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September 4, 2025January 7, 2026

Stabilize During A Shocking Event

This self-care formula uses the Intuitive Learning Circle method for relief during extreme weather crisis or other shocking events.

The following SOS self-care formula is a form of self-hypnosis combined with energy healing that has been used for resolving shock, enhancing inner guidance and facilitating positive change since 2001. This particular formula has been updated for 2026 and offers a gentle way to process ongoing difficult experiences, manage emotional stress, find new communication lines and positive ways to respond to unexpected, extreme and shocking events.

When you’re living through a shocking event, you’re probably in the middle of some kind of fight or flight response… and that’s natural.

If you are:

~ Living through a shocking event
~ Dealing with an environmental disaster or its aftermath
~ Feeling scattered, confused, scared or vulnerable
~ Exposed to repeated emergency situations
~ Witnessing traumatic experiences

You may be having trouble with comprehension and thinking or planning clearly.

Any person who’s going through extreme weather related events or a crisis in their environment can experience disorientation, numbness, mental confusion or fragmentation. Even people who are witness to traumatic experiences can get caught up in the energy of the event. That includes family members, caregivers, friends, therapists, clergy and other emergency responders.

The shock response is natural and not a sign of spiritual, mental or emotional weakness. It’s an important way that the mind protects itself. Nevertheless, if a person who’s going through a shocking event doesn’t get a chance to relax and separate from the experience – or if they’re not able to – serious problems can develop, including ongoing symptoms of ptsd including nightmares, flashbacks and a chronic fear of the future.

Scattered energy and a constant state of fight or flight takes its toll over time. Statements like: “I can’t think of anything positive,” “My life was shattered,” “I feel so drained” or “I just don’t know what to do,” describe the experience of ongoing, unresolved shock. Alternately, a person may put on a false front of cheerfulness and optimism, only to have their health suffer seriously later.

If any of the above seems familiar, you can go through this formula to help you stabilize your mind and access your own innate healing abilities. Simply follow the directions step by step so you can monitor your energy and take the steps you need to move forward safely.

Mind Body Integration

The brain and body communicate through different channels when a part of you is crossed over the center of your body. As you go through the steps, cross and uncross a hand or foot over the midline of your body when you gaze at each Circle. Use a soft focus and breathe patiently. This will help you integrate your thinking more fully so that you can be more creative. If you have any negative self-talk, let it go by breathing through it.

Feel free to move at anytime in any way to help you embody your experience!

Stabilize During a Shocking Event

Step One:

Take some breaths and relax so that you can release shock, fixations and inner conflict. Breathe in and exhale on a long “ah” breath several times.

Imagine you can use the Circle to focus in on a shocking or painful experience that’s blocking your way. If your mind is blank, focus on how “blank” it is. You may get a conscious image or message, or you may not.

Once you have a sense that your mind has found the blockage, visualize it like an iceberg and the Sun is melting it away with a beautiful beam of light.
Allow it to melt until it’s completely gone.

If you like to smudge yourself, this would be a good time to do it.
Check for other blockages, worries or conflicts that you can do the same with.

Step Two:

The environment is changing and you need to protect yourself.
Use Divine Protection to help you connect with and integrate generative channels of life energy. It helps to visualize the lines coming together and connecting with the center spoke of the wheel.

Take all the time you need to feel strong, positive energy flowing through you.

Feel free to integrate Divine Protection into any remaining corrections to help you to stabilize in whatever way is necessary.

Step Three:

In situations like this, there’s so many things going on and you don’t want to scatter. Your mind may have too many windows open – like on a computer screen.

Let this Circle help you close the tabs in your mind to help you feel better and more contained.

Be sure to integrate with Divine Protection to make sure you get them all.

Step Four:

In emergencies, it’s important to stay hydrated. Make sure you’re drinking plenty of fresh water. If you swish it around in your mouth before you swallow, the water will go where it needs to go faster and more efficiently.

Water is your good friend. Especially now!

Step Five:

Consider all that’s going on in your life. A lot is changing.
Use this Circle to gently contemplate the situation so you can slow down and gather up your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical resources.

What is the most important thing for you to keep in mind?

If you notice more shock coming up to the surface, go back up to Step 1 and repeat the process of melting away the tension until it’s completely gone.
Then, come back down through the sequence until you get back here.

If you’re ready to move on, continue to Step 6.

Step Six:

Your senses may have gotten knocked out of balance. Reconnect with them and focus on being present. Use them to become aware of your body and what you need right now.

Re-orient yourself in your environment, as it is now.

Take whatever time you need focus on actions that will bring you back into balance and benefit your well-being.
You may want to write ideas down because it’s easy to forget.

Step Seven:

When going through traumatic events, everyone has a tendency to grip and hold on. Yet, gripping and tension interferes with our ability to do the most important thing that we need to remember, which is to keep breathing!

Slow down and consciously bring oxygen and relaxation into your lungs and body.

Breathe deeply with this Chart and imagine the space around you is actually relaxing and softening.
You’re feeling better with every breath you take.
Stretch or move around in any way that you instinctively feel you need.

Step Eight:

Your energy probably needs some balancing. Go through this short sequence to make repairs and get back in order:

A) Get help clearing your energy field of toxins. Use this Detachment Key to relax and mend any energetic wounds that are associated with smoke, chemicals or other harmful energies.

Like a healing balm, imagine that a loving coat of peace and comfort is pouring down over you.

Step Nine:

When a person is under extreme stress, their energy can become blocked, scattered, reversed or even shut down completely.

B) Let this Correction Key help you repair any glitches, holes or jagged energies in your system.

Keep relaxing with it until the energy smooths out and you begin to sense the calming energy of your Soul coming through.

Step Ten:

Bring your attention to your own heart center. Imagine you can connect with your Source and activate the Light that lives within you.
You are never alone.

If you’re a Reiki practitioner, this is an excellent time to fill yourself with Reiki.

Step Eleven:

Now it’s time to turn down the volume on all the noise from outside. As you breathe deeply, let this Circle help you to adjust the volume and pitch of your senses to just the right level. Use Divine Protection if you need to.

Not too high and not too low – just right.

Soon you’ll be able to hear that calm, gentle voice inside that reminds you about what matters the most to you.

Let yourself be sad if you need to be. Tears are a sign of letting go of shock.

Step Twelve:

It also helps to open and close your hands to get more present. Move your fingers and wiggle your toes around. Notice the time and where you are. These actions are all helpful whenever you want to stabilize during a shocking situation.

Step Thirteen:

Now you can let your heart recover. This Key helps you balance your heart energy and clear away any residual heaviness.
Breathe deeply and take your time.
Feel any heaviness lifting up and out of your heart.

Integrate it with Divine Protection and let it radiate out like a Light until you feel transformed.

Step Fourteen:

Oftentimes, going through a shocking event requires a change in priorities. There may be certain plans, ideas or thoughts that take you back into your traumatizing event. You can use this symbol for dissolving destructive blueprints to help you identify them and dissolve whatever is distressing you.

You don’t have to keep going back there. Simply imagine that the negative patterns in your mind are like dark clouds or a tangled maze of confusion.

Surrender the darkness into the pure light of the Sun and let the maze dissolve completely.

You’ll know that you’re done when your mind feels clear enough to imagine standing in a beautiful field with the Sun shining down upon you.

Please note: It’s time to stop sending destructive energies into the Earth, she already has too much to handle now. Use the Earth for planting seeds of happiness and life – not death!

Step Fifteen:

Before you finish with this formula, take a minute to close up those tabs again. Seal and heal any holes, leaks or passageways that have opened up during this process.

Do that both crossed and uncrossed over the midline of your body.
Your mind and heart needs closure.

Step Sixteen:

Finally, your auras are an essential part of having good health. When they’re strong and focused, they can repel toxicity and keep your personal energy more protected.
During a traumatic event, it’s very likely that rips and tears have come open, impairing your energy levels and ability to keep good boundaries.

