What If You Could Switch Off the Alarm in Your Mind?
Take a deep breath.
Now take another, slower this time.
As you exhale, imagine a soft golden light surrounding you, starting at your feet and rising gently to the crown of your head. You are safe. You are here. You are not under attack.
This is your first step in calming the fight or flight response. Not with logic, not with journaling, but by tuning into the energy of your body and spirit.
At paulomara.com, we know that spiritual practices like Tarot, psychic insight, and guided visualisation can become powerful tools in helping you reclaim control when anxiety, overwhelm, or trauma responses hijack your nervous system.
What Is the Fight or Flight Response?
The fight or flight response is an automatic survival mechanism triggered when your body perceives danger. It prepares you to either run, freeze, or fight, even if the threat is only imagined.
While this was useful for our ancestors, today many of us are stuck in this mode daily.
Social stress, unresolved trauma, digital overwhelm, all of it can signal ‘danger’ to our subconscious. You may find yourself snapping at a loved one, shutting down in meetings, or avoiding decisions entirely. This isn’t weakness, it’s your body doing its job.
The trouble is, when that stress response stays switched on, it drains your energy, clouds your intuition, and blocks you from manifesting the life you want.
Psychic Tools to Interrupt Fight or Flight Patterns
Your nervous system doesn’t speak English, it speaks energy. That’s where psychic and body-based tools come in.
1. Psychic Visualisation and Breathwork
One of the fastest ways to rewire fight or flight mode is to access your subconscious through guided visualisation.
Try this:
- Sit quietly with a Tarot card (The Chariot is ideal — it symbolises action, control, and triumph over emotional turbulence).
- Breathe in slowly for a count of four, hold for four, exhale for six.
- As you breathe, picture yourself steering a chariot through stormy winds — yet you remain steady. Calm. Directed.
- Say aloud: “I take control. I trust the path ahead.”
This isn’t just relaxing, it’s rewiring. You’re communicating safety to your body through imagery, breath, and psychic focus.
2. Tarot as Nervous System Mirror
Tarot is more than fortune-telling, it reflects patterns, triggers, and subconscious blocks.
When you’re in fight or flight, a Tarot spread can reveal what’s truly driving your reaction and how to shift it.
Cards like:
- The Moon – fear and illusion
- The Devil – attachments and patterns
- Temperance – balance and regulation
- The Chariot – controlled action in chaos
…can guide you back into alignment with your higher self — the you beyond panic or shutdown.
3. Somatic Grounding with Crystals
Carry or meditate with grounding stones like hematite, black tourmaline, or smoky quartz.
Hold them in your hand and visualise excess adrenaline draining out through your feet, into the earth.
This gives the body a physical “off-switch” signal, something modern life rarely provides.
Trauma Lives in the Body — Healing Must Too
It’s easy to believe that if we just “think more positively” or “talk it through again,” we’ll heal. But for many, that leads to more frustration.
Trauma isn’t stored in your thoughts.
It’s stored in your body, in your subconscious survival patterns.
Psychic and spiritual practices allow you to bypass conscious analysis and engage with these patterns directly. That’s why clients come to our recommended psychics for clarity that reaches deeper than words.
At paulomara.com, we understand how to combine psychic insight with practical, body-based awareness to help you interrupt the cycle and build real resilience.
You Are Not Broken — You’re Just Wired for Survival
But you don’t have to stay in survival mode.
You can learn to regulate, to reroute, to reimagine your life with spiritual strength and intuitive awareness. The Chariot teaches us that we always have a choice, even in the eye of the storm.
Our experienced psychics are here to guide you through these transitions with grounded wisdom and personalised support. Whether you’re navigating emotional overwhelm, repeating patterns, or want to explore the deeper layers of your inner world, we’re ready when you are.
And if you’re in the UK, Paul sometimes offers a limited number of in-person Tarot sessions in London. These powerful one-to-one readings blend deep insight with energetic realignment.
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Final Thought: Safety Is the Soil Where Power Grows
Reclaiming your energy isn’t about denying fear — it’s about learning how to hold it with compassion, then move through it with wisdom.
With the right support and tools, you can shift from reaction to response, from survival to sovereignty.
You don’t just survive this. You rise from it.
