The Energy Aligned Woman

Cynthia Burkman: Reiki, Manifestation, Abundance and Spiritual Growth
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This podcast focuses on bringing your emotion, thoughts, values, and actions into alignment so you can create what's next for you.

  1. 6d ago

    34| Should I Stay? Creating the Energy of Belonging.

    A hidden cove on the Big Island. A few locals on the rocks with one towel and a book. And then Cynthia and Rhett, the only snorkelers in sight, in full gear, on the hunt for a sea turtle. Rhett never wondered for a second whether they belonged. Cynthia, in her matching teal fins and four feet of water, found herself asking: Should we stay? That question shows up far beyond the beach: at work, in relationships, in church, in families. In this episode, the first in the 7-chakra series, Cynthia explores why changing your circumstances doesn't change the feeling, and how to create belonging from the inside out so you can answer "Should I stay?" as yourself. What We Cover"Should I stay?" is rarely the real question. When clients come to a session, they often carry some version of it: Should I stay in this job? This relationship? Should I stay single? Should I stay stuck? Underneath are deeper questions: Do I belong here? Who am I? Where do I belong? Most of us skip straight to "What do I do?" and start changing the people and circumstances around us, or wishing they would change. If they changed, then I'd belong. Belonging starts on the inside. Circumstances and people can support the feeling of belonging, but they don't determine it. As Brené Brown teaches, you belong to yourself first. You don't abandon yourself to fit in. You own your quirks, your talents, your curiosity, and your inner knowing. Fitting in vs. belonging. Cynthia shares an honest confession: she's a considerate person, and sometimes she confuses being considerate with fitting in. Fitting in means trading away your authenticity to accommodate the people around you. It looks like playing it cool with the locals instead of being the excited tourist, or downplaying your joy to match someone else's unimpressed energy. The question underneath. A client came to a session wanting clarity on whether he should stay. Months earlier, he had brought a similar question about completely different circumstances. The outside had changed, but the feeling hadn't. Cynthia offered him a new question: What would it feel like if I belonged? You've already felt it. You may not know what belonging feels like at work or in a certain relationship, but you have felt it. Singing in the car. Sitting with an animal. Breathing easy on a hike. No performing, no fitting in. Your body remembers those moments, even when your mind says "that's nothing." Three questions help: Can I be myself here?When I show up fully, what happens?Do I bring the feeling of belonging with me, or do I wait for this place to give it to me? How to create belonging. Remember it in your body. Feet on the floor, breathe low into your belly, and let one of those moments come back for a full minute. You're reminding your root: I know this feeling. It's mine.Give it words. Rhett's energy on that beach said, "Why wouldn't we belong? We found it too." Try your own version: "I belong here because I'm here."Bring it with you first. Walk into the meeting, the family dinner, or the relationship already carrying it. Have one "teal fins" moment a day: be excited, say the real thing, be the tourist.Notice when it shows up. Each time you're yourself and nothing falls apart, your body learns it's safe. When you ask "Should I stay?" from belonging instead of from bracing, the answer gets clearer, and whatever you choose, you choose as yourself. A gentle note: this episode is about the inner work. If a relationship isn't safe for you, that's a different conversation, and you deserve real support for it. And the sea turtle? They found it. It swam gracefully through the rocks and the people, and the world simply made room. Key Takeaways"Should I stay?" usually sits on top of a deeper question: Where do I belong?Changing your circumstances without changing the inner feeling brings the same question backFitting in asks you to trade your authenticity; belonging lets you show up as you areYour body already knows what belonging feels like, and you can return to that feeling on purposeYou belong to you first. Bring that with you, and you'll know. Reflection QuestionsWhere in my life am I asking "Should I stay?" and what question might be underneath it?Where do I feel most like myself? What does my body do in those moments?Where am I fitting in instead of belonging, and what would my "teal fins" moment look like there?Am I waiting for a place or a person to give me belonging, or am I bringing it with me? Go Deeper on the Root ChakraThis episode opens the 7-chakra series with the root: safety, grounding, and belonging. When the root feels shaky, it ripples up into the Solar Plexus, and we start questioning who we are. If you want more on the root: Ep. 32: Why You Feel Anxious and Ungrounded: It Might Be Guilt in Your Root Chakra covers the quiet guilt that comes from one tribal fear: if I'm different, will I still belong?Ep. 30: Understanding Your Chakra Energy Is Better Than Any Personality Test shows what a blocked root feels like next to an aligned one, along with all seven chakras.Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown, on fitting in vs. true belonging Take the Chakra QuizWant to know which chakra is carrying the most blocked energy for you right now? The quiz gives you a snapshot, and the results include a full explanation of each chakra with guided language to help you begin resetting it. Take the Chakra Quiz here Work With CynthiaGrounding into belonging is where the EnerAlign 7-Chakra Journey begins: seven weeks, one chakra a week, opening with a Reiki session to find where your energy is stuck, then coaching to shift the beliefs behind it. Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter for weekly practices and reflection questions: Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign · Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman · Website: EnerAlign.com

