There's little more lovely, fantastic, and electrifying than being around women who have something awaken within them - an excursion, a calling, an adventure. I have been pretty fortunate to spend a lot of time with strong women - even raised by two great ones who I would do absolutely anything for - women who have got their own dreams regardless of all the things they are fed incessantly by our society, bloom anyhow. They're completely unique in a world that is training them to be like everybody else. How awesome is that? Above all, women act as moment by moment integrity checkers for men, oracles even, and if you can surround yourself with a grouping of very strong girls, you will grow incredibly, have your head lovingly cut off when you are surely not being the best man you could be, and you may experience life itself and its gigantic variety of experiences. Like the ocean they change and shift by the second, emotions and thoughts swarm...let that help you to find your solidity. They are going to test you with their darkest moods and feelings - only to have them feel that you are immovable, the mountain, always going to be there regardless of what and firm in your purpose. These are gifts, not hinderances. These relationships create you, but if you deflate - they will destroy you. Seek them out - don't be threatened, women can move mountains. They are to be treasured.
The dynamics of my life in moving with true feminine energy has changed just about 180 degrees for plenty of reasons. But oh how I have shifted within. Across the course of my life, I highly identified with strong feminine energy because I had two amazing and awfully strong and dynamic women in my life - my sister and my mum - who are incredibly driven and proficient in what they do. I even had a female dog who was my best friend when I was little and inclined to gel with women better than I did with men. I took the best from my dad as well, equally as driven, thoughtful, inventive and incentivized and became a product of my environment and nurturing.
As I went through the deep chaos of my younger years, I was "all that changes and shifts. " My moods, my angles, my uncontrollable emotions and thoughts...I have described it many times...were like a tornado inside me that declined to cease. Even on the rare occasion it did stop momentarily, back up it would storm again. Blend that with lacking deep purpose after my baseball career ended and an enormous mess was made. So I crashed like the raging ocean for a while...and eventually found my way to writing.
But lately this dynamic shifted in a big way as the bubbling up of my purpose came to me and I started to read, understand, and practice what powerful masculine energy actually was. This hasn't only opened up my world, but has opened up the worlds of the men who live around me. There's an idea that has entered into my mind which certainly has stuck with me for months now, and it's the concept of the mountain. That solidity - identifying with what does not and will never change in this world. The undoubtable stability of being completely grounded in your position, a mirror to life itself, empty and truly ready to express your deepest passions and purpose - which is the expression of love itself.
When a man eventually begins to understand this concept, I will tell you...mountains don't just move in front of him...he becomes the mountain. Whatever might happen around him swirls and yet he is completely calm, planted, and continues to be rooted in his deepest wish. To find your purpose is a great deal more than just what you do for work - it's going to be a direct leader in your life and will deepen your relations, your friendships, your family dynamics, and how you show up in this fantastic world. It sure did for me. As quickly as this hit - bloom - unfold - open - closing the chasm - joy - inner wisdom - integrity - determination through anything.
Women are like the ocean. They shift, change, and adjust by the second. In just a second, a peaceful ocean can change into a sequence of rogue waves. As a man, you are there in your miniscule boat wondering how the hell you are going to climb up that wave before it crests. Women are life itself. They offer, literally, what it means to be alive. Why do you actually think they call it Mother Nature? Everything that shifts around you is moving energy, a type of energy that is uniquely feminine energy and can be accessed. But those waves for guys who do not and won't understand what it actually means to be the captain of their ship can be rocked straight out of their boat - I can not tell you how many times I have been tossed out of my boat or perhaps even bailed before the wave hit. But give a open man a purpose, and that wave starts to look like fun. Additionally, that wave can induce your most important purpose.
This is the part that truly has changed my life utterly.
Each day I sit right down and write, I am completely driven by a kind of energy that's certainely very different from anything that I have experienced before. I sit in my small chair outside on my porch...close my eyes, and breathe as deep down into my stomach as I can. I find that density - that solidity - that love - that emptiness. There's this kind of energy that if you focus on it deep enough, you will find a low frequency lull...that is incredibly deep and powerful. A wavelength which has existed far before everybody and one that will undoubtedly be here forever after. I'll feel it circulate through me sometimes when I am on the mat. Then, I open and observe the things that are going on around me or begin to run through the days events - tapping into all of the things that unpredictably changed - and get impressed by all of that energy. That energy runs straight through my writing - and yet, all at the very same time, I'm here, completely grounded in my place - living as if I was already dead.
Fear, in my heart, disappears.
