Wise beings know how to use the natural cycles of the earth and universe to support us to grow our work, wealth and relationships, and to support our health, and keep us focused on what matters.
Which is why one of my top three pratices for staying out of burnout and overwhelm and stay on the path of sustainable success, impact and wellbeing in the "Power Pause" + why I created this episdoe for you, which is really more like a mini retreat.
Power pauses are an elevated leadership best practice we do quarterly, at the Equinoxes and Solstices, the natural shifting times. Equinoxes are all about illuminating imbalances, shifting habits to restore wellbeing, and re-focusing your priorities and intentions for the next quarter.
The September Equinox offers us insight to illuminate where the imbalances currently exist in your life & how to reset yourself and refocus your life force - especially the ways in which you are over giving and under receiving, the habits that may have worked in the summer but won't support you now, and the ways in which making changes to your home, health and wealth can support you to end your year strong, sane and supported.
Often at Equinox, I am out in the world doing full day power pauses for teams, weekend and one day retreats for conscious women, and going through the process myself. And I like to do a mini power pause for all of us here at Feminine Power Time ... with some of the key parts of the process I feel like we can most benefit from this particular year.
The theme of Sept Equinox is always Harvest. This year, I added the theme of RECEIVE, because I feel like we can use a fill up at a heart, mind, soul, spirit and body level.
Tune into this Power Pause and:
I will lead us through a 5 inquiry process, including visualization and meditation to:
See you there!
And make sure to check out the Feminine Wisdom Cafe for a special packet I put together for you to help you find the imbalances or shifts of focus + re-harmonize and re-focus.
Christine
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Resources
1. Harmony Assessment Practice - from Section 1 in Overwhelmed and Over It: PDF from the Companion Journal + Meditation. Access it on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe Here. https://community.christinearylo.com/posts/drafts/sept-equinox-power-pause-practice-give-your-life-a-harmony-adjustment
(if you cannot access the Cafe, it's free, but you do have to sign up - try this for access - https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual
2. Overwhelmed and Over It the book + the companion journal. Learn more www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com
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Elevation Wisdom Inquires
Write these out and contemplate them or conversate with a freind
1. How have you already made a difference this year?
2. How have you made choices to support & sustain yoruself?
3. Where are the imbalances in your career, work, self expression, and where can you focus or make a shift to create harmony?
4. What relationship is calling for a shift? What is needed to create harmony?
5. Choose your body, health or home as an area to shift a pattern or habit? What pattern or habit is creating an imbalance or disharmony? What new pattern, habit or ritual can you swap in and create more harmony?
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Upcoming Happenings & Trainings & Retreats
1. Gather and Guide Your People: Transformational Program Design Training, Incubator and Council www.GatherandGuideYourPeople.com
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To be notified of upcoming progams: Sign up for Christine's twice a month wisdom letter here https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/
Taking leaps. Small ones. Big ones. In between ones. Whether we are leaving a job or changing careers... or moving our home... or starting or ending a marriage or relationship... or choosing to make a change, break a pattern or complete something without knowing exactly what's on the other side...
Taking leaps is like an olympic sport most of us didn't get training for. So we figure it out as we go. If we are fortunate, we find guides along the way who have leapt before us.
People who can give us some wisdom and practical steps for how to take leaps with grace. People who can support us to tap into our gumption to fuel the courage and clarity we need to leap.
I've lept many times into the unknown, followed the unconventional path, made choices for freedom over security, trusting that it would all work out in the end. So far I am still standing, still smiling and while I have some stretch marks from the stress that leaps almost always bring, the rewards in my heart and soul bank far outweigh the stretch marks.
Taking leaps is how people who live fully and freely live. We don't wait for all things to be in place or feel comfortable. But we also aren't 'dummy pants' and leap with no net. And the net isn't always what you think it is.
Wisdom Byte: If you never step into the unknown you just keep repeating the same reality.
I sat down to create this session of Feminine Power Time #191: Taking Leaps, Doing Beginnings, Endings, and Cycles with Grace & Gumption, on the 6th evening of sleeping in my new house, in a new city on the other side of America. A marker of 9-month cycle of making signficiant and intentional leaps in many areas of my life - from career to relationship to health to home to financial. Whew! Exhale.
So many of the people I advise and coach, and the women in the leadership councils and wisdom schools I founded, are also moving through big cycles - some they welcomed with opened arms, others they've resisted for some time.
I imagine you might also be going through a cycle with endings and beginnings too, whether you are conscious to it or not.
So i poured some tea, put on my downshifting white jammies, sat at my desk for the first time in 9 months and created this for you - to share what I've learned and noticed about cycles, about going through this current transition and what I'm seeing in other conscious humans currently.
I've got some inquires, stories and elevated perspectives to share that I hope will give you some grace and gumption in whatever leap you are making or is calling you.
I'll end us with 4 inquiries to elevate you and/or do with a friend.
See you there!
Christine
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Elevation Wisdom Inquires
Write these out and contemplate them or conversate with a freind
1. What is the cycle, begining, ending I am in, approaching or resisting?
2. What do I know?
3. What am I unsure of?
4. What do I need to take the next step?
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Upcoming Happenings & Trainings & Retreats
1. Self Love Essentials Professional Training - www.SelfLoveTraining.com
2. Women's Leadership Experience - A Path to Sustainable Success, Impact & Wellbeing for professional women daring to do it differently. www.PathofSustainbleSuccess.com
3. Gather and Guide Your People: Transformational Program Design Training, Incubator and Council www.GatherandGuideYourPeople.com
4. Receive Equinox Retreat - Chicago - www.PowerPauseRetreat.com
** To be notified of upcoming progams, sign up for Christine's twice a month wisdom letter here https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/
Or join the Feminine Wisdom Cafe (its free) - private online community site https://community.christinearylo.com/share/ICzZ3ZdHAspOUkyQ?utm_source=manual