Women Of The Wise - Rituals to Rise (Week 2)

Women of The Wise - Rituals to Rise Week 2.

What is our Sacred Sangha?

It is a circle where we will grow, learn and be raw and real together.

UNITE: Come or Bring Together for a common purpose to form a whole.

Agreeing to maintain full confidentiality, we create a space where we can attend in privacy and caring and collectively openly discuss our thoughts within the circle. We will all contribute positively and keep each other supported together integrating empathy and compassion and building our self-confidence, creating an alchemy in our Sangha.

Welcome Ladies,

I thank you for your time and space you hold in the unity of this Sacred Sangha

Affirmations:

Breathe in and close your eyes. One hand on your heart, One hand on your belly.

Inhale - "I am the peace that I seek"
Exhale - "I release what no longer serves me"

"I am truly and wildly abundant in all areas in my life!"

Mantra:

"I am willing"
"I am evolving"
"I am growing"
"I am worthy"
"The universe is helping me achieve all that I desire, I trust the process"

Prayer of Women Of The Wise:

"I bring honor to my radiant heart"
"Courage to my deep questions"
"Respect to my true nature"
"Compassion to the collective"
"Let my spirit be energized every step I take towards my soul's purpose"
"I thank you for all the gifts unfolding in this wisdom and beauty"

Prayer of Women Of The Wise:

"I bring honor to my radiant heart"
"Courage to my deep questions"
"Respect to my true nature"
"Compassion to the collective"
"Let my spirit be energized every step I take towards my soul's purpose"
"I thank you for all the gifts unfolding in this wisdom and beauty"

The Wheel of Wellness and The Chakra System
 

1. Physical – representing our physical body, need for movement, nutrition, rest and nature.
2. Emotional– representing our psychological well-being, pillars of emotional intelligence. Self-awareness, self- regulation, motivation, empathy.
3. Intellectual – refers to our creative outlets, ability to take on challenges that expand our knowledge and skills. 
4. Social – referring to our sense of belonging, connection and support within our relationship circles. 
5. Environmental– refers mainly to the immediate environment, which serves as the backdrop for our lives (i.e., home, your geographic location, and workplace),
6. Occupational– this refers to the sense of fulfillment one gets from their work.   
7. Financial– refers to our degree of contentment with our financial resources, which impact our sense of security. 
8. Spiritual– this can refer to the individual’s sense of a force greater than their self i.e. (God) or a universal force. The ability to trust in life in the big picture.  

 The Wheel of Wellness might help you gain some clarity as to where you need to direct your energy to achieve a better sense of balance.  For example, for the physical domain, you could break that down into nutrition, movement and sleep. There are no rules for this activity, but it is good to remember the mind-body-spirit paradigm, in relationship to the external world (environment & relationships), when brainstorming the parts of your wheel.  you score each part on a scale of 0 to 10, with zero being the center of the circle, and 10 being the border of the circle.  

A Big Picture View

However, you categorize the elements of your life, you should begin to get a big picture view of where your imbalances are on your Wheel of Wellness.  And, there will likely always be some!   I do not have a magic wand or secret formula for balance in my own life. Though the skills I have gained definitely help the process, there is always room for growth. For example, I feel particularly strong with my nutrition, emotional well-being.  My social life and relationships are good, but definitely impacted by energy and time restraints. The same could probably be said for my “spiritual life,” or connection with nature, Sleep has always been my nemesis, and probably ranks around a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. I am thankful for the abundance in my life. 

Does the shape of your wellness wheel mirror the outer circle, or does the shape look more imbalanced?  From this perspective, you can see, by using the Wheel of Wellness exercise to examine our lives, we get a broader view of the parts of our “whole” self and how we can better nurture those parts.

 there is no better way to begin to nurture your whole self than to reflect on where you are in the moment and where you want to be, allowing space for support from others.  When working with the Wheel of Wellness it is meant to be a tool to facilitate a greater awareness.  Once you begin to highlight the areas where you feel the most challenged, you can use the exercise to open dialogue with friends and family who may provide valuable support, or, to seek out further resources.  You might even find the Wheel of Wellness exercise to be a fun activity to do with family members, good friends or a support group.  It will provide a wealth of rich conversation, offering the opportunity to share feelings, offer support and reflect on the topic of what constitutes a balanced life.

Focus on the Positive

Also, by visualizing the most notable areas of imbalance on your Wheel of Wellness, you can begin to make note of all the positive in your life; areas where you excel.  Maybe you have a great social life, fulfilling career, balanced finances, and strong emotional health, but you just have not translated that success in other areas of life to your physical health.  This wellness wheel exercise can help you tap into your strengths and gain clarity about the steps you need to take to facilitate change. 

 

 If you wanted to take a more psychic or mystical approach, one could even use the Wheel of Wellness to correspond with our “aura” and the energy flowing through the seven chakras, each represented by a color and corresponding to specific areas of the body, emotions and spiritual components.  Examining blocks in this flow of energy could help us move towards balance between the mind, body and spirit.  Just like the domains of our lives, the seven major chakras within the body are interconnected, with the top three representing the spiritual, and the lower three representing the physical, connected in the center by the heart chakra, we can see how one could incorporate elements of the chakra system into the Wheel of Wellness activity, as a creative alternative.  In fact, the origins of the word “chakra” come from the Sanskrit word, meaning “wheel” What better symbolism to provide inspiration for seeking balance?

Another creative, or symbolic, way to look at a Wheel of Wellness exercise would be to reference the traditional Native American Medicine Wheel, which itself is a tool for healing.  Native Americans believe that illness is related to more than the physical body, but stems from imbalances, including the physical, as well as, mental, emotional and spiritual.

It takes 90-100 days to really imprint new habits, habits help us to create routines and rhythms to help our minds find peace. finding balance in creating a healthy mindset threw rituals and rhythms will motivate us each day, months and even years.

 In this very lifetime we can start sculping our best lives we have ever dreamed of.

Let’s restore our personal power and have an abundant live!

This means restoring our honor and integrity with ourselves.

This is the time for you to nurture and intergrade more balance by using our manifesting words from week 1# and the wellness wheel.

This is a practice to visit monthly so print off the Wheel of WELLNESS and see your progress is and where you might need a little focus.

Closing:

Breathe in and close your eyes. One hand on your heart, One hand on your belly.

Mantra:

"I am willing"
"I am evolving"
"I am growing"
"I am worthy"
"The universe is helping me achieve all that I desire, I trust the process"

Much Love, Crystal :)

"I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life" -Louise Hay