Every year in January I wait to do a special Feminine Power Time that looks into the year ahead - to give us wisdom, insight, focus and practices for the now, and what's coming next.

2024 is an 8 year - connected to the energy of Internal Strength + Shining our Light while making sure we are deeply rooted into what keeps us centered, stable, vibrant and aligned. It's also a wood Dragon year - which signals transformative growth and elevation, supported by the feminine (water) and strong natural structure (earth). These archetypes + what the natural cycles are indicating + the commonalities I am sensing form the themes, focuses and inquiries I'll share with you.

Tune in for this year’s Feminine Wisdom for the Year Ahead - in two parts. Part 1 focusing on giving you insight into the bigger meta themes + powerful inquiries you want to be asking yourself so you co-create a reality that keeps you centered, aligned, radiant and stable as you let go + grow. Episode #231: Finding Your Strength in The Stretch.

Wisdom to Consider: Stability & safety cannot be created in the mind. Stability & safety can come through the body, which then informs and calms the mind and heart.

Note: If you are listening to this later, no worries, it is still all relevant. It's about reading the signs all around us, feeling the knowings within us, and then being WISE about what is happening in the world and how we desire and choose to show up.

Themes Emerging as we Find Our Strength in the Stretch. 

• Stay Light. Stay Awake. Stay Aware.
• Create the Next while Savoring the Now. 
• Create a Strong Root System that Supports your Stability - mind, body, heart, spirit.
• Work & live in rhythm with the natural cycles to create a reality that has harmony, even within the chaos. 
• Let go to Grow.
• Strengthen your Connection & Practices.

Tune in with me. Bring paper to write the themes & Wisdom inquiries to contemplate (also posted below).

See you there!

Christine

p.s. CREATE CONNECTION + ELEVATION --> Share this podcast with a Friend or partner. Use the inquiries below to gain clarity on what will support you each to find your strength in the stretch.

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CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY + CO-CREATING SUPPORT 

1. Feminine Wisdom Way 2024 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. Two ways to participate. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

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WISDOM INQUIRIES

1. What parts of me or ways I operate need to be let go or shapeshiftd so I can evolve &  elevate?

2. What can I lean into to keep me stable as I stretch to grow & let go? 

3. What support & structure can I root into to cultivate harmony within me, so I stay centered mind, body, heart and spirit this year?

4. Where am I still trying to do it on my own? What actions could I take or practices could I put into place to strengthen my connection?

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There are many things you could do this year, many things you think you should do, or maybe this year you have no idea what to do!? Or maybe you are feeling like you'd rather just pull the cover over your head.

• DON'T: Let the chaos and pressure of the world, or the should's of your self-induced pressure swirl you up or stop you from breaking through to more elevated, expanded, supportive realities. 
• DO: Turn inward, tune into your heart and tap into your deeper wisdom and desires. Dare to let those inspire and guide you.
• DO: Choose to tune into Wisdom with a capital W before you choose your focuses for this year... you know that higher guidance trying to get your attention, saying "Focus here! Here is where the flow and momentum are!"   

Wisdom teaches us to use the power and practice of "inquiry" to consider the path before moving into action... which results in more easeful effort, sustainable success + fluid efficiency (plus delight, which we need during challenging times, to keep us going!)

One way you can do this is the Year-End Power Pause - taking the full month of January to 'tune in' - feel, sense, tap into intuition and the heart -- to find clarity on your intentions, what's in right timing, and what support & structure you need to receive for the coming year.

If we want to access Wisdom vs. just more mental ideas, we need to FEEL not THINK our way forward. CONSIDER THIS: Your mind can only create what it's done or seen before. If we want things to be different, we have to go deeper - into our hearts, bodies, and "subtle energy" realms.

In January, I always do a Power Pause episode that takes us through a series of wisdom inquires to contemplate. This year we will use 2 inquiries, and use them to tune into the 4 realms of your whole life.

