Blooming Into Your Desires, Dropping New Age Manifestation & Creating through the Energy of Femininity

Desire is inherent in the feminine being.

Yet what I’ve observed in traditional self-development, as well as spiritual/new age circles, is the lack of nuance in understanding the concept of desire.

On the one hand, there’s the striving towards a ‘desire-less’ state of being. A place where we have no desires, and just let things unfold, not getting attached to anything.

This can feel so harsh to a woman’s soul, because she’s intimately attuned to the undercurrent of desire in her life. It forms a vital part of her being. So to be told she needs to banish desire from her life can sap her natural radiance and aliveness, and have her push down her organic feminine essence.

Then there’s the more traditional “goal-setting” mindset of masculine paradigms, where we start with a desire in mind and work backwards to figure out the means to the end. Yet this focus on the end result leads to a constant striving, a drive to take action just to “get” something from it. The feminine soul is malnourished when this becomes the overarching focus, usually being forced to compromise herself to meet these ends….

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