I Am Shakti: Reclaiming Women's Innate Power to Heal Themselves and Restore Balance, Health, Prosperity, and Joy for All Beings

I Am Shakti: Reclaiming Women's Innate Power to Heal Themselves and Restore Balance, Health, Prosperity, and Joy for All Beings   By Maya Tiwari (https://www.o-books.com)   I Am Shakti is the affirming mantra of our time   To restore the sacred balance in ourselves, our relationships, and our world, we need to understand Shakti, the Vedic principle that refers to the primordial feminine principle that is at work at the core of all existence. Her life force has infused breath into life on Earth for billions of years. Though she graces all her citizens with the gift of consciousness, she endows her cosmic blueprint to women alone, honoring them with the blood that brings forth new life. Look closely at the skin that covers your womb. In the silent umbilicus of her creation, the Goddess stamped her procreate magical seal into the reproductive memory of all female species. This seal imbues each womb with the life-giving force that keeps Shakti’s primordial memory vibrant in the feminine cellular body. It is the origin of creation and life, of consciousness and vitality.   At this time of social and individual evolution, a rapidly growing percentage of humanity, women and men and all genders, is already experiencing a new quiet surge of awareness. At the same time, we are witnessing the breakup of old, rote, anarchical, ancestral, social, and political patterns. The reins of patriarchal control are wearing thin and taut. We are sensing the emergence of a vast sweep of consciousness affecting every being on Earth. Fresh conscientious impetus to support the awakening of awareness is being disseminated through quantum physics, yoga, holistic medicine, ancient spiritual practices rooted in indigenous cultures, teachings by spiritual luminaries, and through books and online portals. We are experiencing a vast communal synchronicity steeped in both extremes of challenge and illumination: the paradox of the deep dark cavern of Earth and, simultaneously, the brilliant sunlight of the open sky. We are awakening through evolution and revolution; and each of us has the potential to do so.  As the feminine force, she expresses herself as Para-Shakti in the greater universal field therein forging the inner awakening of consciousness through a propagation of awareness that appears as consciousness-awakening behavior. In other words, our personal enlightenment spurs social enlightenment. At the same time the alignment of the planets in the rarest of configurations, the mounting unease so many of us feel, and the awakening of awareness in a significant percentage of humanity forecast a radical overhaul that supports feminine justice—a key occurrence for restoring the divine feminine largess of all beings.   At this pivotal junction in our history, women, in particular, are becoming more sensitized to their Shakti prowess. We are shifting perspective away from an outmoded and ineffective model of femininity and how it’s been misunderstood in the past, where so much has been about copying what men are doing. Instead, we are creating a new vision by redefining feminine power for the new generation through the deep exploration of the Shakti principle. As we shift awareness from the old feminist model that never truly worked for women and stop emulating the inured patriarchal model, we forge forward with a new and ancient wisdom to restore feminine power. At the same time, we light the way for women, men, and all genders to fuel and facilitate the non-binary and non-dualistic agenda in harmony with universal justice that we are seeking.  Fortunately, the ground for reclaiming our sacred right of the Shakti is ripened and fertile. Standing at a major crossroad of consciousness where we feel this palpable, visceral energy awakening, women are galvanized to reclaim their primordial feminine power. It takes immense courage to peer behind the veil to find our true self in purpose and truth. Simply by emulating what we think is feminine power does not make it so. We must learn the repetitive patterns of patriarchal history to reclaim our stolen Shakti force.  In so doing, we regain the balance, and the necessary alignment with source power that has been blown asunder by our masculine counterparts.  We can greatly influence the present masculine-dominated spheres by bringing Shakti’s prowess to the fore. We can also inspire our men to awaken to their primordial masculine nature, referred to in Sanskrit as Shiva. We not only need their help to accomplish this palpable shift of consciousness in our world, but we need to help them find their own masculine balancing force. The primordial masculine energy is naturally protective, stoic, and well-balanced, a needed counterpart for Shakti’s mission to successfully effect the necessary shift in awareness and operating modes. Our primary task is to reincorporate Shakti’s intrinsic rights and rites into our living structure—cultural, social, economic, scientific, ecological, and spiritual.   ***   The time is long overdue for Shakti-Shiva - the Divine Feminine/Divine Masculine- to stand as one unified front to reclaim its intrinsic power of alignment. We have been living under this veil of separatism for too long. Our intrinsic Shiva-Shakti bond is unhinged.  We do not comprehend the feminine and masculine divine, and, as a result, we experience the feminine and masculine divide. We find ourselves untethered from the universally aligned energies that naturally compel our self-generating life force to deal with and resolve challenges. We must recognize the lies that have been skillfully sifted into the recalibration of truth and relinquish the false constructs handed down from one dysfunctional generation to the next. Veneration of the Goddess necessarily entails veneration of the God. As Shiva-Shakti, we are two aspects of the same being. This principle is greater than our individual genders. Each human being holds the sacred staff of the Masculine and Feminine Divine within their being. The female gender contains the pro-active Shakti energies, and the male gender possesses the pro-active Shiva energies. As we lose touch with our primal nature, we sacrifice our innate human heritage of unity, love, and wellness and have been doing so for millennia. We pull apart the Shiva from the Shakti, the Shakti from the Shiva, not seeing, not knowing, not understanding that these “two” comprise an inseparable “one.” We can begin to disband patriarchy’s falsehoods by choosing not to subscribe to the illusions that have been fiercely concretized into what we conjure and buy into as “reality.” Patriarchies are not “the natural order of things.” The battle of the sexes was engineered. Women do not have a biological imperative to be sweet and submissive, nor are men inherently more aggressive.   The Shiva-Shakti principle, vastly differs from society’s interpretation of masculinity and femininity. Men and women tend to compete more than they collaborate, to perceive each other’s complimentary characteristics as weaknesses, and to use and betray each other more than they partner and uplift. Yet, there is no simple way to assign blame or demand accountability. Endless generations of patriarchal lunacy have meticulously crafted the convolution of reality that engineered this divisive outcome.  Fortunately, this veil of separatism—fastened in place by perspective and learned behavior—is an illusion we can strip from our vision. It is possible to restore feminine/masculine divinity and reclaim the sanctity of being human. But first, we must acknowledge that we have been shaped by fear-oriented societal, religious, and cultural mores. These moorings have honed behaviors and belief systems that do not serve the greater good of our nature. We do not need to endure this morass of falsehoods any longer. The energy that each gender carries is incredible. As we have seen in the Shiva-Shakti paradigm, the maternal, feminine force, Shakti, manifests consciousness, and the masculine force, Shiva, holds this immutable power of consciousness in a place of ecstatic balance. These juxtapositional energies are entirely supported within the body by prana, primordial breath force. Of the innumerable conduits of prana continually flowing into our body from the astral channels of the universe, Ida and Pingala are the two fundamental channels in yoga philosophy that nourish the operational life force of the Shakti-feminine and Shiva- masculine principles, respectively. These two channels run alongside the spine, crossing over each other at each chakra. Ida resides on the left side of the body, our feminine aspect ruled by lunar energies of the moon, mirroring its dark, inert quality. Pingala, on the other hand, resides on the right side of the body, or masculine aspect, ruled by the solar energies of the sun and representing its light, active quality. Specific pranayama practice serves to balance and unblock the flow of prana through these pivotal channels, leading to the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of Shiva-Shakti vibration. As we strengthen our vibratory field, we are fostering unity between these two primordial energies within ourselves while illuminating our nature of unity and harmony. The important focus here is that we understand what it takes to move forward in harmony within ourselves and each other. First, we work together to heal and make whole the primordial feminine energy axis of consciousness, which restores the primordial masculine energy. These two energies working in tandem with each other can reverse the free fall. When both these primeval energies work together, as they are meant to, we create harmony. When these energies are pulled apart and alienated, whether within ourselves or from each other, we experience a sense of chaos and imbalance. I Am Shakti: Reclaiming Women's Innate Power to Heal Themselves and Restore Balance, Health, Prosperity, and Joy for All Beings By Maya Tiwari is available from https://www.o-books.com or from wherever books are sold. 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