Self care can include many different things, internal and external. Those things we do to address our internal world often can bring more lasting results to living with more peace, joy and happiness than external approaches. What if you were to hold the intention to mindfully enjoy this day to the fullest?Yawn! Yawning helps replenish oxygen and energy.Notice opportunities to not take anything ...
Subtle Energy Drains: What You Need to Know About Boundaries
Subtle Energy Drains: Recognizing Your Invitations In addition to recognizing when your energy is being drained, it is equally important to know how we invite these people, places or circumstances into our life. A major issue to be considered when we are looking at where we lose energy is our own boundaries. People who act as subtle energy drains or energy vampires may cruise and look for energy, ...
How to Recognize Energy Drains: What you need to know
When thinking about energy drains an important thing to consider is our own boundaries. Vampires may cruise and look for energy, but there has to be an entry point for them to hook and deplete us. We all have life experience that have impacted our energy fields and left us vulnerable. By looking at some of the circumstances or feelings we typically have we can begin to identify how we have been at ...
7 Energy Tips to Deal with Control Freaks, Fear Mongers, and Energy Vampires
Energy Tips for Staying Strong and Energized In this day and age it is important to be aware of how the news is affecting our energy. There is great turbulence in the world as we navigate through times of extreme change. The best way to deal with this stress is to notice what is being triggered and process it to regain our power and balance. Others are being triggered as well and may not know ...
The Heart Chakra: Change, Compassion, Letting Go and Forgiveness
Change impacts the heart as it registers loss, grief and unwanted adjustments. To having a truly open and loving heart requires objective exploration, release and healing of the core wounds and pains stored in the energetic layers of the heart. Moving toward unconditional love and true compassion requires forgiving ourselves and others. An open heart is capable of experiencing connection ...
Can the Right Question Help to Improve Emotional Intelligence?
The stress in our world has clearly demonstrated the need for greater emotional intelligence and mastery. There are many ways to develop these areas but sometimes a simple question is what we need to set us on a path of positive results. We cannot do anything about people who are wildly out of control but we can cultivate our inner landscape to be able to maintain our equilibrium no matter how ...
Moving From Empathy to Compassion
Compassion fatigue has become a familiar phrase over this past year. The following excerpt notes the difference between empathy and compassion which points us in the direction of being able to connect with others in healthy ways that help both parties with no negative effects. The link to the whole article is at the bottom of this page> . "Unlike empathy compassion increases activity in the ...
Energy Drains: How to Know if Your Energy Being Drained?
Invisible Energy DrainsBecause the flow of energy between people is invisible to the naked eye it may be hard to understand or realize that your energy field has been compromised or assaulted. However, your feelings and intuition can be counted on to tell the story. Questions to Identify Energy DrainsHave you ever been with a person and afterward felt drained or exhausted or like you needed a ...
Letting Go: How to Move Through Grief, Loss and Change with Greater Ease
As we move further along in our journey through the pandemic we become more aware of the changes, loss and grief that has accompanied the experience. Letting go is always hard. It is a major part of change. It can be helpful to have information, methods and techniques to help us along the way. Letting go is difficult We are consciously aware of many reasons why it is hard to let go of people, ...
What Does a Healthy Solar PLexus Chakra Look like?
What Does a Healthy Solar Plexus Energy Center Look Like?A strong and balanced third chakra helps you to have a solid sense of your own power and worth. You are able to set goals based on your desires and act to manifest them in the world. You have leadership qualities and are an innovator without being over bearing or controlling with others. Your immunity is strong, you manage anger well, and ...
Solar Plexus Chakra, Energy and Power…Too Much or Too Little?
As with the other chakras there can be too much or too little energy in this energy center leading to internal and external problems. Excessive Energy An excess of energy here results in insensitivity to others and intolerance to those with less energy. Other issues that arise with excessive energy here are: tendencies toward being judgmental, aggressive, and perfectionistic. Vanity and pride are ...
