It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.
It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.
Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.
I've seen women essentially martyr themselves for the good of the future and the good of their children and, again, the good of love. That shouldn't be happening but it shows you the strength and power of it, and the fact that it will take over a woman's sense of her own survival. Men have taken advantage of that for hundreds and probably thousands of years.
All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.
Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.
We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.
What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.
It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.
Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.
Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
I'm generalizing, but women, being so connected to life, tend to have stronger intuition is stronger because they are trained to be on the look-out and protect. Men do that too, but there's a different quality to women.
My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.
Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.
