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The Sacred Union: Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies for a Wholesome Life

We're made of both masculine and feminine energies. Our feminine experiences support masculine direction, and our masculine structure supports feminine flow. These energies are oppositional yet complementary. Working with both allows us to express ourselves fully.

The Qualities of Our Femininity

Our feminine qualities are intangible representing the source of insight, emotional depth, and intuitive understanding. These qualities reside in our internal world - the nuances and experiences only known to us. How we feel internally is the foundation with which we lead in our external world.

These qualities include our beliefs, thought processes, awareness, range of preferences, assumptions, and the unique ways we perceive our external world.

The Qualities of Our Masculinity

Our masculine qualities are tangible and emerge from feminine insights. These qualities help us navigate our external world. Feminine qualities provide us necessary information which guides masculine action.

Masculine qualities include intentional actions, behaviours, and responses. Our masculine energy drives us toward our vision, taking concrete steps to bring our purpose to fruition.

Sacred Union

When our masculine and feminine energies work harmoniously, they create a sacred union. This balance of internal and external energies makes us whole—an individual. The deeper we explore our feminine depths, the higher we can ascend through our masculine heights.

Feminine energy is also a force of destruction. To achieve a masculine goal we must confront and dismantle our limiting beliefs. Addressing these limitations frees us to move toward our envisioned purpose.

Masculine energy, resourceful and structured, leads with the insights provided by feminine devotion. Together, these energies create the essence of our wholeness.

Masculine and Feminine Energies as Social Constructs

Society has wrongly attributed masculine and feminine energies exclusively to cis-males and cis-females, respectively. These beliefs have imposed strictly defined roles on genders, ousting those who do not meet these societal parameters.

However, these energies are devoid of gender. We carry both the energy of creation and destruction, irrespective of our genders. The interplay of these energies varies in individuals, shaping the diversity of human sexuality and defying binary constructs.

Final Thoughts

Throughout life, we draw on the insights and tenacity of these energies. When we surrender to our purpose, we allow the wisdom from these energies to guide our creations.

Our life's journey is itself a creation. It moulds us into the person we need to become to fulfill our purpose. Ancient texts and philosophies have often emphasized this truth—it is always about the journey and the transformation it brings, not the destination.

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The Magnetic Man: The Science of Attraction

Subhas Yadav @iamborngenius “An integrated male possesses many of the following attributes: •He has a strong sense of self. He likes himself just as he is. •He takes responsibility for getting his own needs met. •He is comfortable with his masculinity and his sexuality. •He has integrity. He does what is right, not what is expedient. •He is a leader. He is willing to provide for and protect…

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New York City Teaching Fellow Joy L. Miketzuk

The NYC Teaching Fellows is an alternative certification program that aims to improve the quality of education in New York City public schools by attracting mid-career professionals, recent graduates, and retirees from all over the country. The NYC Teaching Fellows program began in the spring of 2000, to address the most severe teacher shortage in the New York City public school system in decades. At the time, New York suffered from a chronic shortage of qualified teachers, with nearly 11,000 uncertified teachers working in the district, disproportionately teaching in the city’s highest-need schools. The results were predictable: low graduation rates and persistent achievement gaps, with fewer than 40 percent of Black and Hispanic students graduating on schedule. (source: nycteachingfellows.org)

Joy L. Miketzuk is an Educator and one of these special NYC Teaching Fellows. Originally from New Jersey, she worked hard to get where she is today: making a difference in an inner city school. The overburdened public school systems are in dire need of people like Joy. According to the NYC Teaching Fellow’s website, the Fellowship recruits and selects both accomplished professionals and recent graduates with the academic expertise to teach critical shortage subjects. They offer innovative preparation which builds on content knowledge the candidates already possess. They begin with an intensive summer training program and continue with a subsidized master’s degree.

According to the program’s former Chancellor Joel Klein, “Teaching Fellows make an immeasurable difference in the lives and futures of their students, as I have seen with the thousands of Fellows who are currently teaching in our schools today. Their ability to meet challenges and stay focused on the goal of raising student achievement makes them an incredibly important part of their schools.” New York City schools have improved dramatically over the past decade, with graduation rates climbing steadily. While much work remains, nearly 60 percent of Black and Hispanic students now graduate within four years, and the Teaching Fellows have played an instrumental role in that progress.  

