Any person who’s going through serious loss could experience emotional shock.
The symptoms of emotional shock are disorientation, numbness, mental confusion or fragmentation. A person may even disconnect and leave their body. This includes people who are witness to traumatic experiences in some way.
These are all ways that the unconscious mind protects us during a traumatic event.
Note: If you are looking for help because you’re going through a serious physical disruption or environmental crisis, please get to a safe place and then go through Stabilize During a Shocking Event.
This self-care formula can help when you are:
- Feeling stuck, immobilized, detached or trapped
- Unable to rest, relax and let go
- Caught in a blank or fixated state of mind
- Waking up at night worried, with obsessive thoughts
- Reliving painful experiences
- Alternately feeling trapped and shattered.
Using the Intuitive Learning Circle method for healing emotional shock ~
Sometimes people who’ve just received bad news or experienced a traumatic event will tell you that they’re fine and not to worry about them. That’s because one of the main symptoms of being in shock is not being aware of being in shock.
Why is that? During a shock, the mind goes blank as a form of protection.
Any person who’s going through serious loss or extreme changes could experience emotional shock. The symptoms are disorientation, numbness, inability to relax, mental confusion or fragmentation. A person may even disconnect and leave their body. This includes people who are witness to traumatic experiences in some way. These are all ways that the unconscious mind protects us during a traumatic event.
The shock response is natural and not a sign of spiritual, mental or emotional weakness. It is a physiological event. Nevertheless, if the person doesn’t get a chance to get grounded in their body again – or if they’re not able to – serious problems may develop. Blocked energy and a constant state of freeze in fight or flight mode takes its toll over time. Statements like: “I can’t think straight,” “my life was shattered” or “I feel disconnected” describe the experience of emotional shock.
If any of the above seems familiar, you can go through this formula step by step to help you access your own innate healing abilities and bring yourself back into balance.
Before you begin…
Because communication lines have become obscured or broken down completely, take a few moments to connect with the beneficial life force that’s available to you through this symbol for Divine Protection.
Relax and use these positive affirmations to help you:
“I integrate with generative energy channels to help me heal emotional shock.”
“I use life affirming communication lines to regain balance.”
Imagine all the lines coming together and connecting into the center spoke of this circle until you feel strong, positive energy flowing through you.
Feel free to return to Divine Protection at any time during this formula to improve integration.
Mind Body Integration
For best results, look at each symbol both crossed over the midline of the body and uncrossed so that the correction is more complete.
Let yourself breathe and relax as much as possible. Don’t worry if the images move around or change in any way. That just means the Circles are working and that your mind and body are relaxing.
Be sure to go through the entire formula and at the end, give yourself time to rest and integrate.
Healing Emotional Shock
Step One:
Take several deep breaths and relax while you look at Condor’s Medicine Circle that helps you to release shock and inner conflict.
Imagine you can use it to focus in on a conflict or painful experience that’s been difficult to move on from. Somehow, it’s always blocking your way.
If your mind has gone blank, relax into how “blank” it is. You may get a sense of what it’s about, or you may not.
Once you find the fixation, sit back and relax. Take several deep breaths.
If emotions come up, relax into them. Imagine that whatever’s happening – the darkness, the chaos or heaviness is also relaxing.
Let it soften and melt away, like ice under a beautiful beam of sunlight.
Keep your attention on it until it’s completely gone. Your energy is lifting up.
Repeat the process with other blockages or conflicts that come up.
Step Two:
While you’re relaxing, use this Soul Prayer Chart to remember another experiences where you were very happy or feeling good about an important physical goal.
What color or felt sense relaxes you and feels good?
If you can increase the color or sensation to be stronger and more vibrant, you’ve found your personal Soul Color or vibration.
Let it fill up the space around you. Now you can tap into your personal power and naturally bring it into balance, which gives you protection and relieves stress.
Being in balance makes everything easier!
Integrate with Divine Protection and give yourself the time to relax and enjoy that feeling.
Step Three:
The next step is to bring your senses into balance with River Medicine so that you can see, feel and hear things without the distortion that often accompanies shock.
As you breathe deeply, let the Circle help you to adjust the volume and pitch of your senses to just the right level for you.
Not too high – and not too low.
Soon you’ll be able to hear that “calm, gentle voice” inside that reminds you to pay attention to what matters the most for you.
You have greater awareness of things as they actually are.
You are present and sensing your surroundings much more clearly.
Step Four:
Some doors may have come open in your mind and if they have, it’s a good idea to close them to help you feel more protected. Take a moment and close them, both crossed and uncrossed before you continue with the rest of the formula.
Step Five:
When a person is recovering from emotional shock, their energy may express some instability like being scattered, reversed or even shut down completely.
If that’s happening for you, let this Correction Key help you build more resilience by repairing any glitches, holes or blockages in your system.
Keep relaxing with it until you feel the jagged energy smoothing out and the calm energy of your Soul coming through even stronger.
If you need Divine Protection, use it.
Step Six:
If your gut feels tight or uncomfortable, use this Reiki Chakra Key for your Solar Plexus Chakra to help you relax and get back into balance there.
Your solar plexus is that soft place in your belly where your ribs go up. Just take some nice breaths and feel the tension melt away again.