To prevent collapse, relax with this Soul Prayer Chart for as long as you need to repair and refocus your auric field.
Intend to keep them close to your body because clear and focused auras provide increased protection and stability.

Take care of yourself and remember that you are loved.

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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.

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September 3, 2025January 7, 2026

Clearing An Overwhelmed Mind

If you need help clearing an overwhelmed mind, the Intuitive Learning Circle method offers quick and easy support.

This self-care formula is for clearing an overwhelmed mind and is as useful for handling larger traumas as it is day to day stresses. Use it when you’re feeling:

Exhausted or confused
Scattered or pressured
Out of balance
Taking on too much
Doing too much
Going too fast and need to slow down
Internalizing the stress and pain of those around you.

You are not alone and you can easily get some relief by going through the Overwhelm Help Exercise #4 out of Navigating Loss and Compassion Fatigue from our Soul Oriented Solutions series.

Directions: Confirm this is the best formula for you with the SOS Symbol.

Find a quiet place if possible, where you won’t be disturbed for about twenty – thirty minutes. Begin by reading the first message and then gaze gently at the Circle or chart that goes with it for approximately two minutes. A longer or shorter time may be necessary. 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 with the positive affirmations to bring your mind and body back into balance.

Some emotions might come up as well. That also means the Circles are working. If you’re being hard on yourself or afraid you aren’t “doing it right,” give yourself permission to continue relaxing and let go of anything that’s causing you pain or suffering. You could be releasing a mindset that’s caused you quite a bit of suffering for some time now. Resolve to patiently keep breathing and let it go.

Mind Body Integration

For best results, look at each symbol both crossed over the midline of your body and uncrossed so that the correction is more complete.

Feel free to move at anytime in any way to help you embody your experience!

If someone is with you, talk to them about some of the feelings that you’re having. It could help you to gain perspective on your situation. Having perspective allows you to make the best decisions about what will help you now.

After you’ve finished going through the entire formula, let yourself rest for a little while. You’re doing very well with such a difficult circumstance. Be sure to take things one at a time.

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 clear my overwhelmed mind.”

“I use life affirming communication lines.”

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.

Clearing an Overwhelmed Mind ~

Presence

1. Gaze softly at the Circle and take a few moments to breathe deeply.
Pay special attention to those places in your body where you’re feeling pain or discomfort.
Just let them relax.
Move around or stretch if you need to.

Receiving

2. Ask for peace and healing to come into your body.
See if you can move your energy out of your head and pull it down into your center in the heart and solar plexus area.

Relax and receive the benefits of slowing down and taking some time for yourself for a few minutes.

Once you feel calmer, gently bring to mind what you were wanting to do.

Centering

3. You may need some more time to get your bearings.
Being centered in the present is a big part of being okay.
Let your energy get connected in your center solar plexus area.

When you’re ready, notice what’s to the right of you and to the left of you.
What is your relationship to the Earth below and the sky above?

Balance

4. You don’t need to be perfect or be everything to everyone.
Are you expecting too much of yourself? If so, give yourself a break and let it go.
You can stop sending your energy in so many directions.

What really matters in this situation? What’s most important to you?

Release

5. You may feel like you’re stuck or being pulled in the wrong direction.
Relax and meditate on this Correction Key for as long as you like.
Imagine that a loving coat of peace and comfort is pouring down over you – gently releasing you from all that dark, chaotic energy.

You can gently heal the wounds of the past.

CHANGE

6. You’re ready and able to let go and make the changes necessary for you now. Are you willing to let go and release obligations that are causing you harm?

Release any agreements to hold onto things that aren’t working.
See them like old contracts burning up in a Violet Flame.

What a relief that is.

Nourishment

7. Once you’ve recovered, go back to your center and listen to your heart beating – nice and steady.
It’s okay to ask for help. You are alive and need to take good care of yourself.

What would help you do that?
Make a list so you can remember.

