Join Christine Arylo for this Feminine Power Time, 4 Inquiries to Get Your Habits and Choices into Harmony for the Months Ahead. One of the four Power Pauses she shares each year, this one focused on what wise leaders and people do:
1. Illuminate the imbalances in the different realms of your life - so they don't become drama, disease, disaster and distress
2. Shift habits and patterns in your daily life that might have been aligned before, but need to shift as you head into this next cycle
3. Focus on and committ to the intentions, projects, relationships that are ready and ripe to grow and prosper
4. Set a new rhythm for your day and week that supports and sustains where you are now, and what you are creating and managing these next three months, into June Solstice.
When you pause at near the equinoxes and solstices, your internal rhythm aligns with the natural rhythm... you gain the power to reset habits that might have been okay in months prior but need a shift.
And you gain clarity on how to focus your life force so what you spend your time, energy & money creates what you desire.
Power pauses are leadership best practice, a wise way to run your business, organization or team, and I believe a must if you want to stay sustained and sane in a world in which we feel so much pressure to do so much. And then don’t have what we need to sustain ourselves.
Every year I hold power pauses at this 4 key shifting points, the equinoxes and the solstices, March, June, Sept and Dec - within the Feminine Wisdom Way Wisdom School, some virtually, some weekend retreats and some for companies and organizations in which we do "Cyclical Strategic Planning."
I do this because this yearly practice of pausing 4x a year I believe is something most of us where not taught how to do, but when we do it, everything in our life works in better harmony. It’s how I run my life, business, partnership, relationships, and grow what is important to me.
Each power pause has a different focus and flavor depending on the time of the year.
In Feminine Power Time, I can’t share with you entire power pause process for March Equinox but I can give you a 40 minute power pause with 4 simple but mighty inquiries - like a mini Harmony Adjustment for your life
1. Look at your sacred work and career - what is in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention?
2. Look at your relationships - what is in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention ?
3. Look at your health, wealth, home - what in harmony? What is out of harmony? What is calling for your attention now?
4. What if you chose to create from a place of joy? What would JOY feel like in you or for you?
Bonus. What is ONE habit or pattern in your morning flow that isn't in harmony to keep doing into this next season? RELEASE this. Then what is ONE habit or pattern you can EMBRACE and place into your morning flow this next cycle?
We don’t give up everything or go militant. We choose a few things to elevate and release, and also receive pleasure too.
Tune in.
Listen to the power pause. Journal on the questions.
Invite a friend to do the Power Pause too and ask each other the questions. And support each other to make soul-aligned, supportive, sustainable choices.
With Great Heart
Christine
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3. Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com
4. Re-Defining Relationships Podcast - Ep 149 https://christinearylo.com/2021/03/shift-your-relationships-2-of-3/
At the root of all the over-giving and over-self-reliance and much of the burnout and imbalance we experience is a big old old root ball called "OVER RESPONSIBILITY."
We've been imprinted and conditioned by our society and family systems to take OVER Responsibility for the needs of people, projects, and the planet - and we have willingly put way too much on our shoulders and backs, often as an unconscious way to deal with our fear, feelings of being undervalued, and not enough (no matter how outwardly successful things may look).
Consider this: What might have been in alignment to take responsibility for or embrace ownership of as your part, may not be in balance now or going forward.
Wisdom: The systems (both those you create, and those you work and live within) will take everything you give them, and there will still be more to give.
So... until we take a stand of self-advocacy + stop filling the gaps and taking more and more of the burden and responsibility, there is no incentive for anything to change ... in your work, team, family, friends, marriage, projects, even the things you care deeply about on the planet.
Which is why we will dive deeper in Ep 235: Releasing OVER-Responsibility. Embracing Enough. (#3 of 3 in Burnout to Balance Series). Where are you taking OVER responsibility for:
And then go deeper to reveal...
Then we end with a two ways to make it practical in your life now ... see wisdom inquires below. Tune in!
With heart
Christine
p.s. TWO REQUESTS to help share the wisdom and connect with others.
-- Share this episode with a friend and share the ways you've stepped into OVER Responsibility. Then support each other to get into balance.
-- Leave a review with words that share why you listen or what others could expect. Thank you
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Wisdom Inquiries
Action : To balance the imbalance -- What can I Start? Stop? Shift?
Practice: Self-Sustainability Stands
I consider what is needed and what I have to/desire to give before I proceed.
If the support and space is not there, I am not moving forward at full-speed.
I stay in co-creation to reveal and proceed on the wise, harmonious path.
I stay present to the real needs and stay focused on my part.
I remember Grace is at the center of all challenges.
I glide from Grace. I move from strength.
Many of us operate like banks that give more withdrawls than deposits, resulting in imbalances in our relationships, wellbeing, money, jobs, businesses and projects that lead to undue suffering, struggle, and sacrifice.
We OVERgive - time, energy, resources, care, and mindshare -- to projects, people, our passion and our purpose. We UNDERReceive the time, energy, resources, care and mindshare we need and desire. As a result, eventually we burnout, become resentful, get sick and discouraged, or quit.
We don't SEE the imbalance or the ways we OVEReffort, work, extend, etc. until we get to the drama, distress or dis-ease.
One of the breakthroughs I discovered in all my research around burnout and sustainable success and wellbeing is that we don't have to wait until the extreme imbalance hits our bodies, beings, bank accounts, relationships or brains. We can use the power of Cyclical Living to pause (usually around March Equinox) and take a look around our life, work, relational, & wellbeing design, illuminate the imbalances, and then take simple but significant steps to make shift happen.
Wisdom: If you can reveal the specific ways you overgive, you become empowered to shift the imbalances.
Which is what we will do together in this Ep 234: Where Are You OVERGiving & UNDERReceiving? (#2 of 3 in Burnout to Balance Series). Where are you:
And then go deeper to reveal...
I do this survey of the landscape of my life, projects, relationships, purpose and work every year, because every year there is a new insight and something new to work with that supports me to do and see things differently. Tune in!
With heart
Christine
p.s. TWO REQUESTS to help share the wisdom and connect with others.
-- Share this with a friend and share your OVERgiving Imprints. Then you can support each other by giving each other permission to take the action that gets your giving and receiving into balance.
-- Leave a review with words that share why you listen or what others could expect. Thank you
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