Feminine Energy, WTF?
Is feminine energy pink, or what?
I saw the email in my inbox with the subject "Cultivating Your Divine Feminine Energy". My reaction was immediate and visceral.
It was a perfect example of a paradigm in action.
Don’t talk to me about stinkin’ feminine energy! I’m no wus!
WTF is that, anyway, Divine Feminine Energy? Are you joking?
What about divine masculine energy?
Or, divine they/them, non-binary, energy?
Growing up professionally as a female without children, in a male dominated environment, struggling for equal rights, equal pay, equal respect… feminine energy?
Phffffft!
*Delete*
***thinking***
*Undelete*
This was me, recognizing a perfect opportunity for cultivating self-awareness - if not divine feminine energy. Anything that creates that kind of reaction needs to be explored.
What is feminine energy?
Why should we care?
After a couple of hours of research…. and yes, there is a lot of woo-woo, way-out information out there. And, I say “way-out” with much love. However, if you want, there are unlimited rabbit holes you can get lost in while researching feminine energy.
BUT, hoping for a general understanding, this is what I ended up with:
Feminine energy is:
Being energy; the traits that help human beings connect in meaningful and fulfilling ways.
Generous, nurturing, heart-centered, communicative, sharing, intuitive.
Masculine energy is:
Doing energy; the making-shit-happen traits that help you when you're working toward a goal,
making progress, getting things done, and pushing forward.
Rena Satre Meloy, puts it like this:
“Masculine energy is characterized by DOING and achieving and is molded by logic and reason.
The feminine is more intuitive, oriented towards receiving and allowing, and characterized by BEING.
When these energies are balanced, we experience a greater sense of harmony and fulfillment.”
Ahhaaa!
Now I get it!
Think about it.
For the whole of our career - most of our life, really - what is known as feminine energy wasn’t acceptable. Or, even more to the point, feminine energy was considered a weakness, naïveté, or even foolish.
After a lifetime of squelching our generous, nurturing, heart-centered, communicative, sharing, intuitive energy, can you see how, now at this place in our lives, cultivating - or learning how to resurrect your feminine energy might be important?
I wish there were different terminology we could use rather than feminine and masculine. Our culture continues to stereotype each sex as having the characteristics of the corresponding energy. That's unfortunate. Little girls grow up to subconsciously believe that femininity cannot include assertive (pushy), direct (rude, impolite), or confident (egotistical). Or little boys who are conditioned to avoid showing emotions, flexibility, vulnerability.
Like almost everything in life, balance is critical. We can't be all go, go, go - do, do, do. No more than one can live a healthy life never setting a goal and striving to achieve. It doesn't matter whether you're a male, female, both, or neither.
While the copywriter's choice of wording, "Divine Feminine Energy" landed a bit "way-out" there for me to investigate the event further, it did get me to stop and think and look inward. It also got me to prioritize spending time being creative more regularly, in addition to sharing this with you here today.
Cultivate feminine energy?
Harmony and fulfillment?
Yes, please!
How do you cultivate more feminine energy (divine or otherwise)?
- Spend time in silence - meditation, mindfulness, journaling
- Spend time in nature
- Be creative - painting, writing, singing, playing a musical instrument, doing improv
- Pay attention to your intuition - or when your 'gut' talks to you.
If you'd like more information or ideas, here are a few of articles I read that you may enjoy.
What say you? How do you - or do you consciously cultivate your feminine energy? Masculine energy?
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