Hello Dear Ones! After a month of being silent mode (and navigating a natural disaster) ... sitting with what words and wisdom wanted to emerge to support and guide us through these intense, transformative times... the inspiration came through for a 3-part series on Power ... specifically what I am calling "Genuine Power" - natural, innate, native power, different than authentic power and for sure different than distorted power.
We are going to explore what genuine power looks and feels like ... what distorted, destructive power looks and feels like ... what is at the roots of both... how do we open up our eyes to see and discern truth and reality .... and then how do we apply our co-creative power to reimagine the way we and this world work, now, from the inside out.
This first episode in the series is #254: A Call to Honor, Humanity & Sanity.
Imagine this: What if in order to hold a position of power and leadership in any system - from a corporation to government to a family or community - a person had to meet the qualifications of embodying and expressing Honor, Humanity and Sanity ... and they also had to create an environment that instilled and cultivated those qualities in others?
Remember, the fertlizer to the see of new, elevated realities are to imagine it, bring language to it, and then through our voices, choices, presence, relations and projects, co-create it.
In the podcast we will hone in on HONOR. HUMANITY. SANITY and use the power of the definitions below to bring forth the essence of what we are talking about what leadership - personal and systemic - looks and feels like when it's rooted in wholeness.
See you there!
Christine
Remember ... OUR POWER comes from connecting with heart and purpose with others, to support each other to stay light - centered, radiant, clear -- and to explore and conversate so we can co-create new realities into being.
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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 overall wellbeing, and keep us focused on what matters.
Which is why at the quarter point shifts of the year - Solstices and Equinoxes - our personal leadership best practice (and one we can do with our teams and partners) is taking what I call a Power Pause.
Equinoxes specifically are all about illuminating imbalances, shifting habits to restore wellbeing, and re-focusing your priorities and intentions for the next quarter. In this episode we focus on the last quarter - between now and the end of the Roman calendar year (about 9 weeks) or between now and end of January, the start of the new lunar calendar year (about 12 weeks).
Tune into this Power Pause and take a step back to get some perspective on the main parts of your whole life - your work in the world, your wellbeing foundation, your relationships and your personal growth / presence.
I will lead us through a creative inquiry process including somatic visualization to tune into and get clear on:
See you there!
Christine
P.S. Remember -->> REVIEW + / or SHARE this Power Pause with a friend or your partner.
P.P.S. Make sure you are on Christine's wisdom letter list to receive access and notification of the Power Pause Guidebook: https://christinearylo.com/wisdom-letter-signup/ or visit her wisdom library on her website at https://christinearylo.com/blog/
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Resources + Connect
1.. Overwhelmed and Over It the book + the companion journal. Learn more www.OverwhelmedandOverit.com
2. Connect on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinearylo/
3. Learn about Feminine Wisdom Way + Cyclical Living www.femininewisdomway.com
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Have you ever considered how the work you do and the way you work could be different if you & all people put Wellbeing at the center?
Imagine if our culture embraced that all humans are designed differently, which means what supports our wellbeing - mind, body, heart, spirit - will be different. Therefore, the way we work, and the environments we work within need to be flexible, fluid and responsive to the different kinds of work styles required to empower and enable diverse humans to thrive.
Imagine a world in which we defined work not just by what we did to receive money, but all the ways in which we give our energy, care, and time to a system…including caregiving & creative expression…as well as the jobs & roles we play within organizations and professions.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer explore 3 Realms to illuminate the way you are designed to work best, liberate you from what doesn't align, and then begin to take small but significant steps to bring your reality into alignment with your design now. We'll also explore and illuminate what must be present for you in the environments you work within in order for you to truly thrive.
Remember: You and I have the power to co-create culture. Our power starts with choosing to intentionally cultivate the culture of our individual place + reality. Then the culture of the family + relational systems we live in. Then the team ecosystem we work in. Then the organizational, community & social ecosystems we swim in.
Rather than wait for the big ecosystem to shift to creating a culture that creates work environments based on what we need as humans to cultivate and maintain a strong foundation of wellbeing...we can embrace our power of #HarmonicDefiance and make small shifts that lead to bigger shifts that bring how we work and where we work into alignment with all realms of our wellbeing.
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What shift could you make to bring your work more into alignment with your design and wellbeing? Bonus invitation: SHARE this podcast with a friend, and invite them to conversate on the inquiry with you. Let’s Stay Light in community with fellow Wise Beings – join us!
