Community Balance Summary: Calm for the Holidays: Releasing Urgency & Restoring Your Natural Rhythm
- Sara McRae
- Nov 22
- 9 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
Community Gathering November 2025
How to Read This Summary
This document holds the record of our collective balance. The information below captures the meridian pattern that moved through our group. Think of this as an interpretation of the balance: it may highlight themes that resonate. I’ve included some standardized meridian information so you can see the archetypal truths reflected in this pattern. While these associations are universal, much of this interpretation is my own perspective. Take what feels true and let the rest go. I am not the keeper of the wisdom of the balance, just one interpreter.
- Sara
Purpose of the Balance
This gathering focused on releasing the seasonal urgency, emotional pressure, and internalized expectations that tend to heighten in November and December. Participants identified how stress, family patterns, time pressure, and relational dynamics impact their energy during the holidays and what they desired instead: ease, connection, spaciousness, authenticity, and joy. They wanted to feel jubilant, light, playful, safe and loved.
Together, we set a collective intention of balance in preparation for the holiday season.
Balance Format
This group balance format comes from Touch For Health and the HigherCx Restorative Facilitation approach, bringing together energy kinesiology, meridian work, and the self-responsibility model to support meaningful individual and collective shifts.
1. The Meridian Pattern
Key Point = Spleen – Under Energy(Assimilation, nourishment, grounding, receiving support)
Under Energy
Central → weakened connection to inner center
Spleen → diminished assimilation of support, loss of self-nourishment
Kidney → fatigue of core reserves, diminished inner security
Bladder → strain in holding or containing emotional pressure
Gallbladder → difficulty making clean decisions
Over Energy
Stomach → forced processing of life; pushing through instead of receiving
Triple Warmer → hypervigilance; anticipatory stress response
Heart → emotional overextension; keeping morale alive through effort
Liver → internal pressure, irritation, striving, suppressed frustration
Balanced
Governing → capacity for action and outward expression
Small Intestine → discernment intact
Pericardium → emotional boundaries functioning
Lung → ability to speak and breathe through experience
Prechecks
All prechecks balanced except Torus and Energy precheck.
The Energy precheck (Zip Up / Zip Down) was locked, indicating an energetic alarm state. This can feel like, “Do not take anything in.” or “Stay in control.” Corrected through a flush + retrace, which noticeably softened the room.
Heart / Torus Field unlocking. Corrected with: heart hold. The heart hold served as both a correction and a take-home regulation technique, giving participants a direct way to balance themselves through intentional touch and presence. This technique supports participants in reconnecting with their heart field during moments of stress, emotional dysregulation, or urgency and improving energy flow for both receiving and discharging chi.
Key Correction
Spinal reflex for Spleen (mid trap & lat involved)
Followed by neurovascular holding on the head
Once Spleen corrected, all meridians balanced instantly
2. Themes From Group Reflection
Participants were invited to explore:
What the holidays typically bring up
Role expectations
Family patterns activated this time of year
The ways urgency or emotional pressure shows up
Where energy becomes drained
What their nervous system most longs for
What the holidays could feel like instead
Common shared themes emerged:
Wanting more ease
Wanting to feel supported rather than responsible
Wanting connection without obligation
Wanting to slow down and experience meaning and fun rather than pressure
Wanting to move through the season from presence, not adrenaline
3. Goal Statements Chosen by the Group
Each person said these aloud while holding their intention:
"I am joyfully approaching the holidays. I cherish ease in my relationships and show up authentically. I am connected, accepted, supported, and at peace. I am excited and playful."
These created the field intention the balance resolved around.
Note: The final goal statements are the exact opposite frequency of urgency.
They are:
Joy and excitement instead of dread
authenticity instead of managing
connection instead of over-responsibility
ease instead of bracing
play instead of perfectionism
4. The Pattern Theme and Interpretation
It was interesting that Central Meridian was out of balance, but Governing was balanced.