  2. Oct 19

    Ep. 33: Your Body May Deserve Permission to Release

    There is a tool you already have access to — right now, in this moment — that can interrupt the loop in your mind, help you release energy that isn't yours to carry, and shift the effect that any activity has on your body. It doesn't require a purchase, a practice you haven't learned yet, or time you don't have. It requires one thing: permission. In this episode, Cynthia walks through three forms of permission that most people are unknowingly withholding from themselves, what that costs them energetically, and exactly how to use this tool to shift what's happening in their body. What We CoverWhy permission is a body-level instruction — not just a mindset shift. The subconscious mind does not understand abstract thinking. It takes its cues from what we tell it — and most of us are running on a default that says we have not given ourselves permission to rest, release, or receive. Until that instruction changes, the body holds on. This episode is about changing the instruction. The difference between tired and exhausted. Tired is physical. Exhausted has moved into a mental and emotional state — it is what happens when your body has been holding it all together for too long. Decision-making fatigue is real: making decisions, solving problems, and answering questions all day releases cortisol and keeps the nervous system on high alert. What feels like "nothing to show for the day" is often the weight of decisions the body absorbed without permission to put any of them down. Exhaustion is not a failure. It is feedback. The Three Forms of Permission1. Permission to choose you. This isn't about squeezing in a walk before you hustle back. It is about the instruction you give your brain and body while you are doing it. Are you fitting people in out of guilt, or choosing connection because you know it matters? Are you taking your dog for a walk out of obligation, or are you choosing time outside to move your body and be present? The activity may look the same from the outside. The energetic effect is completely different. Here is where most people cancel the benefit without realizing it: if you spend the hour at lunch with friends processing how much you have to do when you get back, you have replaced oxytocin with cortisol. The time no longer serves you — and in fact, creates more stress than staying at your desk would have. Giving yourself permission — real permission, with intention to heal, rejuvenate, and be present — changes the chemistry of what that time produces in your body. Dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin are not luxury chemicals. They drive motivation, focus, creativity, and mood. They reduce depression and loneliness, regulate sleep, and move energy through the chakra centers. Choosing yourself daily — with permission — is not indulgent. It is maintenance. The practice: when you are doing something you love or have chosen, presence the gift. Say it: "I give myself permission to be present, to heal, to have joy. I let go of what does not heal me in this moment." Imagine holding your arm straight out to your side. At thirty seconds, simple. At three minutes, you feel it. That is what holding everything together without permission to put it down does to your body over time. This is why the daily practice matters — not a crisis intervention, a daily reset. 2. Permission to release what is not yours to hold. This is where entrainment comes in. Entrainment is what happens when two energy fields cross — they begin to synchronize, find a shared rhythm, and resonate together. Cynthia describes it as a Venn diagram: when your energy overlaps with someone else's, the two fields start to communicate. This is why you can feel someone else's emotion before they say a word. It is why "energy is contagious" is more than a saying — the energy that sets the tone in a shared space is the one that draws others into its rhythm. This is a beautiful process. It is the mechanism behind deep human connection and behind the energy healing work Cynthia does with clients. But it also means that without intention, you walk away from difficult interactions carrying emotions, projections, fears, and expectations that were never yours to begin with. Think of it this way: you drive a friend to pick up her things after she was fired. She shares everything in the car. Your heart hurts for her. You feel her frustration. You take her through Starbucks. When you drop her off, she has left her Stanley cup, her picture frames, her Starbucks cup, and her treat bag in your back seat. You would throw away her trash — and give her back her Stanley. You would not keep it all just because it ended up in your car. Emotions and energy work the same