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The super power of Co-Creation. It's different than manifestation. It's not magical thinking. And it's the wise way for us as leaders to shift from pushing, grinding and striving to actually bringing our visions into form...without burning out or sacrificing our lives. It won't make everything you desire magically appear. And while it is about us as individuals, Co-Creation (emphasis on “co” piece) is not just about us as individuals - this is where the courage, compassion, and connection comes in to give us true super power.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer explore the feminine super power of co-creation through three key principles for bringing more of what we desire for ourselves and the world into reality. How we co-create with the Universe and each other to bring our desires from essence into form. Lean in, tune in and put into practice what feels aligned for you.
Suggestion - bring some paper and markers - we will be using the co-creative practice of visual thinking together. Bring your journal if you have one.
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: Wha’s at the center of your life design? Bonus invitation: SHARE this podcast with a friend, and invite them to conversate on the inquiry with you. Let’s Stay Light in community with fellow Wise Beings – join us!
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You and I have the super power to consciously choose to catalyze ourselves vs. wait to be catalyzed the big “Universal 2x4.” We have the power to work with the catalyzing energy happening on our planet right now in a way that supports and serves us and others vs. overwhelming us. But like any super power, if you can't name it and articulate it, you can't wield its power…
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer explore the feminine super power of Catalyze: the power to use the situations that life brings you as liberators and elevators that lift YOU & OTHERS up - to expanded levels of consciousness and reality. When you choose to embrace your power to catalyze yourself out of a comfort zone, with focus and swiftness, you release and shed what's no longer needed (and is weighing you down), and take a self-empowered step into your soul's evolution, liberating yourself to a more full, true, empowered expression.
When you shift the situation that’s challenging you right now in your life from something happening to you into something happening through you, you step into your power to meet and work with whatever is showing up...as a process and path to greater healing, freedom and expression.
This is practical wisdom in action - to apply to whatever is catalyzing in your life. We'll dive into:
Together, we’ll reveal and illuminate:
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What is calling you to be catalyzed? Bonus invitation: SHARE this podcast with a friend, and invite them to conversate on the inquiry with you. Let’s Stay Light in community with fellow Wise Beings – join us!
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One of the things I love about the practice of cyclical planning and co creation is that it gives us the space to tune into wisdom before moving into action. If we dare to take that space - which could be days, weeks or months, we gain so many things really hard to see or believe if we are only operating in the busy mode of our day to day. Things like:
Clarity on what matters .... where the momentum is... where it's not.
Acknowledgment of all the incremental progress we have made ... that's easy not to see or receive if we don't pause.
Guidance that comes from a deeper wisdom than our minds can source.
Which is why I'm inviting you to take a breath, take a beat, and experiment with this practice I call Pause. Listen. Co-Create.
It's one of the practices for' how' we create space for ourselves to evolve into the next, while sustaining the now, and releasing that which we no longer need.
This is a practice we do every August - the first harvest of the year - but you can do it anytime.
I will lead you through the 3 parts -
1.Incremental Progress - What are you harvesting now because of where you put your attention, intention and resources the last 4 months of last year?
2. Pausing - Reflect on the wisdom gained. What do you want to take with you / focus on into the rest of this year (this will create your harvest next year!)
3. Listening - What's falling off? What's shapeshifting? Where's the momentum taking you?
4. Co-Create - What space + structure do you need to experiment, explore and elevate?
I will also check in with you on where I've been in my own journey these last few months using this process to chart my course forward.
See you there!
Christine
Elevate Action - Share
>> Share this podcast with a friend + share what you are harvesting this year because of what you gave intention and attention to the last quarter of last year. Also share, what you choose to give your energy to the last 4 months of the year.
Leave a Review - Love to Hear from You!
>>Go to show episode in your podcat app, scroll down, and leave review.
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We’re all feeling the intensity – so how can Feminine Wisdom support us to navigate through it? Well, it starts with taking a pause, putting on our “wise being glasses,” and then taking a deeper look at what is going on in the Field (the bigger collective world) and in our personal field (our own inner experiences, relationships and reality). This pause allows us to see what is real, what is needed, what the patterns are, and to find the wisdom to navigate the now and the next.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer explore how Feminine Wisdom can support us in intense times, to elevate and expand our consciousness, so that we can liberate ourselves from the stuff we just don’t want to carry with us or create from anymore. The intention of our exploration is to give you perspectives and practices to prepare you for the now, and the next.
