Karen Kallie

Stress Reduction, Mind Body Healing, Conscious Living, Energy Psychology

We are complex beings made up of thoughts, feelings and energy as well as flesh and bone. Who we are today is largely the result of our experience: our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual history. When we are stressed, tired, ill or unhappy, treating the symptoms of our ailment may afford temporary relief, but often does not solve the problem. We must address our whole being and erase old reactive patterns from our nervous systems so we can experience optimal health, authentic well-being and a life we love to live.

Understanding the source of our physical and/or emotional pain is a first step to healing. However, this awareness alone is not enough to facilitate the freedom and wholeness we seek. We need methods that help to release our acquired mental patterns, and emotional and physical pain locked in the mind and body to release underlying causes of stress and lack of wellbeing.
These methods not only heal but also strengthen and provide access to our innate wisdom. The latter allows development of an expansive authenticity that embraces both our human and spiritual natures. Mind-Body Energetics is such an approach.

Mind-Body Energetics blends principles and practices from Western Science and Eastern Wisdom traditions. Treating and harmonizing body, mind and spirit addresses the underlying causes of stress and illness.

Mind-Body Energetics can help you to:
• Reduce stress
• Enhance health and well-being
• Develop greater vitality and joy
• Embrace self-love and acceptance
• Develop inner peace and intuition
• Experience higher consciousness
Achieve inner harmony and balance
Cultivate resilience and stress hardiness

Karen Kallie offers individual sessions and seminars that blend Eastern and Western methods to provide you with a holistic "toolbox for life". You can find recordings containing some of Karen's information, tools and techniques in the shop. The shop can be accessed from the navigation bar at the top of this page. 

Latest Posts

Taming the Modern Energy Vampire

A Modern Day Energy VampireThe modern day vampire is not a thief who comes in the night and drains our energy. These days the vampire is right out in front of us, on our desks, night stands, in our living rooms, pockets and pocketbooks. No capes, no fangs for a techno-vampire! A vampire can also […]

9 Tips to Increase Happiness

While we all have had some feeling of happiness stimulated by outside sources, wisdom and experience tell us that this is not a reliable means of accessing true happiness. Deep and abiding happiness is actually an inner state that emerges out of mental quiet and clarity, a body that is in balance, emotions that are […]

The Breath of Mindfulness

“There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and suffocation. And there’s another way of expiring, a love-breath that lets you open infinitely.”  Rumi Proper breath promotes relaxationProper, relaxed breathing is the cornerstone in any inner awareness process. Improper breathing contributes to stress, anxiety and pain. Try it no by taking in a clear, […]

What is the relationship between stress and pleasure?

Pleasure deficits contribute to stress as they unbalance our system and lead to negative behaviors that further deplete and stress body, mind and spirit. With all the stress and turmoil in our world we may not be thinking about or making time for pleasure. Even as we look for ways to manage or reduce stress […]

Stress and PTSD in Current Times: What Can Help

PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is typically thought of if someone has been through a catastrophic event or been in a war zone or experienced some form of trauma. What we now know is that there are other situations that can produce the symptoms of PTSD. I suspect that our 24/7 news cycle which brings […]

A 10 minute Guided Meditation for Letting go of stress

We continue to go through a variety of feelings associated with navigating our way through this pandemic. We may be up one day, down the next. We may be alternating sleeping too much with disturbed sleep. We may be having feelings that are hard to identify but are fear or anxiety inching closer into our […]

A Quick Heart Centered Practice for Stress

Such complex times this present time brings. We all need all the tools we can collect to face the various complexities and stresses. A daily meditation practice helps build resiliency, but we also need quick, in the moment methods to use throughout the day. This is one that helps to clear our nevous system but […]

How the Root Chakra helps to develop a greater sense of safety, security and belonging

Root Chakra Health Stabilizes Mind Function Our minds tend toward analyzing, planning, or preoccupation with a variety of concerns, worries, and stresses. When we are focused on these mental states our energy fields are affected. Habitual thoughts, positive or negative, create ripples throughout our being that have repercussions on an emotional and physical level. They […]