way. You can hold compassion, love, and the desire to support her. Her anger, her fear, and her frustration are still hers to process. The same applies when someone else's expectations, insecurities, or projections land on you. You do not have to absorb them. You do not have to solve them. You can listen, stay in love, and still give your body permission to release what does not belong to you. Cynthia shares her practice as a middle school principal: after difficult incidents — and especially at the end of the year — she would climb to a quiet overlook, ground herself, breathe, and repeat: "I release the energy that is not mine to hold. I release the energy that no longer serves me." Intentional, long exhales activate the parasympathetic nervous system — the rest-and-digest response that slows the heart rate. On an energetic level, they assist in moving stagnant and stuck energy out of the body. At the end of the 2020–2021 school year, after navigating the return from Covid, 18,000 mandates, a teacher who had passed away tragically before school started, and months of holding the building together — Cynthia climbed to her spot with intention to release. What came was a full emotional release. When she opened her eyes, there were what felt like 100 butterflies surrounding her. Butterflies: a symbol of transformation, of raised vibration, of light. She felt the presence of the teacher who had passed. Their energy entrained — and she felt her joy and her peace. Walking back down, a second wave of release moved through her in the middle of the path. She stood back up, laughed, and thought: guess I had a little more. And kept walking. You do not have to be a principal. You can be a mother, a friend, a sister, a waitress. You carry the emotions of others. You are allowed to put them down. The practice: close your eyes, ground yourself, take intentional deep breaths, and exhale with purpose. Repeat: "I now release the energy that is not mine to hold. I now release the energy that no longer serves me." This is not dismissing what others are going through. It is recognizing what is yours and what is not. 3. Permission to release — when you are ready. Sometimes the block is not the energy itself. It is the subconscious belief wrapped around it. Cynthia shares a session with a client where they identified an energetic block — the client described it as something he was actually afraid of. When she asked if he was ready to remove it, he hesitated. The block had become familiar enough that his subconscious had wrapped it into his identity. Removing it felt dangerous. He was not ready. They kept working. The second time she asked, he still couldn't give a verbal yes. By the third time, he was scared — but ready. What followed was intense: tears, tension, a void in the body. The next day he sent a message: "I don't know how to articulate what happened, but you made a big difference in me." Here is what that story illustrates: Cynthia facilitated, but she could not do it without his permission. The body does what it thinks is protecting you. Until the subconscious is informed that it is safe to release, the work is happening on the surface — and the flag stays up underneath. Being aware that you are not ready to release something is not a failure. It is the key to alignment. Because it changes the approach. I know this is not working for me, but I can't seem to let go gets different attention than here, take it. Both are honest. One just needs more time and gentleness. The practice: verbal permission matters. Your nervous system is listening. When you give your body explicit permission — out loud — to release what is not serving you, you are telling the subconscious that it is safe. That is when the real clearing can begin. The Closing TakeawayPermission is not passive. It is one of the most active, energetically significant things you can do. Your ego mind genuinely believes that if you stop holding everything together, the world will spin off its axis. It will not. Let go. Give your body permission to heal — to choose you, to rest, to receive joy. Give your body permission to release what is not yours — the projections, the fears, the expectations, the emotions that arrived in your car and never left. Give yourself permission to let go of what once served and no longer does. The dinner was great. But the leftover food on the plate the next day does not serve you. Give yourself permission to wash the plate. You have more power than you think. Permission is one of those powers. Resources Mentioned👉 Take the Chakra Quiz — Find out which chakra is carrying the most blocked energy right now. Results include a full explanation and guided language for resetting. 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  3. Oct 12