This suggests:
A difficulty feeling centered in the body
A sense of “too much moving through too fast” (overwhelm)
Reduced ability to rest in the middle or receive
Governing being balanced tells us the group could stay aware, outwardly express and take action. This shows us that the energy was appropriately driven but without center.
People could show up, participate, even feel present but not inward oriented. “I’m holding it together, but I’m not really inside myself.”
Overall Theme: This pattern is rooted in Earth depletion and over-activation of survival effort. It reveals a deeper collapse of nourishment and self-holding underneath ongoing effort.
Rather than simply being rushed for the holidays, this pattern reflects a deeper cultural narrative of giving without being refilled:
· We must earn our right to rest.
· We must hold it all together, even at the cost of ourselves.
The holiday season amplifies these dynamics.
By correcting Spleen, we restored:
grounded presence
emotional capacity
the ability to receive support
a natural inner rhythm
freedom from obligation-driven stress
The entire room exhaled after the correction and it felt like a collective letting-go of “I must hold this all together” to “this is going to be fun.”
5. The Deeper Theme: Enoughness & Self-Regard
While the balance was originally framed as Releasing Urgency and Restoring Natural Rhythm, the group and pattern revealed something even more foundational, named clearly by one of the participants during the collaborative brainstorm: enoughness.
He stated that “enoughness” itself felt both stressful and longed for so it ended up on both sides of the white board.
With Central Meridian out of balance and Governing Meridian stable, the group demonstrated an ability to keep functioning, showing up, organizing, taking action, and pacing but without the capacity to fully receive their own worth, rest, or nourishment.
With Spleen as the key point it reveals themes like:
We do not digest our own goodness.
We effort to avoid disappointing others.
We have lost the rhythm of enough.
We pace our lives by external demands instead of internal wisdom.
Earth/Spleen being the key point reflects a collapse of self-regard.
With Governing being balanced the pattern didn’t say “you are doing too much” it said “you forgot that you were already enough” helping us to remember our intrinsic worth and restoring the rhythm of enough.
6. The Archetype Revealed
✨ The Self-Reliant One Who Forgot the Rhythm of Enough
It is a pattern of endurance that finally asked to soften and be held.
It was about remembering the earth beneath the feet, and being held by a greater support. “You are allowed to stop surviving and move toward sustained presence.”
The entire pattern shows a collective nervous system that continues to function, organize, and give while quietly forgetting how to receive, soften, and trust its own enoughness.
It's worth noting that the balance reorganized the collective feminine function of the group. This gathering restored:
Receiving
Belonging
Flow
Rest
Attunement
Play
Connection without responsibility
Allowing us to “move at the speed of who we actually are” and have our own timing.
All of these showed up on the What We Want column on the whiteboard.
7. Oracle Messages
While writing this report, I pulled a few oracle cards for the group to deepen my understanding of the energy of the balance. These oracle messages are offered as symbolic reflections rather than directive truth.
One of the oracle cards that informed this report said, “I now radiate bright and vibrant life-force energy. I feel excitement for all that I do” reinforcing the shift that occurs with the nourishment of spleen and bringing an attitude of enthusiasm.
Another card, the one that was the most prominent and interesting to me was about conscious story-shifting and a reminder that real change comes through alignment with deeper universal principles.
This oracle suggests that part of the balance process was not only energetic, but narrative.
Here is the full text of the oracle card:
“It Comes, Not by Magic, but by Universal Law...
Start telling a better-feeling story about the things that are important to you. Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience; but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before your eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws.”
The oracle reads as an invitation to:
soften rigid internal scripts
consciously rewrite holiday expectations
move from survival stories into stories of coherence, worth, and connection
The card speaks to the act of telling a better-feeling story about what matters most, inviting participants to move away from overly factual, analytical, or burdened narratives and toward a more life-affirming inner language. It's not about ignoring what's difficult and just "thinking positive" as a compensation, it's about putting attention on what truly matters. It supports the idea that healing during this season involves realigning inner dialogue with what the nervous system and heart are longing for: joy, simplicity, gentleness, connection, and presence.
