““You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.” ― Roy T. Bennett
WEEK Three: single focus v diffused focus
INTENTION
Men and women have different brains and these brains function in different ways; we will explore how this awareness has given us a different lens for seeing men and partnering with them. Our focus for embodiment this week is “ATTENTION.” Where do you place your attention? What is this quality of attention? (Is it single focused or diffused, or both?) We will apply this single focus and diffused focus to our own inner masculine and feminine this week for embodiment practice. We will commit to a steady practice to cultivate this single or diffused focus.
daily practice for this week:
Sat Kriya + Adi Shakti - Our practices for this week are the two Kundalini practices that help us to cultivate our “feminine flow” and “masculine structure.” I’m bringing the Sat Kriya practice back from “Honoring Your Inner King,” you know this practice is a structured and fire-y one. The Adi Shakti is a moving mantra and moving meditation practice which gives us more of a flow feeling. These practices are invitations this week to embody the differences between single focus and diffused focus. (For a refresher of the Sat Kriya practice you can watch HERE, for detailed instructions of the Adi Shakti practice you can find them HERE.)
where will you place your devotion this week?
“There is no journey of the Feminine without devotion.” Each week I will be asking you to share where you will be placing your devotion for the week. You have three choices: Your Higher Self, on God/The Divine (as you call it), or on The Masculine.
felt sense for the week:
Each week we will focus our attention on the practice of allowing ourselves to be felt. For many of us this practice includes learning to articulate how we feel in any given moment, and learning to trust our bodies to tell us how we feel, and having the courage to take action (mas)/or move (fem) from here. The very first step to this forever practice is allowing ourselves to FEEL, so that we can feel it and trust it for ourselves. Be prepared to enter our circle this week by sharing how you are arriving, in a felt sense.
This week I invite you to FEEL: Clear, Focused, Diffused, Devoted, and Disciplined
altar + tools:
Each week I will be inviting you to consider the ways you incorporate the Feminine element of “the sacred” into your life; this is completely, uniquely YOUR way. I will be sharing things each week to inspire you, please find your own ways to deepen in here and I hope that you will share these during our journey so that we may be inspired by you and your practices.
This week I invite you to BE CURIOUS ABOUT:
Your idea of “an altar” and if you feel inspired, please create an altar that will represent this full journey. If you already have an altar, please consider placing something on it that represents your focus for this week.
Consider the “tools” you have to practice and/or to add “the sacred” into your life: candles, rituals, ceremonies, oils, prayers, affirmations, tinctures, cards, crystals… (If this is something you need guidance with please let me know and we can muse together on our Friday call.)
questions for contemplation + discussion
Which practice speaks to you the most at this moment? The Sat Kriya or the Adi Shakti and why?
Give one recent example of a man in your life with focused awareness + how you responded. Share how this wisdom is currently present for you in any relationship with a man in your life.
Keep an inventory this week of the inner dialogue you have about frustrations you have about single focus. Apply this “single focus” wisdom to YOUR inner masculine; how does it apply?
Celebrate your diffused focus this week: what are you capable of with this feminine gift?
Celebrate your single focus this week: what are you capable of with this masculine provision?
(What is the difference for you between “gift” and “provision?”