Some of the wisdom models, practices and tools we'll work with in this episode are:
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What EOEs and EOMs am I seeing? Bonus invitation: SHARE this podcast with a friend, and invite them to play the EOE / EOM Game with you – share one EOE or EOM with each other every day. It’s how we can all Stay Light together, in community – join us!
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The word “sane” at its root means “free from mental disturbance.” So how can we free ourselves from mental disturbance in the midst of a world that is swirling with it? While we cannot stop the insanity we see happening in our world and the people within it, there are things we can do to stay sane, sustained, centered and focused on what matters.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer share four practices for Staying Sane in an Insane World. These are practices to put into place proactively, in how we design our lives, the way we work, think, and operate. They are simple yet mighty structures that will hold us and keep us centered no matter what is happening around us. Here they are:
Our practices give us the space to have our human emotions and release them out of our system so that we can respond from an elevated, higher-frequency, more humane consciousness that opens up people and possibility vs. creating more polarity and unhelpful chaos. Our practices give us wisdom, so that we can use our life force to create the world we desire for ourselves, each other, and those we love, lead, and influence.
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What practices am I playing with to stay centered, and how do I feel as a result of playing with these practices? Bonus invitation: choose one of the four practices to experiment with, SHARE this podcast with a friend, and invite them to play with the practice, too. It’s how we can all Stay Light together, in community – join us!
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Anger and grief are good human emotions. They have the potential to open up so much for us – individually and collectively – which can lead to healing, breaking down barriers, and breaking through to better realities.
The problem is that most humans weren't taught how to express anger or grief in healthy ways, so it comes out sideways in distorted ways, or it gets stuffed down until we blow up or get sick. Sometimes we are the receiver of that big emotional eruption and other times we are the "unleasher" or "erupter" on someone else.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer explore perspectives and practices around dealing with the kind of rage and grief that comes from our wounds or the wounds of others, and how to do it differently in ways that lead to wholeness. Together we’ll explore how we can:
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the two-part inquiry: What anger or grief am I holding on to? Where do I feel it in my body? Bonus invitation: amplify your awareness and capacity to shift by SHARING this podcast with a friend and conversating on the inquiry together. Let’s Stay Light in community with fellow Wise Beings – join us!
Resources & Links:
Kundalini yoga: Kriya for Releasing Anger
"Wheels of Life" by Anodea Judith (book on chakras)
“Returning” by Jennifer Berezan
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Are you clearing your emotional and energetic fields? What do you do when you get "gooped" by the world, a person, the news, the physical and virtual environments you find yourself in, or even by your own emotional triggers?
In this episode, Christine, Jennifer, and special guest Noah Martin explore what it means to be “gooped”, how to know when you are gooped up, how does it happen, and what do you do in the moment or as prevention to keep the external forces from knocking you off kilter?
Clearing your emotional and energetic fields is a must in our world today; just like you brush your teeth and get in your daily steps. On today’s podcast, we’ll explore how to care for your emotional and energetic bodies by looking at:
Get your practitioners, practices, and people in place that will keep you at a high frequency and keep your being light. Build these into your daily, weekly, and monthly rhythm to support your radiance.
Between now and the next episode, Christine, Jennifer, and Noah invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What To Do When I Get Gooped? Awareness is the first step to making a shift, and by the end of this episode you will have the tools to bring awareness to what tends to goop you up. You’ll also receive practices and resources to support you in clearing your emotional and energetic fields so that you can Stay Light. Join us!
Resources & Links:
Meditations by Noah - UnGoop Meditation
Overwhelmed and Over It Book - Section 2 Liberate Your Life Force
Daily Morning Flow Kit - Morning Receiving Practice book + video
Energy Clearing Sessions with Noah
Noah’s 10 Before 10 - take 10 deep breaths daily before 10:00 a.m.
Saltwater bath or saltwater in a bowl on your nightstand
Plus…other modalities for De-Gooping and Staying Light to check out: EMDR - Seemorg Matrix - Family Constellations - Chi Gong - Tai Chi - Kundalini Yoga - Kriya Yoga - Pranayama - Earthing
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Every year the wise one pause at the mid point of the year to reflect back and receive (acknowledge and honor) all of the progress made (so we can feel it, believe it, and savor it)... and to reset, restore and reset our pace for the next 3 months.
