How to Manage the Chaos of the World as a Sensitive Soul

If you’re a sensitive soul navigating the world right now, know that you’re not alone.

The world is in complete turmoil right now. To an extent, it always has been, but now it just feels like the chaos and craziness of it all has become so much noisier.

We only have to turn on the TV or open our phones to see video footage of riots, hate, conflict and destruction. It’s ever-present and inescapable at times.

Sometimes, it makes me wonder why on earth I chose to be here at this time. It also makes me question whether I’m making any difference at all. But, more than anything, it makes me even more focused on seeking the truth, and grounding myself in it.

It’s a confusing time to be alive, and for the sensitive souls amongst us, the tension in the world and between people can feel unbearably heavy. While it can feel like a daily battle to not get drowned in the noise of the outside world, we’re here to stay centered on the difference we can make in our own lives.

Navigating the world as a sensitive soul isn’t an easy ride, but there are ways to make it easier for ourselves, which I’m going to dive into below.

Soul Contract Numbers and Sensitivity

Sensitive souls feel things deeply, it’s just in our nature to do so.

One of the biggest challenges when we’re sensitive, is to not feel things that we don’t need to feel too deeply. This is a hard boundary to create, but it is essential for our own stability and wellbeing.

There’s a few numbers in the Soul Contract system which are all about sensitivity, and these are the 8s, the 2s and the 11-2s.

If you have these numbers hanging out in your chart, you’re most likely to be highly sensitive, empathic and tuned into the emotions of others and the world around you.

While these energies can be a real gift of insight, we have to be careful to not let them tip us into a state of overwhelm. It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by the noise of the world and the people around us, but it’s our challenge to not let it drown us out.

How to Handle Your Sensitivity With 11-2s in Your Soul Contract

If you have the 11-2s in your chart, you may experience real ups and downs in your life, and so your challenge is always to find balance. It may also be that you’ve experienced some trauma in your lifetime, and so you’re here to gently heal it, as well as healing trauma that is imprinted on you from the family line.

Alongside our current life experiences, we are all made up of layers and layers of ancestral and parental imprints, cultural conditioning, past life experiences, subconscious programming, as well as our Soul Contract energies.

The more aware we are of the real makeup of who we are - the programmes, the patterns and the behaviours - the more we can come into command of ourselves and our lives, instead of feeling so out of control.

11-2s are also here to seek the truth and build their own core values that they choose to live by, but this becomes an impossible task when we’re so distracted by the noise of the world around us. Instead of listening to others, we’re here to hold space for ourselves to come into the deep wisdom which is inherent within this energy.

This is your challenge if you have the 11-2 in your Soul Contract.

How to Handle Your Sensitivity With 8s in Your Soul Contract

If you have 8s in your chart, like me, then you will probably feel the emotions of the people around you very deeply, which may cause you to tread on eggshells or become the peacemaker of your family or relationship.

The thing is, you’re not here to fix, save or heal the people around you, you’re really here to put up healthy boundaries so you can refocus on yourself. At the same time, you’re here to break down any boundaries within you that are stopping you from accessing your deepest inner feelings.

If you have 8s in your chart you may also feel deeply affected by the world, and there’s good reason for this.

8s are a very high frequency energy that’s coming into the dense, heaviness of this 3D reality on earth, and this can feel totally overwhelming for the 8s. To the point where, they may just not want to be here because they can’t stand it.

A common inner voice of the 8 energy is often “I don’t want this” or “I don’t want to be here”, and as someone with 8s in my chart, in a very karmic position, I have felt this more times than I can count.

With our 8s, our challenge is to come to a sense of peace with our lives on earth. We’re here to really feel, emotionally connect with ourselves and the world around us, but with healthy boundaries in place.

We’re also here to create ‘heaven on earth’ which is a goal that feels far-reaching at times, especially given the current environment. The trick with this is to remember that our bodies are our home, and the more we ground into our physical vessels, the more at home, connected and safe we’re going to feel.

This is your challenge if you have 8s in your Soul Contract.

Why Sensitive Souls Feel the Weight of the World

One of the most important things we can do for ourselves when we’re struggling with the state of the world and the chaos around us is to start working on our boundaries.

Boundaries are a flippy, floppy non-tangible thing, which is why it’s really hard to put them in place, so I’m going to redefine them.