    Ep 32 Why You Feel Anxious and Ungrounded — It Might Be Guilt in Your Root Chakra

    It's not the big, dramatic guilt that does the most damage. It's the quiet kind — the hum in the background after you didn't finish something, didn't call someone back, felt too happy when others weren't, or set a boundary that someone else didn't love. In this episode, Cynthia unpacks why that low-key guilt isn't just an emotional inconvenience. It has a home in your body, it lives in your Root Chakra, and it's been quietly blocking the safety, grounding, and belonging your spirit was designed to feel. What We CoverWhy it matters where guilt lives in the body. Most resources will point to the Sacral Chakra as a storage center for guilt, since we hold pleasure there and guilt is often the opposite of pleasure. But Cynthia's focus in this episode is specifically on how guilt forms from beliefs about our tribe — and that belongs to the Root Chakra. Why does the location matter? Because when you know what's causing the stomach ache, you can actually treat it. A blocked Root Chakra shows up as anxiety, disconnection, fear, and an inability to feel present or grounded. Understanding guilt as a root cause of those symptoms gives you something real to work with. The tribal belonging connection. Historically, humans are wired for connection. Belonging to a tribe meant survival. Today that tribe might be family, a work team, a church community, a friend group, a yoga class — or even something larger, like the sense of belonging on earth or simply taking up space. Any group where we feel safety, acceptance, and belonging is the tribe. And when low-key guilt creeps in, it almost always traces back to the same fear: if I don't conform, if I'm different, if I do or feel or have something outside what the tribe expects — will I still belong? The three types of low-key guilt. Contribution guilt — attaching value to output, and then measuring that output against what others around us are doing. Cynthia shares her own experience: Rhett was away for the summer fighting fires, sleeping in a tent, doing hard physical work. She had her own list of intentions, and as he headed home, the guilt arrived — she didn't feel she'd matched his output. She told him. His response became one of her anchors: "There's no room for guilt in this relationship. It doesn't serve us." Guilt is one of the lowest vibrations on the emotional scale — just above shame, and genuinely destructive to the body's energy. What Cynthia landed on: accountability doesn't require guilt. You can honestly reflect on what you did or didn't do without holding it as a destructive vibration. And here's the thing about comparing contributions — it's like a bird expecting to swim as fast as a fish because it watched the fish swim. Your contributions are yours. Comparison is the thief of joy. Success guilt, or happy guilt — feeling badly for being happy, content, or successful when others around you are not. The tribe dynamic is the same: outpacing peers can trigger a fear of disconnection, so we minimize joy, downplay wins, and stay small to stay safe. Cynthia saw this often in education — teachers who genuinely thrived would watch the tribe explain it away ("you have easier kids," "you must not be working hard enough") until the happy teacher felt guilty for being happy. She did it herself, feeling energetically alive at work but unable to say so as a leader, worrying that her happiness while others struggled meant she was doing something wrong. She also has a friend who genuinely believes that if she isn't suffering, she isn't doing enough. Wild — and deeply common. It all comes from the same question underneath: if I am different from my tribe, will I still belong? Boundary guilt — the guilt that arrives when you take time to rest, reset, or fill yourself back up. The tribal fear: will I look like the weak link? Will it put more on others? Will I still have contributed enough if I hold my ground? And underneath all of it: will I still belong? The spiral effect. Guilt doesn't stay in the Root. As Cynthia walks through, you can feel it moving upward through every chakra — what does guilt about belonging say about your desires (Sacral)? Your identity (Solar Plexus)? How you are loved (Heart)? How you can express yourself (Throat)? Your connection to something greater (Third Eye)? Your worthiness (Crown)? A blocked Root creates these patterns — and those patterns continue to block the Root. It goes both ways. Clearing the block without changing the underlying beliefs just means the block rebuilds. Three practical steps to move the energy. The "knock it off" pause — when the guilt rises, stop and name which type you're in. Contribution guilt: am I in comparison? Knock it off. Happy guilt: am I minimizing my joy for someone else's comfort? That is not yours to carry. Boundary guilt: am I afraid my self-care will disconnect me from the tribe? Name it. Naming it breaks the spiral and gives you somewhere to begin the real work. Get into nature. Beliefs about tribe and belonging live in the Root Chakra, and grounding in nature is one of the most direct ways to move stuck energy there. Feet in the dirt. Negative ions. Trees, water, open sky. This isn't recreational — it's essential. When the Root clears, something shifts: belonging stops coming from the tribe and starts coming from within. An inner knowing that you belong not because you conform, not because you contributed in the right way, but because you exist. The nervous system regulates from that place — choices and actions made from "I am safe, I belong, I am secure" land differently than those made from fear. Journal. Subconscious thoughts lose their grip when they're brought into awareness. Cynthia has journal prompts in the show notes to help start that process. Key TakeawaysLow-key guilt is one of the lowest vibrations in the body and a direct block to Root Chakra energyGuilt is almost always rooted in a tribal belonging fear: if I am different, will I still be accepted?The three types — contribution guilt, success/happy guilt, and boundary guilt — all trace to the same rootAccountability is not the same as guilt — you can reflect honestly without holding a destructive vibrationClearing the Root block requires both energy work and shifting the underlying beliefs, or the block rebuildsWhen the Root clears, belonging stops coming from external validation and starts coming from an inner knowing Get the Journal PromptsCynthia mentioned journal prompts in this episode to help bring subconscious beliefs about guilt and belonging into your awareness. Grab them here: 👉 Download the Journal Prompts Take the Chakra QuizWant to know which chakra is carrying the most blocked energy for you right now? The quiz gives you a snapshot and the results come with a full explanation of each chakra and guided language to help you begin resetting it. 👉 Take the Chakra Quiz here Work With CynthiaIf you're feeling the heaviness of emotions that won't seem to move, a resistance to what's next, or like you're caught in a loop you can't get out of — EnerAlign coaching might be exactly what you've been looking for. As an energy alignment coach, Cynthia works with you to identify what your body is holding energetically, clear it, and create practices in your life that maintain that alignment. Because when we live in alignment, things move. We manifest experiences we actually want. We feel connected — to ourselves, to God, to the life we're here to create. Your energy is designed to flow. Your spirit is designed to expand. Your life is designed to thrive. 👉 Book a Discovery Call Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter — receive your Mind the Wedge ponder questions: 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