The program’s success is partly due to their selection process, which deliberately includes people who have been working in other fields, or who are older than the typical high school graduates. Solutions to the problems facing public school systems require energetic, pragmatic thinking. People like Joy L Miketzuk, who present Education As A Lifestyle, bring their sense of hard work and valuable life experience into the classroom.

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Joy L. Miketzuk – Integrity In A Balanced Life

Joy L. Miketzuk is an individual who achieved a life of enviable balance and order. This has has brought success to her with surprising ease and, from fairly humble beginnings in New Jersey, she now seems destined for a solid, stable, useful career as an established teacher in New York City. Over the course of her brief life, she has constantly acted as a role model for others, and the intriguing story of her life provides those in need of a little inspiration in their lives with an invaluable example of what can be achieved with hard work and perseverance.What is particularly interesting is the way in which Joy Miketzuk has been able to maintain a succesful leisure, sports and social life alongside her blossoming professional life - the balance between the two being seemingly effortless at every turn of her actions.

Arguably, Joy Miketzuk learned her abilities in measuring out the fun and the hard work in her native state of New Jersey. Coming from a small town with a modest family Joy Miketzuk knew what it meant to put in the hours in order to get what you want, a message passed down through her family line for generations. The hard work paid off and she made it into William Paterson University where she excelled in her grades and impressed the many tutors that she is still in touch with today. This spark of intellectual activity gave her a taste for teaching, and she now enjoys a fruitful career teaching in New York City. However the time in New Jersey also gave her the ability to see the importance of other aspects of life as well, and it is this rare combination of integrity in a balanced life that has made Joy Miketzuk the all-round person she is today.

Joy L. Miketzuk found her other passion to be winter sports. In the heavy snow she was inspired by the environment and its capacity for providing great sporting moments and she threw herself into a world of activity. Since her early twenties she has been skiing, snow tubing and snowboarding in the most popular locations for winter sport in the United States. With her spare time so well filled it is no surprise that she has become something of a minor celebrity sportsperson wherever she travels.

The lesson that Joy Miketzuk provides for us is perhaps that simply enjoying the very essence of what you do can lead you to embrace it in the fullest way imaginable. As she has stated, she has not since looked back from teaching, and always looks forward to the next opportunity to get her skis packed. Read more about Joy L. Miketzuk on wordpress.com

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Some targets are only meant to be aimed at.

 Bruce Lee

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If you focus on achieving goals, as reward-sensitive extroverts do, you don’t want anything to get in your way […] You speed up in an attempt to knock these roadblocks down. Yet this is a crucially important misstep, because the longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they’ll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game. But, left to their own devices, they don’t stop. And they don’t learn to avoid the trouble staring them in the face. Newman says that this is exactly what might happen to extroverts like Ted Turner when bidding for a company on auction. “When a person bids up too high,” he told me, “that’s because they did’t inhibit a response they should have inhibited. They didn’t consider information that should have been weighing on their decision. Introverts, in contrast, are constitutionally programmed to downplay reward – to kill their buzz, you might say – and scan for problems. “As soon as they get excited,” says Newman, “they’ll put the brakes on and think about peripheral issues that may be more important. Introverts seem to be specifically wired or trained so when they catch themselves getting excited and focused on a goal, their vigilance increases.” Introverts also tend to compare new information with their expectations, he says. They ask themselves, “Is this what I thought would happen? Is it how it should be?” And when the situation falls short of expectations, they form associations between the moment of disappointment […] and whatever was going on in their environment at the time of the disappointment […]. These associations let them make accurate predictions about how to react to warning signals in the future.

Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, 166-167.

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The Ingredients of Success

Studies shows that success is not about having better innate abilities but is really about the ability to set goals and being able to reach those goals. It means to focus on getting better than being good. When you allow yourself to make mistakes and not expect yourself to do everything perfectly, then you are more likely to do better without having the stress of being perfect.

Also I see a lot of people who focus only on the positives on reaching a goal. Nothing worth having is so easily gained. I believe taking a more leveled approach towards the end point, and think about each of the steps of the path towards the goal. This makes reaching the goal easier.

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