Chakra Khan is taking care. Right now. Taking care to let the muse rest and regenerate. Taking care to nurture a healing heart. Taking care to honor passages large and small. Taking care to meditate, clear energy, exercise, eat cleanly, breathe. Taking care of business transitions. Taking care. So many passages. Two young, beautiful, beloved dogs in 5 weeks. Other personal shifts – internal and within the extended family. Moving out of the beautiful therapeutic healing space and classroom in Boston. All aspects of life up in the air. And underneath the tumultuous, emotional, challenging, stimulating and wondrous evolution of it all, there’s a core clarity and calm that tells me – just take care. I was once told I’m a turtle. That I don’t organically like to rush around. At the time I heard this, it was all I was doing. In fact, I was late to the meeting (more…)
Read moreMeditation and Mental Illness
CK has often had the privilege of working with young spiritually inclined individuals – many high school and college aged. These amazing people are students of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, Shamanism, Spiritualism and many other isms, including hallucinogenisms (yeah, a CK-ism). Through meditation, ceremony, ritual these people have experienced life-changing and mind-blowing awakenings. To divinity, consciousness, transcendence of time, space and other 3-D normalities. Their consciousness illuminated, hearts open, their young, impressionable minds light up and scintillate with the expansiveness of the experience, and the euphoria and stimulation overflows. And because the individual’s behavior, temperament and disposition are often significantly altered, hospitalization and psychiatric evaluation sometimes results. Please know that meditation is not inherently dangerous. It takes concentrated effort for most to achieve the transcendent states that some of these young people are experiencing. It is in part their innocence that creates the potentiality for the awakening that is occurring in (more…)
Read moreThe Best of Humanity
An additional Chakra Khan post comes out today on the #bealeader blog. Titled Power Up! The Energetics of Leadership This is a summary of a Remote Collective Healing emailed to the 120+ known participants held on Tuesday, 4/16/2013, the day following the explosion at the Boston Marathon. My gratitude to the participants for joining in intention, energy and unity. Because of the nature of energy, reading and contemplating the message here brings your essence into the Collective. Please join us. The Collective Intention: I stand in unity, peace and fellowship with humanity. I am the light that shines in darkness, bringing comfort and solace to families and loved ones affected by the explosions at the Boston Marathon. In this place of conscious awareness, The Collective’s energy, vitality and integrity brings light, balance, peace and harmony, dissipating fear, tension, hatred and grief. I stand in unity, peace and fellowship with humanity. (more…)
Read moreGood Grief
Once in a while someone will ask me if energy healing is a substitute or work around to help avoid feeling emotions. Yeah, I know, interesting question. When the question arises, it’s often about wanting to avoid feeling anger. Many folks have an aversion to anger because it’s a powerful emotion, and can become a force of its own without modulation and regulation. People can move profoundly in their awareness when they confront and own their anger. Why avoid that? Sometimes the question arises about feeling grief. Grief is also a powerful emotion; but it’s heavy, dense properties can be consuming, overwhelming and almost debilitating. There’s grief in our household this week. My husband and I lost our 7-year old German Shepherd very suddenly to a fast-growing cancer. Whistler was fine and frolicking one day and mortally ill the next. Literally. And then he was gone. Whistler was Ken’s constant (more…)
Read moreIdeas and Actualization
C.P., this post is dedicated to you and your ideas. C.P. brought such an interesting topic to his latest session with Chakra Khan. He wanted to know how to galvanize his energy to manifest all of the amazing and great ideas he generates. His days are filled with activities and tasks, like all of us. And in the course of being himself, navigating his days, many fantastic and stimulating ideas come to mind. The problem C.P. has? Bringing the ideas to fruition. Now this sounds like a manifestation issue, right? Ideas to form is all about manifestation. And that’s true. But as we looked at the energy and discussed the issue in further detail, we realized we were talking about something else entirely. Because you see, C.P. is a manifester. He actualizes all the time. He’s not lolling about wishing that something, anything that he thought of would materialize in (more…)
Read moreRadical Self-Care