There I am, grounded, in my deepest purpose, absolutely and utterly impressed by the women around me and that feminine energy...creating, loving deeply, and open to all delicious uncertainty. It's this dynamic, the one between the male and the female - and my tapping into both - that has taught me more than anything else. This has opened me up, changed my relationships, and helped me continue to discover parts of myself that I never knew existed. Floods of great people have showed up in my life and I can really see the entire thing morphing, only to know that it'll all change and pass...and that really is wonderfully OK.
The dynamics of my life in moving with true feminine energy has changed just about 180 degrees for plenty of reasons. But oh how I have shifted within. Across the course of my life, I highly identified with strong feminine energy because I had two amazing and awfully strong and dynamic women in my life - my sister and my mum - who are incredibly driven and proficient in what they do. I even had a female dog who was my best friend when I was little and inclined to gel with women better than I did with men. I took the best from my dad as well, equally as driven, thoughtful, inventive and incentivized and became a product of my environment and nurturing.
As I went through the deep chaos of my younger years, I was "all that changes and shifts. " My moods, my angles, my uncontrollable emotions and thoughts...I have described it many times...were like a tornado inside me that declined to cease. Even on the rare occasion it did stop momentarily, back up it would storm again. Blend that with lacking deep purpose after my baseball career ended and an enormous mess was made. So I crashed like the raging ocean for a while...and eventually found my way to writing.
But lately this dynamic shifted in a big way as the bubbling up of my purpose came to me and I started to read, understand, and practice what powerful masculine energy actually was. This hasn't only opened up my world, but has opened up the worlds of the men who live around me. There's an idea that has entered into my mind which certainly has stuck with me for months now, and it's the concept of the mountain. That solidity - identifying with what does not and will never change in this world. The undoubtable stability of being completely grounded in your position, a mirror to life itself, empty and truly ready to express your deepest passions and purpose - which is the expression of love itself.
When a man eventually begins to understand this concept, I will tell you...mountains don't just move in front of him...he becomes the mountain. Whatever might happen around him swirls and yet he is completely calm, planted, and continues to be rooted in his deepest wish. To find your purpose is a great deal more than just what you do for work - it's going to be a direct leader in your life and will deepen your relations, your friendships, your family dynamics, and how you show up in this fantastic world. It sure did for me. As quickly as this hit - bloom - unfold - open - closing the chasm - joy - inner wisdom - integrity - determination through anything.
Women are like the ocean. They shift, change, and adjust by the second. In just a second, a peaceful ocean can change into a sequence of rogue waves. As a man, you are there in your miniscule boat wondering how the hell you are going to climb up that wave before it crests. Women are life itself. They offer, literally, what it means to be alive. Why do you actually think they call it Mother Nature? Everything that shifts around you is moving energy, a type of energy that is uniquely feminine energy and can be accessed. But those waves for guys who do not and won't understand what it actually means to be the captain of their ship can be rocked straight out of their boat - I can not tell you how many times I have been tossed out of my boat or perhaps even bailed before the wave hit. But give a open man a purpose, and that wave starts to look like fun. Additionally, that wave can induce your most important purpose.
This is the part that truly has changed my life utterly.
Each day I sit right down and write, I am completely driven by a kind of energy that's certainely very different from anything that I have experienced before. I sit in my small chair outside on my porch...close my eyes, and breathe as deep down into my stomach as I can. I find that density - that solidity - that love - that emptiness. There's this kind of energy that if you focus on it deep enough, you will find a low frequency lull...that is incredibly deep and powerful. A wavelength which has existed far before everybody and one that will undoubtedly be here forever after. I'll feel it circulate through me sometimes when I am on the mat. Then, I open and observe the things that are going on around me or begin to run through the days events - tapping into all of the things that unpredictably changed - and get impressed by all of that energy. That energy runs straight through my writing - and yet, all at the very same time, I'm here, completely grounded in my place - living as if I was already dead.
Fear, in my heart, disappears.
There I am, grounded, in my deepest purpose, absolutely and utterly impressed by the women around me and that feminine energy...creating, loving deeply, and open to all delicious uncertainty. It's this dynamic, the one between the male and the female - and my tapping into both - that has taught me more than anything else. This has opened me up, changed my relationships, and helped me continue to discover parts of myself that I never knew existed. Floods of great people have showed up in my life and I can really see the entire thing morphing, only to know that it'll all change and pass...and that really is wonderfully OK.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement, a website devoted to spreading positive high-quality content to those who need a little spark and motivation in their lives. In celebration of the amazing women in his life, he developed a post dedicated to strong women quotes to celebrate just how much we can learn from having women in our lives.
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