I’m not convinced we were ever meant to be involved in every global tragedy, every joy, every political upheaval, every crisis.

When you are born, you arrive into a specific frequency—a grounding. You’ve heard the phrase “being grounded”, but what does that actually mean?

Think about when you’ve traveled to a new city and immediately felt it—the culture, food, people, atmosphere, landscape. You could sense the vibrational difference. That’s frequency. If we had a perceivable, quantifiable way to measure it, we’d see that each area carries its own energetic tuning. And when you’re born there, you align with that resonance.

Think about it, even historically, humans moved slowly enough to re-attune as they migrated. Nomads carried their rhythms in step with the land. But today we move—and receive information—faster than the nervous system can realign.

So why does this matter?
That’s a great question.

Because the frequency of where you are grounded offers you a buffer, a resource, and an appropriate container for the events of that place. You were meant to metabolize the joys and sorrows of your community, not the entirety of the globe.

Even news used to come embodied—delivered by someone physically present, carrying the story into your frequency. There was alignment.

Now, our devices collapse all boundaries. The dichotomy of “greatest advancement” or “greatest downfall” doesn’t even capture it—it’s something outside the dichotomy altogether. Through them, we take in the trauma of the world without any tether to the grounding of those areas. And the body suffers for it.

The Neurochemistry of Overload
When you read devastating news, your amygdala registers it as threat. The hypothalamus signals the pituitary, which signals the adrenals: cortisol and adrenaline surge. The body prepares for fight-or-flight.

But here’s the paradox: there is no local outlet. You can’t flee a war zone that isn’t physically present. You can’t fight systemic injustice through a screen. So the activation has nowhere to discharge.

Neurochemically, you stay suspended:

Cortisol remains elevated, impairing digestion, sleep, and immunity.

Dopamine spikes with every new headline, creating a compulsion to seek more information; “doomscrolling”.

Serotonin dips, leaving mood unstable.

Over time, the nervous system shifts into dissociation—a dorsal vagal response designed to protect you from overload.

And then guilt emerges. Guilt is the psyche’s attempt to create meaning out of the helplessness. It whispers: “If I were stronger, better, less selfish, I could do something.”

But the truth is—your neurobiology was never designed to carry the entire world.

The Spiritual Frame
God placed you in this frequency, this ground, this community. He is at work in every area of the earth. And while we are made in His image, we are not God. We are not capable of holding global pain in our bodies.

Our role is to carry what is ours—and to release the rest back to Him.

“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” — 1 Peter 5:7
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

So How Do You Stop Feeling Guilty?
That’s a great question.
You start by choosing your own nervous system. By recognizing that tending to your frequency is not selfish—it is sacred alignment.

To refuse the projections of others (“you’re privileged, you’re selfish”) is to stay rooted in truth: that your coherence, your alignment, becomes a force multiplier. When you regulate, you amplify the Divine frequency in your sphere.

Because only God can hold the weight of the world. Not you. Not me. And freedom comes when we hand it back to Him.

Namaste.