Hope

8. Take a moment and let your body and mind connect with Hope.
True Hope is an expression of Universal Love that reunites you with your Soul.
Feel the Hope and connection with your Soul returning to you.

Reunion

9. Gaze gently at the Circle while you think about something or someone that you love very much. Relax and let go of any pressures you put on yourself.

Maybe you just needed to take some time so you can get back in touch with what really matters.
Take all the time you like. It’s okay to let go of tension and feel the love returning to you.

Compassion

10. It’s much easier to focus your energy on taking good care of yourself now.
Your resources and natural instincts are returning and reorganizing around what you need in the present. Your sense of direction, protection and motivation is intact.
You’re learning that your choices matter.
You are important and other people care about you.

Clarity

11. Now it’s time to sweep the clutter and darkness out of your mind.
Send it to the Light.
Sweep it all up and away. Then shut the doors on scary places that overwhelm you.

Notice how much better your body feels when your mind is more clear.

Closure

12. Close the pathways that lead back to exhaustion and overwhelm, like too many open tabs on a computer.
Seal and heal all the holes and leaks wherever they may be.

Closing pathways of suffering between you and others will help everyone feel much better.

Protection

13. Relax with this Chart and ask for continued protection as you move forward.
You are protected and positive life force is flowing through your body and mind.

Life affirming communication lines are coming together to help and strengthen you.

Inner Guidance

14. Take some deep breaths and listen to that calm, gentle voice that comes from your heart.
What is it telling you?

New Beginnings

15. Let a calm feeling come from your heart and fill up your entire body – all the way to your fingertips.

It’s time to rest. Remember to take good care of yourself.

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August 30, 2025December 28, 2025

Self-care for Loss in Difficult Times

Soul Oriented Solutions: A Gentle Self-care Formula about Loss and Our Connection with Love ~

Many people are experiencing deep levels of anxiousness, distress and fear around our current situation due to a variety of events. These feelings can come on suddenly and be very overwhelming.

You might have lost a relative, a job or an important friendship. You could be facing a health challenge or even a loss in your purpose and sense of self.

Or, you may be standing on the sidelines, watching the world you love suffer while you feel at a loss for something helpful to do.

In situations like these, it can take a while to regain your balance. What are some ways to provide self-care for loss and bring some level of emotional and spiritual relief?

If you can find a way to tune into your deepest resources, you’ll discover that you’re never completely alone, even in your darkest hours.

To help out, I’d like to share this self-care formula that uses positive affirmations and the Intuitive Learning Circles. You can use it day or night, whenever you are:

Asking for help in a difficult situation
Stressed over a lost job or income
Grieving a loss of any kind
Feeling pulled into a negative state of mind
Recovering from an abusive experience – past or present
Dealing with a serious or long-term illness
Preparing for an arduous challenge or surgery
Coming to terms with tragedy, loss or death.

To begin with, the world has been going through so many changes.

It’s good to know that there are helpful channels of generative life force available all around us. Meditate on this symbol for Divine Protection to connect with them. Let yourself breathe and relax as much as possible.

Notice the lines coming in towards the center spoke. Imagine them connecting. Then, let that beneficial energy flow through you and raise your energy.

Mind Body Integration

For best results, look at each symbol in this formula both crossed over the midline of your body and uncrossed so that the correction is more complete.

Feel free to move at anytime in any way to help you embody your experience!

The lighter energy of Air brings more oxygen which is essential to health.

Tune into this Soul Prayer Chart for Oxygen and resonate with the breath of life.

Breathing deeply helps you lift feelings of heaviness up and off of you.

Raising your energy is essential to healing and that’s what this formula is asking for.

Feel free to come back to either of these symbols at any time if you need to.

Open Your Heart Center.

Continue to prepare for Self-care for Loss by meditating on this Reiki Chakra Key to open and bring balance into your heart center. It helps to place your right hand over the center of your chest while you gaze at the symbol. Here’s a a couple of suggested affirmations:

“I understand and have compassion for the suffering of myself and others.”

