By Celeste Smucker
Holistic experience is unified Consciousness. It is the Oneness of all and everything.
–Master Charles Cannon
For thousands of years, humans from vastly different cultures have acknowledged and worshiped the Divine Feminine.
She may appear as the Virgin Mary or Sophia in the West. Or as a goddess or Devi like Kuan Yin, Buffalo Calf Woman, Lalita or Lakshmi in the Eastern and Native American wisdom traditions.
Whatever we call her, she is the subtle life-affirming energy that creates everything in the universe including all of us.
And when we align with her we experience enhanced balance and presence, along with consistent access to our intuition.
Let's look at how and why.
What Is the Divine Feminine?
The Divine Feminine is the source of all creation.
There is nothing we can see, hear, feel, smell, taste or touch that is not her, including ourselves.
She is not a path to consciousness, but rather consciousness itself.
Sunsets, rainbows, and friendships are examples of her work.
The multi-colored leaves of fall, an inspiring piece of literature and the spring blooms that welcome us back from winter's darkness are also her creations.
As the source of all and everything, she also creates what we may call negative events and feelings such as anger, hate speech, crop failures, earth quakes, anxiety or depression.
How can that be? Let's take a look.
Our Fragmented World
The Divine Feminine at her purest is unified consciousness. She is formless with no beginning or end.
To create us and our world she densifies herself into form. As such we experience ourselves as separate from her, each other and the rest of creation.
To help us navigate our world she also gives us an ego.
Without it we would not be able to set goals, budget time and money, plan for the future, get to appointments on time or be productive in our work.
As the ego gains control, however, it tries to hide our true nature as one source consciousness.
Instead we begin to see and experience each other as separate entities who judge others out of a need to feel superior.
To feel good about ourselves we may also identify with things we own or do.
Examples include our job, our bank account, our phone, our house, our clothes or our accomplishments, anything that lets us feel superior.
This narrow, ego driven view causes us to crave even more stuff while hanging on tightly to what we already have.
This is the Divine Feminine at her most dense.
In this state you may, for example:
- Ignore events and opportunities like graduations, birthday parties, date nights or family dinners in favor of longer working hours.
- Continue in an unfulfilling career because you value the status it brings even though you hate going to work every day.
- Lose your life savings by investing in a get rich quick scheme you thought would quickly make you wealthy and more competitive.
- Support a war because acquiring and having more becomes a nation's agenda.
Over time, these ego driven choices can change the structure of your brain so you crave more and more of them.
What's the solution?
Balance, Presence & Holistic Awareness
A focus on the Divine Feminine as one source consciousness or holistic awareness balances the negative impact of excess ego driven choices.
Holistic awareness is broad and comes from a different part of your brain than do your ego-based cravings.
It utilizes multiple sources of input that together bring balance to your densest dimensions: physical, emotional, and mental.
And the more balanced you become, the more you are able to develop the awareness that allows you to experience the Divine Feminine's life force energy.
The more you align with her the more you recognize your own divinity and that of everyone you meet.
Like her you are a creator.
What Keeps You Unaligned?
What keeps you stuck in density and fragmentation?
Doubt, causing you to question the advice that comes from truthful sources and your own intuition, is the main one.
You become so focused on your ego based achievement as the path to fulfilling your needs that you don't want to give it up out of fear of losing something important.
So you continue long standing habits such as:
- Ignoring advice about diet and fitness that are key to achieving and sustaining greater physical balance.
- Staying caught up in negative emotions that promote ongoing anxiety and depression.
- Holding onto old beliefs and thought patterns that keep you from trying new things or expanding your awareness about what is possible.
- Acknowledging the power of even small changes but being unwilling to commit to the daily practices that sustain them
How To Align With the Divine Feminine
The Holistic Lifestyle® is a good place to start your journey to balance, presence and alignment with the Divine Feminine.
As your balance and alignment increase so will your access to your subtle dimensions including your intuition.
Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Stay in touch with your inner stillness with daily meditation. This will help you enjoy a deep wordless awareness that also supports balance in your body, emotions and mind.
- Create balance in your densest dimensions: physical, emotional, and mental.
- Physical body imbalance looks like poor health due to unhealthy food choices and insufficient exercise. To increase balance choose to engage in appropriate exercise and eat a diet that supports your individual constitution.
- Emotional dimension imbalance reflects negative feelings like fear, worry and anxiety. When you notice them, stop, take a breath and flow positive feelings through your heart.
- An imbalanced mental dimension is full of powerfully limiting thoughts. A daily practice of positive affirmations or chants can help.
Check out our affirmation soundtracks with Synchronicity® Sonic Technology, which support your mind to receive these empowering affirmations at a deep level.
- Adopt a daily practice that works with your schedule. This can include meditation, breathwork, yoga, a morning walk, time in nature, journaling or anything that helps you feel more balanced and aware.
- Your intuition will strengthen as your balance increases. Act on it, starting with small things. Your faith in your intuition will increase the more you follow through on the insights you receive.
- Work at consistency in your daily practice, which will build balance and access to your subtle dimensions.
Take a Deep Dive: Join Our Divine Feminine Retreat
Our upcoming Embracing the Divine Feminine Retreat is an opportunity for you to explore, deeply embrace and recognize this creative, life-affirming energy that has been with you since the day you were born.
Even if you do not recognize it in yourself now, our experiential retreat will help you find and align with it so you can experience its powerful benefits in your life.
Open to all genders, the retreat does not require you to embrace any particular religion or spiritual path.
You will also enjoy the nurturing energy of our sanctuary often described as "deeply nourishing, clarifying and profoundly restorative."