“All things have their backs to the feminine and stand facing the masculine. When the masculine and feminine combine, all things achieve harmony.”
– Dao De Jing

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This article is by no mean gender specific. Society naively boxes some feminine attributes to being female. However, the divine femininity needs to have a place in every and each one of us for a more balanced and peaceful planet.

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1. The Relationship Within

Several months ago, a very smart, sharp and successful business lady who suffered from insomnia came to me for an acupuncture session. We talked about her business, which she spent most of her waking hours on.

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You could tell that she is deeply proud of her work – which is a blessing. But on the other hand, something somewhere in her reality was weighing her down.

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I was curious, “How is your relationship with your business/work?”

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All of a sudden, the atmosphere in my treatment room drastically changed. She became offended and annoyed, “How do you mean? Why do you ask?” she almost shouted, “How the hell is this relevant to my health?!”

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To her, there are no relationships between the different aspects in her life. Her mind is her mind, her business is her business, and her body is her body – all strictly separated.

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Except… her body no longer can cope with this notion of separation.

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Various symptoms have developed: over-tiredness, irritation, tension, lacking sustainable energy; no matter how many supplements she has taken and diet changes she has tried, they are just not doing the trick.

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Her being wants deeper nourishment and her feminine energy needs to be released.

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Many of us have experienced this to a certain extent at some point in life: while on paper many achievements and successes make us appealing to the outside world (the relative Yang/Masculine aspect); on the way to getting there, we have exhausted our precious resources within (the relative Yin/Feminine aspect).

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