“I have peace and balanced prosperity in my heart. I choose life.”

Strong emotions or insights may come up. The image may seem to move, rotate, vibrate or change color. Don’t worry. That happens sometimes. It just means it’s working to help you feel better. Once the energy calms down a bit, you can move on to the remaining Circles with each of their affirmations to continue the process.

Let your senses get balanced.

Gaze softly at the image while you contemplate the positive affirmations that go with it for for a minute or so. Relax and breathe:

“I bring my senses into balance.”

“I focus them to help me be calmer, more present and aware of what’s important.”

“I use my senses to know who I am and what I’m doing.”

“I focus on thoughts and actions that are genuinely helpful and productive.”

Your heartfelt intention is important and needs to be communicated.

The Master Chakras are located on each hand between your thumb and index finger. Let them get balanced. Then, bring them up to your chest and imagine you can connect your prayers with your heart. These affirmations can help

“My prayers are connecting with my heart center.”

“I ask to receive guidance, clarity and healing from my Inner Wisdom.”

You might want to journal some of your thoughts so you can talk about what comes up later with a trusted counselor or friend. If so, get out some paper and something to write with as you go through the steps.

Now you’re ready to ask for help…

Self-care for Loss

Step One: Ask for Help

If you could ask for something that would genuinely be helpful to you, what would it be?

While reflecting on this Soul Prayer Chart, breathe in deeply, all the way into your belly several times and exhale slowly.

Continue breathing and visualize your request lifting up from your heart center to spirit for manifestation. Lifting up on the breath of life.

Step Two – Support

With this symbol, intend to bring relief and relaxation into all parts of your body, mind and spirit while you continue to breathe.
It’s okay to ask for miracles.

Step Three ~ Being of Joyful Service

If you’re feeing overwhelmed and not sure what to ask for, be kind to yourself and realize this is much bigger than anything you have control over.

Feelings of loss can easily get convoluted or all wound up with a whirlwind of emotions. You can let go and release any pressure or over-complicated ideas. If you’re trying to do too much, allow your expectations to relax and unwind.

Visualize any pressured or twisted ideas gently unfolding and unwinding.

Step Four ~ Peace

Now that you’re more relaxed with your request, think about the main question, difficulty or burden you’re dealing with right now.
If you’d like to process it a little bit, take a few moments and put it into your own words.

If there’s a blockage or resistance, are you willing to let go of whatever it is and find a solution? If not, why not?

Step Five – Release

If you can, imagine that difficulty or burden is beginning to melt and soften up. You can release the tension around anything that’s bothering you about this. Your shoulders are dropped. Your jaw is relaxed.

Hardened thoughts are melting like ice under the light of the Sun.
Keep softening the tension until you feel a release.

Remember to do that both crossed and uncrossed.

Step Six – From Self-care for Loss to Divine Blessings

Continue to relax and let your mind turn to helpful channels of generative life force again. Use Divine Protection to help you integrate that lighter flow of chi’ that gives protection and increases positive life force.
Feel that beneficial energy flowing through you and making you stronger.

Imagine that the lines coming in towards the center spoke are connecting with new, life affirming communication channels.

Step Six – Soul Vision

Now it’s much easier to connect with the wisdom of your Soul. Under this new light you have access to expanded awareness and perception of what’s possible.
Consider what your life could be without this difficulty you’re concerned about. What would it be like if the burdens were lifted? Can you imagine it?

Sense the experience as much as you can in detail.
See it, hear it, taste it, smell it and feel it.

Step Seven – Reconnecting with Love

Gently contemplate this symbol to help you gain insight and spiritual direction about appropriate actions to take in this situation.

Imagine you can call upon Love and your Soul for support.
Is there something that they would tell you to do?

Ask to be guided by Love as you continue along your journey.

Step Nine: Connect with Your Essential Nature ~

Make contact with your gut feelings and inner resources.
It takes energy to heal and you may feel like your will power has been lacking or that your life force is being drained right out of you.
Taking good care of yourself is also important. You are part of the equation.

