Balancing the Divine Within Us
What is the point of balancing our energy? Does it really matter in our day to day lives, or is this only important for those looking to evolve or expand their human consciousness? Most of us have a 3rddimensional orientation to the world (rocks are hard and water is wet) which has been weighted heavily towards the masculine principle for many centuries. We recognize, reward, and promote those that demonstrate the qualities of action, doing, and left-brain logical reasoning and consideration.
The qualities of intuition, contemplation, introspection, and nurturance are seen as having little place at work, school, and/or in many homes. While we live in a physical world, we also operate within symbolic and imaginative worlds. The use of symbols and imagination are right-brain concepts that are mostly left to scholars and young children. We are balanced, and at our healthiest mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, when these qualities are working together naturally within us. Both the masculine and the feminine energies. We can’t make our greatest contribution until we balance and harness both sides of these natural energies within us.
The chart below defines masculine and feminine qualities and depicts how they are expressed when they have developed in healthy ways (mature), or they are underdeveloped (immature). The feminine and masculine energies within us develop and thrive as a result of our beliefs which are modeled and taught to us by our caregivers and culture. Very few of us have learned that both our masculine AND feminine qualities are useful and how to translate them into balanced and healthy expressions in our lives. Many of us experience our masculine and feminine energies as imbalanced, unavailable, overwhelming, twisted, disconnected, or separated.
Here are some helpful distinctions:
Key distinctions about the differences in the energy.
Defines what healthy or what mature feminine and masculine energy look like in action. Remember, we need both to be in balance regardless of our gender identity.
Defines how this energy shows up when it is ‘immature’ – meaning it was not allowed a ‘natural’ or ‘healthy’ expression and development. We often mirror and repeat these wounded aspects from our caregivers.
Take a moment and look at the lists above. What energy do you find yourself using the most? Are you able to use whatever is needed in each situation or are some of them distasteful to you? Which of the immature energies do you find yourself experiencing? Do you criticize or dominate when the unexpected happens? Perhaps you get quiet and feel overwhelmed when others are making decisions that affect you? Just take a moment and see which experiences are most familiar to you and which ones are not. If you are willing, circle the mature ones that you like to experience more often. Then, circle the ‘immature’ ones that you would like to experience less frequently. This is where the work of ‘balancing’ starts. Ideally, the divine masculine action holds space for the inner work of the divine feminine. The divine feminine inspires and supports the actions of the divine masculine. When they work together this way within us, they can flow out in our relationships and heal the immature version of our energy once and for all.
How can you expand and balance your divine energy?