I think humans are naturally attracted to drama. The news media knows this and profits from it. The more frightening the news the better their ratings. Stories on social media use dramatic headlines to get you to read them. Creating drama is their job and they do it well.
It is no concern of theirs if all of this adds to your stress levels! If you would like to have more peace in your life you're going to have to create it yourself. You might start by avoiding the hyped-up drama around you. Peace and healing are opposite energies to drama and stress.
So if you'd like more peace, I suggest you consciously find that center of peace and calm within you, using whatever works for you – prayer, meditation, gardening – and for a space of time remove yourself from the drama and fear of the world around you, knowing you can pick them up at any time, but just for now setting them aside.
Find your center and ground yourself in that. Feel that peaceful energy and draw it into your body, breathe it out into the world. For that space of time be that center of peace and blessing. Feel it and radiate it out.
A simple prayer I like to use is, “Lord bless me so that I may be a blessing to others.”
You might find yourself feeling that you are carrying the burdens of the world. It is easy to absorb all kinds of chaotic energies from your environment. When that happens you might like to use an excellent affirmation that a friend taught me to clear away stress, fear and drama, “I only feel my own emotions.”
Another technique that I use if I find myself watching the news and being distressed by it, is to send peaceful, healing, and loving energies into the airwaves of the broadcast so that everyone watching it will also receive those blessing energies.
If you have other things that work for you, please share them!
Thank you
And may God bless you so that you may be a blessing to the world.