In this episode, Christine Arylo will walk you through a series of inquiries that will help you slow down, and tune in and
Between now and the next episode, we invite you to contemplate of these inquiries, as it relates to how you choose to spend your time, give your energy, focus your attention these next 3 months including:
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Ways to Connect:
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The brightness and strength of your radiance affects every aspect of your wellbeing – from your physical health, to your access to your intuition and power, to your ability to share your gifts and genius with the world.
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer share inquiries and practices to illuminate what's draining or dimming your radiance, so that you can see it, name it, and be at choice with how to work with the forces that diminish radiance. All in order to stay light and bright, even during this challenging time in the world.
Beginning where you have the power within you to make shifts, regardless of what’s going on externally, they explore the 6 Ways We Drain, Dim, or Distort Our Radiance:
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What Drains My Radiance? Awareness is the first step to making a shift, and by the end of this episode you will have the tools to bring awareness to what’s diminishing your radiance. You’ll also receive practices to support you in making shifts to restore your radiance. Join us!
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What is Radiance? And how can cultivating our own inner radiance support us in Staying Light amidst the swirl and chaos of the present time?
In this episode (the first in the nine part Season of Light Series), Christine Arylo and co-host of this series Jennifer Alexander, discuss the importance of restoring your radiance as a way of Staying Light through transformational times. They explore both the mystical and material realms of radiance, and share simple yet mighty practices that can support you to restore your radiance levels to be bright and vibrant, and then keep that brightness and lightness strong, growing and glowing for the rest of this year.
You will learn:
What is Radiance and why it matters.
How Radiance dictates your health, relationships, ability to attract and receive opportunities, intuition, and overall mental and emotional wellbeing.
The difference between life force and Radiance, and where Radiance lives in your body.
Creative processes to reveal practical wisdom that you can apply to how you structure your life and make choices during the upcoming months – all with the intention of sustaining your Radiance.
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to contemplate the inquiry: What Sustains My Radiance? As leaders, change makers, and beings daring to do things differently to create a better and more beautiful world, we need to Stay Light, even in - especially in - the face of challenge and chaos. It's HOW we lead and live through this time. Join us!
What’s next?
Tune in to the 9-part Season of Light series, running now through August - and invite a friend to join you!
Participate in the Mid Year Power Pause retreat that begins June 19th.
Remember to SHARE this podcast episode with at least one friend or colleague. Then conversate on what sustains your radiance.
Ways to Connect:
Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters
Join us in the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, a private online community
Watch on YouTube
What is the Feminine? And how can it support and guide us in the present time - both individually and collectively?
In this episode, Christine and Jennifer conversate on the inquiry: What is the Feminine? And how can it support and guide us now? They explore this inquiry through the lenses of Cyclical Living, Changing Relationships with our Creations, and the Feminine archetypal energies of Compassion and Creativity.
They also introduce the upcoming 9-part Season of Light series, beginning next week. The intention for the Season of Light is to create a container for all of us to come and recharge our radiance so that we can Stay Light amidst the swirl and chaos of the present time.
Between now and the next episode, Christine and Jennifer invite you to reflect on where you are in your current life cycle, and in the cycles of anything you’ve created. Recognize what’s calling you to seed, what’s ready to sprout, what’s coming into full blossom. This is a way to connect to the cycles within and around you in order to bring your being into greater harmony with both the natural world and your own unique design.
What’s next?
Tune in to the 9-part Season of Light series, running now through August - and invite a friend to join you!
Participate in the Mid Year Power Pause retreat that begins in June.
Remember to SHARE this podcast episode with at least one friend or colleague. Then conversate on the cycles you’re currently in, how your relationship to your creations might be shifting and changing, and where you can lean into the feminine superpowers of Compassion and Creativity in this next season.
Ways to Connect:
Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters
Connect with Christine on LinkedIn
Join us in the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, a private online community
Watch on YouTube
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So excited to be landing here with you on the 8th anniversary of The Feminine Power Time podcast for a special segue conversation and exploration we navigate and co-create the next - for ourselves, those we guide & influence and the world.
I have been asking myself, "What is next for this podcast? What is next for me? What is next for us?". Which led me to creating the centerpoint of our conversation today: "What is Evolving Within You? Around You?" ... How Do We Create Space for What's Next While Tending to the Now... How Do We Preserve What We've Already Created in Ways that Create Momentum?"