  4. Oct 5

    31| Chasing vs. Attracting: How to Know Which Energy You're In

    Take the Chakra QuizWant to know which chakra might be running your chasing energy? The quiz gives you a snapshot of where your energy is blocked — and the results come with a full explanation and guided language to help you begin resetting it. 👉 Take the Chakra Quiz here Episode Summary: You know those days — or weeks — where you feel like you're overthinking, over-problem-solving, and searching for solutions that keep slipping just out of reach? Where you're even chasing the peace itself? That's chasing energy. And in this episode, Cynthia shares what it looks like from the inside, how she recognized it in herself, and the practical shift that changed everything — including a moment of confirmation that brought her to grateful tears on a drive to SLC. What We CoverWhat chasing energy sounds and feels like. Chasing energy shows up in your language before anything else. Listen for: "I need to," "I have to," "I should be," "I must." That energy is seeking something external — comparing yourself to others, setting expectations, pushing without patience for the process to unfold. The things you catch in chasing energy are exhaustion, confusion, and chaos. Attracting energy sounds different. "I get to." "I choose to." It's clear on what's being created, trusts the process, leads from abundance rather than lack, and takes aligned action with space left for the next step. Cynthia's spiral — and the moment it cracked open. Cynthia had been riding a wave of creative flow — clear direction, felt confirmed, inspired. Then she started chasing. The mechanics took over: technology, social media, websites. She started comparing, looking at what others were doing, and the "I need to" energy crept in. That led to the self-talk — I can't stay consistent, I don't even know how to do this — which spiraled back into: is this even the direction I should be going? She recognized the cycle over lunch with her friend Tori. Mid-conversation, she said out loud: "I feel like I'm chasing, not attracting." The moment she said it, she knew. Awareness activated. Chasing vs. Attracting — the real difference. Chasing: seeking external answers, comparing your progress to others, hustling without intention, lacking patience, operating from fear and "not enough." Attracting: clear on what you're creating and what gifts you have to create it, taking guided action from curiosity and trust, leading from abundance, allowing the process to unfold. Here's the thing about chasing energy — you never catch up to what you're chasing without a cost. Usually that cost is your wellness, your integrity, or your authenticity. What Cynthia chose to do. She took it to God and let go of the mechanics. She tuned into her Solar Plexus — the energy center that holds identity — and presenced her I AM statements. Not the ones she wanted to be. The ones she already knew were true. She named her gifts and talents and moved into genuine gratitude for them. She let herself feel the energy of that knowing — how it felt to be supported, to be confident in what she had been given. She didn't rush to the next action step. She just stayed in the energy of it. And she presenced the feeling from the moment months ago when a song came on unexpectedly and she felt it as a clear confirmation from God about what she was creating. She returned to that feeling in her body. She practiced this for several days, returning to it each time she started to slip back into chasing. The second confirmation. A few days later, driving down to SLC, Cynthia went through her I AM practice in the car. She felt good — grounded, but aware she was only one thought away from sliding backward. She said to God: "I am open to confirmation. What's the wink today?" She opened her playlist and hit shuffle. The same song played. The exact one from months earlier. She laughed. A few grateful tears. "I hear you. Thank you for the support." That kind of confirmation doesn't come while chasing. It comes when you return to your foundation. The Practical TakeawayIf you find yourself in the hustle of the day — chasing clarity, chasing peace, chasing the next solution — stop. Set time aside to presence your I AM. Who are you? What are your divine attributes? What are your gifts, your talents, your wisdom? Presence them. Feel the gratitude for them. Then ask: how might these gifts assist me in attracting what I am currently chasing? When choices come from that space, you attract. You don't give your energy away in circles without intention. You welcome what you want into your space. You still take action — but from groundedness, inner knowing, and trust. Key TakeawaysChasing energy is recognizable by your language: "I need to," "I must," "I have to"Attracting energy leads from abundance, curiosity, and trustThe Solar Plexus holds identity — presencing your I AM is how you return to your foundationConfirmation comes after you return, not while you are chasingThis isn't a one-time fix — it's a practice of returning Work With CynthiaThis is the work we do together in EnerAlign 1:1 coaching. Identifying where the chasing is coming from, clearing the blocks underneath it, and building practices that keep you grounded in attracting energy. Reach out at cynthia@eneralign.com or book a Discovery Call. Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter: 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

