Developing Spiritual Balance
by Stuart Wilde
Q: In your tape series "Loving Relationships" you explain how females have a natural
spiritual balance. You also mention that when women figure that out and stop
trying to compete with male energies, they will begin to know their power. Do
you have any thoughts on how they might be able to do this in a balanced way? It
seems like the role models we see of women who have "made it" today are women
who have done so by pushing their way through.
A: It's true that we seem to see the role models who take a more "yang" pushy attitude to life.
However, you have to qualify what you mean by "making it". In the ego's currency, "making it" is money, glamour, success, power, fast cars, and the like.
In my view, making it is more of a spiritual exercise, so there are millions upon millions of women who have made it quietly in a spiritual way who would not be considered successful in the ego's world.
If you adopt the ego's currency for your life, then you do have to push. We live in a patriarchal society that requires yang types of action, investment, shoving, self-advertising, and so on. If you work in the currency of the higher self or the infinite self, then making it is something very different.
Obviously, one needs to develop a balance -- a certain amount of "making it" in order to be creatively and financially successful, and a certain amount of embracing one's feminine spirituality. I know loads of soft, feminine ladies who are self-made millionaires, so it can be done.
Women have to walk a fine line between making a living and asserting themselves so they're not used and manipulated by other people.
But then again, the balance is the same for males, because the tendency for males is to push so hard and to strive with such zeal that they push the very thing they want away from themselves. Many males tend to overwork themselves and lose track of their childlike qualities and their inner yin softness.
This column is excerpted with permission from his book:
Simply
Wilde
by Stuart Wilde and Leon Nacson.
Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Hay House (www.hayhouse.com)
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About The Author
Author and
lecturer Stuart Wilde is one of the real characters of the self-help, human
potential movement. His style is humorous, controversial, poignant, and
transformational. He has written 11 books, including those that make up the very
successful Taos Quintet, which are considered classics in their genre. They are:
Affirmations, The Force, Miracles, The Quickening, and The Trick to Money Is
Having Some. Stuart's books have been translated into 12 languages.
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