Radical Self-Care was the theme discussed Sunday morning at #spiritchat, a tweetchat I have begun to regularly attend. There are some great people who participate each week, and some interesting questions are asked and answered. It may be helpful to read Janet Nestor’s wonderful post, Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care to set the tone for this post. There were several beautiful messages conveyed about radical self-care, and those of you who know ChakraKhan or have read her posts for a while know that she is all over this idea! So, to celebrate the idea of radical self-care and to bring other’s voices to the theme, CK is sharing 3 of the questions that Kamud Ajmani (@ajmanik) and his co-host, Janet Nestor (@janetnestor) posed in Sunday morning’s #spiritchat, along with some of the generous and poignant responses that the community shared. (And if you’d like to join #spiritchat, it happens every Sunday (more…)
Read moreThe Practitioner’s Dilemma, Part 2
Last week I wrote about practitioners who derail in their practices by having their personal energy set in such a way that they’re in their patient & client’s soup. Not only is it depleting and exhausting to live that way, but energetically, it’s like wearing someone else’s workout clothes. Ewwwww….. This week CK is going to riff a bit more on the practitioner theme because…she can! I’m hearing a lot about practitioner’s who have ‘failure to launch’ syndrome. Remember that movie? It starred Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker. The failure to launch in the movie relates to McConaughey’s characters inability to get a life and move out of his parent’s house, even though he’s an adult, well-educated, etc. With energy healing practitioners, failure to launch refers to their inability to support themselves financially with their healing practice. There’s no one answer to the issue. And I’m nowhere near arrogant (more…)
Read moreThe Mystical Healing Crisis
A Conscious Conversations Post from Chakra Khan As Spring begins to contemplate unleashing itself from the coils and cold of Winter, an interesting and somewhat predictable pattern is emerging in my private practice. People are finding themselves in some sort of healing crisis. It seems to happen quite a bit in the slower, drowsier, more sedentary and contemplative months of late fall and winter. I only have experiential evidence of this idea, yet I can sense a certain logic and ‘of course-ness’ as I think about it. Healing crisis is a term that is frequently bandied about in therapeutic and alternative healing circles. To create clarity of definition for the purposes of this post and your contemplation, healing crisis includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual/energetic components. The body erupts, the mind is stimulated and honed in on the multi-faceted crisis, the emotions are huge and ongoing and the spiritual/energetic components (more…)
Read moreThe Practitioner’s Dilemma
Do you have any idea what it’s like to sit across from a patient (or client) in a therapeutic/healing session and discover that what the patient is describing to you is what’s happening in your own life experience? It happens all the time! And it can be pretty challenging to say the least. The reason for this is that we attract what we’re vibrating. And that goes for all of us, not just healing practitioners. We attract what we’re vibrating. Period. The end. In therapeutic settings, this issue is known as countertransference. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: Countertransference is defined as redirection of a psychotherapist‘s feelings toward a client—or, more generally, as a therapist’s emotional entanglement with a client. Ewwwwww…..never a pleasant scenario – that emotional entanglement thingy. And yet, Freud began talking about it in the early 1900’s. And countertransference is researched, discussed and observed in the classroom and in supervisory (more…)
Read moreMy Pineal Brought Me Sh*t!
When clients begin an energy clearing protocol, they learn to make friends with meditation. Not the type of meditation where your breath is the focus, you witness your thoughts rolling by, and you let them go. Energy clearing meditations are a bit more active. The individual is within him or herself, attending to the body, the mind and to the energetic patterns, resonances, vibrations that activate as they are named and targeted for clearing. The skillful meditator easily navigates between the mind, the body and the emotions as the work takes place. Sometimes newbie-meditators need a little help getting out of their analytical/rational minds and dropping into the more body/consciousness-centric focus that comes through achieving a light trance state. When this shift would be helpful, I often recommend practices that will help the client move awareness into the energy of the Pineal Gland. Seriously folks, if you can learn to (more…)
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