Crown Chakra: What you Need to know about Your Connection to Spiritual Wisdom and Guidance
Each of the chakras holds a form of consciousness. In the root we experience the densest materialization of energy, in the sacral we come to know the energy of emotion and so on as we move upward through progressively less dense expressions of energy until we reach the crown where we must begin asking questions about consciousness itself. Psychologically crown energy helps us to perceive the ...
Too Much or Too Little Heart Energy?
The heart chakra is the largest in our energy system and the one we encounter /register life experience through initially. How do you feel your heart chakra is functioning/affected by people and events in everyday life? As with the other chakras, there can be too much or too little energy flowing through this chakra. The list below can help you discover how yours is functioning and point you in ...
Your Heart Mind Conversation: Hurting or Helping?
Heart Mind Conversation: Our states of mind both create and reflect physiology that is either supporting or limiting us Our habitual states of mind affect our lives on many levels...our heart is a key player in regulating these effects. Most people nowadays have some awareness of the power of gratitude to shift our inner landscapes. There is a related feeling that is also profoundly helpful. ...
Expanded consciousness and perception contributes to wholeness and health
Trauma separates us from our wholeness...from the essence of our Being. When we are in our wholeness we experience more flow states. RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS: EGO VERSUS HIGHER SELFWhen we operate from higher consciousness rather than from ego,we experience more flow and less resistance. Being able to notice theflow experience and differentiate it from resistance states allows usto be more in ...
Trauma, Ego and Unhealthy Patterns in Individuals and Society
EGO, PERCEPTION, AND ENERGY Trauma interrupts the healthy development of our nervous system and thus our mental, emotional and spiritual health. This interruption contributes to default patterns of coping. This tends to be unconscious so we may only be aware of our obstacles rather than the root. Becoming aware enables us to erase the effects from our nervous systems and build in strength and ...
A Heart Focus Realigns Your Energy From Stress to Ease
Brain versus heart focus Our conscious mind habitually tends to focus on what is not going well, what is NOT present in our lives that we desire, or what is outwardly not contributing to our health, happiness and harmony. The result is preoccupations anchored in fear, misdirected passion, power struggles, relationship and identity problems. I believe this is part of our primitive brain that needed ...
5 Tips to Reduce Stress and Boost Vitality: Managing Your Energy for Well Being
State of Energy System as Foundation for Well Being Your energy system has a directly influences the function of mind, body and spirit. It impacts health, moods, outlook on life and much more. By setting up an "energetic framework" at the start of the day and then tuning into your personal energy level throughout the day you can begin to develop a foundation for positively affecting you whole ...
5 Tips for Self Care, and for managing and reducing your stress
Self Care Begins with Self Exploration Times of change and uncertainty provide ripe ground for our fears and personal myths to emerge. Instead of allowing them to remain out of awareness where they are free to create chaos, we can choose methods that provide us a way out a way to reduce stress and promote inner harmony. Willingness to try a different approach, patience for the learning curve and ...
A Simple Way to Reduce Stress and Reboot Energy
Addressing the Subtle Energy System to Reduce Stress Our energy system has a direct influence on our mind, body and spirit. It impacts our health, our moods, our outlook on life and much more. Without learning a whole system of healing there are many things we can do on a daily basis to improve the flow, coherence and functioning of our energy system. Simply taking time to pay attention to how you ...
What does it mean to grow in consciousness?
Growth in consciousness can be challenging As a species we are being challenged to learn and grow in order to create a healthier more life affirming environment. It turns out this process is more painful and messy than any of us might have anticipated! is The stress of our current lifetime is enormous! It can be helpful to take a 30,000 foot view of this time and/or look through a broader lens. ...
Tips for Improving Your Energy
Subtle Energy Management is at the base of emotional intelligence, health and well being Chinese and Indian Medicine have always taken the state of subtle energy body into account when designing a treatment plan for a person because the state of this energy field is believed to be the template upon which the rest of the body-mind’s functions rely. These invisible energies shape the way we think ...
