And no, we're not just referring to the “obvious” hormonal cycle. But also to... ✨ homeostatic cycles (and allostatic load/capacity), ✨ decision making cycles, ✨ hustle vs. flow cycles, ✨ sympathetic vs parasympathetic cycling (to name only a few). These are fundamental not only for your daily performance, but all different “seasons” in your life. Optimizing your “brain” cycles, for example, and aligning them to the rest of your physiology can make all the difference in truly integrating your work and (family) life plus mental health while staying on top of the ToDoList. That's why "Cycles" is out big topic for this month and June in our 👉🏼 community, the LIFEsurfers 👈🏼 We kicked it off today with our live call, in which we tuned into the why this is important for us, what our obstacles are, and what intention we have moving forward. All of that while connecting to our intuition, and not just relaying on that inner voice in our heads. Let us know... where are you at when it comes to any of those cycles?

Do you have a favorite season? Mine is spring. I (Sandra) love the slowly rising temperatures, the noticeably longer days, and just the overall awakening and increase in colours after a long white winter here in the Canadian prairies. Only that this year... spring just doesn't seem to happen! Last week we've still had overnight frost with -2C, single digits daytime temps... and then this coming week... boom! Up in the +30Cs!!! Trees exploded into green literally overnight (ok, that's exaggerated - it was over 2 or 3 nights 😏)! Well, bottom line, it's not the easy transition that I love, but a steep jump. And my body and emotions really struggle to keep up. I'm literally in a grieving state - and as an emotional eater this obviously reflects in my tendency to overeat at the moment. As a marine biologist having worked with global change and it's effect on aquatic animals performance, I gotta say that all these changes in weather scare me. And it doesn't help that it'll be a Super El Nino year! 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞. Like, hormonal and nutritional cycles, allostatic capacities, nervous system rests, to name only a few. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 "𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠". For me that means finding (and noticing!) these pockets of joy, the moments that light me up, in the here and now - no matter how long or short spring is this year. To focus on what DOES work, rather than what doesn't. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝐼𝐹𝐸𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑤𝑒’𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 (𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎) 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒. 👉🏼𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬: We blend 🧠 neuroscience🌿 mindfulness✨ intuition & Human Design. By bridging the science with spirituality, we’ll help you tap into our fullest potential and master the waves of life with grace – and a bit of fun 😉!

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Happy Friday everyone! With the weekend pretty much here, a question just dropped into my head this morning: How different do your weekends look like compared to your weekdays?? Because oftentimes we do have very different routines for either, be it that we can sleep in on the weekends, catch up on connections, read a book... vs our usual work routines having to get up early and barely having time for anything else during the week. And for many of us, this is kind of a cyclical pattern that might even make us feel stuck and unhappy (especially if there is not much of a breather from our work routines). My question(s) to you is now: ✨ Do you consider yourself being a person who thrives on routines, like, rinse and repeat? ✨ Or do you rather love the adventure of not knowing and trying out different things all the time? ✨ Or maybe you value both? In my little video that I just posted in our LIFEsurfer community, I shared a bit about the neuroscience side of routines and I'm curious to hear your take on it! If you want to dive deeper into our current topic of "Life's Cycles", and learn how to adjust them so they work optinally for you - come join us in the LIFEsurfers to surf this beach together!

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