Anger: What You Need to Know About to Reduce Personal Harm

Anger in all its forms seems to be rampant on our planet currently. While there may be many reasons and justifications, it is important to manage it well so it does not create harm within your body, mind and spirit. Have you ever felt that red hot angry energy that builds up in you and […]

Changing a Stress Filled Mind

How things are Versus how we wish them to be…the distance between these two equals the amount of stress we feel.We do not have to like what is but we do not need to keep up an ongoing inner debate or resistant thought/feeling stream about it. I first learned this several decades ago and yet […]

How Can Surrender and Acceptance Reduce Stress?

Surrender and Acceptance are Stress Reducers SURRENDER. In our culture this word is loaded with negative connotations, such as giving up, wimping out, being weak, unable to cut it. However, surrender in a psycho spiritual sense is a deep feeling of letting go of the reactive struggle and conflict we feel when faced with something […]

Are You an Empath? The Gift in the Challenge

Have you been told you are too sensitive by family, friends, teachers, co-workers? This is often our experience when we are an empath, E.G. particularly sensitive to subtle energy. Being an empath is different from being empathic.

Brief Meditation for Stress, Inner Peace and Strength

Our Hearts Can HelpOur hearts may be strained now but our hearts can also be a source of peace and strength if we engage it consciously. We all need all the help we can get these days to be able to deal with all the stress, strain and change that the Corona Virus has triggered. […]

Self Care Tip for Letting Go of Judgement, Irritability and Anger

Self Care Skill #1: Broadening PerspectiveWe have all heard the idea that what irritates us in others is something that we embody. I suspect there is some truth in that , but my experience suggests that there’s a viewpoint that offers a broader perspective. For instance, if you encounter a bully the issue may not […]

Balancing Energy During Stress Filled Times

Acute and Chronic Stress Triggers Fight-FlightWhen we are stressed or threatened, our flow of energy is increased to prepare for fight or flight. If neither of these is possible or chosen, we override the impulse even though the body has been energized. Repetition of situations that we cannot overcome results in living with an energetic […]

7 Steps to to Help Release Stress and Difficult Emotions

This is a shortened version of a video we put out on grief at the end of last month….it feels like eons ago! 🙂 This version includes the 7 steps to processing emotion without the conversation leading into them. We are reposing this shortened form to make it easier to use the steps for not […]

A Brief Meditation to Let go, Release and Relax

In this time of extreme stress it can be hard to find a respite from intense feelings, the noise and trauma of the news cycle and our concerns about the future. It is super important to create space to release, relax and let go so we have the energy to bring to those things that […]

Gratitude and Self Care: A Timely Practice

Practicing feeling gratitude opens the deepest doors of your heart creating coherence throughout your body-mind. Self care is more important than ever now. We are living through a very traumatic time. We need to go easy and be gentle with ourselves. You may find it is hard to focus or concentrate, sleep may be a […]

Letting go allows for healing

Letting go of old toxic stuck energies is the heart of healing because until we truly clear out the old programs and unresolved emotions and stories from our systems nothing new can really take root deep within our consciousness to become a new center of strength, power and freedom to guide our lives.

Stories of Hope: One Girl’s Creative Gift to an Elder

I receive a newsletter called Stories of Hope and this one touched me so deeply. I am not sure if we are born with compassion, if we learn it, or if it is some combination of both. At any rate this young girl’s care, thoughtfulness and creativity to brighten an elder’s day really touched my […]

7 Steps to Deal with Grief, Stress and Loss

Grief and loss: unwanted but natural During this time of the Covid 19 crisis there are many feelings arising naturally. One are that may not be immediately apparent is grief. Our way of life, jobs, community interaction, patterns of daily living, and so much more has been disrupted. Within these very necessary changes are a […]

Can There Be a Gift in Times of Crisis?