Another way of saying that to yoruself is ... "How do I allow the process to unfold through and around me ... stay attuned to my design ... accept (savor) where I am, while expanding into what is possible, even while I cannot see cleary yet?"
Per usual here at Feminine Power Time, I will share less answers, and more inquiries and perspectives to support us to move through the shifts happening, supporting us to evolve so we can elevate, with grace, power, purpose, sustainability, compassion and wisdom.
First, a personal share on:
Second, practices, inquiries and perspectives to support you to work with what is evolving WITHIN you and AROUND including:
Third, what's next for Feminine Power Time, starting with:
I look forward to sharing with you what's been on my heart for months now.
And for a Season of Light to come at a time those of us daring to do things differently and lead through our voices, choices and presence into the next era, can use as much light as we can open to receive.
And seeing many of you for the annual Mid Year Power Pause - starts June Solstice week - www.FlowPowerPause.com
See you there.
Christine
*** P.S. Remember to SHARE this podcast with at least one friend or colleague. And then conversate on what is evolving within and around each of you.
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As the world turns and shifts, things seem to go sideways, uncertainty rises, intensity & anxiety wratches up, how do you stay centered, calm and clear? How do you work WITH the energy vs be WORKED OVER by the energy?
These are fundamental inquiries and practices we have been exploring and implementing here at Feminine Power Time since we started this podcast in 2016 ... because we are in transformational times, and during such times, we need access to insight, tools and wisdom to dance through.
Consider this: What if this cycle of time is about breaking free of systemic and self created patterns that no longer serve? So we can rise into realities rooted in harmony, sustainability, wholeness and connection?
And while there may be forces that would do anything to keep things the same, the force of our collective heart power has the ability to lead the way forward into a better world for people & planet?
This is not wishful thikning or spiritual bypassing. It's co-creating the next while we stabilize in the now and heal from the past. Here's what we "do" ...
For this last part in our series, we will shine a light on some of the "Collective" patterns playing out - we are all influenced by these because we are part of the "WE" of people living on the planet. When you can name and see these patterns, they stop having power over you, and you gain power to lead your way and others way through.
Then I will share with you 3 'dance' patterns - wisdom to put it play within your life now to dance through these collective shifts - these can support us to release the things we no longer neeed so we can be free to create and rise into this next evolution - of me + we.
Tune in to #3 of 3: Dancing Through The Collective Patterns Playing Out
Join us for this year's annual Mid Year Power Pause - starts every June Solstice - to reflect, reset, refocus- www.FlowPowerPause.com
Here's a sneak peek at the practices/patterns to put into play the rest of this year that I'll walk us through.
See you there!
Christine
*** P.S. Remember to SHARE this podcast with at least one friend or colleague. And then conversate on how you can support each other through your transformation.
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How do we breakthrough patterns and imprints that we are ready to release? What are the practices? What works? How does this invisible transformation actually work to make shifts in the material world?
Consider this: Change takes place over time, but if we can't see the progress, we don't receive the energy we need to stay devoted and focused.
Good news - choosing to engage in what I call "Sacred Transformation" - yours and the worlds, isn't about waiting until all things are perfect and the way you'd like them to be ... that's a path for suffering for sure!
Sacred transformation - when you put the word sacred in front of transformation here's what you get: "change devoted to / for the sake of creating wholeness, without violence to self or others, done with respect." This is a way of working with and breaking through long-held pattern in way we can expereince, receive and I dare say enjoy (even in the struggle) all along the way.
As we see the shifts happening in little ways... we start to feel them in bigger ways... the dense shadow transforms with gratitude into a lighter brigthter frequency that maintains it's depth (and darkness now rooting in wholeness).... and we gain the energy to continue evolving and elevating.
Tune in to #2 of 3: 3 Pratices for Breaking Through Patterns Ready to Release.
And join us for this year's annual 40-Day From Burnout to Balance Practice - www.burnouttobalancepractice.com
Here are some of the practices for Sacred Transformation I'll share + here for you to explore.
See you there!
Christine
*** P.S. Remember to SHARE this podcast with at least one friend or colleague. And then conversate on how you can support each other through your transformation.
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Shadow patterns. Self limiting imprints. Sabotaging cycles and habits. That we just can't shake or seem to breakthrough.... or maybe we just haven't had the holsitic approach and wisdom and tools to get to the roots of where the "shadow frequency" keeps us stuck in cycles that no longer serve us. Or maybe we've been working these patterns for decades, and we are now ready to truly break free + breakthrough.
