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When the World Feels Like Too Much: Find Your Center
We made it through the first week of November. The energy this year has felt like riding a roller coaster through the Amazon jungle—ups, downs, delights, and reasons to be very cautious. Just when we think it will be smooth sailing into the next adventure, the coaster banks hard left and throws us off track. Yet we are strapped into this ride and held safely as we navigate the twists and turns.
We are experiencing an onslaught of natural events around the globe, from earthquakes and floods to volcanoes. The 2026–2027 El Niño has been described as a “Super El Niño,” a term being used for this exceptionally strong event. More proof, to me, that Mother Earth is going through her own changes and ascending into new energy. She, too, is working through her trauma as we continue our spin around the sun.
Quite a few people who are not naturally highly sensitive or empathic have commented to me that they are also feeling an increase in energy, leading to emotional highs and lows, irritability, and anxiousness. The energies are affecting everyone as we continue our climb in consciousness.
During a recent conversation with a friend, they expressed extreme anxiousness during these times. They are not a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) or empath and asked me how I handle this every day. I laughed and said, “Welcome to my world!”
For those of us who are HSPs and empaths, we, too, are feeling an increase in energy, perhaps more than ever before. According to research by Dr. Elaine Aron, approximately 15–20% of people carry the trait of being highly sensitive. She describes being an HSP as a trait, no different from someone having blue eyes or being left-handed.
Research into this trait is still relatively new and ongoing. However, I believe that those with this trait have varying degrees of sensitivities and abilities.
For example, although I did not know the term growing up, I consider myself an intuitive empath within this category, as I can feel others' emotions and physical body pain. It took years for me to reconcile this and understand the feelings that seemed to come out of the blue or the physical sensations I was having for no apparent reason.
I was so grateful to learn a term for what I considered my crazy deficit, and I was able to understand that this is a gift from the Divine so that I could carry out the work I am here to do and learn my soul lessons for this lifetime.
That doesn't mean this time in history is any easier for HSPs or empaths. In fact, if you are an HSP or empath and don't have the proper support, knowledge, or tools, it can be absolutely brutal.
If you feel you fall into this category and need some extra support, there are many excellent coaches and programs out there, as well as free online resources to help you understand more about your own gifts.
Understanding our sensitivities is one part of the journey, but we don't have to navigate it alone. Just like our energetic body, which we don't always see, the Divine has also equipped us with guides to help us along our way.
I don't view guides as having anything to do with religion. I view them as beings of love and light who are here to assist our souls on the journey of remembering who we really are in the Divine cosmos. We always have at least one guide with us throughout our lives, and we may have others who stay for a lifetime or come and go for a season. The key is to ask them for help or guidance. Your soul is that little whisper inside of you, and your guides help your soul throughout the journey of Earth school.
Okay, getting back to November 2026.
We are experiencing a culmination of energy through planetary alignments and collective experiences. Things feel particularly tense during Scorpio season, as the energy dredges up the past and brings what has been hidden to the surface in deep and profound ways.
We are being called to pay attention to what we've created in our lives and what we want to create moving forward. It feels like a monumental purge for Mother Earth and for us, individually and collectively.
So, how do we navigate these energies without getting completely swept away? Here are a few tips to help you along your way.
1. Listen to your body and understand your “signals.”
Your body is a Divine temple and vehicle.
Just like the sound of a consistent clunk in your car that tells you it's time to take it to a mechanic, your body will signal you in subtle ways whether something is for you—or not so much.
That tingle in your tummy, buzzing in your ear, or tightness in your chest may be a signal from your soul. Pay attention to when and how these sensations happen.
Of course, concerning physical symptoms should be evaluated medically. If you've been checked out medically and everything is fine, you may begin to recognize these sensations as your soul's tells.
2. Become BFFs with your nervous system.
Our nervous system regulates so many of our bodily functions and plays an important role in our emotional responses.
If our nervous system perceives a threat, we may automatically go into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
Finding ways to keep our nervous system regulated is absolutely vital right now.
Ever find yourself in a situation where you're with people who make you extremely uncomfortable? Or you're put in a compromising situation and go along with it just to feel safe, activating your fawn response, only to have your “fight” response explode later on yourself or someone else?
That's a double whammy!
Staying coherent and paying attention to the emotions that arise is vital to helping your nervous system stay regulated.
And that doesn't mean stuffing your feelings down, which brings me to my next point.
3. Express away!
Find ways to express your emotions in a healthy manner.
We know that unprocessed emotions and stress can affect our bodies, including processes at the cellular level, and can cause havoc if left unchecked. Unresolved emotional energies can also be passed down through our ancestral lineage.
So, imagine all of the energy that may have already come to you through your family's bloodline.
Finding ways to express your emotions AND move that energy through and out of your body not only helps you become healthier and happier, but can also help heal patterns within your family bloodline for the generations to come.
4. Be the voyeur of your thoughts.
Observing what you are thinking, and when, is the first step in being able to change your thoughts.
Yes, you have the ability to control them, even if it seems as though they are running the show.
Your thoughts are just thoughts. They may or may not be true, which is why we lean into our body and soul for discernment.
However, before we can get there, we need to know what we are thinking, when, and where.
Observing what you're thinking without judging yourself is key to changing your thought patterns, your brain, and your energy.
5. Pay attention to what you are consuming and what you are giving your energy to.
For example, what is your favorite TV show or movie programmed with? Observe it from a higher perspective.
Is the news you're watching objective and factual, or is it fear-based and designed to antagonize your nervous system?
What messages are they trying to consciously or subconsciously program you with?
Going back to our thoughts, is what you're consuming helping you have peaceful thoughts, or is it firing you up in a negative way or turning you against others?
Are your thoughts, emotions, and energy yours, or are you being influenced or manipulated without any conscious awareness?
6. Find some silence in your life.
Spending time in silence allows you to hear yourself and your own thoughts without intrusion.
It may also help you connect with your guides or your faith a bit more deeply.
Silence also helps regulate the amount of input you are receiving from the outside world.
If you can't spend long amounts of time in silence, even 5 minutes a few times a day can help.
7. Find appreciation and gratitude every day.
You may be having a shit day, and you'll notice that when you're on that roller coaster, everything seems to go wrong.
However, the minute you find something to be grateful for, even the smallest thing, your energy can shift.
It could be a smile from a stranger, the fact that your car started, or even that you have food in your belly.
Look for the smallest acts, and notice how they can snowball into the most expansive of energies.
Rack those glimmers up at the end of the day and notice how much is going right.
Finding ways to calm your nervous system and energy is totally unique to each body and soul.
Practices like yoga, exercise, breathwork, meditation, activations, sound healing music, time in nature, silence, journaling, energy therapy, or even volunteering to help others in some way can all help keep you on the road to coherence and higher consciousness.
If you need some assistance finding your way, there are reliable practitioners who can help guide you.
Remember, it is your work to process. No one can do this for you.
Keeping our own energy focused and finding gratitude in everyday life is not ignoring the world's problems or tragedies.
In fact, it is helping the collective by radiating a higher vibration and frequency outward, contributing to healing the issues we face collectively.
It is important to remember that, by keeping your own energy in coherence, you are contributing positively to the world and Mother Earth as a whole.
If this article resonated with you and you would like to work with me, please check out my offerings. I would be honored to assist you.
Remember, you are doing a great job at this thing called life!
Much love.