Grief and Self Care for the Holidays and Beyond: 7 Tips for Moving Beyond Grief
It may seem strange to include a post about grief during Christmas week, but I think in particular this year we must honor the losses of this year even as we celebrate the holiday. Having a balance where we have space for both grief and joy brings us into a more authentic experience of life. Grief and Self CareGrief is something we all have to face on the human journey. Sometimes our grief is ...
Thoughts for the Winter Solstice
The Great Conjunction Is Almost Here, & It Will Change Everything ELIZABETH GULINO This past month has felt a little... different, right? Things appear to be shifting, and I think I know why: On December 21, Jupiter, the Planet of Luck, and Saturn, the Planet of Authority, are gearing up to meet in Aquarius in a rare astrological event known as The Great Conjunction. This powerful ...
How are Chakras Damaged? What are the Results of Damage to the Energy System?
How Chakras BehaveThe strength, flow, and frequency of your energy system determineyour overall mental and physical health. Disruptions in flow orbalance can create pain in mind, body, or emotions and sometimesall three. When a chakra is disrupted or damaged, or a meridian isblocked, energy flow is compromised, the frequency of theassociated auric layer becomes distorted, and the aura ...
Empowering Tips for Being Present NOW
We would probably all agree that we would like to be more present in our lives and feel more connected, aware and not so scattered or disconnected. So what gets in the way? Most common blocks to presence Expectations ego, self talk, mind chatter Getting caught in emotional turmoil Focus on the rules of how one should be vs. how we are really feeling Blaming others for our feelings or conditions ...
7 Tips to Reduce Stress this Winter and Holiday Season
Managing Holiday and Winter Stress This winter and holiday season will be like no other! We are entering a time that is inherently stressful and this year adds even more challenges. A conscious and intentional approach to how we manage our time and energy can go a long way to reducing stress. Starting with an accepting and creative approach is a good first step. Here are some more tips to help ...
7 Important Tips for Empaths to Protect Your Subtle Energy
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 Energy Vampires. 1. Energy fields constantly give off ...
Expanding Consciousness: How Can We Overcome Negative Reactivity?
Expanding Consciousness: Areas of Challenge One way that has been useful for me to expand my awareness of what needs to be released is to notice the things in my day that trigger fear, willfulness or insistence on one way of doing things. It has also been helpful to observe where I may feel (or assign) blame, or feel shame, fear or embarrassment. Questions that can help jumpstart expanding ...
How can Acceptance Promote Inner Ease, Health and Well Being?
Acceptance is a Process not an Event Working with centering, grounding and meditation/relaxation brings us into a quieter space where we can view our thoughts and feelings from a different perspective. Being able to observe these energies as they present themselves without becoming enmeshed with them allows space for emotional intelligence, spiritual expansion and personal freedom. Acceptance is ...
How Can You Recognize Resistance that Saps Energy and Adds to Stress?
This past year has given us a lot to resist! However holding onto resistance may not be the best way forward regardless of the circumstances. When we hold a position of resistance it binds and weakens energy, saps our strength and mental clarity. None of that enables us to maintain well being or move toward our desired goals. It may seem counterintuitive to release resistance, especially with ...
6 Simple Steps for Your Health: Support Immunity, Build Resiliency and Reduce Stress
This winter and holiday season will be like any other we have experienced. It is important to have practices that can help improve health, support immunity, build resiliency and help keep us as stress free as possible. The following steps provide a simple way to address the health goals mentioned above. A Simple Attitude Adjustment 1. Bring your attention to your heart chakra in the center of ...
Gratitude: How to Improve Heart and Brain Health and FEEL Good!
Practice feeling gratitude to open the deepest doors of your heart so a deeper resonance can emerge, rippling out to touch every facet of your existence. This year it may feel difficult to experience gratitude with all that is going on in the midst of the pandemic. In spite of the challenge it may be even more important to engage in a routine gratitude practice. We can all use the strengthened ...