  5. Sep 28

    30| Understanding Your Chakra Energy Is Better Than Any Personality Test

    You've taken a personality test and felt it — that full-body yes of recognition. And then the quiet that follows: but that's not actually how I feel right now. That gap isn't evidence that you're not her. It's evidence that she's covered. In this episode, Cynthia walks through all seven chakras as a kind of personality test — not to label you, but to give you feedback. Your body already knows where the blocks are. This is just the awareness. Why You Resonate and Feel Disconnected at the Same TimeWhen you read a description of your fully aligned self — the woman who shows up in her power, in trust, in confidence — something in you says yes. That's not wishful thinking. That is your authentic self recognizing home. The disconnection isn't proof that you aren't her. It's just clutter. Cynthia uses the analogy of a messy house: when things pile up and there's no time to put them away, the house starts to feel chaotic. You start saying things like "I'm a mess" or "I'm behind" — attaching the state of the house to something it means about you. But the moment you clean it up? Oh. It's actually such a cute home. Same house. Same you. Just some things that needed to be put away. The subconscious mind works the same way. When it doesn't know what to do with something, it sets it aside — over here, over there — and over time those deposits become blocks. And blocks have symptoms. The 7 Chakras: Your Feedback SystemThink of the seven chakras as seven rooms in the same house. Each serves a purpose, and energy flows between them. When one room is cluttered, you feel it everywhere. As Cynthia always says: awareness is the key to alignment. As you move through each one, notice what resonates — and what your body does when it hears it. That's the feedback. Root Chakra — Stability, Security, Belonging Blocked: insecurity, restlessness, anxiety, feeling like you don't quite fit or have a right to take up space, difficulty sleeping, compulsive planning to manufacture safety. Aligned: grounded, present, calm, a sense of belonging that doesn't depend on anyone else confirming it, safety that comes from within. Sacral Chakra — Creativity, Joy, Desire, Pleasure Blocked: guilt around pleasure, difficulty knowing what you want, walls up around intimacy, shame around having needs, childhood wounds around being "too much," hip tension or reproductive issues. Aligned: creativity flows without forcing it, pleasure feels like a right, desire feels clean rather than dangerous, boundaries come from self-respect, you know what you want. Solar Plexus — Confidence, Personal Power, Identity, Self-Worth Blocked: chronic people-pleasing, worthiness wounds, needing external validation, overachieving out of fear, identity built around what you do rather than who you are. Aligned: personal power, courage to act on desires, willpower, decisions come more easily, ownership of your life — creator energy rather than victim energy. Heart Chakra — Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Connection (The center — three chakras above, three below.) Blocked: grief that never moved through, over-giving to earn receiving, difficulty forgiving self or others, loneliness even in a room full of people. Aligned: give from overflow rather than depletion, receive love without deflecting, grief moves through rather than gets stuck, compassion for yourself as naturally as for others. Throat Chakra — Communication, Truth, Self-Expression Blocked: fear of speaking up, saying what others want to hear, difficulty asking for what you want, fear of being seen or heard. Aligned: what you feel inside matches what you say out loud, you say no without guilt, you ask for what you want without justifying it first, you feel heard and that your words matter. Third Eye Chakra — Intuition, Clarity, Inner Wisdom Blocked: mental fog, confusion, "I don't know what I want," avoiding depth, rigid thinking, difficulty seeing other perspectives. Aligned: trust your intuition, discernment, connection to something greater, able to visualize your life and desires, see possibilities. Crown Chakra — Connection, Faith, Divine Purpose, Surrender Blocked: spiritual disconnection, going through the motions of faith without feeling it, cynicism, feeling unseen or unsupported by God, believing you have to earn your connection. Aligned: felt connection to God and higher consciousness, peace, a sense of being held, ability to surrender without losing yourself, physical and spiritual experience integrated — not separated. What It Feels Like When They're All OpenIt's not dramatic. It's not fireworks. It's more like — oh. This is who I actually am. You feel at home in your body. You trust yourself. You create from desire rather than desperation. You can hold both desire and surrender. Life feels like it is happening with you and for you rather than to you. And there is a quiet joy that just is — it doesn't need to be explained. Take the Chakra QuizWant to discover which of your chakras may be blocked? Take the quiz and find out where your energy is asking for attention. 👉 Take the Chakra Quiz Work With CynthiaThis is exactly what EnerAlign 1:1 coaching does. Identify the blocks. Clear them. Set new patterns to maintain flow. If you're interested or have questions, reach out directly: cynthia@eneralign.com Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter — receive your Mind the Wedge ponder questions: 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

