As an empath and "seer" I already have access to the horrors of the world and am heartbroken most of the time and now more than ever due to the Ukrainian plight.

I live by a code of purposely not looking at the images of dead children on social media or video feeds or I'd be a basketcase 24/7/365. I never saw the attack on the WTC on 9/11 due in part that I didn't have television - I did watch it 10 years later for 10 seconds. We have a choice to practice replacing the hard-wiring in our brain of seeing the worst in humanity and replacing it with something neutral to minimize shock/overwhelm in favor of an action plan.

Fear, horror, unfathomable grief at a distance - via media done repeatedly can go in two directions (maybe more): 1. feelings of empathy/heartbreak sorrow; 2. doomscrolling and a voyeuristic need or addiction to the horror - feelings of depression and a desire to know more to "understand". Either of these two stances can lead to numbness to suffering.

However when anger arises it may lead to constructive actions: donating humanitarian aid, visualizing peace, hunkering down - doing our part by enduring economic hardship in the face of support for the Ukrainians.