How to Overcome Fear: Two Practices to Release Negative Reactivity
There are many causes for fear that arise in any lifetime let alone in times like we are currently living. It can be hard to realize that regardless where our fears are originating from, we can implement techniques that release reactive negativity and develop inner strength, courage and self mastery. Fear and negative feelings come on us quickly Our feelings come upon us so quickly at times that ...
How Can Our Energy Systems Help to Cope with Personal and Societal Change ?
Change Triggers Core Issues Change inevitably triggers our core issues. Since the energetic signature of these issues live in our energy field, awareness of how our energy is reacting goes a long way to helping us rebalance and strengthen our energy to meet challenges. The following chart helps expand awareness of where your core issues may be unbalancing your ...
How Can We Positively Manage the Stages of Change?
CHANGE! We all know it’s an inevitable and necessary fact of life. In fact it is something we face each day. The world, our environment and even our inner worlds---our thoughts, feelings and beliefs--- are in constant flux. Change can be positive or negative, big or small, swift or gradual, welcome or unwanted. No matter what its quality however, it does still seem to jar us and create some ...
8 Tips to Release Stress and Reclaim Your Personal Power
Personal power...the term can mean different things to different people but whatever the definition it begins with self awareness. Here are some questions that can help you begin to shift your sense of personal power throughout the day and become more in charge of your life experience. What is your predominant emotional tone? Do you check in periodically with yourself and note how you are ...
How to Let Go of Anxiety and Master Change
Anxiety and uncertainty are the natural companions of change. In fact it seems that anxiety and uncertainty are so deeply woven into our human experience that it would serve us well to understand them and develop some skills to deal with them in a healthy and effective way! Understanding how our minds work is a good first step that can set us up for choosing effective solutions. Note: There are ...
What You Need to Know to Effectively Cope with Fear
"Fear constitutes a much larger and more comprehensive presence than has yet been realized. Beginning in the nineteenth century, therapeutic psychology sought to identify the symptoms related to this phenomenon. The types of fear recognized included hysteria, behind which some trauma, real or imaged, was always to be found; shell shock or combat neurosis, now commonly called post-traumatic ...
A Quick Heart Centered Practice for Stress
In a time of such complexity we need many tools to deal with stress. 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 nervous system but also helps build better communication between heart and brain that can serve us in a multitude of ways. A Simple Attitude Adjustment1. Bring your ...
How to move out of ego into peace and wholeness
Ego-Mind and the Heart Chakra The lower self or ego-mind correlates with the first three chakras. Unbalanced energies there manifest in preoccupations anchored in fear, misdirected passion, power struggles and identity problems. Developing the Observer Self and the Heart Chakra we can heal the lower chakra energies and move into higher states of consciousness. The heart chakra provides the ...
5 Ways to Balance the Throat Chakra
Throat chakra Blockage or Imbalance 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 also weakens our capacity to stand for ourselves and our ideals in order that dreams may be ...
How Does Heart Intelligence Promote Self Care and Stress Reduction?
Science and the Heart Neurocardiology, Psychoimmunology (Mind-Body) and Energy Psychology have all made significant contributions to what we now know about the heart and its role in our health and happiness. The InstituteofHeartMath, a research institute in Boulder Creek,CA, has been a major contributor to this research and has helped to provide a much clearer picture of the heart’s role in ...
How to identify your individual stressors and develop healthy self care
Self care and StressStress! We all have it, but do we have an effective approach to managing it that keeps us sane and healthy?To effectively manage stress we must have a clear picture of how it is affecting our body and mind and have targeted methods to respond appropriately to the symptoms we are having. Where can we begin to take charge of stress? We can begin by asking: "What is being ...
Happiness from the Inside Out: 12 Tips to Help You Cultivate it
While we all have had some feeling of happiness stimulated by outside sources, wisdom and experience can 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 serene and a spirit that is nourished...and this requires some effort on our ...