  6. Sep 21

    Ep 29: The Most Powerful Identity You Can Hold

    Have you ever caught yourself saying "I could never do that" or "that always happens to me" or "I'm the type of person who..."? The end of those sentences tells you everything about how you see yourself. And how you see yourself is the lens through which you experience your entire life. In this episode, Cynthia explores why identity is the CEO of your life and reveals the most powerful identity you can hold to live in a space of endless possibility, courage, and expansion. What We CoverIdentity is the driver. Your identity either keeps you moving, expanding, creating, curious, and connected — or it keeps you small, stuck, doubtful, and disconnected. It isn't just a belief about who you are. It shapes what you believe you're capable of, what you think is possible for you, and what choices you give yourself permission to make. As the old saying goes, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Or put another way: if you think you are, or you think you aren't — so it is. Five questions that reveal your identity. Cynthia opens with five questions worth sitting with honestly: Who do you believe you are?What do you believe you are capable of?What do you believe you do or don't do? (your values)How do you feel the world supports you — or doesn't?What do you believe is possible for you? The answers to those questions come directly from the identity you hold about yourself. Now answer them again — this time through the identity of a Divine Being: As a Divine Being, who are you?As a Divine Being, what are you capable of?As a Divine Being, what do you do or not do?As a Divine Being, how does the world support you?As a Divine Being, what is possible for you? The subconscious plays small. The subconscious mind gravitates toward familiarity and away from perceived risk. It might hand you an identity of procrastination, or laziness, or "someone who doesn't follow through." And then every one of those five questions gets answered through that lens — and those answers become instructions your brain quietly follows. The flip side is just as true. Cynthia walks through what those same five questions look like when answered through the identity of a healthy person versus a procrastinator. Same questions. Entirely different permissions. Entirely different life. So what is the most important identity you could hold? The identity that creates space for endless possibility, courage, forgiveness, love, trust, authenticity, and expansion. The identity that gives you the most solid foundation to grow from. It's this: You are a Divine Being, in a co-creator relationship with the Divine Creator. When that is your foundational identity, every other question changes. What you're capable of changes. What you believe is possible changes. How you experience the world's support changes. Cynthia references the movie The Wedding Planner — the moment the wedding planner decides to push through because she is a professional. Imagine pressing up against the threshold of courage, fear present, ego sounding the alarm — and instead of shrinking, you presence the knowing that you are a Divine Being. And from that knowing, you shout: I am doing this. Because I am a Divine Being and God has my back. Close with the exercise. What characteristics does a Divine Being have? Write them down. Because those are your characteristics. That is who you already are. Key TakeawaysIdentity functions as the CEO of your life — it shapes your permissions, your choices, and your experienceThe subconscious defaults to familiar, small identities to avoid perceived riskThe same five questions answered through different identities produce entirely different livesYour most powerful foundational identity is that you are a Divine Being in co-creation with GodAwareness of your identity is the beginning of alignment Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter — 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

  7. Sep 14

    Ep 28: How Manifestation and Neuroscience Work Together

    You've seen it on Instagram. Someone manifesting their dream life — effortlessly, whimsically, powerfully. And you can't help but wonder: does this actually work? And if it does, why does it seem to work for some people and not others? Today Cynthia pulls back the curtain on what is actually happening in the brain and body when we choose to manifest — and what neuroscience reveals about why alignment isn't just a spiritual concept. It's biology. Before We Dive InEverything we talk about in this episode comes to life on September 17th at 6pm MST in a free 90-minute activation workshop — Let's Move: From Stuck to Creating. Guided reflection, a meditation, and a process to surface and claim what you've been pushing aside. If this episode resonates, that workshop was made for you. 👉 Save your seat — it's free What We CoverManifestation starts with a clear intention. Setting intentions, visualizing, journaling, meditating, affirmations — these aren't just feel-good practices. When you get clear on what you want to create and begin presencing it, you are sending a direct signal to your prefrontal cortex: this is a priority. This is what we're looking for. The flip side is also true — if you are consumed by worry or what you don't want, you send that same high-priority signal. Your brain starts scanning for evidence of that instead. Enter the RAS — your brain's filtering system. Your reticular activating system (RAS) is the sergeant in charge of filtering out everything irrelevant and honing in on what matters. The clearer your intention, the sharper your RAS filters. You start seeing opportunities, people, and possibilities that were always there — you just weren't looking. The subconscious alarm system. Here's where it gets interesting. Your subconscious mind hears the new intention — and if it perceives it as unfamiliar, it reads that as a threat. Danger! And it sends an alert to the amygdala — fight or flight. The amygdala releases cortisol. Cortisol goes back to the prefrontal cortex and essentially shuts the whole system down. The focus weakens. The filter goes offline. And you're left with brain fog. Confusion. Stagnation. Stuck. This is why alignment matters — and why "just think positive" isn't enough. Two Ways to Work With Your Brain (Not Against It)1. Make the unfamiliar familiar. Your subconscious is triggered by sensory experience, not abstract thinking. It doesn't understand "make believe." But when you presence the emotion you want to feel — really feel it in your body, in a safe space — your brain registers that as a real experience. It builds evidence that you have held, and can hold, that feeling. The threat response softens. The alarm quiets. 2. Build evidence. Your subconscious has to believe two things: that what you want is possible, and that you specifically have the capacity to create it. You don't have to start with the full vision. Start smaller. Take one aligned action. Let your brain say, "See — we do know how to do this." Each small win creates dopamine. And dopamine goes right back to the prefrontal cortex — strengthening your focus, sharpening your filter, and reducing the perception of threat. The loop becomes self-reinforcing. Cynthia also shares the story of telling her roommate to wake her up if the man of her dreams knocked on the door — and what to look for. Spoiler: that's not how she met Rhett. But Here's What Neuroscience Doesn't Have.Magic. Miracles. A higher power. Manifestation is neuroscience — with a partner. It has all the biological mechanics to support it, and then it has God. We do our part: we get clear, we align, we build evidence, we presence the feeling. And then we trust. We trust that a higher power magnifies our request, clears a path, and brings back what we desire. Neuroscience says: you can now see what was always there. Manifestation says: and something greater is also working on your behalf. Key TakeawaysManifestation is neuroscience — your brain is literally wired to find what you focus onThe subconscious reads unfamiliarity as threat, which shuts down your focus and filtering systemPresencing the feeling in your body builds evidence that it's safe — and possibleSmall aligned actions create dopamine, which strengthens the whole systemNeuroscience explains the mechanism — but manifestation includes the magic Ready to Put This Into Practice?Join Cynthia live for a free 90-minute activation workshop: Let's Move: From Stuck to Creating September 17th · 6pm MST · Free · Live 👉 Register here Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter — receive your Mind the Wedge ponder questions: 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

