[Closed] Post Kavanaugh--Women Rising

My response is that we each individually need to learn to find our true Selves not from our heads but from inside our bodies. We are equipped with a brilliant sensing system that guides us in everything we do and every  choice we make.  If we listen to this part of ourselves, we know when we are being authentic at every moment.  If you are walking egg shells around a relationship, you know it.  If you are in a job that conflicts with your Self, you know it.  The more you practice being aware of your body's messages to you, the more you will become authentic and powerful. And when you become authentic and powerful, you help all women and all people on this earth.  

Senator Amy Klobuchar had a faltering moment during the Kavanaugh hearings.  She's a hero in my mind.  She brought out the true Kavanaugh underneath the fake mask he wore.  Still she had a faltering moment that in which she momentarily  dropped the ball during a critical moment.  I could see her energy falter.  She asked Kavanaugh if he ever experienced blackouts from drinking.  He responded aggressively towards her, something he would not have done to a man.  He much later apologized for it but not without first eclipsing her in that moment, and not without her eclipsing herself.

Instead of answering her question, he quipped, "Have you, Senator?"  She was taken aback. She was silent, then stammered something about her father being an alcoholic.  We all have different reactions to that moment, but I was crestfallen.  She had not needed to explain. An appropriate response would have been to put him in his place without flinching, saying something like, "EXCUSE ME?  You are being interviewed by this panel, Judge Kavanaugh. Is this how you disrespect this process?  Answer the question!"

I understood what had happened to her in that moment, and I see it now as a transitional moment between patriarchy and rising matriarchy.  But she lost her center and her energy gave way to him.  She responded the way so many of us have been trained through centuries of sexism. 

Hers was the kind of moment for which we want to train ourselves to find a new powerful authentic self. 

Here are some tips I wrote up a few years ago. The article was written to help people with intuition.  I now see that these tips are not only about intuition, but true inner guidance.  They are about helping us hear our deepest soul selves so we can act from that authenticity. 

I would love it if people would think about their own moments of faltering and how to rise from it.  How to rise in the way we need right now! 

Thanks for this, Jeanne. Well expressed and so important. I agree about that pivotal moment in the Kavanaugh hearing and how his horrifically inappropriate question has now tipped the scale.

We heard, we knew, and we both fell the deflation off the feminine with the uprising of the unbalanced masculine.

Perhaps, we needed her flustered apology to see how easily societal pressures have trained us to always think it's our fault and make apologies rather than rise up with an equal but opposite reaction to the male attack.

In the long run it hurt him and was a huge teachable moment for everyone of both sexes.

And I think each if us in retrospect wished we'd countered a pivotal comment sometime in our lives.

Thanks for bringing the site up to speed with updated topics instead of our piling comments onto old ones!

Thank you for posting this Jeanne.

I noticed a similar moment with the amazing Emma Gonzalas, the 19 year old Parkland High School student who got up on the top of a car in the school parking lot and yelled B.S. to Donald Trump and the NRA. She was in that moment free and totally in line with  her soul self.

It was the first time I knew that Donald Trump and the GOP were afraid.

She was channeling truth and rage and she knew she was right and unafraid to speak her truth.   In that moment, that young woman gave us all hope.  I will always be grateful to her for that moment. 

Later I saw her in a public debate with a slick and no doubt high paid NRA spokeswoman.  This was a different Emma Gonzalas.  She had now reached  international status.  She was a household word.   Not surprisingly, having been thrust into the limelight, she seemed more cautious with her words. She seemed deferential and polite.   It was hard to watch.   Later she returned to the public eye at the March for Our Lives with renewed power.  She is doing amazing work.  

But going back to that faltering moment with the NRA spokeswoman, I saw the transition we are in.  We've been taught good manners. We've been taught to give the other side a chance to speak and to be respectful and even deferential. 

That will not do at this point.  

The NRA is responsible for thousands of deaths. The NRA gets funding from Russia.  The NRA funds the GOP and the result is 30,000 gun deaths a year in this country versus almost negligible gun deaths in countries that don't allow anyone to have a gun.    As Gonzalas said in her first speech, the NRA puts a low price tag on the lives of children. They have their slick rationale.  Their arguments are B.S.  They are about the money.  Standing up to them is not the time to be deferential or polite.  

I would not ever debate them.  Would you debate Adolf Hitler?  Would you go back and debate a psychopath?  No!  Say your truth, like she did on the top of that car.  Keep saying your truth.  Don't engage with those whose mission is to tear you down so they can make more money and have more power. 

Every time we stand up to authority, we need to stop and breathe and listen to our bodies.  Listen for validation from within.  And we need to call out evil, deception, manipulation, and yes, murder, and make no apology. 

Oh, my gosh! You absolutely nailed it, Jeanne.

I was at the beginning of reading your post and ready to respond with her subsequent flailing with holding it interview but you added more than I'd caught. Oh, I am happy to hear that she's back in her flow.

Darn social media and the relentless attacks on people's subconscious fears and triggers. She was pushed to exhaustion as we all can reach from our own relentless challenges. She found her power again and pulled it back in, again.

Stay in your truth, light, and power, Emma Gonzalez! You are making a difference!

And like Emma--so are we! May we stand in our truth, light, and power strong and true ?

Michele, thank you.  I edited one line that I wrote  above and want to reiterate it here. It's about getting into discussions with the likes of NRA, GOP, Donald Trump.  I do not get into discussions with people who lie, cheat, steal, and manipulate. In short, I would not debate a person hired to represent a rogue organization, like the NRA. 

I would not ever debate them.  In the run up to WWII world leaders tried to work with and appease Adolf Hitler. It was a fruitless effort  and dangerous for the world because he got much further than he should have gotten.

Instead, I would prefer to say my truth, like Gonzales did on the top of that car. 

I would  not  engage with those whose  mission is to tear you down so they can make more money and have more power. 

I am clear on this point.  If someone enters my life who proves to be dark, I don't engage.  If a client or friend has been involved with a malignant narcissist, abuser, blamer, I don't engage. Block their phone, unfriend in FB, stay away.  I feel the same way about these organizations.  I don't listen to DT's speeches, I shut off the tv and switch to a different website whenever he is brought on the speak.  I do not watch Fox or read Breitbart or visit right wing websites.

If others find these sites helpful to them, then that is fine provided they can hold onto their own light in the process.  

But notice if you are getting angry or defensive or caught up in the drama of their lies.  It's exhausting and draining and a huge waste of precious energy. 

Jeanne,

It's obvious you've gone through a lot more than most of us can imagine to get to this awesome point of "cord cutting" as it's energetically called.

All it does is drain us and eventually make us sick to take on the dark over and over . Don't ask me how I know. But let's just say exorcism is not unknown in my world hahaha.

And I am as you know quite feisty but I've also learned through time the fine art of finding my center when a lot of many different people tried to shake me from my innate truth by standing firmly in place in my light with a serene face..oh yes, I must confess..a bit of a smile ?

I am learning as we all are, more and more every single day. One of the wondrous aspects of this Earth School and this place in time, meaning this site place at the top of my timeline arc along with this time in our place in history. You called, we came.

I want to add that if you have the warrior strength to engage with dark energy like that, I am grateful to you.   We have heros in mythology who have faced evil head on and prevailed.  I send any present day hero’s my total support.  

Bless you, Jeanne.  That helps more than you know. Always knew I could and should. I once had long emails with a Tibetan nun who left Oregon to live and learn in the Darjeeling Province in a monastery.  She said similar things in our correspondence but always made me laugh at the same time. You have to have to have a sense of humor with such subjects ?