Crisis, Fear and OverwhelmThere are so many feelings that come up during times of crisis, danger or major loss. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the stress of such times. Stress management is key to our overall health and well being at anytime but particularly important in difficult times. One aspect of stress management […]

Johns Hopkins Discussion Re: Pandemic Response

In our Zoom meeting today concerns were expressed about finding valid sources of information. Here is a good overview that was broadcast 3-17-20. OVID-19: Johns Hopkins University Experts Discuss Pandemic Response, Social Distancing, and More. (32 minutes)

Navigating Stress and Fear in Uncertain Times: The Gift and the Challenge

Join Us in Conversation …Tony Pace and Karen Kallie A Conversation to help manage Stress in these Times of Uncertainty Zoom Meeting (to join see details below)Monday 23, 2020 @ 4PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Connection, support and creativity are important contributors to mental, physical and emotional health and well being in any time. In […]

Tips for Staying Sane at Home

We are hardwired to to look out for danger. Our fight/flight/freeze reaction is meant to keep us safe, to protect us. However it can wreak havoc when uncertainty or confusion abounds. Being clear regarding what we can control and what we cannot helps to set the stage for applying appropriate coping skills. For those things […]

How Grounding Helps with Uncertainty and Lessens Fear and Anxiety

Fear and Anxiety Are in the Collective Fear and anxiety may seem to be in the very air we breathe right now and understandably so. There are concrete things we can do to limit our own vulnerability as well as help protect others and slow down the spread of the pandemic. Thankfully the airwaves have […]

How to Get to the Root of Stress, Fear and Anxiety

Root Chakra Health Influences Management of Fear, Stress and Anxiety Being able to get out of our heads and embody ourselves is a major way to reduce anxiety stress and fear. In our current situation being able to be calm and focused helps us to make good choices and do what we must without undue […]

How is perception formed? How does it affect us?

Perception appears to be automatic but it is formed out of our experience. What we think about, feel, and believe all affect our perception and thus our internal and external environment. Our inner world colors our outer experience. Mis-perception in actionI recently had an experience where I observed a journalist accuse a pair of speakers […]

The Human Aura: What You Need to Know

How the Human Aura Behaves Medicine routinely measures the output of body systems but it is only recently that scientists have developed the instrumentation that enables perception of the human aura. Human Aura, Mental Phenomena and Consciousness Dr. Valerie Hunt, a neurophysiologist at UCLA, has studied energy extensively and has detected an electromagnetic field beyond […]

Evaluating Your Solar Plexus Chakra

Solar Plexus Chakra: Evaluating Strengths and Weakness This segment is excerpted from Fully Human, Fully Alive: Embodying the Wisdom of the Chakras. In the book there is a full discussion of energy and how the human energy system functions followed by an in depth exploration of each chakra with insights, questionnaires for individual discovery, and […]

Solar plexus chakra: Excesses and deficiency of energy and personal power

Solar Plexus Chakra, self esteem, and boundaries Psychologically, our sense of self, our personal integrity, esteem, and worth rest in the solar plexus. The energy/vibration we hold regarding our sense of self influences our capacity to set strong, firm, yet flexible boundaries. The lower centers set the stage for boundary keeping, but it is the […]

What is the energetic foundation of personal power?

I have been thinking a lot about personal power lately. The issue looms large in our society now. As we observe abuses of power in the world we can all take a step back and reflect on the energetic state of our personal power and where we can balance it for better health, well being […]

Drop into Your Heart and Connect with Self Love

On Valentine’s Day do not forget about self love! Thinking of ourselves as a friend can help cultivate self love. “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”   Elizabeth Gilbert Do you think about yourself as a friend?Do you treat yourself as if you were […]

How Can You Use Your Personal Energy System to Promote Flow States?

Personal energy system, consciousness and flow statesThere is a flow of energy or consciousness, a way of BEING that we all have experienced from time to time— a state where everything flows together and feels in sync. We move easily from one moment to the next with a sense of meaning and purpose. We feel […]

3 Tips for Building Inner Strength

Today I can open to receive the energy of Love to heal and strengthen me. Focusing on self forgiveness unblocks my energy making more available for positive energy to fill my field. Strengthening and balancing my energy enhances my creativity and intuition. It also makes more energy available for healing wherever needed.