In this series: The Practice of Breakthroughing Patterns We No Longer Need, the last in our 8th season, we will take a 3-part journey to give you insight, wisdom and tools to:
Consider this: You can't change what you cannot see or don't have language for. And if you are not consciously working with the unconscious imprints within you, they are working you!
So let's embrace our power to transmute (elevate the frequency of) the patterns that may have served us at one time... and are not ready to be composted, with gratitude.
Tune in to #1 of 3: How to Reveal the Invisible Patterns Within You Ripe for Breakthrough where we set up the series + start to illuminate where to start looking for the patterns ready to come up and out of the shadow.
And join us for this year's annual 40-Day From Burnout to Balance Practice - www.burnouttobalancepractice.com
Here are some places to start looking
See you there!
Christine
*** P.S. Remember to SHARE this podcast with at least one friend or colleague. And then share the insights you have around the patterns ready and ripe for breakthrough.
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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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Go Deeper. Get Connected. Receive Wisdom, Structure & Support.
1. From Burnout to Balance 40-Day Practice - www.BurnouttoBalancePractice.com
2. Connect on the Feminine Wisdom Cafe - www.femininewisdomcafe.com Join the conversation!
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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Self esteem, self confidence, ability to take care of oneself, sovereignty, self sufficient ... these are all good things to possess and embody. Monikers of internal strength. However, when one thing become over-used or valued, or the other side of the spectrum isn't present, things get out of whack, our lives and bodies become imbalanced, and we get stuck in situations and chronic challenges that keep us in survival or stress mode.
Consider this: "We have become so self-sufficient as self-empowered humans that we have become overly self-reliant."
Most people I encounter suffer from this invisible dis-ease of Over Self Reliance, we feel it but don't have the words to see it, and therefore transform it. We become so used to doing whatever needs doing, we don't pause to consider what help we need to do it. We don't consider if we don't have the resources we need, maybe we shouldn't take it on. We've grown so accoustomed to fight for what we need or just barely scrape by that we've gotten used to making do and doing more ourselves.
And honestly, there have been many times you and I have needed support or help, and it just wasn't there. That has been our shared reality. Yet, we are each being invited to shake off the over-self-reliance to find a more balanced exchange ... even if we cannot see how that is possible, yet.
Ask yourself: Where may I be operating from over self-reliance? One I may have needed before, but that now, at this phase in my reality, is not serving me?
WISDOM: Where you are OVER self-reliant, you are also UNDER supported, UNDER cared for and UNDER connected.
Today we kick off a series I've named From Burnout to Balance ... to illuminate the invisible ways we are operating like banks giving more withdrawls than receiving deposits, resulting in imbalances that lead to undue suffering, struggle, and sacrifice.
We start with Ep 233: Goodbye OVER Self-Reliance where we dive into:
I will also walk you through inquiries to get clear on where over self-reliance is impacting you. Together we can all release this generational pattern and find the new ways to create relationships and realities that by nature create harmony and balance. So your radiance, briliance and light is supported for many years to come.
See you there,
Christine
P.S.->> Request - Share this podcast with one person and then connect and share where the OVER Self Reliance is, what the cost has been, and what it's time to do differently.
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Last Feminine Power Time we talked about the "meta" and "collective" - what the themes, energy and patterns are in the larger field as we go into 2024. This gives us wisdom for how to move through this year.
Today, we turn to the "personal" - what are the themes, awarenesses, perspectives and ways of looking at our lives and our choices within them. So we can walk through 2024 centered, sustained, focused on what matters, using this catalytic time for our good and the good of all. Without burning out, running back to normal or missing the possibility.
Tune in for this year’s Feminine Wisdom for the Year Ahead, 2024, Part Two. Find & Keep Your Shine in the Stretch.
I'll share with you a series of themed wisdom and inquiries + practices that I'm applying myself and using with all the leaders and communities I work with.
I will also take you through some embodied integration of the wisdom, so it really lands in your body, being and brain.
Here are some of the Wisdom Pearls you can put in your pocket to guide your choices now and in the months to come - use these proactively + also in the moments when you get the internal wobbles, or the external world or circumstances threaten to pull you into the swirl.
Themes
See you there!
Christine
p.s. >> SHARE THIS EPISODE with a FRIEND --> Conversate on the inquiries + make a pact to be Elevators for each other when you need a lift or support stablizing in the stretch.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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