," and then "let the mystery of how you get there and when play out in your life."
The Z's add a diagnosis. Exacting standards, they say, are usually a way of running from something one is already experiencing. The pressure is a flight response dressed as ambition. Removing the "must" does not lower the goal. It removes the fear underneath it. (Sounds True video, 3:49)
The closing movement of the session reframes overwhelm itself. "Overwhelm is a wonderful signal that things need to change," the Z's say. They add, with a note of dry realism, that the planet "loves getting you all overwhelmed and stressed for good reason." The empowered sensitive, in their account, is the person who understands this and adjusts focus and habits within whatever time and availability they have.
What distinguishes that person is the emotional tone of the adjustment. They are "not in pain about how quickly they get there," but "in determination that they will." That is a notable distinction. Impatience is a form of emotional reactivity, and the session has already argued that reactivity is not the source of power. Determination, by contrast, is steady. It can keep going through a slow stretch without needing the feeling of progress to justify it.
The session is only about seven minutes long, and it is best read as an opening rather than a complete system. If its ideas resonate, the most direct next step is to watch the full Sounds True video and listen for the passages on empathy and intuition, which the Z's flag as the foundation of the rest. The source books named in the video description, Energy Speaks and Conversations with the Z's by Lee Harris, are the places to go for the wider body of this material.
A few questions may help you test the ideas in ordinary life. When you feel overwhelmed, what is the signal telling you that needs to change? When you receive a sense of knowing, is it arriving as information or as feeling? And when you find yourself saying "I must," can you replace it with "I will endeavor," and notice what the pressure underneath it is trying to outrun?
