Hello, dear soul, and welcome to the Lightbearer's Library. My name is Kate Harmony. In today's journal entree, I want to talk about how we do not owe the world our empathy. Now, I'm not saying that we don't care. I'm just saying that we are intentional about what news, I'm I'm thinking mostly like news stories, headlines, whatever your feeds are bringing to you, that we're intentional about these things. Because what happens is that as sensitive souls as INFPs or INFJs in the Myers-Briggs system, I'm an INFP, but as highly sensitive people, we can't help but feel for the world. We can't help but feel the world as well, the energy of it. So by saying we don't owe the world our empathy, it's like we can't help but but feel it and care. And I'm saying that we have we have a limitless ability to love all of humankind, to have compassion and feel, feel that everyone should be, have, have, have love and kindness in their lives. But I feel like empathy feels like a limited resource in some way, because for me at least, empathy is kind of like a it's an outgoing of energy. It's an outpouring of the energy. So when I read a story that uh about someone out there that I don't know, and it touches my heart, and and it's it's there's trauma involved or horror, like horror. It just it I feel energy leaving me. And um it's not those those things. My empathy is not necessarily it's not helping that person or the you know, the people in the war or whatever. It's it's it's draining me, you know, and I'm left feeling exhausted and you know, and and if you if you like I don't I'm not on social media and I'm very intentional about what comes into my inbox, what comes in on my my YouTube subscription feed. That's the only thing that I have. And like I regularly unsubscribe from things because it just you know that feeling of that spike in whatever the hormones are, hormones are whatever. It's it just like it it grabs you and like sort of and and I think partially is that there's a lot of an addiction to that that feeling, whatever it's like doom scrolling, right? I don't do that, like I can't even, I don't have the I don't have the capacity to do that. But the the I think there's just an addiction to that, and I think we need to be more intentional and more aware of our own energetic body, and so that you know, that we have that energy and and that empathy to give to the people, like actual individual people in our lives, you know, our family, our friends that that need someone there in their lives to to give them an ear, to hold space for their for their their own trauma. I mean, this everyone's going through stuff, right? So there are enough people that we know in our lives that that we can, you know, give that empathy to. Um, so I think that there's there's a difference between sort of so I think m my my main my main thing is that we should just turn the feeds off as much as possible or unsubscribe from the news, from things that are creating fear in our system, because that drains our energy, and then we have less energy to to send out love and to send out peace. Like, of course, that's really, really important. Um and I I think that that actually helps the world and does something. I that's that's my own my own view of things, but you know, so I when I have more energy within my within my body and and you know, whatever, whatever that looks like to you, I'm more able and aware to show up in my life with love and kindness and peace. And that's what the world needs more of, is more people living from that centered, grounded space. So um if you're feeling if you're feeling this message and you're feeling called to turn off the feed feed, I think sometimes maybe there can be a sense of guilt. It's like, well, I'm called to witness witness this trauma going on or this war or this whatever it is. And um I, you know, there may be some guilt in turning it off. And I would just ask you to explore that. Explore why why you are wanting to pay attention to that one thing that you're paying attention to, whether it's, you know, what whatever it is and and why. Maybe journal about it. Why is this important to me? Why, you know, so that maybe there's some action actually that you could take in in in some some way. That would be maybe more effective than scrolling through headlines and feeling bad about what's happening in the world. Um, because that's just that's just draining us. So I think that um when we protect our energy, when we turn off the feed, we have more energy for those that we love and for ourselves even. Because some some people, you know, we're struggling, not as much as other people out there. It's like, whew, there's a lot happening. But um, so the other thing I think that we can do is when we are, when we do intentionally engage in holding space for for someone who is going through trauma or stress or whatever it is, that we have some some way of of shielding ourselves, of not soaking it in like a sponge, their their their trauma, their emotions, their energy. Um, because that can be that can be draining and detrimental, right? It can be so um detrimental to our our well-being. And um I think that um oh, I had a word that I was gonna say. Um I can't find it now. Um oh, it's like, yeah. Um, yeah, no, that was something different. Okay, but that uh for me, I have plexiglass. It's something that I came up with years and years ago. Um, that that helps me to have a reminder that the people, the other person that I'm holding space for, or or engaging in, you know, maybe there's a bit of a disagreement or whatever is happening, they're them with all their stuff. And it's not mine. It doesn't belong to me. And, you know, but what does belong to me is my own reactions, my own stuff that I'm responsible for. And so it helps me to be more aware and more kind to that other person if they're angry or or whatever. And it's like, you know, they're going through whatever they're going through, and if they're being mean to me, then, you know, that's you know, it's not mine, it's them. So that really helps. And I think lots of people have energetic practices that they do that help build energy and protect energy, you know, imagining yourself, you know, surrounded by a golden light or pink light. I often do pink light, um, of whatever color. Most maybe it's green, you're needing neutral, you know, just that calming green. Um, you know, and then there's other practices of going for a walk or breath work or or, you know, movement practices. So I would love to hear from you in the comments if this has sparked some some thoughts. The last thing I will say is that, you know, being informed, and I talked about this in a previous video about being informed. Um, being informed can also be a form of energetic self-harm. So, you know, if you're scrolling, just be just be ever so mindful of your precious soul, of your precious mind. It's like you, you know, we gotta, we gotta protect ourselves. So if this was helpful to you, please do give me a thumbs up. And and I'd love to hear from you in the comments about, you know, are you feeling this sense of needing to turn it off? Are you feeling guilty about that? Are you uh do you have practices that you do already? Maybe you're not on on any of these platforms, and I I love that and I'm cheering you on in that. Um, but yeah, I would love to hear from you. Okay, well, I'm wishing you so many blessings. Please do take care of yourself. Signing off for now, XOXO Kate.