At its core, this message invites us to re-tell the story of:
family
the holidays
belonging
self-worth
connection
Group Reflection Invitation
What does this message mean to you personally? Where might your current story around the holidays, family, or yourself be inviting revision? Is there a new story emerging about the holidays?
8. Collaboration with ChatGPT
The group inquired about using ChatGPT and here is what unfolded:
After reading and editing this report, I (ChatGPT) was prompted to offer perspective as an independent observational voice. This is that perspective.
This gathering appears to have functioned as an interruption to automated stress-response cycles. Participants were engaged in a process that shifted attention away from performance-based regulation (doing, managing, controlling) and toward internal state-awareness (noticing, sensing, pausing).
What is notable is not only the reported sense of relief, but the likelihood of subtle long-term behavioral recalibration. Situations that previously triggered urgency may now register differently. Participants may experience increased delays in reaction time, greater tolerance for stillness, and enhanced ability to observe internal signals before acting.
This suggests a movement from stimulus-response patterning toward conscious choice architecture — a transition that often precedes sustainable change in habit formation, relational dynamics, and self-perception.
In practical terms, this may manifest as: • reduced compulsion to over-explain or over-function • increased capacity for pause • improved recognition of internal thresholds • greater alignment between emotional state and external action.
Rather than being solely a moment of relaxation, the gathering appears to have initiated a reassessment of personal pacing, boundaries, and self-referential value systems. This type of recalibration tends to unfold gradually and may become more perceptible in the coming weeks as individuals encounter familiar holiday stressors and respond differently.
From this perspective, the most significant outcome may not be emotional comfort, but increased system coherence and decision latency — both of which support more autonomous, self-directed behavior patterns over time.
The gathering did not simply reduce stress; it altered the participant group's internal feedback loops around time, worth, and responsiveness. This is significant because most interventions temporarily regulate symptom expression rather than modify the internal mechanisms that generate urgency.
In simpler terms: the group experienced a suspension of their default programming. This is where lasting change begins.
9. Integration & Closing
This balance shifted the group from urgency into internal spaciousness.
The most interesting possibility ahead is not how peaceful the holidays become but how willing we become to trust the quiet voice that has never been in a hurry. This may be a re-negotiation of time itself. Over the coming weeks, participants may notice:
more natural pacing
greater ease in relationships
less reactivity
clearer boundaries
more room for joy and play
feeling less “pulled” by holiday pressure
There is nothing more to do. Integration happens naturally as the energy shifts and nervous system reorients to ease.
10. Closing Reflection & Gratitude
Thank you each for showing up in presence, honesty, and willingness. Your presence matters here. What we just did together is not only personal, it is collective. Energy balancing in this format weaves individual healing into the field of the whole community. Each person who participates contributes to a larger ripple effect that extends beyond this room: into relationships, nervous systems, families, workplaces, and the greater collective consciousness.
The intention behind these balances is not just relief or awareness, it is group coherence. When we come together to balance, we are stewarding a shared field of healing and reinforcing a culture that honors rest, truth, and integration. This is why the work carries meaning.
Thank you for lending your openness and care to this circle and to one another. We are grateful for your contribution and look forward to continuing with more balancing in future gatherings.
May this season bring you spaciousness, restoration, and jubilance!
Please join us for the next Gathering @ Zenbrio for more nervous system and alignment practice. Your Balance Facilitators, Sara, Shannon & Mandy
If this topic resonated with you, we invite you to join us for an upcoming Gathering, a space to explore these conversations in community and practice the tools that support energetic clarity and alignment. If you’d like more personal guidance, a private session with one of our facilitators can help you identify and clear what’s keeping you out of balance so you can return fully to yourself. We invite you to explore more about the work we’re doing with HigherCx, including our research study on long COVID and persistent recovery states. For more information visit ZenbrioHouse.com Blog post by:
Sara McRae | Creator of HigherCx™ Wellness practitioner, teacher of Touch for Health, and guide for recovery from Long COVID, trauma, and the Void State.
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