“I call on my Essential Nature to empower and strengthen me.”

“I rebuild my integrity and rise above negative mindsets and harmful habits.”

Once you feel your energy is higher and better organized, you’re ready to continue.

Step Ten: Divine Connection

We all have a spiritual connection to Joy and Gratitude in our Heart Centers.
Make that connection for yourself and connect with the strength and knowledge that you are loved.
You exist and what you do matters.

“I am empowered to let go and find healing in this situation.”

Step Eleven – Surrender Your Burdens

Visualize sending all those burdens to the Light where they can resolve themselves. Surrender them completely to the Light of Love and Forgiveness. Feel the heaviness lifting up and off of you.

You have done the best that you can under the circumstances.

Soon, you’ll reclaim your Faith, your Free Will and other important Soul Resources to help you heal and find answers for what is needed.

Step Twelve – Let Go

Breathe again and gaze on this Detachment Chart for a few minutes while it helps you let go of toxins or interfering energies that may be contributing to your difficulties.

Feel a calmness coming over you.
Like a healing balm, imagine a loving coat of peace and comfort is pouring down over your body.

Step Thirteen – Cleanse

You can release any illness or pain or suffering that’s associated with this situation.
Send it to the Light so it can go wherever it needs to go to heal.

Step Fourteen – Repair

Continue to let it go and allow your personal energy to repair itself.
Relax with this Correction Chart until things smooth out and you can begin to sense the energy of your Soul coming through.

Intend that you be free and clear of this burden. Ask for whatever is in the highest good.

Step Fifteen – Closure

In your mind’s eye, close the doors that keep the pathways to any pain, unhappiness or suffering open. Take all the time you need to be sure they’re all closed.

You are connected through Love now and are following the path of your Soul.

“Let this healing be sealed with Love and Light.”
“I follow the direction of my Soul’s protection.”

Some people have gotten a lot of extra support out of going through this self-care for loss formula every day for twenty-one days. It helps to retrain your mind to think more positively and keep you on track toward recovery.

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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.

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August 30, 2025January 7, 2026

Healing Emotional Shock

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 going through a serious physical disruption or environmental crisis, please go to 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 could experience emotional shock. The symptoms 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.

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…

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.”

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 time when 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:

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 Five:

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 Six:

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 is 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 Seven:

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 Eight:

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 Nine:

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 Ten:

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, bring the pure light of the Sun in and dissolve the maze 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 Eleven:

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 Twelve:

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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Recovering from Trauma

Recovering from a Traumatic Experience: SOS For Collapse ~

After a traumatic experience many people feel lost, shattered or fragmented and if they don’t get a chance to reintegrate, their power and life force can easily get drained and collapse.

Moreover, if the problem isn’t addressed fairly quickly, the pattern can become ingrained, making the individual more susceptible to long-term poor health, anxiety, hopelessness and/or feeling disconnected.

Going through Recovering from a Traumatic Experience is a natural way to reclaim wholeness and quickly reconnect fragmented parts of your true Essence.

By reducing the impact of shock and fear on the nervous system, patterns of hopelessness can be dispelled before they get a chance to become habitual.

Use this self-care formula when you are:

Feeling lost, scattered or out of balance
Anxious or upset by an experience that’s overwhelmed you
Weakened and want to regain your strength
Disoriented due to a radical change
Triggered by the memory of a traumatic event
Having a flashback or out of body experience.
Going through a major reorganization of consciousness.

Directions: Confirm this is the best formula for you with the SOS symbol.

Here’s how it works: Simply go through the formula while you follow the directions. Gaze softly at each image and notice any thoughts or feelings you might have in response to the words that accompany them. Some people like to write down their insights to share with a trusted counselor or friend.

You might also want to use this formula like a prayer or request for help. Remember to remain open though, because help doesn’t always come in the way we expect it to!

