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Empath Discernment Practice: Calm News Overload Fast
Watercolor hero image with large centered white text reading Quiet the news. Hear your inner signal, the phrase inner signal circled in white, set over soft indigo and lavender washes with subtle breath lines. Warm, inviting mood for a blog about empath discernment, mindfulness, and calmer news consumption inspired by Karen Lee Cohen’s Let’s Be Peace.

From News Overload to Your Inner Signal: A Simple Discernment Practice

You refresh the headlines, your chest tightens, and you tell yourself you are staying informed. But your body knows you are carrying too much. If you are an empath, you feel it more than most.

Karen Lee Cohen’s book, Let’s Be Peace: 20 Unique Paths to Healing Yourself and Spreading Peace in the World, is a calm voice in the noise. Karen gathered wise voices and simple tools so sensitive people can steady themselves without shutting down. She calls herself a “Peace Whisperer,” inviting us to “be peace” inside so it naturally spreads, one person at a time . Her steady message is to try what resonates, let go of what does not, and keep listening inside for your next right step .

Who This Is For

  • Empaths and highly sensitive people who absorb every mood.
  • Caregivers and leaders who want to stay kind and clear.
  • Seekers who want a practical spiritual practice that fits real days.

You do not need more noise. You need a signal you can trust.

The Moment That Changes Your Day

One contributor shares how she stepped back from lower vibration inputs, including news and constant pings, and started asking, is this a positive message or is this fear. She checked in with her higher self and angels, and if her mind spun, she asked, is this important right now, then put it on the shelf. This simple reset helped her stay calm and act from a higher place, even when the day was hard .

Hidden gem, your sensitivity is not the problem. The problem is overload. Your task is to tune yourself, not the world.

Your Five Minute Discernment Practice

Here is how to do it when you feel flooded.

  1. Step away from the swirl Turn off the feed. Ask, is this message positive or fear based. If it is fear, step away for now. Give yourself space to think and feel again .
  2. Ask your inner signal Hand to heart. Ask, what is mine to carry right now. Notice your gut. If it feels steady, continue. If it feels off, wait and ask again. Your body will show you when you are on the right track .
  3. Call in support You can ask your angels by name. Many readers call on Archangel Michael for protection and Archangel Raphael for healing. This is not lofty, it is friendship and guidance at a higher level .
  4. Regulate your breath Use a simple count. Try breathe in 4, hold 4, out 4, hold 4, or in 4, hold 7, out 8. These patterns tell your nervous system it is safe to settle. They bring you back to center .
  5. Stabilize your energy Use Sue Storm’s “Three Clicks,” check your grounding cord, and smile inside your heart. This small sequence helps your body stop bracing and return to a higher state more quickly .
  6. Choose one loving action Ask, what would love do. Then take one step, like a kind text, a gentle boundary, or closing the laptop for an hour .

Why This Works

  • Sensitivity is intelligence – You are a tuned instrument. You are not meant to dull your senses. You are meant to sort what is yours and what is not. Karen encourages you to gather teammates, then listen to your body, your intuition, and your angels and guides, and you make the final call .
  • Self trust grows with small wins Breath counts, gut checks, and short pauses are easy to repeat. As Karen’s contributors remind us, take what fits and leave the rest. That is how you build a practice that lasts .
  • Forgiveness resets your energy. “Peace demands forgiveness,” Forgive yourself and others – one voice shares. When we let go, we stop holding ourselves hostage and we free our energy for what matters now .

Extra Support For Tender Days

  • Gratitude bookends Before getting out of bed and again at night, name what you are grateful for. It shifts your attention toward what is working and steadies your mood over time .
  • Angels on call Build a simple check in. Ask for help and listen. Knowing who to call, like Michael or Raphael, makes support feel near and practical .
  • Gentle media boundaries Limit exposure when your system is raw. The contributor who stepped back from news and pings found more peace and clearer focus when she did this on purpose .

What Karen Lee Cohen Hopes You Remember

Let’s Be Peace is more than a book, it is a welcome to a movement where peace starts inside you. Karen describes how this project grew from a simple hashtag into a community shaped by many wise voices, each offering clear, human tools you can try right away . Her heart call for you is simple, “Love and trust yourself” .

The deeper truth, when you live from your inner signal, you do not harden against the world, you soften into real strength. Your compassion gets cleaner. Your choices get clearer. As one contributor puts it, “view life as an adventure” and ask if what is in front of you serves the highest good. If yes, explore. If not, move on .

Try It Today

  • Pick a five minute window.
  • Turn off the feed.
  • Breathe with a count.
  • Ask your higher self and angels for one next step.
  • Take that step and let the rest wait.

If this feels good, repeat tomorrow. You do not have to be less sensitive to be more peaceful. You only have to be more you. Karen Lee Cohen’s Let’s Be Peace is here to help you remember the way back, breath by breath, choice by choice, one person at a time .

What would change if you listened for your inner signal before you listened to the news, and let peace set the plan for your day?