What we need to know about personal power, higher consciousness and self care
Personal power can mean different things to different people and even different things to the same person, depending on many factors, including: life stage, level of consciousness, personal experience and predominate belief system. One thing personal power is not is force.Force comes from insecurity, inner emptiness and lack. When you hear the words personal power, what comes to your ...
When we don’t listen to stress: what we know about stress and dementia
We’ve Known How to Combat Dementia For Years — We’re Just Not Listening Reprinted from Kyle Fuller in Medium July 17,2020 We’re still waiting for that shiny pill to cure us. What if we never find it? For years, I researched in and out of the lab. I took classes about the brain and dementia. I read neuroscience books in my leisure time. I consumed every bit of information the field ...
What you can do to reduce stress and release anxiety
These are stressful times. You may feel that everywhere we look there seems to be one more reason to feel tense, upset, frenzied or anxious. These are truly momentous times with many transitions and changes as the future careens toward us. That being the case it is more important than ever to have the means to deal with stress inherent in change so it does not produce toxic effects in our ...
A New View of Power Struggles
Power struggles happen in many areas of our lives. Greater clarity and access to helpful options comes through understanding the energetic underpinnings.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 ...
Transforming Fear, Anxiety and Stress: Approaches That Can Help
We encounter fear as a natural part of life. Sometimes our fears are small and easily managed, other times they are large and threaten to overwhelm us. Our fear can present as a very clear total body-mind reaction or it may cloak itself in anxiety or stress. During times of great change or challenge many fears can come together and make it difficult to identify them let alone respond to them ...
Reboot Your Subconscious Mind for Health and Well-Being
The following is excerpted from Ch. 4 of 12 Keys for Life and Self-Mastery--a guide to integrating an energetic approach to life and healingFor more information click here: https://karenkallie.com/shop-2 Subconscious beliefs exist re: key life areasWe form patterns in our early environments that become our automatic reactions and repeated responses to situations and events throughout our lives. We ...
Laughter Opens and Charges Your Energy Field Helping to Reduce Stress
Laughter can be a wonderful aid in helping us to reduce stress. Here are some fun ways of thinking about serious issues from Swami Beyondananda "FUN-da-Mental Pointers" "1. Be a fundamentalist, make sure fun always comes before the mental. Realize that life is a situation comedy that will never be cancelled. A laugh track has been provided and the reason why we are put in the material world is to ...
Empaths, Auras, and Managing Energy
Empaths and Energy Signatures Our aura is composed of many layers of energy each representing an aspect of our being and consciousness. Each of us has an energetic signature. Similar to our thumbprint this is a representation of our uniqueness, our individuality. It is my belief that our basic signature energy equips us to deal with whatever soul path growth we are here to experience. In addition ...
What you need to know to about self care
Times of change and uncertainty provide ripe ground for our fears and personal myths to emerge. Instead of allowing them to remain out of awareness where they are free to create chaos or employing ineffective means to manage and control them, we can choose methods that provide us a way out a way to personal emotional freedom and inner balance. Willingness to try a different approach, ...
Why a Gratitude Practice Can Be a Powerful Aid in Self Care
Gratitude, genuine care, love, appreciation and compassion, all heart based feelings, create coherent heart rhythms which have a profound effect on the health of our minds and bodies. It is easy in busy or very stressful times to put off caring for ourselves. A gratitude practice is simple and can be easily integrated into our day. A gratitude journal is a great way to help you notice all the ...
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 come in non technological form. We need to attend to them as well if we are to reclaim our energy, ...
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 serene and a spirit that is nourished. These require some effort on our part but it ...
Perfection is not Possible: Release Expectations to Decrease Stress
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Taking Charge of Stress One Moment at a Time
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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, deep breath. Sit in a comfortable ...
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 pleasure may not be something we think about as related to stress management, but it ...
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 world events into our homes have an effect on us even if we are not totally aware of it. I ...
