The Power of Inner Balance

The more you are able to open up inside, to you and your energy, to everything that wants to flow through you, the more your perceptions of the outside will change: your way of dealing with situations implying other people and the way you relate to them. Whereas surrender, receptivity and compassion are feminine aspects of your being, important masculine aspects are clarity and discernment.

Masculine energy enables you to draw boundaries between your energy and experience and that of others. It brings you back to your core when you lose yourself in the feelings and sufferings of others and it cuts through the veil of illusion. Masculine energy confines and separates. When it is nurtured by the unboundedness and expansion of your feminine force of surrender, its effects will not be destructive and damaging, but stabilizing and structuring.

In deep compassion, you feel all your inner conflicts and battles and those of others, too. Indeed, this is a crucial characteristic of compassion neglected all too often: Compassion means first and foremost feeling compassion with yourself and all that is inside of you. Only when you can approach your pain from a place of neutrality without any need to resist or change it, will you be able to compassionately feel the pain of others without taking it on. The love and compassion of your heart, your feminine aspect, is protected and fortified by your masculine power. What protects you from being drawn into the suffering stories of others is your inner balance between both of these aspects.

The discernment qualities of your masculine energy enable you to clearly differentiate between their experience and yours. The loving qualities of your feminie energy will keep your heart open and make you sensitive to anything others might be feeling. Whenever we open up to the energies of others, there is the risk of us identifying with them. The more, however, you are in harmony with your own feelings, the more you will be protected from taking on other people´s stuff.

Non-attachment is powerful, but often one of the hardest things to do. If it is pain or sorrow we are feeling, there is something inside of us that does not want to let go of the pain, because it is so well-known to us and such an integral part of our story.

When it comes to happiness and joy, some part of us wants to cling to it so that it never leaves, while at the same time actually keeping it away from us out of fear that it might go away.
If we sense these energies in others, we then will have the same tendencies of incorporating them into our being and keep them there, often in an irrational attempt to help them. But identifying with our experience always leads to suffering.

We need the powerful masculine energies of clarity and discernment to destroy the illusion and detach us from what we are experiencing. Energy is nothing but energy, it comes and it goes, always changing in infinite transformations.
To be in harmony with it means to welcome it as it is arising and disapperaing, honoring it for the manifestation of love that it is at its core. No matter how much it has moved away from its core of love, it is through the love of your heart that you bring the energy back to its true nature.

The two poles of feminine and masculine energy cannot be separated as they are in essence one and the same. Two aspects of the same truth manifesting itself in different ways. You cannot truly be in harmony with yourself if you are in imbalance with either one of them. Know this, accept this and rejoice in the beauty of your own being!