November 13th, 2020

MASCULINE ENERGY AND FEMININE ENERGY

People have heard about masculine and feminine energy, but do they know that we have both masculine and feminine energy as a person? Common statement in public is that masculine represents male and feminine represents female. That statement is not necessarily true. We can see male that is gentle, dare to cry, and nurturing while there is woman who is "get and go" type.

So, what is masculine energy and what is feminine energy?

MASCULINE energy:

• active​
• loves structure and creates rules
• organizing/managing
• planning
• keyword: DOING
• pushing/forcing when imbalanced
• is predictable
• stable (static)
• logic (mind based)
• willpower
• clarity
• focus
• achieving
• brutally honest
• direct to the point

FEMININE energy:

• flow gracefully like water ​
• attract like magnet. It is not passive, but active by attracting things to come
• receiving and appreciating
• intuitive (heart based)
• creative
• nurturing
• gentle yet powerful, not gentle meek
• embrace all, including darkness or shadow part of oneself
• quiet (contemplate)
• expressive
• letting go
• slowing down
• keyword: BEING
• dynamic or changing

Do you know which energy is more dominant in yourself?

We need both energy to work together to create balance. When both energies are balanced, we are more aligned with ourselves, between our heart and our mind. It makes it easier to attract things to come into our lives. Focus on the BEING first (for example be happy, be joyful, etc.) then take action or DOING.

Allow me to make our body as example. We need both strength (masculine energy) and flexibility (feminine energy) to keep it healthy. If we only focus to strengthen our muscles through hardcore practice that gets us sweat by forcing and pushing, and we forget to make the joints flexible, it is not considered as healthy as well. Our body needs to be both strong and flexible to sustain our everyday activities. Therefore stretching is needed here. A more gentle practice like yin yoga, qigong, taichi is a feminine practice that can keep your masculine practice in balance.
Nurturing yourself in nature like walking barefeet on grass, journaling, meditating, dancing are some of examples to escalate our feminine energy and be creative. Remember to have fun and be playful as well. Don't take all things too serious in life. Create rooms in life where we can enjoy things.

In modern times like now, we are mostly busy all the time and always try to achieve something. We get busy with the outer world like checking messages or emails in our cellphone, overthinking of something, etc. that sometimes we forget to take care of our innerself. It is time to return inside and balance our masculine and feminine. When we take care of our inner world, our outer world will take care itself.