What are 3 signs of imbalance with your masculine qualities?

Our lives are dominated by a masculine paradigm and it's easy for you to slip into masculine patterns in your life. There’s nothing wrong per se with accessing the masculine qualities in your life unless the feminine qualities are not equally being accessed. 

A few of the masculine qualities that are easily observable in daily life include:

· Strength

· Being active / taking action; and

· Controlling.

Let’s now take a closer look at each one.

Strength is having the capacity for endurance and stamina and applying inner resources to situations to overcome obstacles. It can refer to physical strength as well.

The next quality is being active / taking action this includes being physically active, e.g. exercise, and taking action toward achieving your goal or intention.

Controlling refers to being dominant in situations and expecting others to do things in a certain way e.g. following processes.

As you can see these are all useful qualities to help you with navigating life but there’s a real possibility for overuse of these qualities too.

What are 3 signs of imbalances with these masculine qualities?

1. Working long hours regularly and pushing through to achieve deadlines.

2. An absence of slowing down and resting. This may lead to not having time for vacations or you are constantly focused on the goals you need to achieve. It is possible over time to develop a habitual pattern of excessive action taking and exercise.

3. Requesting others to do things your way regularly and infringing on their autonomy and flexibility to achieve the outcome. You may also be attempting to control outcomes in your life thinking that if you just do this or that, you will have the result you desire and then when things don’t go to plan you can feel disappointed or worse, depressed.

Can you see these signs of imbalance in your life?

What is one action you could take to shift the imbalance to the positive?

We were designed for both the feminine and masculine aspects to coexist, and return to wholeness. When you become consciously aware of which qualities you are placing value on, you create awareness of other choices you can make to support you with thriving in your life.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new – Socrates

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Stay tuned for next week, when you uncover 3 signs of imbalance with your feminine qualities.

Here's to living your best life!

Melissa Taylor

Future Transcendence Leadership Mentor

Author of A Practical Guide to Finding Your Soul Purpose