This last week I haven't been feeling strong

Maybe I needed to notice this to share this unexpected connection

Over the last week or so I haven’t felt strong.

I know I am strong. I just haven’t felt strong.

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

I have felt soft, receptive and reflective. It has been hard to make myself do things. It has been hard to follow through on activities.

Instead, I’m enjoying staring out my window at the trumpet vine in bloom. Or enjoying watching the finches at the feeder.

I’m noticing the depth of feelings. The way a stray thought can bring up a river of emotions tied to people and past events.

If you pay attention to astrology, you’d know that we are experiencing a lot of Pisces energy. It is probably more pronounced for me since I have planets in Pisces. You’re probably feeling it in some way too.

What I’m describing is very Piscean. Emotions, the inner underworld, the ebb and flow of receiving and reflecting.

What I’m noticing is that when I feel like this – soft, emotional, receptive – I feel weak. Purposeless even.

Soft does not equal strong for me. And I’ve been wired to believe that strong is good.

For me, strong is the energy of business. Of accomplishment. Of making things happen.

My mind makes the opposite of these things weak. The opposite of strong is weak. The opposite of emotional is purposeful. The opposite of receptive is directive (making things happen). The opposite of soft is strong.

That’s a very old-school, patriarchal perspective, isn’t it? It’s also a very linear and binary perspective.

I recognize this is a trained, conditioned perspective and feeling. One that hums along under the surface of things so that I don’t notice it.

I mean, how often do you reflect on what is happening under the feeling of feelings?

It’s been helpful to just notice this playing out. There are an awful lot of connections coming together in this simple share. Unhelpful and outdated beliefs about strength, worth, emotions, and morality.

Maybe I needed to notice these things so that I would come here to share what I really believe.

• Emotions are soft and receptive. They can bend under pressure to make room for more.

• Strength is helpful. It also has the feeling of hard. Hard things can break under pressure.

• Business is a creative journey and creativity is soft, receptive and reflective.

• Binary perspectives and beliefs are being replaced with non-linear, quantum beliefs. The impossible is possible.

• Things are either good or bad, helpful or unhelpful, within context. Not as an absolute. And every situation is different, for everyone.

Soft and receptive may be more powerful than strong.

I’ve always thought of water as soft and receptive. Water all on its own can create beautiful things. Just take a look at the photo in this post.

Water carves beautiful canyons out of strong, hard rock.

So maybe I’ve been feeling powerful, rather than strong. Who knew that this is what power feels like?

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