Loving Kindness Heals
So much pain in our world on so many levels. Processing all our feelings is a challenge. In such times it is important to tap into loving kindness for others but also for our selves. The energy of loving kindness brings soothing to the hurt places and helps with our healing so we gain new strength to move forward . ...
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 conscious mind. Regardless of what you are feeling, know that it is only natural/human to ...
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 also influence choices, ...
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 creates the sense that you may explode at any moment? Or how about that seething inner burn that feels like it is ...
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 keep forgetting it! It takes a commitment to our peace and well-being to remember the concept and ...
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 we do not want or like. These days we have plenty to not like ...
Are You an Empath? The Gift in the Challenge
During this time we are all experiencing an increase in sensitivity to subtle energy. Much of what is coming at us is traumatic so it is even more critical that we have self care tools that can bring us into balance and strengthen our energy.. Empath VS Empathic Have you been told you are too sensitive by family, friends, teachers, co-workers? This is often our experience when we are an empath, ...
Letting Go of Resistance Releases Stress
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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. We can and will get through this but we need to turn up the volume on our self care and stress management! Focusing on ...
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 be that you hold bullying tendencies inside. It may be that you have a need to grow ...
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 contradiction of activation and inhibition. An influx of ...
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 only grief but also for any difficult emotion you may be experiencing. ...
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 we must attend to in the external world. Taking even a few minutes to connect with a quieter space inside can ...
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 problem, feeling out of control, having low energy, difficulty with moods, or ...
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Remedies for Anxiety and Stress: Centering and Grounding to Create Safety, Security and Stillness
Centering and Grounding Help Reduce Stress and Build ResilienceEmbodying our energy is important at anytime for our health and well-being. At this time in our lives it is even more critical as we deal with unprecedented amounts and types of stress. This video contains information about centering and grounding to explain why/how it is is related to how we think and feel, but more importantly it ...
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 heart and thought perhaps it would bring a smile to your heart.. "Like so many middle schoolers, ...
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 multitude of losses. Your body hears every word you say, records every ...
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 that is often overlooked are the specific issues that are ...
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 challenging times we need to find new solutions and ways ...
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 we can control we can have an action plan for each aspect. For those ...
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 been filled with those recommendations. There are also recommendations about how to use food, ...
A Guided Relaxation for You
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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 angst. Chakras in Real LifeHow do our chakras operate in real life? Many in the west tend to think ...
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 of hiding information, of being purposefully ...
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 the electrical field of ...
Consciously Choosing Peace
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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 a link to a recorded guided meditation ...
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 third chakra that holds the capacity to set ...
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 and influence. In the chakra system the SOLAR PLEXUS is the center of personal power. The solar plexus is ...
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 your own best friend?What would it look like to live with self love?How ...
Heart Attack: Put a Little Love in Your Heart
It has often been noted that when we are in love we feel better physically, do not get sick as often, feel emotionally buoyant and resilient and may feel mentally clearer (although the opposite can also be true! :)). The field of neuroscience has provided us with information showing exactly why this is so but even more importantly it has shown us that we can have all those benefits with a little ...
Aura Imaging Bio Feedback, See What The Chakras Look Like
Awareness re: how our auras are being effected by our inner and outer environment helps us to manage our energy better. Generally we have to relay on our knowledge of energy and our feelings. In this video you will see Aura Imaging biofeedback making visual the effect of multiple internal and external factors on one person's energy system. ...
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 peace, joy, a sense of well being. This state has been called flow, living from center or ...
Surrender….Letting Go leads to Less Stress, Enhanced Creativity, Inner Peace and Intuition
Surrender when used in terms of our inner life is not about succumbing or accepting the negative. Surrender is about letting go of the inner conflict, the chemistry of fight/flight and learning to trigger our more buoyant, free and resilient selves. Surrender opens our energy and makes room for our higher natures to shine through. Aligning with our higher natures allows us to resonate ...
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 affect our mental, emotional and physical health. Having tools to ...
