One of the smartest things we can do at the mid year point is to pause, reflect, realign and redesign what we are going to focus our life force, resources and time on. This is true for how you run your work life - business, team, organization, career, classroom, etc. And how you run your personal life - wealth, health, home, relationships. For SO many reasons.
This is what I call taking a Power Pause. It's a personal and team leadership practice and a core sustainable success principle. It's how we make sure we create realities that are both successful in what we desire to create and cause AND that are sustainable.
It's also a best practice for getting out of overwhelm and the feelings that you are never doing enough or have enough.
I've been doing Power Pauses myself for a decade and every year at this time I teach mid year power pauses, which I call FLOW for focus your life force on what matters, in many different forms. A virtual program/retreat, in person retreats and for women's leadership groups and teams within organizations.
For you my beloved Feminine Power Time listener, 4x a year I do these special Power Pause episodes that include a series of inquiries that are like a Power Pause appetizer. They give you a taste of the full process, and enough of a taste to give you some wisdom bytes about what you truly desire this coming year.
In this episode, "215:POWER PAUSE: Honor Your Progress & Reveal What's Working (or Not) for You", I will share:
I'll take you through 6 inquiries focused in 2 realms -- Feel Good about where you are now (honoring your progress and choices) and Feel Forward to Right For You Next to reveal what wisdom & changes about your design & desires is trying to get your attention.
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INSPIRED ACTION>>> I listed the inquires below. A. Journal on them. B. Share the Podcast with a friend or your partner to share about them. C. Receive the benefit of the mid year Power Pause, 4-step process, do in your life - learn more http://www.FlowPowerPause.com
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INQUIRIES:
FEEL GOOD NOW: Looking back at the first part of this year ... acknoweldge and honor:
1. PROGRESS: Consider the shifts, changes, desires, goals, projects, relationships, etc. that you have been giving energy, time, resources and care to ... "I celebrate that I've made progress in ..."
2. PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CHOICES: Consider the choices you made internally in the past 6 months, or even last year, that you are now experiencing momentum, movement or physical manifestation in... "I acknowledge & honor that the choice I made to XYZ is now XYZ."
3. MORE PLEASE: What would I love to keep doing, going, flowing, growing this second part of the year?
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FEEL FORWARD: Reveal what's working & not - in the 3 main realms of your life of personal foundation (home, health, wealth, practices), relationships + sacred work/career/self-expression so you can make shifts for the next
4. DRAIN: What is draining me? What no longer feels sustainable?
5. SUSTAIN:What is sustaining me? What is giving me energy? Where do I feel the energy?
6. GET WISE & RE-ALIGN : What does all this tell me? What are my feelings and responses revealing about the design of my life, work, relationships, that is not working? About what is working? What am I really desiring to create - to not do and to do differently?
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TAKE THE MID YEAR FLOW POWER PAUSE with CHRISTINE
FLOW Mid Year Power Pause - do in June/July early August to get focused on what matters - www.FlowPowerPause.com Do from home.
At the start and midpoint of the year I always like to pause and put on my "wisdom goggles" to see what is really going on in the world - behind what we can see what our logical eyes or within the our day to day lives. I do this because it helps me see the bigger patterns that are going on... to see beyond the screens of frenzy and chaos ... and to see how what i call 'the banana world' is affecting me in ways I may not be noticing.
I also take this pause with my super powered wisdom goggles to trace where the energy is going in the collective culture ... and how and if I want to respond to it. Which informs me so much on how I choose to focus my life force.
I created this Feminine Power Time #214: Feminine Wisdom for Living in a Banana World, as a sort of mini power pause to stop and take a look around you and what is happening in the world ... not to be overwhelmed by it, but as an observer who is at choice about how you want to interact within it.
I invite you into this practice today as one of the primary practices you can strengthen to stay rooted and stable in the now, while you navigate the new, and make sure you don't get affected or infected by the banana world energy that can drain you and distract you without you even realizing it.
I also will walk you through a process/meditation that cues you into how the banana world might be amping up unhelpful energies for you ... in whatever threshold or challenges and changes you may be in... and then take you through a 4-step practice I call Fear Shifting.
See you there!
Christine
p.s. Remember to SHARE this with a friend to Elevate together --> share your thresholds/changes and walk each other through the 4-step From Fear to Flow Fearshifting practice.
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EXPERIENCE: MID YEAR POWER PAUSE
Join us for the annual mid year Flow Power Pause - Learn more http:/www.flowpowerpause.com
RESOURCE: OVERWHELMED & OVER IT BOOK - page 224 for the 4-step practice and inquiries
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One of the biggest reasons so many of us can feel so busy, overwhelmed, fragmented, pulled in a million directions ... like no matter how hard we work or how much we do, we just can't reach our goals ... is because we are operating from half-power vs. whole-power.
So we over work, over effort, try to do too much, choose careers or paths that are not aligned for us.
We operate like speed boats vs sail boats - we are moving so fast, focused on the next, we can't even savor what we've worked so hard or given so much to create or take care of.
Or we are adrift like lost boats out at sea, without the focus and intentional steps to ride the waves and let the wind carry us to our aligned path.
There is a different way ... if we can access some of our full power spectrums. I'm over the moon excited to share with you two power spectrums that give us a path to Do Less. Receive More. Achieve a Greater Impact (while savoring the process!)
These two power spectrums brings in the feminine, marry it with the masculine. and creates the HOW we can stay focused on our goals, missions, people we care for ... in a way that we can savor the process... make progress through momentum ... and achieve the kind of success that includes wellbeing of planet and people.
Consider this: Success without wellbeing, or having the space to savor the process, is not success.
Some of what we will dive into...
I will also walk you through applying the power of strategic surrender + focused fluidity to an area of your life now.
See you there.
Christine
p.s. >> REQUEST - SHARE this podcast with a friend and then PLAY with the two power spectrums to see what wisdom emerges when you apply strategize and surrender AND intentional focus and intuitive fluidity to the situation.
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CONNECT
Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters - https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinearylo/
Instagram: @christinearylo
Feminine Wisdom Cafe - private online community off social media: www.FeminineWIsdomcafe.com
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristineArylo