ENERGY|CONNECTION|LEADERSHIP
Me Too — You Too — We Too
A time to come together
As I have more time away from the distraction of my day job, I am aligning more and with that noticing more synchronicity in my life. One thing leading me to another, all with the same theme.
I was tagged in a response that Paul Myers MBA made on Jessica Cote article Long Live the King. Honored and humbled to be tagged among some fabulous ladies, Paul shared how “The world needs more female leaders.”
This started me thinking — as a woman, do I feel the world needs more female leaders?
I look at my inbox and find an email for a webinar in a summit I’ve been listening to. Nina Simons is the speaker today, who co-edited the book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and wrote the book, Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership.
Paul highlighted a quote that Jessica included in her article from Eleanor Roosevelt:
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Nina shared in the webinar that women are:
“Biologically and culturally geared for relational intelligence.”
Nina continues that relational intelligence is empathy and having a sense of what people need. Many women grow up with training to serve other’s needs.
I know I sure did. Raised in a traditional home, my mom was a stay at home mom with my dad being the sole provider. History repeats itself as I become a stay at home mom raising my two kids.
I finish with Nina’s talk, and move into another webinar, this one with Alan Cohen, who is an inspirational leader and has authored 27 books.
As Paul shared his view on where our world is due to men in charge, Nina shares her view that our leadership today has a might makes right take. Alan shares that we live in a world where it’s being right over being happy.
I’ve said before, I’m not political. And I’m not looking for conflict, but I am looking for a new model of leadership…
…I’ve shared that many feel there is a bigger picture, a deeper meaning to this virus. That it’s a wake up call. In a world that promotes more, more, more the message sent back is that’s enough.
The busyness of our lives slowed so that we could go within.
We all have feminine and masculine energy in us. Usually leaning more to one over the other, and it doesn’t have to be our gender’s energy either. Louise Hay shares that:
Feminine energy represents receptivity and taking in. And masculine energy is giving out and letting go.
Women follow their hearts, we feel. Men follow their brains, they think.
So as a woman, do I feel the world needs more female leaders? I feel the world needs more conscious leaders — both women and men. As well as more conscious people as followers.
It would be of benefit to us all if we would learn to balance the feminine and masculine energies within us. Tap into the strengths of both.
According to an article by Lena Schmidt on chopra.com:
Qualities and Benefits of Feminine Energy:
- Empathy
- Nurture
- Fluidity
- Softness
- Reception
- Openness
- Devotion
- Creative
- Compassion
- Community
- Feelings
- Support
- Intuition
- Life
- Understanding
- Magnetically attract what you want
- Hold space for projects to develop at their natural pace
- Enjoy the process of creation independent of the end result
- See the big picture
- Work with others and create community
- Connect to emotional and physical life as a catalyst for change and development
- Relate to others by listening, sharing, and nurturing
Qualities and Benefits of Masculine Energy:
- Leadership
- Action
- Reason
- Logic
- Adventure
- Strength
- Loyalty
- Firmness
- Survival
- Confidence
- Focus
- Pride
- Honor
- Efficiency
- Power
- Caretaker
- Tenaciously pursue what you want
- Decide when/where/how a project grows
- Focus on the end result of a project
- Focus on one thing at a time
- Rely on yourself and your individual achievements
- Set boundaries around emotions and your body in order to accomplish goals
- Relate through camaraderie, entertainment, and problem-solving
I see in myself that I was more in my feminine energy as a mother with young children and now as I am creating my business, I lean more into my masculine. I am mindful to do what I can to balance both — balance my heart with my brain.
Think about the idea of balancing your energies….
And getting back to leaders, I would like to see leaders, both female and male, that would have relational intelligence. According to Jeremie Kubicek, “Relational intelligence is the ability to connect and be present in the midst of tasks.” He continues stating that, “IQ is no longer a competitive advantage”.
It’s about connection, it’s about balance.
Creating a world of harmony, where we stand together, side by side as one.
We are all one — and oneness does not mean sameness. We are all unique drops from the same body of water.
I’d like to see a world where we come from love and not fear. There is so much fear, too much fear…especially now in these times.
We need to come together — united. I feel we are so divided…
As a health and wellness coach, I was playing with words:
I…illness (only focused on self)
We…wellness (united, a community)
Dis — ease….disease (original meaning — lack of ease)
Come together collectively to create a world with more ease.
Imagine….
…you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us and the world will live as one.
A song from my childhood — a theme in my adulthood.
Thank you Paul for challenging what is and wanting something more — and for tagging me. Men of quality respect women’s equality. Thank you Jessica for writing your inspiring story.
I am so glad that we all are connected :).
Until next time ~
Sending you light, love — along with Wholeness & Well Being.
Be Well,