1. What is matters most to me this year? 
2. Where is the momentum calling me, pulling me, moving me? 

Every year the inquires are different, because every year, we need different inquiries to lead us to the aligned possibilities and most supported actions.

I comb through the inquiries we use in the EMERGE Visioning Process + the women's leadership councils, to find the ones to open your visioning, intention setting & focusing for the year to come. 

Tune in for episode 230:Year Start Power Pause: Tune into What Matters Most & Where the Momentum Is.

See you there!

Christine

>>p.s. BE AN ELEVATOR, SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH ONE PERSON -- Just share, or dare create connection by 'doing' the inquiries together. 

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PROGRAMS, RETREATS & TRAININGS 

1. EMERGE Visioning Journey - www.EmergeVisioning.com 

2. Feminine Wisdom Way 2024 - Vision. Lead. Live. Succeed. the way women naturally work best. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com 

RESOURCES:

1. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com
2. 4 Stages of Co Creation + the Path for January - Article
3.  4 Realms for Focalizing & Creating Whole Life - Article 

CONNECT:

• Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters - https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/
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Purposeful Patience. What is it? How can we work with it? And why is it something you might benefit from putting into practice in how you approach how you go about achieving your goals + bringing your ideas, desires and projects into fruiition + creating a consistent sense of wellbeing, even during intensity and uncertainty? Just that :)

For the past two years I have been practicing Purposeful Patience. It was the theme and mantra in 2022. Each year I/we choose/receive a yearly theme/centerpoint in the Emerge Visioining Process - like "The Year of Purposeful Patience" or  "The Year of Embodying Radiant Grace." (2021) or "Creating & Receiving from Momentum" (2023) 

I decided to replay this episode of Feminine Power Time: 200: Purposeful Patience: Practicing the Ease Over the Rush, because I needed it again this year ... and I thought you might benefit as well.

I love the practice of choosing a centerpoint and over-arching theme and then working with it intentionally all year. It becomes a guidepost and a portal into deeper wisdom that can support us to create realities that are more aligned with our design and desires. If you stick with it as an active practice, by the end of the year, you have SO much more embodied wisdom, trust and insight on how to do things differently.

Somethings to know about Purposeful Patience.

Purposeful patience is not sitting around waiting for life to happen. It's not a platitude like "Patience is a Virutue."

Purposeful patience is a co-creative choice to live in alignment with the natural flow and unfoldment of your life, purpose, projects, and processes.

The practice of purposeful patience reduces anxiety, the wasting of resources and time, and the self-inflicted pressure that stresses our minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits.  

Consider this: Would you more ease (comfort and convenience) or more rush (haste, progress with speed and violence), hustle (shake, push, shove), or busy (meddlesome, toil) in your life this next year? 

Here's some of what we'll explore: 

• Difference between easing into vs. hustling or rushing into year / week / day
• The practice of Staying in "neutral" and 'upshifting' 
• Playing and staying in the Void
• Discerning if you are pushing something forward or something is pulling you forward
• The dance of Stillness and Swiftness 

A few pearls of wisdom to play with and try on:

• Don't rush into a decision just to have things more fixed and secure once again. 
• Take the space to listen, imagine and moodle - even if it's uncomfortable. 
• Inquiry leads to clarity.
• Creativity opens the portal of possibliity which leads to more easeful productivity.

And two co-creative practices:

• I wonder...?
• Am I pushing this or is it pulling me?  

Enjoy playing with purposeful patience in your life - love to hear what you learn. 

See you there

Christine 

p.s. ACT of ELEVATION >> SHARE this podcast with one other person. Invite them to PLAY the I WONDER game (which i share at the end of the podcast)

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Resources Mentioned

1. Overwhelmed and Over It Book - www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com 

2. Gene Keys and Richard Rudd - www.GeneKeys.com 

3. The Lost Track of Time by Paige Britt - https://www.paigebritt.com/read-my-books