Soft Power of Feminine Energy

As women and men, the way to live a healthy, joyful, happy, energetic life to the fullest is to understand our own feminine and masculine energy, to use these very powerful energy sources correctly and to learn to support them correctly.

The origin of feminine and masculine energy is based on the concepts of Yin and Yang. Feminine energy is Yin and masculine energy is Yang. The concept of Yin & Yang was used in ancient civilizations to describe the functioning of the universe, nature, human physical and spiritual system; it expresses that opposites come together to form a harmonious whole, and that opposites complement each other to create a balanced flow. For example, day and night form a ‘day’. Day without night and night without day are incomplete, unbalanced and tiring. For a ‘day’ to be meaningful, healthy and balanced, it needs both night and day. It would be difficult to describe light without darkness. The sun and the moon make sense when they come together. Only the sun or only the moon is tiring. Nature needs both the heat and energy of the sun and the calmness and coolness of the moon.

Opposites, opposites are not enemies to each other. They are components of the whole with equal importance and weight.

The concept of Yin refers to silence, being deep, darkness, the moon, staying in the centre, night, winter, bones, the fertility of the soil, surrender, rooting, while the concept of Yang refers to day, heat, summer, muscles, what is outside, movement, effort, action, sun, sky, fire.

Yin and Yang are intertwined. The Yin carries the Yang within it. What is Yang harbours what is Yin.

Yang without Yin and Yin without Yang bring imbalance, collapse or a consuming, destroying chaos. There is a masculine touch within the feminine and a feminine touch within the masculine. This ‘touch’ brings us into balance, helps protect against collapse or excess. Feminine Energy is the feminine aspect of the divine force that binds the world together. It is the goddess energy that exists within us all. Many ancient cultures have the concept of the divine feminine, such as the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Aphrodite and the Hindu Shakti. The divine feminine can be found in almost all ancient and modern belief systems.

If you say, “So how do I use the power of feminine energy as a roadmap for self-realization?”, read on:

Accept Yourself as You Are

Maybe you rolled your eyes when you read this sentence, you are right somewhere. Recently, this sentence appears almost everywhere. Self-acceptance is something that is easy to say but quite difficult to implement. Sometimes we dislike ourselves so much and want to change that this sentence can sound like it wants to pacify us. However, this sentence contains a deep parental compassion. Isn’t the way to be a good parent to love and accept your child as he/she is? Even if you give your child the world, a child without love and acceptance finds himself in a dry desert.

Acceptance is one of our deepest needs.

Regardless of our childhood story, accepting ourselves as we are is very valuable for us to see the characteristics and needs of our character. Dr Gabor Maté, who has attracted attention all over the world in recent years with his studies in the field of psychology and his unique approach, defines personality as follows: ‘The strategies we develop without realizing it in order to exist and be accepted in the family and social environment we are in during infancy and early childhood’.

Accepting ourselves is therefore also about accepting who we are during these periods and offering it the much-needed acceptance. Accepting not only ourselves but also what is going on around us is what makes feminine energy compassionate. Accepting things as they are can be possible with a keen awareness and being able to see things clearly. A sharp awareness and being able to see things clearly is only related to staying in one’s own centre.

Stay in Your Own Centre

It is the feminine energy itself to have an organized and focused mind, not to react immediately and hastily to external stimuli, and not to be disconnected from our own feelings and thoughts, no matter what situation we are in at any time we are involved in life.

The ability to stay in one’s own orbit with a mindful calmness is what makes feminine energy wise.

To be tossed around after external stimuli, to seek one’s own value in external praise and approval, to be unable to stay with oneself, to fail to withdraw in order to gather strength and rest, to feel the need to be visible all the time means to spend feminine energy irresponsibly.

Discover the Taste of Withdrawal

With the introduction of social media into our lives, being visible has become our new normal. Each of us is now the star player of our own channel. If we look at the feminine energy in the light of ancient knowledge; being visible all the time, staying in touch with the outside world with our image even if we are not together with people, causes our feminine energy to be wasted like water pouring out of a burst pipe.

What supports the feminine energy is to withdraw completely from the outside world into our own inner world from time to time, to give ourselves the care, care and attention we need.

Being mysterious and curious, not revealing oneself immediately, staying with oneself calmly but with pleasure are the magic formulas that nourish the feminine energy. Of course, the secret here is to do all this not as a ‘strategy’ but to nourish yourself from within.

Honour Your Menstrual Periods

The collective consciousness of womanhood enables even women who do not have children to harbour within themselves the divine power of giving life to a living being.

Bringing a living being to life is almost the archetypal state of creativity.

The hormonal changes that women experience during menstrual periods nourish their creative, intuitive states and the colours in their emotional ups and downs. At the very beginning, we said that the framework of feminine energy is self-acceptance. Deeply accepting these periods, which are the most distinctive feature of being a woman, approaching this period with respect and compassion, reorganising the daily flow by reviewing the needs of the menstrual period will pamper the feminine energy as it deserves. Finally, let’s touch upon a very important point:

Enjoy the Masculine Touch within you

You know the Yin Yang symbol: Inside the Yin there is a white dot symbolising the Yang, and inside the Yang there is a black dot symbolising the Yin. The thing that will crown the feminine energy is to protect that small point, to keep this powerful energy alive in the feminine system. Discovering new things, being goal-oriented, doing physical exercises for the muscles, claiming your own space, being yourself in the outside world will support and balance the feminine energy.