Happy Soul Food Friday
This week:
- Happy Holy Days with Eric K
- Winter Solstice 2022 with Billy S
- 7 Reasons Why Santa is a Positive Leader
- Caring for Employees Through Self Care -The Culture Crush Business Podcast with Me
Happy Holy Days with Eric K:
This time of year, for those of us living in the wintery hemisphere, calls forth our implicit spirituality.
Ordinarily gentle and niggling, spiritual presence comes collectively alive during Hanukkah, winter solstice, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Samhain celebrations.
Winter traditions emphasize gratitude, compassion, benevolence, and caregiving – our gentler nature that gets subsumed by the business and activity of day-to-day hustle and drive.
Still, we are culturally called to pause amidst the cold and dark, appreciate being alive, connect with community, and extend our attention to the Cosmos and God.
My fondest wish for you, as one spiritual being to another, is that you bask in this moment, be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and soak in as much of that Gentle Spirit as you can lovingly and courageously absorb.
Happy Holy Days and New Year.
Winter Solstice 2022 with Billy S:
Aloha Friends,
The winter solstice was on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 1:48 pm PST
This begins the winter season.
It is a pivot point from which the light will grow stronger and brighter.
The longest night and shortest day of the year are followed by a renewal of the sun as days get longer.
On this day the sun takes its lowest arc across the sky.
On this day the sun sets farthest south on the horizon.
Creating a meaningful winter solstice celebration can help us cultivate a deeper connection with nature, family, friends and community.
The winter solstice can be a beautiful reminder that our lives are part of a larger order that’s always changing and renewing.
A way to bring warmth, light and cheerfulness into the dark time of the year.
For many millenniums humans have marked this sacred time in the yearly cycle of life.
The winter solstice can serve as a touchstone to help us cultivate an attitude of receptiveness and appreciation that will carry us through the holiday season.
Reflect on the stillness of the day by cultivating stillness in yourself.
Spend more time listening, watching and honoring the slower, quieter rhythm of the season.
Darkness and night are times of rest, dreaming, healing and growth.
Seeds must be put into the dark earth in order to send out roots and push up new shoots.
Native plants bloom now so that their seeds will be formed and fall to the ground early enough in spring to take advantage of the rains.
Plant a seed for a more intuitive, simpler and natural holiday season.
If you want to change something in your life or something about yourself the winter solstice is a good time to work on it.
This longest night can be a time of journeying deep into our inner dreamtime to bring forth a dream that can help us in the new year.
A new year with fresh possibilities reborn in us all.
The Winter Solstice is:
A chance to clean house, both inner and outer.
A time for reflection, rest and renewal.
A time for feeding the spirit and nurturing the soul.
Stay in tune with nature and wellness!
More on the Solstice:
First day of winter: Shortest day, longest night on December 21 solstice – The Washington Post
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Caring for Employees Through Self Care- The Culture Crush Business Podcast:
Here is a podcast I was interviewed on about cultures and self-care that might be useful as we reflect on our world of work over the holiday season
What CEOs think employees want is not what employees say they want…
Culture Matters!
Caring for Employees Through Self Care E30 – Culture Crush (culturecrushbusiness.com)
Thanks this week go to Billy S, Eric K, Larry H, & Kindra M.
Pay it forward and be good to yourself over the holidays!
Love,
Neville
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“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,
YOU OWE ME!
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole world.” – Hafiz
Happy Soul Food Friday! 