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)
If you enjoyed
this article,
purchase the book here.
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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