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"I have problems with expressing my masculine energy"
I have problems with expressing my masculine energy. I don't know if I understand which part that represents but I always find myself compromising what I want and believe so that I won't offend anyone. When I was a child I couldn't express myself... my stepfather would mimic me when I cried... I had to hide my feelings so that I wouldn't get in trouble. I am very controlling in my relationship and when I don't control I am very angry. As a teenager I had a lot of anger that I took out on my mom through emotional outburst because I blamed her for allowing my stepfather for mentally and physically abusing us. I can not fully relax when I have sex with my fiancé. My body is very tense (I wasn't sexually abused as a child). I can often identify when someone else is being taken advantage of but have a hard time voicing when I am being taking advantage of. I also have my dreams analyzed, and last night in my dream my masculine energy came to visit me. 1st appearance, it tried to force open the door of my home. I pretended I knew who it was and took off running away from it. 2nd, the beginning of the dream repeated itself and when I heard the footsteps, instead of waiting for it to force the door open (which scared me), I opened the door and saw it and it said to me "I came to help you". Do you know any exercises I can use to integrate it into me or to bring it from the suppressed state?
Hi - One exercise that you can do is to vision with both your masculine and feminine energies. Here is some info and some techniques on how you do that. There is also a wonderful meditation which balances the poles of the body, and this too, I think, will help you to integrate the masculine in a gentle and loving way. It is called the Merkaba meditation. I am including the info on that, also, but I listen to the CD of it, which is absolutely wonderful, and I strongly invite you to order it from www.drunvalo.net. It will also be important for you to accept and understand what was the brilliance and purpose for you in this life to have these experiences. Our soul creates situations for us to learn and evolve. I invite you to read the Laws of the Universe and to play with what your soul was teaching you by your creating being a part of a family where these difficult situations occurred. When we can get to a place within ourselves where we accept that we created our own reality for a specific purpose, we are then able to move from feeling victimized and angry and powerless which also manifests as the opposite need to control) into knowing that we are the Creator. Then we move beyond blame and shame and guilt into acceptance and love. This will be an important step for you.
Masculine/Feminine The aspect of the masculine contains (in brief) the more rational, direct, practical, assertive qualities, while the feminine is the creative, intuitive, feeling, visionary part. The feminine also contains the ability to look inward, as the masculine quality is outward directed. Being introspective is a crucial aspect of who we are. In our society in general, the feminine aspect of our being, (as with women in general), has been labeled "less than." For a man, in some ways, showing feminine qualities, or feelings, as you expressed in mentioning the wall you created around yourself, has even been forbidden. If a man is seen as sensitive and introspective, he is laughed at and labeled a wimp. Therefore it becomes dangerous to show feelings or let others in, as there is a great fear of ridicule and rejection. Why this has come to be is a long story, but the gist of it is, how unbalanced and crazy it is to think that a half of our being is stupid, less than, or something to be demeaned. It is clear as crystal that one without the other doesn't work to create life, whether that means a literal life, a child, or our own creative, balanced, healthy life as an individual. The old and unbalanced masculine programming that most men were given tells one that when you are introspective you are doing something wrong. Your feminine part that knows you must go inward to be a clear human being. If a man gets very much out of balance by denying his feminine inner self, he will most likely have difficulties in two areas: (1) he will not be able to be in touch with his feelings, and (2) this can lead to difficulties in relationships with others, not to mention oneself. Sometimes a man, or woman, who denies her feminine, may substitute the lack of warmth that they feel for ambition and live a mostly analytical way of life. Mind over heart, in other words. While the rational certainly has its place and is an extremely important aspect of our being, without heart it becomes hard and cold, perhaps overly ambitious, as it substitutes warmth for ego attainment and accomplishment. Often a man who has a wounded masculine or feminine part, who has been