Showing posts with label female power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label female power. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

When Sex Can Trash the Self



A woman I know told me that when she first had sex and lost her virginity, she felt she had been run over by a Mack truck. She felt it took her years to recover from it. But because of her mental conditioning, she thought that that was supposed to happen. That somehow her self esteem was supposed to diminish. She was thrown off her path for years just by having teenage sex with a man who didn’t care about her, and with men afterwards who did not esteem her at all. They thought of her as someone fluffy, disposable, not to be taken seriously. They did not see her as powerful.

In my teens and twenties, when I was certain I understood sex perfectly, I often had unemotional, athletic sex with men.  When we parted company, it was clean (I thought).  We’d had a good time and then it was over.  The “game” part of me was smug – I’d fulfilled my sex drive for a little while.  But my being, the ancient, sensitive, psychic being that I and all women are, was not pleased. 

There was actually a subtle feeling, something like my friend’s.  Not a Mack Truck but maybe a Mini Cooper that was driving in the wrong direction after the encounter.  I was drained and I knew it.  Taking a shower, going to classes, focusing on other things took the edge off the sense of unease, but if someone had asked me to respond with three answers to the question, How do you feel right now? – the third answer being closest to truth –I would have admitted that I felt like shi_.

These moments happen because there is something basic that men and women, teens, tweens do not understand.  As a woman, you have an energy body that is very fluid, it extends out from your physical body like a large butterfly’s wings.  As a woman, you conduct life force much more rapidly than a man, and because of this, your essential nature is power.  Women exemplify power.  Look at how power is generated in nature and technology – the core of power is rapid movement.  This is how life force or kundalini energy is conducted through the energy body of a woman – rapidly, capable of fast transmutation.

The energy body of men is denser, more tightly packed.  They conduct life force more slowly than women.  Their essential nature, the equalities they exemplify, are love and humility.

It’s a tendency of human nature (male or female) to destroy what one is threatened by.  Thus men, threatened by the power of women, have tried to suppress it in every way.  For many thousands of years, women have been suppressed socially, emotionally, financially, held back from education – to the extent that women themselves began to think they were weak. 

Now, in this mental age, the power of women is becoming more and more evident.  You as a woman have power, but you can trash it.

For example, let’s say you, a woman, want to go out and have sex with a male partner (this scenario refers to heterosexual relations).  Consider the dynamics. 

Your energy body vibrates faster than his.  Your energy body is also more sensitive than his.  Let’s say this man is like many men and still harbors some distrust or resentment towards the power of women.  When you go to bed with this man, even if you think it’s casual sex, you open yourself up so that his feelings enter into you.  You may not realize it but you are picking up an entire library, a psychic archive of this man’s feelings about women.  You are not just getting laid.  You are getting imprinted.

Sex is an energy exchange.  If you go out and date a “bad” guy, a macho guy, an angry guy (or gal), whew!  You are sucking up those qualities into your being every time you spend relaxation time or sex with this person.  For the average date-and-run, you are getting your power taken away, and in its place you are receiving a host of negative images and impressions.  Spending time with the “wrong” person is a bad exchange.  You’ll never know what you missed by not allowing your being to blossom in power.  You’ll never know what doorways you did not walk through.

Back in the very olden days, sex was a high spiritual practice.  There was nothing angry, bad, foolish or weird about it.  People had sex to elevate their consciousness.  You, the power woman, can still do that by going to bed only with nice partners who do not harbor anger and resentment towards you or towards women. 

I’m not suggesting that all men are bad.  But many men have very disrespectful and inappropriate ideas of women, and during sex, they inject those ideas into you, without your being aware (in your state of sexual openness) and trash your power potential.  You crawl out of your twenties eager to get out of the dating mess and settle down.  Emphasis on the word, “settle.”    

You have to make sure, mindful ladies, that the man being allowed into your body is only projecting into you the highest views of your power and your being. And that will be the partner who honors the highest ideal of power in you, the tsunami fully risen. If a man or partner can’t accept that about you, then he/she is doing you a great disservice.  If you meditate, your partner’s doubts and negativity will prevent you from becoming enlightened.

