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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 2025 and offers a gentle opportunity to process ongoing difficult experiences, manage emotional stress and find positive ways to respond to unexpected 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:

Witnessing traumatic experiences
Experiencing an environmental disaster
Disoriented by personal or environmental upheaval
Feeling scattered, surprised, scared or vulnerable
Exposed to repeated emergency situations

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 difficult 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:

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.

Step Three:

The environment is changing and you need to protect yourself. Relax with this symbol and close down harmful energy channels that your mind or body may be open and vulnerable to. Take all the time that you need.

If you like, ask your Soul for divine protection.

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 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:

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

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 Eight:

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

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 Nine:

Keep your wits about you. Clear away dark and heavy thoughts.

Use this Circle to imagine you can infuse your body with light and Love. Doing so will help to remove fear, negativity and darkness from your personal energy.

Dispense with the darkness by sending it to the Light for purification.

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.

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.

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 nervous system calm down too. Slow down and listen to the rhythm of your heart.
You’re feeling better with every breath you take.

Stretch or move around in any way that you instinctively feel you need.

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 the source of your trauma. 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 nervous system need closure.

Step Thirteen:

Finally, 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 remaining heaviness lifting up and out of your heart. Let it radiate out to the Light where it can be transformed.

Take care of yourself and remember that you are loved.

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Overwhelm Help 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.

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