abused, will usually compensate for this by becoming overly aggressive and abusive himself, which comes from a deep place of fear and insecurity, or else he will lose his masculinity and become timid and withdrawn. You incarnated into a family that has abuse as a major issue. You can end that cycle by healing it within yourself. No one needs to be abused or attacked. When we understand that life is a precious gift, to be cherished and honored and treated with gentleness and compassion, then we move beyond abuse of any kind, whether to oneself or toward anything else. This issue is all about moving from pain into Love - to realize that we can learn our lessons gently with respect and love toward oneself. As we learn to honor life and to do no harm, we give that gift of compassion to ourselves as well as others. There are many ways to get in touch with whatever part of us has been repressed. One excellent method is to do a visualization where you find some quiet, alone time, put on some gentle, soothing music (instrumental, no voices) and, after becoming quiet and relaxed, and breathing deeply and gently for a few minutes, with eyes closed, you ask to see and speak with your feminine side. Then you Trust whatever shows up for you - whether it be impressions, or information, or thoughts, or a flash of memory or understanding. You can hold a conversation with this part and ask it what it needs, asking how you can help it to be more available to you, or more healthy, etc. You can also do this with your masculine side and, as you work and directly connect with both parts of yourself, you will create a new and healthier, more dynamic balance between them. You can ask them to converse together, to share with one another what is needed also to create a symbiotic and complimentary wholeness between them. What is revealed may prove to be quite interesting. I would invite you to do this checking in now and again to continue the growth process. It is a timely issue, as it IS time for all of us to be in and create a harmonious balance between the male and female parts of ourselves, to get beyond the duality of conflict into wholeness, where the whole is greater than the parts. We have become polarized, the male and female struggling against one another, out of touch with one another, with no tools to bridge the gap, and we see this in the high divorce rates. In reality the male/female balance ought to be seen as a oneness, both beautiful, both equal, but different parts of a greater whole. Blessings, Ayal The Teaching On Spherical Breathing Like the sun, we must breath, radiating out to all life. And from all life we will receive our manna. Begin by creating a place in your home that is used only for this meditation. Make a space where no one will walk through or disturb you, possibly in your bedroom. A small altar with a candle and a cushion or pillow to sit upon may be helpful. Make this place holy. It is here that you will learn to create the MER-KA-BA around your body and make conscious contact with your higher self. Once each day, enter into this meditation, until the time comes when you are a conscious breather, remembering with each breath your intimate connection with God. To begin the meditation, first sit down and relax. Let the worries of the day go. Breathe rhythmically and shallow. Be aware of your breath and relax. When you feel the tension begin to fade, begin to open your heart. Feel Love. Feel Love for all life everywhere. Continue to breathe rhythmically, being aware of your breath, and feel the Love moving through your spirit. When the FEELING of love is in your beingness, you are ready to begin to move towards the experience to the MER-KA-BA. Without this Love, no amount of knowledge will create the MER-KA-BA. To the degree you are able to Love, will be the degree you will be able to experience the MER-KA-BA. The following is an overview of the meditation to reach the MER-KA-BA. There are seventeen breaths to reach completion. The first six are for balancing of the polarities within your eight electical circuits, and, also, for the cleansing of these circuits. The next seven, which are quite different, are to re-establish the proper pranic flow through your body, and to recreate Spherical Breathing within your body. The fourteenth breath is unique unto itself. It changes the balance of pranic energy within your body from third dimensional to fourth dimensional awareness. The last three breaths recreate the rotating fields of the MER-KA-BA within and around your body. The instructions: The following instructions will be broken down into four areas: MIND, BODY, BREATH and HEART FIRST BREATH: Inhale HEART: Open your heart and feel love for all life. If you cannot do this, you must at least open to this love as much as is possible for you. This is the most important instruction of all.FIRST BREATH: Exhale HEART: Love The Mind exercise is performed along with the following BODY movements...
