Hello, my friend and fellow traveler on the path. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, and welcome to

this inner revolution series on my inner work, a spiritual growth podcast. Thank you so much for being here

and for tuning in, whether this is your first

time here or your 100th or 200th time listening. Your presence is so very meaningful and

so rewarding and just keeps me doing this work every single day.

So for this bonus episode of Inner Revolution, I wanted to introduce a kind of radical

idea. And, you know, it might not be radical to you if you've already done a whole bunch of inner work on yourself.

But I think for those of us who are highly sensitive people, empaths, highly conscientious, highly attuned to other people's energy, this could come across as a radical idea.

So the idea basically is that you are not responsible for other people's inner states.

And we'll just take a second to allow that to fully drop in. So you are not

responsible for other people's inner states. This includes other people's energies, frequencies,

vibrational state, vibrational set point, if we want to call it that.

This includes other people's emotions and emotional reactions to life and even to you directly. You are not responsible for that either. So you are not responsible for

other people's inner states. Now, I know for a lot of us, well, first of all, as I said,

a lot of us have these empathic, highly sensitive,

highly conscientious, very attuned to other people kinds of tendencies, which means that

we have spent a lot of time being really, really hyper aware, and even hypersensory, so like just feeling and knowing in our

bodies, what other people are experiencing, what's running through their minds, what emotions

they're feeling.

Sometimes even we might have a sense of that more clearly than other people themselves

because we're just so inclined with these empathic tendencies to be able to walk in someone

else's shoes and like really take on those feelings, thoughts,

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