A Healthy Approach to Overwhelm, Anger and Stress

Letting go of difficult feelings is important for your healthCurrent events can bring on overwhelm, anger, or frustration. While it is understandable to have all these feelings marinating in the chemistry of those feelings for too long nothing for us. At best they can propel us toward some helpful action but they can also adversely […]

How Can You Benefit From Energy Management?

Some of the benefits you may anticipate as a result of integrating an energetic perspective and learning how to develop and guide your personal energy include: Accelerated change: Working energetically goes to the roots of problems and provides positive solutions, truly a way to change from the inside out. Diminished resistance: Energy work can aid […]

Being in the Present Moment

Breath Breaks Can Reduce StressAn approach that can help you reboot your energy and gain greater clarity is to take time for a breath break several times a day. Taking time for a breath break, to meditate or practice an energy technique replenishes our energy so we can move through our day with greater ease and […]

Choosing Beyond Fear and Stress: Engaging Intuition

Recognizing and Engaging Intuition (Spiritual Energy)Making time and space to move into the silence of the inner world (yes, it’s there behind the noise in our heads!) and learning to “hang out” there helps to develop a relationship with Universal/Higher Self/Source energy. Practice makes this stronger and you will be gifted with expanded intuition, inspiration […]

Chakra System Blocks Lead to Stress, Powerlessness and Ill Health

Chakra Blocks lead to an excess or deficiency of free flowing energyEnergy Excess or Deficiency Leads to Stress And Powerlessness Your energy is your power. Binding it or dissipating it contributes to a fundamental state of powerlessness. Deficient energy in a chakra produces avoidant behavior patterns. Excessive energy is typically expressed as overcompensation of some […]

Letting Go into the New Year

Letting Go Helps with Moving ForwardAs we enter the New Year with awareness of what changes we would like to bring in, it can be helpful to think about what you would like to let go of. When we think about what we would like to let go of it is natural to focus on […]

8 Tips to Support New Year Intentions

A New Year stretches before us much like the new fallen snow in this picture—there are no tracks in it yet—what kind of tracks do you want to make in this fresh New Year? 1) Resolve to do something positive for yourself regularly. Think about what makes you the happiest and most joyful. What are […]

Changes that Stick: Supporting Your New Year Intentions

Here we are ready to take our first steps into the New Year‚…perhaps not quite really present yet, parts of ourselves may be focused still on the effects of recent holiday activity or events of the past year / decade. What I know for sure is that some of my usual ways of initiating change […]

Sensing Subtle Energy: Are You Making These Mistakes?

Do you sense Subtle Energy?How can we know how energy is moving in everyday life?  There are many ways to listen in on this conversation we are having with the universe! Our words are often descriptions of invisible subtle energy realities. They can give us clues that help us shift the underlying energetic conversation to […]

Subtle Energy Skills for Self Care, Stress Reduction and Healing

Subtle energy skills provide more options for self care while they also help more effectively go to the root of a problem to eliminate it. Sensing Subtle EnergyWe all sense subtle energy, although we may not always realize it. People called clairvoyants are especially gifted with the ability to see subtle energy. And while it […]

Chakra System: Blending Spiritual and Human Energies

The chakra system is the hard wiring that enables development of all our physical, mental and emotional abilities. How does our Crown Chakra add to our capacity as spiritual beings in a human body? Chakra System: How Crown Chakra Supports During ChangeDuring times of change a healthy crown chakra can provide us with an experience […]

Connecting the Spiritual and Human, Inner and Outer Realities

Subtle energy flows through the chakra system. This gives us a direct means toe release old wounds and to enhance our spiritual and human connection. We are in a constant conversation with ourselves, others, and the world through our energy system. It is the interface where we connect • Everyday consciousness with higher consciousness • […]

Simple, Non Drug Intervention for Depression Found Effective

This article from Science News reports on how non-pharmacological interventions can help anxiety and depression. Science NewsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaSummary:A breathing-based meditation practice known as Sudarshan Kriya yoga helped alleviate severe depression in people who did not fully respond to antidepressant treatments, reports a new study. A breathing-based meditation practice […]