Resting reboots energy and clears the mind
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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 in eliminating the struggle that often ...
Evaluating Intuition and the Brow Chakra
The state of our brow chakra dictates the effectiveness of our intutition. Here are some questions that can help you evaluate the state of your brow chakra and its function. The greater number of 'yes' answers the greater degree of imbalance. Is it difficult to be receptive to others' opinions and ideas? Is ambiguity difficult for you? Do you tend toward being rational and focused? Do ...
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 effectiveness without building up the detrimental effects of stress. ...
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 and insight. Being in truly in ...
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 kind. How ...
Grounding helps overcome fear
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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 outward conditions, but it can be just as important to look inward at what may be blocking us from experiencing life differently. ...
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 you doing during these times? What can you do to create this feeling on a regular basis? ...
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 has not been very effective! In the past I have been guilty of rushing headlong into things without ...
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 a more beneficial one! Everything we experience has an energetic ...
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 appears to be innate in them, the truth is we all possess this ...
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 of peace, a soft place to land beyond the rigors of human ...
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 • To intuition, strengths, compassion, and authenticity • ...
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 ...
Three Minutes of Peace for Thanksgiving
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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 pretty easy to manage but other situations are more complex and difficult are: those ...
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 a specific perception or viewpoint. We are all the product of so many ...
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 energy. Heat, artificial light, dissonant, loud or harsh sound, electricity, ...
Oprah and Gloria Steinem in Conversation
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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 others."THE FOURTH INSIGHT . . . THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER Too often humans cut themselves off from the ...
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 Energy Vampires. 1. Energy fields ...
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 only the first step to conscious creation. The most ...
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 of PleasureIt's interesting to discover that Neuroscience has found that we humans...and our animal ...
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 also weakens our capacity to stand for ourselves and our ideals in order that dreams may be ...
Heart Perspective Releases Stress
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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, and middle (Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna) — come together. The right ...
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. ★ Being in touch with our intuitive nature can provide guidance and ...
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 more aware of the continuous stream of what thoughts habitually flow through our minds. ...
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 how it applies to life ...
Letting go from the inside out
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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 how it applies to life ...
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 your life experience. During an interaction feel the energy in your body. If there is something that feels ...
Creating Inner Peace
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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 throughout life. 2. Our willingness to develop and evolve ...
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 going. Each of us can only give away what we have. Humans are adaptable ...
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 think about expectations. It has been clearly ...
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, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting. Thought energy ...
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 ever felt someone staring at you even though ...
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 and raise levels of awareness. At this ...
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 her family experience was one that supported her creative development in spite ...
Being Present Enhances Energy
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Personal Energy System: A Roadmap of Consciousness
Do Ever Experience A sense of overwhelmA feeling of being lost, lack of focus or directionKeep coming up against the same old problems and challengesFeel stuck or trapped in patterns and feel unable to change themExperience mental, emotional or physical signs of stressFeel disconnected from your life or relationshipsFind that your old approaches to issues are not workingInability to ...
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 ...
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 may not know is what to do about it that really counts. Effective approaches to ...
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 my body, it as a source of wisdom regarding ...
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 and to develop particular qualities or strengths. That is to say, our ...
How to Strengthen Your Intuition
Connecting with our authentic nature, our core, that aspect of self that is beyond our storylines, hurts and wounds puts us in contact with a resilient, coherent energy flow that affects all aspects of life in a strong and positive way. What is intuition? We talk about it, even use it, but do we really understand it and even more important, how can we develop and make the best use of it? Our ...
How Does Emotional Intelligence Ease Stress and Change?
Emotional intelligence is an important aspect of self care. Being able to manage emotions in a healthy way can eliminate the negative effect on health, relationships and overall well being. The sacral chakra is the seat of emotions. Balancing the sacral chakra allows emotion to freely move through our systems. Just as flowing water is purifying, refreshing and revitalizing so it is with feelings ...
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