If we think of ourselves as a glass, filled with light, we need to make sure there’s always this glowing light in our glass. However, when we tip our glass in order to fill the glasses of the people around us, we need to notice how the level in our own glass falls.

If it drops too low, we may start to struggle emotionally, mentally and physically, perhaps feeling overtired, overwhelmed or unable to cope with what’s going on around us. At this point, we need to retreat and start to refill our own glass.

We also need to be conscious of how other people around us might come along and steal from our glass. I call these people energy vampires, but really there’s a whole spectrum of people who are takers and will try to drain us dry.

Sometimes they’re the people we work with who lean on us a little too much, sometimes it’s members of our family who subtly manipulate us, and quite often it’s those friends who, when we spend time with, we come away feeling exhausted, low and not quite ourselves.

One of the most important ways for us to create boundaries, is with ourselves first and foremost, and then with other people. If we are strong internally with what we will, and will not allow, then we are better equipped to deal with the people around us.

We’re here to remember that it’s healthy to say no, and it’s imperative to say no. Only when we do that, can we create the space and time to focus on our own needs and refill our cup.

Protecting Your Energy in a Chaotic World

As sensitive souls, we always want to help people around us, as we feel what they’re going through, and can often intuitively know what they need.

We may want to help them, but the thing is, it’s often not our place to do that.

Everyone has their own soul path, and if we interfere too much with someone else’s journey, we’re actually doing them a disservice. If we are always stepping in to support them, how are they ever going to learn how to do it for themselves?

From experience, I know that in the past, and still occasionally now, it’s made me feel useful and important when I’m helping something with a problem. It can give me a sense of purpose when I’m playing that role - I really feel like I’m making a difference.

The thing is, now, this is my job to do that, and people are paying for me to support them. The problem comes when we try to help someone, and they don’t listen, they reject our advice or don’t recognise that we’re trying to help.

This can feel really painful when all we’re trying to do is help, leading to feelings of irritation and resentment that our advice isn’t being followed, especially when we can intuitively feel and sense what they need.

This is where we have to recognise when we’re wanting to help due to our own motivations, or when we’re wanting to help from more altruistic motivations. It’s ok to help, support and encourage those around us, but we have to let go of our expectations of how things will turn out.

If we offer advice, we have to remember that it may be followed, or it may not, and it’s really nothing to do with us either way.

How to Set Healthy Boundaries as a Sensitive Soul

Our society has taught us, particularly as women, that we need to be selfless, and that being selfish and putting our own needs first is one of the most shameful traits to have.

This is incredibly deep conditioning that has manipulated and distorted the way that we take care of ourselves.

We are not here, especially as women, to support and nurture the world around us to the extent that we burnout in the process. We are not here to continually give and provide to others, to the detriment of our own wellbeing and joy.

As sensitive souls we are all here to disentangle from the overwhelming emotions, and that means bring the focus back to how we’re really feeling, and getting honest with ourselves, rather than getting distracted by something external to us.

Quite often, we can go through life feeling foggy headed and emotionally drained, not quite realising that this is coming from absorbing all the energies of the people around us, so we’re really here to let go, and start tuning back into our own frequency.

This can feel really challenging at times, but this is where our boundaries come into play.

We need to turn off our phones and disconnect from social media. We need to turn off the news and chatter about the state of the world. We need to allow ourselves time in nature and with people who match our energy. We need to channel our energy into thoughtful activities such as writing, creativity, connecting with Source, music, and anything else that lights us up.

Turning Sensitivity into a Source of Strength

The world only changes when we begin to change.

If we’re running on empty, trying to hold the emotional weight of people around us, in a constant care-giving mode, feeling anxious about the world and all the million and one problems it has, we cannot come into our own power.

Power is literally defined as ‘the ability to do something’, and so if we ourselves are feeling disempowered by the state of the world or feeling like a victim of the chaos and destruction, we are not stepping into the true capability that we have within.

The only way the world will change, is if the people do, and that means each one of us taking responsibility for who we are, the choices we make as well as recognising the power we each hold within.

Our sensitivity is our superpower, when used in a considered and wise way, and we’re here to use it as a force for good in the world. The world needs more kindness, more empathy, more love. Yet, it can only receive it when we are in a position to grant it to ourselves first and foremost.

As with all of us, the work always begins with us, which is both our privilege and our potential.

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