Welcome to Work Minded.
Thanks for joining us for this Summer Solstice Abundance and Alignment Practice.
As part of our Nervous System-Focused Career Coaching,
We love exploring complementary practices to help reflect on our work and align with our purpose.
This includes drawing inspiration from the natural world around us,
And the dynamic energy of the Summer Solstice gives us a chance to tune into what feels most vibrant and authentic in our work experience.
However business and purpose in your life might look or evolve over time.
This practice provides plenty of options.
You can choose whether you want this session to be more passive,
Relaxing into the reflective energy of receiving,
Or more active,
Like channeling the energy of the summer solstice into a moving meditation.
You can also choose how deeply you want to connect with sensations in the body,
Either using these sensations as a concentration point for your practice,
Or using your senses to focus on a more external concentration point in the space around you if that's more comfortable.
And wherever you are,
Set your own compassionate pace here,
Giving yourself plenty of space to adjust and plenty of permission to draw back from the practice anytime.
So you're welcome here to settle in,
Taking your own measures to feel as safe and comfortable as possible,
So you can tune into this summer solstice experience as deeply and effectively as possible.
You're invited to start by connecting your current rhythms with our aspirations for this practice of abundance and alignment.
First,
We'll gently tune in to your chosen focus point for the practice,
Bringing a soft awareness to the natural cadence of your breathing or to any comfortable object of concentration you might have chosen.
You might sense an undemanding presence from this focus,
Maybe allowing it to enter your experience gently and linger unobtrusively in the background to start.
Now if it's comfortable,
You can slowly welcome or invite the object of your concentration to emerge from the background and engage more fully in your current experience.
Maybe any initial glimmers of awareness and presence around this focus begin to slowly grow stronger and brighter.
Are there any fresh details that enter your perception as you intentionally deepen your concentration?
And if it's comfortable here,
You might allow or even encourage this object of concentration to slowly evolve into its fullest expression.
Take in every detail,
Every element,
And every nuance that you can perceive.
What is the most expansive version of your breath?
Or what's the most vibrant version of this object?
If you're working with the breath and it's comfortable for you,
You can even explore briefly pausing the breath here for just a micro moment to really lean into that sensation of fullness.
Pausing there before resuming the natural cycle of your breathing.
And now that we're in the cadence of this dynamic and vibrant summer solstice energy,
You can go ahead and let your concentration slowly return to its natural rhythm as we ease into a gentle reflection.
The summer solstice represents the longest daytime or the fullest inhale of the year.
It also marks an important inflection point in our annual journey when the sun appears to stand still from our terrestrial perspective,
Intentionally pausing its steady and reliable trek along the horizon,
Taking a rest at its furthest point with a full bird's eye view panorama of all of the components of its journey up to this point.
This pause from continuous movement provides a valuable reflection point,
A chance to linger in the full and vibrant sensations of abundance,
To acknowledge what the path already traveled has revealed to us,
And to take in the complete experience from a heightened vantage point.
This precious moment in the cosmic cycle reminds us that dynamic doesn't have to mean constant movement or unceasing activity.
Continuous adaptation can require pause and reflection and recharge before transformation takes on its daily activity once again.
So you're invited now to turn your attention to your work experience.
The sun's intentional pause can help invite us to linger in any sensations of abundance and fulfillment that might be present with us at this point in our work path.
Now,
We find that there can be lots of pressure around the word abundance,
And so we like to think of it less in terms of external circumstances and more as a sense of fulfillment and expansion,
Whether that seems complete for you in this moment or something that's still unfolding.
The summer solstice invites us to experience and consider abundance as the sensations that make us feel most enlivened and invigorated and expansive and vibrant.
Do you perceive any of these sensations related to the ever-evolving business and purpose of your life?
And at this point of cosmic pause and insight,
Are there particular sensations of vibrancy and dynamism related to your work that want to be acknowledged or honored while your perspective is at its broadest?
You might reflect on whether there are specific experiences related to your work or your purpose that connect to that most vibrant and expansive version of your concentration point from earlier in the session.
A specific issue or item or sensation might float to your consciousness here,
Or you might not feel drawn just now to something that seems completely clear.
Whatever does or does not arise for you is totally okay.
We're not trying to force pressure around the idea and experience of abundance.
This is more of a chance to open the door for inquiry and gathering some information at a powerful point in our cosmic experience,
Without any pressure of needing to find answers or resolution.
We can simply focus here on what feels most true for you around this dynamic summer solstice energy.
And now if it feels comfortable,
We can deepen our reflection a little bit here.
How might you channel this sense of abundance into your work-related actions and experiences now as you move along your own path?
And how might you be able to align the fullest expression of yourself into the business and purpose of your life?
Just like with abundance,
There can also be lots of pressure around the idea of alignment.
So this practice is more about alignment in the sense of staying true to your own evolving path,
Observing how abundance and authenticity naturally ebb and flow in your work experience.
The sun stays true to its own path,
A path that is constantly influenced by the interplay of daylight and darkness.
And the summer solstice is a chance to focus on where we experience the most abundance and most alignment,
But it's not necessarily the goal to always be in the light.
Even as we celebrate this maximum illumination of summer solstice,
We can honor the natural and constantly shifting relationship of sunlight and shadow or clarity and obscurity.
All while staying aligned with our own path and purpose and ensuring that we keep our energy tuned into our most aligned intentions.
So during this period of intentional pause around the full spectrum of your work experiences,
Where can you focus on abundance and authenticity related to the business and purpose of your life?
Are there motivations and influences that might connect you to your most aligned self and work experience?
And is there a sense of renewed understanding for where you might want to most focus or dedicate your most aligned energy and most aligned resources related to your work path?
With the awareness and space created by the cosmic pausing and the reflection point of the summer solstice,
You're invited to close this practice by bringing the wisdom of the full range of your experiences to bear as you continue along your own abundant and aligned path.
The summer solstice is a natural turning point,
When the Sun pauses at the very top of its arc before naturally retracing its steps back along its cosmic path.
The Sun has traced this path countless times,
Yet it never travels the same path twice.
It brings immense wisdom and dimension to its roots by bringing new experiences and perspectives to the same geography on each journey.
As your own path continues,
What takeaways from this current pause and vantage point do you want to carry along with you on your own expanded journey?
How about you revisit the same path with the full spectrum of all your work experiences and perspectives available to guide your way with more abundance and more alignment?
The invitation here is to choose something that will be useful to you as a sort of roadmap to continue along this cosmic journey until the next summer solstice,
When you can reflect again on the broadened perspective of this path that might seem so well-worn and familiar,
Yet is always evolving and always transforming.
And as we prepare to wind down this session,
You might feel called to seal in this roadmap with one more cycle of breath or concentration.
Acknowledging again that summer solstice abundance and alignment at the fullest part of your breathing or perception.
And maybe you linger for just another minute to rebound from the overall effects of this practice on your system.
Then when you feel ready,
You can let your body and your attention return naturally to the space and the place around you.
We're so grateful that you chose to practice with us.
You can come back to this session at every Summer Solstice to explore your insights over time,
Or you can revisit it anytime you want to intentionally tune in to the vibrant and authentic Summer Solstice energy of abundance and alignment.
In the meantime,
Thank you so much for joining us and we're so excited for our next session together.
