This week’s article from Authentic Health’s Smaranda Maier celebrates the Feminine Energy trait in regard to International Women’s Day.
Let me start with a story. It happened to me two weeks ago. I had a business-related meeting with a lady in her late 40s and I was talking very passionate about what I was doing for living and about teaching people how to eat and cook for life and I mentioned that we are kind of doing it wrong as women. We are eating very much based on a daily or weekly basis routine when our body was designed on a 28-day cycle. When I said the word “cycle”, I meant menstrual cycle and it didn’t take long to notice the concern on her face and the embarrassment and then checking out to make sure that no one could hear our conversation.
I was smiling first and then a sense of deep sense of sorrow overwhelmed me.
We supposed to be healthy and feel great in our bodies, but we choose to feel embarrassment when it comes to acknowledge our femininity and our feminine power. And our feminine power resides very much in our creative power. And our creative power originates in our gift of creation and without our menstrual cycle that gift and empowerment is fading away.
In a week when we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s the time to go back and reflect to what the feminine energy means and how we can feed our inner strength as women.
In times of talking so much of menopause and perimenopause and global acknowledgement of women’s body needs it is the right time to speak about adjusting the correct perspective and try our best to position the women’s health in the top of our priorities on a societal level and on a personal level.
Celebrating our feminine energy and allowing the whole world to do it is great but if only happens once a year and in the rest 364 days we forget about it and we are embarrassed to recognise our bodies and their own physical and emotional needs, one day it won’t make much of a difference.
Let’s dive a little deeper and find out what is the feminine energy?
Feminine energy refers to a specific set of traits, considered to be the opposite of traits associated with masculine energy. Your masculine side gets expressed when you’re working toward a goal, making progress, getting things done, and pushing forward.
Your feminine side gets expressed when you move with the flow of life, embrace your creative energy, dance, play, and attune to your internal process. As you can imagine and easy to realise, we do have them both, but their proportions are different, and they are showing up differently depends on the circumstances.
In our current culture, masculine energy—since it’s often about progress and moving forward—tend to be “valued” more than feminine energy. This creates a feeling of being off-balance, both individually and culturally. But also, creates a feeling of embarrassment when we are talking about our feminine body and its traits especially in the workplace.
How can we cultivate the feminine energy and use it as a strength instead of a weakness?
1.Reflect. Many of us are so busy that we rarely take time to listen to what’s going on inside of us. If we’re always acting in an extroverted way, it creates a disconnection within. We lose touch with our deeper selves. This is a very much a learnt behaviour. All you must do is internally connect to who you are. An excellent way to do this is to start journalling. When you journal, and reflect on your thoughts and behaviours, you’re essentially diving into your deeper, internal, feminine side.
2. Go into nature. Places can be characterized as either masculine or feminine, depending on their overarching characteristics. The feminine is life force energy. Places like the forest, parks, and the ocean are abundant with natural feminine energy. Go there when you’re feeling out of sync and in need of revitalization.
3. Get creative. The feminine is the creative force. Femininity historically described women, and, of course, many women have bodies that are designed to create life. But creation can occur in many ways—artistic expression, writing, dance, painting, or dreaming up new ideas. Envision what you want to create. Anything that expresses your flow is considered feminine.
4. Hone your emotional expression. While the masculine is defined by logic, the feminine is expressed through emotions. We all have emotional selves, but many of us haven’t been taught how to understand our feelings.
5. Force yourself to transform. Some of us think of the feminine as being quiet and rejuvenating, but that’s only half the story. Feminine energy is bold as well—it’s the force of transformation. If things in your life are no longer working for you, it is feminine energy that surges to make a change. This can be dramatic and messy and overwhelming! But remember, destruction comes before creation; we must say goodbye to the old to welcome the new. Without the powerful movement of feminine energy, both soothing and calming, we would remain stagnant. And nobody wants that.
Don’t be short on celebrating your inner power and nourishing every single part of your beautiful self.
For more information on how to tune in and dial up your feminine energy and begin your journey towards emotional health please reach out on info@authentichealth.ie.
