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Chakras

✨ Chakras Explained — The Flow of Energy Within ✨

Chakras are the energy centers of the body — gateways where spirit and physical life meet. They are not just spinning wheels of light, they are living portals that connect us to Creator, to Earth, and to each other.

I see the chakras as both teachers and mirrors. Each one holds lessons, gifts, and truths that help us move from survival into joy, from limitation into freedom. They are not fixed — they flow, expand, and contract depending on how we nourish them with love, intention, and awareness.

🌿 Root (Muladhara) — Safety, grounding, belonging. Here we learn to trust the Earth and know we are provided for.
🌹 Sacral (Svadhisthana) — Creativity, intimacy, flow. Here we allow joy, play, and sacred connection to move through us.
🔥 Solar Plexus (Manipura) — Power, choice, and will. Here we decide whether to live from fear or from love.
💖 Heart (Anahata) — Love, compassion, unity. Here we soften, forgive, and expand into oneness.
🦋 Throat (Vishuddha) — Truth, expression, voice. Here we speak what our soul already knows.
🌌 Third Eye (Ajna) — Vision, clarity, intuition. Here we see beyond the veil, remembering what has always been true.
✨ Crown (Sahasrara) — Connection to the Divine. Here we surrender to the Beloved Creator and remember: we are not separate, we are part of all things.

To me, chakras are not something to “fix” — they are rivers to align. When we clear blocks, cut cords, and invite light, they open naturally, allowing the soul to shine fully in human form.

Energy Blocks

🌌 Energy Blocks — What They Really Are 🌌

Energy blocks are not punishments, nor are they flaws. They are simply places where the flow of love and life has been slowed, tangled, or forgotten.

Sometimes blocks form from limiting beliefs we’ve carried — the “I can’t,” “I’m not enough,” or “I don’t deserve.” Sometimes they form from traumas or wounds that we’ve protected for so long they became walls. And sometimes, blocks are simply old patterns of thought and behavior that we’ve outgrown but haven’t released yet.

To me, an energy block feels like a closed door inside the self. It isn’t locked. It isn’t meant to keep us out forever. It’s waiting for us to bring awareness, gentleness, and love to open it.

When we clear energy blocks, we aren’t destroying anything — we are removing what is not ours to carry, cutting cords to what has been draining us, and filling that space with divine light and love.

Energy wants to flow. Just like rivers clear debris, just like breath fills the lungs, our energy field wants to move, to dance, to sing. When we soften into trust and allow, the blocks dissolve — and we return to who we have always been: light, whole, and free.

Our Mind

🌀 The Mind and Its Habits 🌀

Our brain is an amazing thing. It takes in information, stores it, and uses it without our being aware of it. It keeps us alive by helping us walk, breathe, digest, rest, and function — all with minimal effort on our part. In so many ways, it is miraculous.

However, there are truths about the mind that society has not taught us — and in fact, we’ve often been conditioned in ways that harm rather than heal.

One of the most important facts is this: a single thought, a single emotion, a single energetic impulse in the body only lasts about one minute. After that, it naturally fades. Yet, most of us were never told this. Instead, we were taught to dwell, replay, and hold on to painful emotions for hours, days, or even years. When we sit and cry over something long after the moment has passed, we are not experiencing the original pain anymore — we are recreating it inside ourselves, over and over.

This repetition builds patterns. It wires the brain and body into cycles where emotions become automatic responses, turning on without our conscious choice. Trauma often deepens these cycles, embedding them so deeply that they feel like part of who we are.

But here is the beauty: these cycles are not permanent. They are habits of the mind and energy field, and like all habits, they can be changed. Energy work offers a way to interrupt these loops — to bring awareness, to cut cords to the old patterns, to fill the body and spirit with light, and to reprogram the mind with truth and love.

Healing, then, is not about erasing the mind. It is about remembering our true state of fluidity. It is choosing to soften the grip of those old, habitual emotions and open space for something new. With practice, we can train both the brain and the energy to flow again — and in that flow, the suffering dissolves, leaving us more whole, more at peace, and more ourselves than we ever thought possible.

Trauma

🌿 A Bit About Trauma 🌿

The word trauma comes from the Greek word meaning “to wound.” This is not just a metaphor — it is exactly what trauma feels like. Imagine that each trauma you have experienced created a deep, gaping wound, cut clear to the bone.

Now, if you had a physical wound like this, you would go to the emergency room. They would clean it, stitch it up, bandage it, and send you home. But notice this: at no point would anyone ask you, “How does this make you feel?” Why? Because their focus is on treating the wound, not the experience.

This is exactly how emotional and energetic trauma works. At the moment of the trauma, your system goes into survival mode. It does what it must to keep you alive. But long after the event has passed, the wound remains. And here’s the difficult truth: every time you retell the trauma, every time you replay the story in your mind, every time you sit in the feelings without release, you are — without meaning to — digging your fingers back into that slowly healing wound.

Over time, the wound can’t close. It festers. It scars. It becomes a permanent fixture that drains energy and shapes how you live. All the life force that would normally go toward growth, joy, and wholeness gets redirected into building protective walls around the wound. You end up living for the wound instead of through it.

And that, in my heart, is what keeps people bound.

🌸 So how do we heal?

We begin by returning to the mind — by interrupting the “habit thoughts” that keep scratching open the wound. We pair that with energy work — addressing the blocked areas of the body where the trauma still lives. Together, these practices allow us to release, to reprogram, and to let the wound truly close.

Healing doesn’t mean pretending it never happened. It means allowing the body, mind, and energy to finally shift out of survival and back into flow. It means saying: “I am ready to be free.”

And freedom is where the journey begins.

It begins with the empowerment to heal yourself. To overcome the fears, traumas, and anxieties that have bound you. To reclaim the joy and wholeness that has always been your birthright.

That is why I created my 8-Week Journey to Joy — a guided path designed to help you interrupt the old cycles, clear the blocks, and open yourself to healing on every level. This is not about me “fixing” you — this is about giving you the tools to heal yourself, and in doing so, to ripple healing outward to those around you… and ultimately, to the world.

✨ It begins with freedom. It begins with joy. It begins with you. ✨

Dr. Kirsten A. Koenig, LCPC

406-293-5768
drkoenig@mountainrosecounselingmt.com
1222 Minnesota Ave.
Libby, MT 59923

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