Welcome back to the blog beautiful readers, today’s topic is very dear to my heart and I will explore different facets of it with you in the future as well as I believe our creator has contoured each and every one of us with very unique and specific designs in mind. For that reason, it is important to get to know both ourselves and our creator in order to honor that design. I believe as humans we all have common shared purposes but at the same time, we all have very unique paths we are called to walk on as well. That design is closely tied to the concept of femininity and masculinity. As natural as these topics are, they can be very controversial these days. My vision with discussing this topic is not tying ourselves up into more stereotypes about how femininity and masculinity should look like but instead discover our unique cocktail, get joy from it and become freer.
Male and female is not the same as femininity and masculinity.
Our bodies are biologically different and from a biochemical standpoint, we have very different variations of hormones which completely change the way we relate to ourselves, others and to the world we live in. On an emotional and mental level our hormones create many differences within our body, mind and soul.
Each man and woman have a masculine and feminine side and there is great benefit behind having both of these energies. To illustrate this, imagine the difference between jackhammering asphalt and rocking a baby to sleep, two very different states of being have to be tapped into and both men and women are able to shift in order to perform these tasks.
It means we have two polar different energies within us that we can call upon to help us in a task that requires a very different state of being.
Inner Masculinity
The general characteristics of the masculine energy:
- physically more powerful;
- driven;
- built to succeed in the world through using motivation and force when moving about their day;
- highly connected to the left side brain hemisphere which is the rational and logical side of the brain;
- due to left side brain hemisphere connection, rational and logic are used to problem solve, rather than tuning into intuition which goes beyond rational problem solving.
- the masculine energy tends to be more direct and linear rather than free. For this reason, the masculine energy is less likely to be expressive of emotion.
Masculinity as a Woman
Tapping into masculinity as a woman infuses her with a lot more motivation, productivity and drive to arrive at our desired goals.
This could look like:
– planning the day;
– making daily lists and moving down the list until everything is ticked off and complete;
– making goals and map out desired outcomes;
– results oriented mentality and faster way of living and being;
– productivity at work;
With masculine energy present, levels of productivity are extremely high however as women we would naturally not be creating as much space for ourselves on an emotional and mental level, the end result being more important than being in touch with ourselves internally.
Inner Femininity
The general characteristics of the feminine energy:
- slower, does not like being rushed or hurry (hence the saying “one cannot rush art”);
- calmer, warmer demeaner;
- more being rather than doing and accomplishing;
- nurturing, heart centered, compassionate towards others (children, pets, family and friends, the disabled etc);
- feminine energy is highly connected to the right-side brain hemisphere which is linked to emotions and intuition;
- overall oriented towards teamwork and comradery;
Feminine energy feels much softer, patient and calm. It allows things to unfold and there is a deep trust that everything will unfold as it needs to. Rather than making things happen the feminine much prefers to sit back and allow things to come her way.
Allowing life to move through her, there is a different set of abilities that are used. Rather than tapping into thinking and doing to make things happen, it’s about allowing the intuitive abilities to show the way. The benefits of being in our feminine energy is that it is the naturally creative and intelligent force that drives things to unfold.
As you can see, there are benefits to both these energies that are contained within every human. They both have a necessary role for our life journey so that we can learn, grow and have the most pleasurable life experience, as either man or as woman. Men may have more masculine traits due to their hormonal and chemical ratios and the same goes with the female biochemistry. Balancing these energies brings us to a feeling of wholeness and completion within. We really do need our inner masculine as much as we need our inner feminine. By accepting and respecting both aspects of ourselves we honor our creator and it is the first step in loving our fellow humans, both men and women as we see deep value in all this wide range of qualities and abilities.
Until next time, much love! 😊
SimplyLadyEvergreen 