Suggestion!  Go out with nice partners or don’t go out at all, and start to observe.  If you are dating men, find men who embrace their love and humility.  Observe the faster, more fluid energy body of women and the more grid-like, denser energy body of men.  It’s all around you.  Trust your intuition.  Compare a night in the sack with a partner who may be in a low consciousness with a bright, joyous, powerful and self-confident existence in which you help others as well as yourself.  Consider helping the planet by becoming as powerful as you can be.  Don’t settle, please!  

Liz Lewinson is author of Independence Ring: Rock the Female Revolution. She is also a speaker, technologist and Buddhist.  See www.independencering.com. 

Saturday, 9 February 2013

Dancing with the Stars: All Women

Just came back from my second rehearsal of the flashmob dance for #1BillionRising on V -Day, February 14.  Here in the San Francisco area, the flashmob will happen on the plaza in front of City Hall, and the event is sponsored by the Mayor of San Francisco.  City-wide involvement in an event to end violence against women and support the well being of women is remarkable enough, but these dance rehearsals are a world of joy unto themselves.

My first rehearsal was at a dance studio in San Rafael, CA on Thursday night.  Almost 40 people showed and packed the space -- women of all ages and several men.  As we learned the steps from a gracious and lovely dance instructor, something began to happen.  We learned the movements.  We heard the words -- "break the chain" -- "You (all women) are beautiful" -- and by dancing and moving together, we invoked the power behind the words.  We achieved a special unity.

In older times, dance united the tribe.  Dance was a powerful and evocative way of communicating higher feelings and emotions.  So it is with this very inspired way to bring women of all ages (as well as some welcome men) to do something inspirational together.  DANCE!  Learn new movements and new dance routines, apply them to new music.  Simple yet absolutely revolutionary.

Today I went to a second rehearsal in Sausalito, CA and perhaps because I had to concentrate less on the movements themselves and more on the flow and refinement of the movements, I had another, even more powerful experience of unity and the power of women.  When you are pointing at the other ladies in the room and singing "You are beautiful," and you are looking at women with no makeup, no special hairdos, no special age or shape -- in other words, you are seeing your fellow women without the imprint of marketing and media and centuries of conditioning as to what constitutes "beautiful," it is quite amazing to discern just how truly beautiful your fellow women are.  It's mind-blowing because it makes you realize how many judgments you lay on yourself and your fellow women that keep you apart, and those judgments are not real.

And when forty women dancing are envisioning breaking the chain of violence and repression, and I sincerely hope Eve Ensler achieves her goal of one billion rising on February 14, that vision is impactful, unifying and visceral. 

The women in both dance classes kept saying, "This is so powerful."  It is.  I am honored to be part of it and to dance in the flashmob on February 14.  I hope women will read Independence Ring to keep the flame of power building and rising to the highest possible level.

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Jennifer Lawrence and Vanity Fair's Sexism

Vanity Fair Magazine has proclaimed Jennifer Lawrence the most desirable woman in the world.  I hope Jennifer is annoyed about it.  She is definitely the hot actress of the moment, but she is also smart, brainy, self-confident, outspoken and funny.  On the Vanity Fair cover she holds a little white daisy.  It doesn't fit.  The person does not fit the title and the title does not match the image.

We are in a time of change regarding gender roles, fortunately.  The Vanity Fair cover is a jarring mismatch of old and new.  Little white daisy -- simmering, powerless women in pretty dresses floating around the garden.  Jennifer Lawrence, strong-minded and capable 22-year old actress, a new generation of feminist. 

This is what the cover did for me.  It provoked a thought process.  Are older editors at Vanity Fair, which is frequently known for demeaning photo images of women, stuck in the fresh younger women equal white daisies syndrome?  Do they have any idea how to portray powerful young women?

Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is attractive, but sexual attractiveness is the least of her traits.  She is athletic, natural and smart.  Don't push her boobs up and stick a daisy in front of her.  Praise her for being the most desirably talented woman in the world.  Still not a complete statement but a bit more accurate.  

Who is the most desirable woman in the world?  Women are. Why are we so desirable? Because we as women are great problem solvers,  we have an advanced intuition, we communicate well, we are comfortable with complexity, we are innately powerful.

It's really no fun to have mainstream media consistently perpetuating 50 shades of sexism.   #notbuyingit



Liz Lewinson is author of Independence Ring: Rock the Female Revolution.  www.independencering.com. @lizlewinson.