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Posted April 9, 2026
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Shelter in the Storm: why everyone is losing it right now (and what to do about it)

by Jost Sauer

A massive invisible storm is raging around us and it is affecting us physically and emotionally.

Right now, more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms are hitting Earth than in the last 20 years. This isn’t speculation — it’s measured data from NASA and NOAA. Solar Cycle 25, the current cycle of the Sun’s activity, has shattered every prediction scientists made for it. It was supposed to be weak. Instead, it’s delivered the most intense solar activity since the early 2000s, with a sustained double-peak that’s still going strong through 2026.

Just this week, NOAA issued a Strong (G3) Geomagnetic Storm Warning. Solar wind speeds hit over 700 km/s. Northern lights were visible as far south as Pennsylvania. And another fast solar wind stream is heading our way.

Most people have no idea this is happening. But their bodies know.

Your body is feeling it

These geomagnetic disturbances measurably affect serotonin, dopamine, melatonin, sleep, brain bioelectrical activity, and emotional regulation. This is peer-reviewed science:

Hospital admissions for depression increase by 36% following geomagnetic storms. Severe geomagnetic conditions seriously disintegrate brain functionality. Geomagnetic storms alter mood and cognitive functions, leading to periods of heightened emotional volatility. They disrupt melatonin production, interfere with serotonin and dopamine — the neurotransmitters that regulate mood and emotion — and throw circadian rhythms off course.

So it’s no coincidence that right now I’m also seeing people more stressed-out than ever before, who feel like they’re about to lose it or “can’t hold it down any more.”

It’s not just humans either. Migrating animals that navigate by the Earth’s magnetic field — whales, birds, bees — are getting disoriented. Nature itself is responding. We’re not separate from that. We’re in the same field.

We’re in the storm, we don’t get to opt out

Everything is connected: space weather, cosmic events, the massive solar storms, and our own inner state. We’re in this mix. We don’t have a choice in that.

But we can choose how we respond.

When our nervous system, neurotransmitters, and circadian rhythms are being disrupted like this, the way to weather the storm is to become resilient, grounded, and rhythmically stable. You need an anchor. You need practices that build coherence in your body — not just calm your mind.

This is exactly what my Chi Cycle, body-based practices, and the 8 Forces & Powers framework I’ve been building are designed to deliver.

Working with the forces

The Taoists mapped the Bagua, eight fundamental forces that move through everything — including us. Thunder, Water, Wind, Fire, Mountain, Lake, Earth, Heaven. These are dynamic patterns of energy that you can learn to work with.

Right now in my morning practice I’m focussing on the Bagua forces of Thunder and Water to counter disruption and fear — two biggies at the moment.

Thunder is the force of arousal — sudden, explosive, jolting. Its action is ‘grasping’ movements: TRX ropes, pull-ups, anything where you grab, grip, and pull. When the world feels like it’s shaking, Thunder gives you the power to grasp the situation and channel that charge into decisive action.

Water is about flow. And flow dispels fear — because fear is stagnation. When you’re frozen, stuck, overwhelmed, Water is the antidote. Qi-gong and yoga are brilliant for this. Anything that gets fluid movement through your body breaks the freeze pattern and restores your capacity to navigate.

These are just two of the eight. Each force has a specific quality, a specific physical practice, and a specific power it converts into when you work with it consciously. This is the framework I’ve been developing and teaching — ancient Bagua wisdom applied to modern life.

Build your shelter

We can’t control the Sun. We can’t stop the storms. But we can build an internal structure that holds steady in turbulence. That’s what the Chi Cycle lifestyle does. That’s what the 8 Forces and Powers deliver. That’s what daily, consistent, body-based practice creates: calm, coherence and coping power.

May the force(s) be with us through this cosmic storm season!

Want to learn all 8 Forces and how to convert them into personal power?

Purchase the Webinar 3 Recording: Awaken the Spirit Light — $35 AUD, where I deliver the tools and show practical demos for converting each of the 8 Forces into a special power, so you can reclaim your sovereignty and live your destiny.

 

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