Holiday Tips for Transforming Stress

Holiday gatherings can produce stress. However with some awareness we can minimize it and enjoy the good. Here are some ways that may help to keep your holiday less stressful. You may simply change who you spend time with over the holidays. It may be just a case of awareness and choice. That situation is […]

Beliefs, Expectations and Outcomes

Beliefs and Expectations Affect OutcomesResearch has shown that our brain responds to our expectations. We can learn to harness this capacity to work in our favor. A powerful approach to begin to use our brain’s natural tendencies  more consciously is to ask WHO is doing the choosing of a particular goal, or who is holding […]

Low energy? Here are some remedies for Strong Positive Energy

Positive energy strengthens us and serves as a buffer against the harsher aspects of life. The best way to protect ourselves in every aspect of our lives is to have strong vibrant field so we are not as vulnerable to negative or discordant energies. There are many things in our daily lives that deplete our […]

Eliminating Power Struggles

Our power struggles come in many forms. If we begin to look at interchanges in terms of energy, they not only make more sense, but we then also have some simple and helpful options that take us out of conflict and help to reduce stress and create more ease, peace and happiness for ourselves and […]

Energy Drains: What You Need to Know

Empaths are especially vulnerable to energy drains.  It is important for everyone to be conscious about energy management and  energy drains, but it is especially crucial for an empaths’ health and well-being. Here are some key concepts that form a firm foundation for energy management from our recorded program on How to Protect Yourself from […]

Turning Concepts into Reality

Excerpt From Ch 8 12 Keys for Life and Self MasteryNow available as pdf download APPLYING ALCHEMY Turning Concepts into Reality Power is in Being … not in knowing. This is an important key concept for creating. We have said before that conceptual knowledge is not enough to turn desire into reality; intellectual understanding is […]

Do You Have a Pleasure Deficit?

Do you have a pleasure deficit? It seems that many of us do as we move along in the fast lane of modern life. A pleasure deficit contributes in a huge way to stress as it unbalances our system and leads to negative behaviors that further deplete and stress body, mind and spirit. The Neuroscience […]

Identifying Blocks and Balancing Throat Chakra Energy

Signs of Impairment of Throat Chakra When our Throat Chakra energy is impaired we may not honestly articulate our truth, or do so in a half hearted way. There may also be a tendency to put up a brave front and not speak about inner hurt, pain or turmoil. Obviously this stymies communication, but it […]

Brow Chakra, Inner Vision, Memory and Intuition

Excerpt from Fully Human, Fully Alive: Embodying the Wisdom of the Chakras https://karenkallie.com/shop-2/ BROW CHAKRA The brow chakra is often referred to as the third eye. It is located in the space between and a bit above the eyes. This center is the last place where the three major energy channels — the right, left, […]

4 Tips for Using Intuition to Make Decisions

Our intuition can be experienced through our energy system and can be a great help in the support when making decisions.  Here are some thoughts re: how to use intuition effectively. ★As you open to Universal Energies, intuition can give you the motivation to begin or to follow through with your goals, dreams and desires. […]

Self Awareness: Strong Foundation for Stress Management

Self Awareness provides a powerful first step for stress management and self care. Our minds are a major player in both the creation and management of stress. Taking charge of our minds results in positive change on all levels of our being. Self Awareness and Thought Streams With a bit of focus we can be […]

12 Keys for Life and Self-Mastery now available download/Reduced Rate!

12 Keys for Life and Self-Mastery combines timeless philosophy, quantum theory and neuroscience to provide you with a comprehensive approach to energy and mind mastery skills. These skills provide you with effective ways to manage stress, rise to challenges from strength and create greater ease, peace and fulfillment.  Each session highlights a specific concept and explores […]

12 Keys for Life and Self-Mastery now available download/Reduced Rate!

12 Keys for Life and Self-Mastery combines timeless philosophy, quantum theory and neuroscience to provide you with a comprehensive approach to energy and mind mastery skills. These skills provide you with effective ways to manage stress, rise to challenges from strength and create greater ease, peace and fulfillment.  Each session highlights a specific concept and explores […]

