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  • Stender Richmond posted an update 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Relationships web-sites always present challenges for personal growth. We sometimes resolve the either/or choices inside our lives start by making choices that shut us faraway from our greatest potentials. Both poles really are a necessary part of living and yet we realize that it is in finding the check we go through the full potential of your sacred Self. This Self, eventhough it includes our polarized dimensions, transforms and transcends those dimensions and causes us to creatively alive.

    To let it go while experiencing uncertainty,

    To accept and rejoice in evolving process, is usually to know peace.

    The pulsing rhythm in the Omnipotent Yes-No

    Beats like an ever-expanding heart to evolve a Universe.

    The breath of Life pauses neither in, nor out,

    An affirmation of Life’s dynamic balance.

    Swimming in the ever-pulsing ocean of becoming

    I find peace inside the creative I AM.

    (Ann Nunley, 1975)

    Many people remember the powerful representation with the masculine and feminine set forth by the tobacco industry in ads through the latter portion of the 20th Century. The Marlboro man, tall, muscular and wearing a cowboy hat and Levis, stared down here from billboards, when it’s in another ad, the sexy lady with heavy lipstick, a good cigarette holder between her manicured fingers and stiletto heels to be with her feet, reminded us that “You’ve come a lengthy way, baby!” basics knew these messages would attract our need for identity and would sell cigarettes.

    It is essential to differentiate between the superficial characteristics represented above as well as the more enduring intrinsic qualities that truly define the masculine along with the feminine. Superficial characteristics are stereotypes that enable us to feel “as if” were expressing who were. True intrinsic qualities are archetypes that reflect the values of your deeper, more whole self.

    When we form relationships, we’re often attracted to other people who seem “opposite” to us and who express qualities we usually are not yet able to express. I suspect we somehow hope that by mere proximity i will be capable of “own” those qualities for ourselves. And yet, what we have resisted and repressed within ourselves is not so easily set free.

    My husband Bob and I are already married 47 years this spring. Being somewhat introverted, I was magnetized by his uninhibited expressions of exuberance. However, once we married I became uncomfortable with those very expressions. I found myself telling him what he “should” and “shouldn’t” say and do – imposing restrictions for my narrow safe place. He bore this with great patience. Then one day as I was mulling over my judgments and building a few more, the Oscar Wilde’s phrase ” all men get rid of the things they love.” entered my head. I vividly saw and felt what I was doing and why. I remarked that I needed to produce, within myself, abdominal muscles qualities that I had first admired in Bob and then rejected.

    This experience taught me to be acutely aware as opposed to a lose-lose situation must others to discontinue genuine pieces of themselves to meet your own comfort zone, and our most significant creative act is always to re-create ourselves by liberating ourselves from old coping patterns that inhibit the expression individuals highest potential.

    In individually balancing the masculine and feminine qualities within ourselves, we be a little more whole and dynamically alive. Love expands our hearts after which moves upward to bloom being an expression of the Soul. We can then share this wholeness web-sites without asking these phones fill in your missing pieces.

    When two whole and balanced people form a partnership, their hearts and souls unite in a very sacred synthesis, making a third expression that always surpasses whatever either partner could individually express.

    Our movement toward both individual and collective balance supports a genuine ecology to be where we creatively keep the integral systems ones we can be a part. As we balance aspects within ourselves, we expand our influence to compliment balance within our partnerships, our families, our societies, all sentient life on this planet, and the universe itself.