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 year I have been practicing Purposeful Patience. It was the theme and mantra of my year. Each year I/we choose/receive a yearly theme/centerpoint in the Emerge Visioining Process - like "The Year of Purposeful Patience" or last year "The Year of Embodying Radiant Grace."
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.
In this episode of Feminine Power Time: 200: Purposeful Patience: Practicing the Ease Over the Rush, I was inspired to share with you a handful of the pearls of wisdom I received - so you can apply the wisdom to the rhythm of your year, your months, your weeks and your days.
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 cycle?
Here's some of what we'll explore:
A few pearls of wisdom to play with and try on:
And two co-creative practices:
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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1. RSVP for the Different Way to Dream & Succeed Wisdom Session: Vision, Plan & Focus Your Year, The Way Women Work Best - https://christinearylo.lpages.co/a-different-way-to-dream/
2. Emerge Yearly Visionining and Intention Setting Experience - https://christinearylo.lpages.co/emerge-visioning-with-christine-arylo/
3. Feminine Wisdom Way : Live, Lead and Succeed the Way Women Naturally Work Best. Join us to Vision, Focus and Co Create in 2023 - www.femininewisdomway.com
4. New Year Retreat: A Meaningful Way of Living & Leading in 2023 at Canyon Ranch - https://www.canyonranch.com/stay/events/woodside-meaningful-living-leading-retreat-jan-2023/?location=woodside
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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
Every year I love to create a special a Feminine Power Time episode that invites us to press pause and really reflect and receive the progress we have made, and the impact we have had on people, the planet and all of the projects and dreams that called for our attention this year. Why? Becasue most of us do not register in our minds, bodies or being that we really have made progress, and that what we are doing is making a difference.
Most of us feel like we are not doing enough – in our day to day, towards our goals, for others in need or for the planet.
So we feel like we are always behind, like there is never enough time, and like we will never have the space to get to what matters most.
This is I believe is one of the greatest sources of anxiety, dissatisfaction, overwhelm, burnout and stress that we have the power to shift by choosing to do something differently -- pause to truly FEEL how we have made a difference so we can SEE IT and BELIEVE IT ... and RECEIVE IT.
Exhale. My body seriously just took an exhale as I wrote that!
In order for your brain to register the progress you've made, and that things ARE happening and changing, you have to pause to feel it.
For your being to believe you are making a difference through your voices and choices, you've gotta feel that too.
And feel GOOD and PROUD ... this is called "honoring."
Self honor is very connected to self respect. Self Honor is one of the 10 types of self love - so it's not boastful or distorted pride, it's healthy. Honoring yourself for how you have chosen to show up, give your energy, be a source of good in the world is a way to bring more LOVE and peace and goodness into the world.
This episode is part wisdom teaching, part ritual, part guided visualization and feel-a-zation and part overall boost of wellbeing for your mind, body, spirit and heart.
Part 1: EOM - Evidence of Momentum. On the progress you have made in the different realms of your life - professionally and personally.
Part 2: EOL - Evidence that your Love and Light touched people, real humans, and it mattered! (in all the ways you gave your energy and care)
Part 3: #HarmonicDefiance for the Planet: Evidence that your choices to do things differently + to elevate your own consciousness are impactly the planet's wellbeing.
Tune in. See you there. This is for YOU.
Christine
P.S. ELEVATION ACTION: Share this podcast with a friend and then do the ritual together.
Share on one or all of the parts - "I acknowledge I have made a difference by..." Witness and reflect for each other that you in fact have made a difference. Your presence matters!
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1. RSVP for the Year End Reflection Ritual and Power Pause - https://reflectionritual.com
2. Emerge Yearly Visionining and Intention Setting Experience - https://christinearylo.lpages.co/emerge-visioning-with-christine-arylo/
3. Feminine Wisdom Way : Live, Lead and Succeed the Way Women Naturally Work Best. Join us to Vision, Focus and Co Create in 2023 - www.femininewisdomway.com
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How do you want to feel as you complete this year and as you walk into and begin the next? Overwhelmed? Drained? Exhausted? Busy? Over-extended? Of course not! Yet there is so much pressure internally and externally that can create this as the reality you live vs. the one that you desire for the last and beginning weeks of the year.
Since 2007, I have been talking about and writing about Holiday Overwhelm and how to avoid it. How not to get hooked by obligation. How to do things differently than what the culture says is normal, but is really kind of crazy :)
But this year, I decided I wanted to ELEVATE our conversation and focus ... from the base level consciousness that keeps us stuck in cycles of end-of-the-year madness, and year-start repentance, to some things we can focus on to elevate our experience ... to ones that create a stronger sense of calm, peace, joy, fulfillment, regeneration, creativity, connection, spaciousness. You know all the stuff we see on holiday cards?
Wisdom teaching: What you focus on grows.
So what will you focus on ?
My very wise ski instuctor's teaching: What you look at, you will hit. Look away from what you don't want to hit.
Aka If you want to avoid hitting a tree, then look away from the tree and look towards where you want to go.
My translation - focus on and look where you want to go so it grows within and around you.
In this episode 198: Complete & Create Your Year Clear: Avoid Overwhelm & Over-ing. Focus On What Fills You Up we will explore, activate and dive into a series of practical ways to FOCUS on what would be supportive and sustaining ... so you can savor and enjoy the completion of one cycle and the beginning of the next ... and make choices in your day to day that will keep your center clear ... and support you to feel nourished, at peace, empowered, calm, and any of the other feels you want to embody!
Here's what TO focus on (and what not to):
I'll share the wisdom behind these, and how to use these practically in the moment to make choices or change a situation. Bring some paper to write these down and then try them out.
With great heart,
Christine
P.S. Elevation Action: Share this podcast with a friend, so you can support each other real time. Invite them to join you for the Year End Reflection Ritual, and do it together.
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Upcoming Experiences
1. RSVP for the Year End Reflection Ritual and Power Pause - https://reflectionritual.com
2. Emerge Yearly Visionining and Intention Setting Experience - https://christinearylo.lpages.co/emerge-visioning-with-christine-arylo/
3. Feminine Wisdom Way : Live, Lead and Succeed the Way Women Naturally Work Best. Join us to Vision, Focus and Co Create in 2023 - www.femininewisdomway.com
Resources for Life force Reading and Receiving Practice
1. Overwhelmed and Over It book - page 79 - www.OverwhelmedandOverIt.com
2. Blog Post - Best Self Care Practice to Stop Burnout - https://christinearylo.com/2020/10/best_selfcarepractice_to_stopburnout/