It’s safe. You feel safe and more relaxed with every breath.
It’s okay to be in your body.
Integrate with Divine Protection and allow time to let your energy settle.
Step Seven:
Now you can let your heart center recover. This Reiki Chakra Key helps you to reconnect with your Heart Chakra and unwind any residual tightness.
Center the energy with Divine Protection. Breathe deeply and take your time.
Your balance and vitality are returning. You can feel the tightness unwinding.
Allow any heaviness to lift up out of your heart and send it to the Sun where it can be transformed.
You are gaining the strength and resilience you need to let your own Light shine.
Step Eight:
Sometimes a person who’s healing from an emotional shock will be disoriented and feel a bit “out of their body.” In case that’s happening with you, take a few minutes with Starlight Medicine to consciously bring yourself back into your body.
Integrate with Divine Protection to make sure you’re back at home in your heart and solar plexus.
If you’re having trouble, notice the time and where you are. You can open and close your hands into fists. Move your fingers and wiggle your toes around.
Or, you can turn your eyes to the right of you and then to the left. Notice what is above and below – in front and behind you. Then, close your eyes and rest for a moment.
These actions all help you reorient after an emotional shock.
Step Nine:
This is a good time to re-establsh your connection with beneficial energies around you and positive activities that will support you with Butterfly Medicine.
It’s important that you be reminded about what’s nourishing and what’s not. Use Butterfly’s Circle to strengthen your connection with the many things that your Soul finds important.
See if you can come up with at least three activities you could engage in today to help yourself get back up on your feet.
Think about each one – one at a time – and integrate with Divine Protection to help you move this positive energy forward into the future.
Step Ten:
Now, it’s important to make sure that your energy can synchronize and ground in the new paradigm of Common Ground for the Common Good. Without proper grounding, you could get distracted and confused enough to go back to the deterioration and chaos of the old paradigm.
That’s not what you want. Deciding to move with Mother Nature rather than against her matters now more than ever!
Let Electric Eel’s Medicine work with your Soul vibration to help you. Place both feet on the ground and your hands on each knee while you meditate on getting grounded.
Your energy is getting more and more coherent and the Earth supports you.
Again, take all the time you want and do what you need to do.
Step Eleven:
At this point, you’ll want to make sure you don’t fall into any holes or get sucked back into old, destructive habits.
Fly Medicine will help you deconstruct toxic habits and rabbit holes that have been causing you harm. Imagine them collapsing like old sewer lines.
Then, close down any energy drains so you can recover your strength.
Once the holes are collapsed, ask for the leftover empty space to be filled in with Divine Protection and life affirming energy.
Step Twelve:
Oftentimes, letting go of emotional shock requires a significant change in priorities. There may be certain systems, plans, ideas or habitual patterns that have become destructive and are no longer relevant or constructive. Your understanding of things is likely to go through a shift.
You can use this symbol for Dissolving Destructive Blueprints to help you identify them and dissolve whatever is confusing you.
Actively imagine that any destructive or negative patterns in your mind are like heavy clouds or a jumbled maze of confusion, fears and nightmares.
Once you have the image, send it up to the pure light of the Sun and see the maze dissolve completely.
You’ll know that you’re done when you can see yourself standing in a beautiful open field with clear blue skies all around.
Please note: It’s time to stop sending negative emotions to the Earth, she already has too much to handle now. Use the Earth for planting seeds of happiness and life – not death!
Step Thirteen:
Seal and heal any leaks or openings in your energy field. Leaky energy can leave you open to danger or allow harmful energies to attach to you. Open pathways to past suffering can also leave you feeling drained and exhausted.
That includes suffering you’ve merely been a witness to.
As you gaze at Piranha’s Medicine Circle, imagine dangerous leaks, doors and pathways are closing. All holes are sealed and healed.
Make a decision to follow the direction of your Soul’s protection.
Step Fourteen:
To complete your healing for emotional shock, take your time with this Soul Prayer Chart that helps you repair and refocus the auric field around you.
Bring your attention back to your body and the space that surrounds it.
Make an intention to repair all rips or tears in your aura and then strengthen it with your Soul Color and Divine Protection for greater confidence and autonomy.
Pulling your energy in close to your body will actually make a difference with symptoms like brain fog, fatigue and emotional volatility.
Continue until you feel protected in your body and safe in your own space.
Congratulations!
Now that you’re finished with the formula, consider taking a nice walk outside. Nothing grounds you like being in nature after healing an emotional shock.
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Help for Extreme Stress and Overwhelm is curated and facilitated by author and Reiki Master/Teacher – Rheanni Lightwater ~
Rheanni Lightwater is co-owner of Soul Resources LLC and also the creator/ curator of this unique method of self-care and personal growth called the Intuitive Learning Circles.
Since 1991, Rheanni has put together techniques from a variety of natural healing disciplines to help herself and others, many of whom are highly sensitive people with similar issues. Starting in 2001, she developed a whole system of tools for better focus and concentration using muscle testing. She also found that they can help with emotional healing, reducing stress and providing a way to activate advanced states of intuition and creativity.
If you would like more personalized help, Rheanni can work with you online via Zoom or when you visit Santa Fe. To schedule: call or text (505) 271-4612 or email: rheanni@soulresourcesllc.com.