  8. Sep 10

    Ep. 27: How to Connect to the Life you Already Have.

    We talk a lot about feeling blocked. But here's the question nobody asks first: blocked from what? If we don't know what we want to create in our lives, we can't actually identify a block — because we have no destination to be blocked from. In this episode, Cynthia reframes the whole conversation around what it means to feel stuck, disconnected, or like something is in the way — and gives us four concrete ways to start shining our own light again. What We Cover"You feel like you are in the way." That feeling of being your own obstacle is actually useful data. It means something in you is noticing the gap between where you are and where your spirit wants to go. But the gap only becomes workable when you know what's on the other side. Life looks good on paper — but something feels off. When we view our lives through the lens of overwhelm, exhaustion, insecurity, or feeling underappreciated, we start to blame the external. The job. The relationship. The season. But the external isn't always the problem. The lens is. The Bruges Story. Cynthia shares the moment she wandered into what felt like a sketchy neighborhood at night — shadows everywhere, mind running through every worst-case scenario. The next morning, in the daylight, the same streets were charming. Cobblestones. Flowers. Beauty she'd completely missed. Same place. Different light. You are the light. Think of your life as the moon — it has no light of its own. Your inner world is the sun. When you are shining — clear, connected, in alignment — your life reflects that back to you. When something is blocking your light, your external world carries that shadow. The solution was never the moon. It was always the sun. 4 Ways to Shine Your Light1. Identify what you actually want. Not what you don't want — what you do want. If you don't want to feel overwhelmed, what do you want to feel instead? Start there. You cannot move toward something you have never named. 2. Notice how you relate to it. Now that you know what you want — do you believe someone like you could have it? Feel it? Sustain it? Deserve it? This is where the real work lives. Sometimes the desire is buried so deeply that surfacing it feels uncomfortable. That discomfort is not a stop sign. It is a signal. 3. Retrain your body to find familiarity in it. Your nervous system defaults to what is familiar — not what is true. Look for evidence that you have held, or are capable of holding, the space for what you want. Small moments count. Build the evidence. Let your body learn: this is available to me. 4. Claim it. Presence it. Make it yours — every day. Give yourself permission to hold what you want regularly. Not once. Not when you feel ready. Now. Claiming is not a one-time event. It is a daily practice of saying: this belongs to me. Key TakeawaysYou cannot identify a block without knowing what you're blocked from — clarity comes before movementThe lens through which you view your life shapes what you experience, even when nothing externally changesYou are the light — your inner world determines the quality of your outer experienceThe four steps — identify, relate, retrain, claim — are a repeatable process, not a one-time fix Ready to Go Through This Process Live?On September 17th at 6pm MST, Cynthia is hosting a free 90-minute activation workshop: Let's Move! From Stuck to CreatingWe walk through this exact process together — guided reflection questions and a meditation to surface what you've been pushing aside — so you leave knowing what you're claiming and what's actually been in the way. 👉 Register here — it's free Connect With CynthiaJoin the Newsletter — receive your Mind the Wedge ponder questions: 👉 Subscribe here Subscribe to the Podcast: 👉 The Energy Aligned Woman on Apple Podcasts Connect With Me: Instagram: @EnerAlign Facebook: EnerAlign — Cynthia Burkman Website: EnerAlign.com

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This podcast focuses on bringing your emotion, thoughts, values, and actions into alignment so you can create what's next for you.

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    Cynthia Burkman: Reiki, Manifestation, Abundance and Spiritual Growth
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    2026
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    © Copyright 2026 Cynthia Burkman: Reiki, Manifestation, Abundance and Spiritual Growth
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