BODY: Move your eyes slightly toward each other, or, in other words, slightly cross your eyes. Now bring them up to the top of their sockets, or in other words, look up. Also, this looking up motion should not be extreme. You will feel a tingling feeling between your eyes in the area of your third eye . You can now look down to the lowest point you can, as fast as you can. You should feel an electrical sensation move down your spine. The MIND and BODY must coordinate the above mental exercise with the eye movements. The eyes look down from their up position at the same time the mind sees the triangular horizontal plane of the female tetrahedron move down to the apex of the female tetrahedron. This combined exercise will clean out the negative thoughts and feelings that have entered into your electrical system. Specifically, it will clean out the part of your electrical system that is associated with the particular mudra you are using. Immediately upon pulsing the energy down your spine, you change mudras to the next one and begin the entire cycle over again. The next five breaths are a repeat of the first breath with the following mudra changes: Second breath mudra: Thumb and second finger together The first part, the first six breaths, the balancing of the polarities, and the cleansing of your electrical system is now complete. You are now ready for the next part, the next seven breaths. Part 2 Here an entirely new breathing pattern begins. You do not need to visualize the star tetrahedron at this time. Only the tube that runs through the star, from the apex of the male tetrahedron above your head to the apex of the female tetrahedron below your feet, needs to be seen and worked with. This extends one hand length above your head and one hand length below your feet. The diameter of YOUR tube will be the size of the hole formed by YOUR thumb and forefinger touching. BREATH NUMBER SEVEN: Inhale HEART: Love. SEVENTH BREATH: Exhale MIND: The prana sphere centered at the navel continues to grow. By the time of the full exhale, the prana sphere will be approximately eight or nine inches in diameter. EIGHTH BREATH: Inhale HEART: Love. EIGHT BREATH: Exhale MIND: The prana sphere continues to grow in size and will reach maximum size at the end of this breath. This maximum size is different for each person. If you put your longest finger in the center of your navel, the line on your wrist defining your hand will show you the radius of the maximum size of this sphere for YOU. This sphere of prana cannot grow larger. NINTH BREATH: Inhale MIND: The prana sphere cannot grow larger, so what happens is the prana begins to concentrate within the sphere. The visual appearance is that the sphere grows BRIGHTER. NINTH BREATH: Exhale BREATH: As you exhale, the sphere continues to grow brighter and brighter. TENTH BREATH: Inhale MIND: About half way through this inhale, as the sphere continues to brighter, the prana sphere reaches critical mass. The sphere ignites into a sun, a brilliant blinding ball of white light. You are now ready for the next step. TENTH BREATH: Exhale MIND: At the moment of exhale, the small sphere two hand lengths in diameter bulges to expand. In one second, combined with the breath talked about below, the sphere expands quickly out to the sphere of Leonardo, out at your finger tips of your extended arms. Your body is now completely enclosed within a huge sphere of brilliant white light. You have returned to the ancient form of spherical breathing. However, at thispoint, this sphere is not stable. You MUST breath three more times to keep the sphere stable. PART 3 ELEVENTH, TWELFTH and THIRTEENTH BREATH: Inhale and Exhale MIND: Relax and just feel the flow of the prana flowing from the two poles and meeting at the navel and then expanding out to the large sphere. THE FOURTEENTH BREATH HEART: Love PART 4: THE LAST THREE BREATHS The Mer-Ka-Ba, The Vehicle Of Ascension You are asked not to attempt this FOURTH PART until you have made contact with your Higher Self, AND your Higher Self has given you permission to proceed. This part is to be taken seriously. The energies that will come into and around your body and spirit are of tremendous power. If you are not ready, you could hurt yourself. If your Higher Self gives you permission to enter into the MER-KA-BA, then don't fear, for you will be ready. FIFTEENTH BREATH: Inhale HEART: Love FIFTEENTH BREATH: Exhale MIND: The two sets of tetrahedrons take off spinning. In an instant, they will be moving at exactly one third the speed of light at their outer tips. You probably will not be able to see this because of their tremendous speed, but you can feel it. What you have just done is to start the MOTOR of the MER-KA-BA. You will not go anywhere, or have an experience. It is just like starting the motor of a car, but having the transmission in neutral. SIXTEENTH BREATH: Inhale MIND: This is the most amazing breath. On the inhale, as you are inhaling, say to yourself, in your head, THIRTY-FOUR - TWENTY-ONE. This is the code to your mind to spin the two sets of tetrahedrons at a ratio of 34-21. Meaning the Mind tetrahedrons spinning to the left will go around 34 times while the emotional tetrahedrons spinning to the right will go around 21 times. As the two sets speed up the ratio will remain constant. |