This is Rafael. You will naturally, as an ascending being, rise up, but there are those beings who want to barrage you with low, fear-based density and try to pull you into that frequency. This year is particularly intense in that regard. So the less that you fall into the sphere of others who are hopeless with dire predictions is best for your soul and your sense of pleasant encounters with life. Not that your soul would be corrupted by those things, but your experience of life and your ability to integrate the high energies that are available to all right now would be affected.