Caution: The use of this self-care formula is not intended to take the place of appropriate medical and/or psychiatric care when dealing with trauma and recovery. If you are having thoughts of suicide or extreme panic, call 988 or seek help immediately.

Before you begin…

Relax and use these positive affirmations to help you:

“I integrate with generative energy channels to help me clear shock and overwhelm.”

“I use life affirming communication lines.”

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.

SOS – Recovering from a Traumatic Experience

Strength

1. Begin by taking a few deep breaths while you gaze softly into the Circle. Turn your attention to the center, blank area.

Start breathing deeply into your belly. Inhale through your nose if you can.
Gradually feel your strength returning to you. Stronger and stronger with each and every breath.

Presence

2. Notice where you are right now. How old do you feel? How old are you really?

Feel your hands open and close.
Notice the time. Move around. Bring yourself into the present.

Courage

3. What do you need right now? What would help you the most?

Make a note of whatever comes up, even if it doesn’t make sense at first.

Recognition

4. Do you know what has happened to you?
How would you describe it?
What insights do you get about your situation?

Honesty

5. How are you feeling?
What would help you to feel better?

Support

6. Describe how you would like to feel.
Is it alright to do that? Is anything missing?
If it’s alright, breathe deeply and let yourself get a feeling of what it would be like.

Protection

7. If it’s not alright, let this Circle help you pull your energy back out of any scary or dark places and close them down.
You are able to bring anything back that’s missing.
You can return to your center, get grounded and heal from your wounds.
You are learning to take care of yourself in new ways.

Clarity

8. What do you want to have happen?

What do you need to stop sending energy to?

If you integrate with Divine Protection, you can clarify your intention very quickly.

Communication

9. Is there anything else that you want to ask for?

Are you open to receiving what you’re asking for?
If not, what is the blockage?

Reciprocity

10. Focus your energy on what you need to do to take care of yourself.
Imagine your intention in the middle of this Circle where kind and helpful energy can move down along the lines to the center. Are you present and able to receive help?

Are you willing to lift your perception up to the Light of your Soul to ask for and receive guidance?

Truth

11. It’s okay to receive help. Imagine that you’re being filled up with gentle, loving energy. It’s okay to receive help.
Take all the time you need to regain balance.
How do you feel now?

Assistance

12. Your health and wellbeing are important and worth being supported.
Use this Circle to help you tap into life and positive energy from around you.
Then, use it as a focal point to come up with ideas and solutions that would help you the most – especially new ideas.

Make a list of everything you need.

Hope

13. Let this Circle help you to deconstruct negative ideas and close down any harmful habits that are draining you.
Close down the drains to the best of your ability.

Refill those negative spaces with Divine Protection and the loving energy of your Soul.

Reconnect

14. Take a few minutes to meditate on this symbol that will help all parts of you to reconnect with Love and understanding.
What would you need to do differently for things to work out better?

Let your mind relax and open to new avenues and helpful ideas.

Comfort

15. Let peace and hope be with you.
Let them fill your heart with strength and courage.

Be sure to give yourself time to rest and integrate. If you can, now is a good time to relax or take a walk out into Nature.

Special Applications:
Recovering from a Traumatic Event is a special self-care formula that can be profoundly useful in several difficult circumstances:

Energy Cascading
Use it to reconstruct aura integrity when a person’s energy system collapses under extreme stress. Learn more beginning on page 14 – PTSD and the Subtle Energy System.
Soul Retrieval
This formula frequently works to bring a dissociated person back into their body. Scattered soul fragments can be recovered and awareness restored to the mind.
Clearing Trauma from Abandoned Dogs, Cats or other Animals
Place your hands on the animal’s heart or chest area and go through the formula imagining that you’re beaming the symbols into them, helping them to recover quickly.
Preparing for a Peaceful Transition
Use for anyone who might die or is preparing for their transition. Simply beam the sequence of symbols towards them and their energy field will organize itself for a peaceful transition in alignment with their Soul.
– Reiki assists in all these processes. Use the Distant Healing Symbol.

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