6 Tips to Remedy Energy Drains

1. Be aware of your energy. The more familiar you are with how you manage and shape your energy the more you can be in charge of not only you responses to events and people, but you also begin to create new habitual ways of living from the inside out and having more influence over […]

3 Foundational Principles for Self Care

We are always evolving throughout our lives. The question is whether we do it consciously or by default. The quality of our lives is affected by the level of our consciousness which is deeply intertwined with the state of our personal energy. Our energy centers are each a different focal point of consciousness that develop […]

5 Ways to Create a Map for Self Care

Self Care Helps Prevent Fatigue, Stress and Burnout A continuous outflow of energy through giving without refueling or replenishing yourself cannot possibly end up anywhere but in fatigue and burnout. It is then that resentment can set in not to mention damage to your own health. You must stop and refuel in order to keep […]

What Role Does Expectation Play in Change and Creativity?

Expectation, change and creativityChange and creativity— So many aspects enter into the equation when we are trying to navigate the former and embrace the latter! One aspect that may not be commonly thought about with either of these topics is that of expectation. The brain, change and expectationNeuroscience is showing us however that we should […]

What does it take to make energy work for you?

Energy and conscious thought“Until we consciously learn to override the pervasive low frequencies in which we exist, we will keep recycling unpleasant outcomes into our lives day after tiresome day. Just like swimming in salt water, if we don’t wash off the residue, sooner or later it’s going to make us mighty uncomfortable.” Lynn Grabhorn, […]

Do You Sense Subtle Energy?

Excerpted from Chakras and Feng Shui: Balancing Inner and Outer Energy: We are continually in touch with our world and others through our energy field For example: Have you ever sensed someone’s presence without having seen or heard them? Have you either been drained or filled with energy after spending time with someone? Have you […]

Ego, Higher Awareness and Discernment

Crown Chakra and EnlightenmentThe Crown Chakra is the chakra most often associated with unity consciousness and enlightenment. Enlightenment is the level of those who have created spiritual patterns that have been followed by large portions of humanity throughout the ages. It is from this state that we have been given great teachings that provide inspiration […]

Boosting Creativity

When we had our radio show we interviewed Haya Leah Molnar, author of Under a Red Sky. In her book she speaks about her early childhood experiences in a communist country, and about how early life experience helps to shape one’s connection to innate creative abilities. As Ms. Molnar’s story unfolds it is clear that […]

Personal Energy System: A Roadmap of Consciousness

Do Ever Experience A sense of overwhelm A feeling of being lost, lack of focus or direction Keep coming up against the same old problems and challenges Feel stuck or trapped in patterns and feel unable to change them Experience mental, emotional or physical signs of stress Feel disconnected from your life or relationships Find […]

Embodying the Wisdom of the Chakras

INTRODUCTION You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck                                 ~ Jellaludin Rumi The world is meant to be free in You are not beyond love Give up all else other than the place of true belonging Anyone or anything that does not  bring you alive […]

Self Care and Stress Management: Foundation for Sanity and Health!

Self care and stress management go hand in hand to provide a strong foundation for not only our health but our peace of mind, and emotional well-being. Healthy self care begins with self awareness and continues with effective practices for stress management. We all know that stress is a part of life, but what we […]

Chakras: Our Internal Filing System For Beliefs

Chakras represent various levels of development. The emotional issues related to that stage of development register energetically in chakras. Identifying our beliefs in regard to each of the chakras we can reestablish a clear strong flow of energy and enhance healing and growth. Core Belief Affirmations for Each of the ChakrasRoot # 1.I fully inhabit […]

What Do Energy Fields Reveal About Your Soul?

Energy fields contain information about our basic natures as well as life experiences. We each have our own energetic imprint. In some ways this could be thought of as a “soul-print”.Our energy fields show both our strengths and our weaknesses. It seems that our energy is designed both as the means to best express ourselves […]