Welcome to the Love Sex and leadership podcast where you can discover simple tonic teachings to embody your true power, awaken your soul's wisdom and live an inspired life as a natural intuitive and heart centered leader. This morning is really a deeper look and focus on the expression of the healthy brotherhood and the warrior inside. And where is that energy alive and present inside of you? Maybe it's sometimes in the shadow. Do you give yourself permission to be fully in that way? Do you calling yourself and your brothers out to deeper alignment to the expression of more of your own true power and theirs as they're holding back? Hm. You're ready to open the eyes. Mm Yeah. A lot of these mornings will start the day just with some short discourse to share, to speak into some of these concepts. The way I like to look at the journey of initiation is to really get into the body. The mind also has to be in alignment with that as well. Um There be recorded so I like to share these in podcast form and things like that to help support people um in a way of getting this information out there more, especially when it comes to the um the warrior inside of a man's body. You know, this is something if we look at historically is very much the forefront place to aware societies, to grow and evolve, knowing that there's a certain foundation of strength in male bodies. And if you look at our current society, a lot of that often is being shamed and blamed and condemned. So one of the gifts that happen in a circle like this to only matter is that as a part of us, I know for myself when I was first in a place like this, almost a deeper permission field to come back into that strong power, that strong sense of not trying to push your brother down, but actually looking eye to eye with another man to say, I wanna feel you more, I wanna feel you rise so that together we rise. And I think for a lot of men and if you ever had a fear of being too much felt like your power, your intensity, your fire maybe was too much or maybe at some point in your life, you too much was, was pushed down or suppressed. And the the rage and the emotions which a lot of it will go into this afternoon as we really access more of the deeper layers of that little boy inside that's often been pushed down from a young age. And that little boy starts to find more freedom and he can feel that he has the protector and the strength and the power and the certainty and the alignment of uh the masculine energy that's not afraid to put his feet in the ground. It's not afraid to stand forth, not just as a way of showcasing his ego, but as a way of being in alignment to his body and soul. And I think often a man's uh warrior in our society gets seen as just the amplification and the justification of the ego. Um And it's rather unfortunate. So a lot of what I've seen and I'm sure many of you as well felt this place of feeling your balls being cut off, both by partners and by elements of society who's felt this at times, it's intense. So the gift of this place, this gift of what we journey with each day here is a place of not pushing down your power, letting that intensity, letting that alignment, letting that fire rise up inside of you. And to recognize and to have the awareness of when you're trying to push down upon someone. So you can get the justified ego that maybe you can get from before. And when you're actually trying to look your brother in the eyes and say, let's fucking rise, let's come together rather than the old paradigm of I need to push you down so that I feel good about myself and society justifies my existence. And a lot of the, uh, competition layers that are kind of force fed into our world are a lot of that place of, I'm gonna feel good when you lose and I win who's played competitive sports. Yeah. And, and there's a beautiful piece of competition when there isn't this unruly need to feel better about ourselves when we push something down. And rather than let's both win together, regardless of whether who's winning or losing. And so the unhealthy masculine has now taken that into, you know, sports teams and all that around the world. It's like there's this justification for existence when my existence is better than yours and my team is better than yours. And I'm better than you. Therefore, I'm gonna feel better about myself because I'm better than you. And this is an old paradigm of kind of masculine power over dynamics that's shifting and changing and, and uh circulating into the new. So, in a space like this, when you can see, maybe there's some men who are more physically stronger than you, maybe there's other men who are, have more vitality and life force at the end, it doesn't really matter. Are you bringing a totality of your being into the alignment of who you are when that's there? I've seen some of the littlest, smallest men stand up to some of the largest powerful beings and actually, what I've experienced often, you know, is seeing, I'm not a massive, huge man. But a lot of the, the tall, muscular, strong men I know in my life are sometimes so afraid of being too much because they've been told their whole fucking life they're too much. So, they just get very timid and afraid and, and they're, they're actually very docile in a way and it's sad to see this. There's a almost AAA de evolutionary aspect of masculinity that fucking makes me ick inside. So, rather than trying to become uh a woman, which we're gonna go into feminine aspects when this masculine part inside of us becomes the healthy warrior within, that becomes the healthy part that knows how to stand into a battle that knows how to stand up for what he believes. That's not just being a pushover. Then actually that feminine inside of you can start to feel more safe to feel flow and grace and creativity. These are directly uh communicating with one another and this is why we'll be going to different pieces and parts of all these different archetypes and aspects inside of you. So that this dance of alignment between the two of them can be in, in more congruity. Yeah, deep breath in. So who has felt unsafe around another man or a group of men? So for me, my understanding is that when I encounter another man who knows his power, who knows his dark side, who knows his violence, who knows his energetic capacity and he can show it to me. But he can also show me his tenderness and he can choose and discern when it's time to show these different pieces. If I can know that he can protect me and the village by ripping off someone's face. And the next moment pick up his child lovingly. I can feel a really deep trust with this man when I live in a society where most of the men around me do not know their power and then they kind of show it to me. I don't trust them at all because I don't believe that they can control their power. I see it in road rage. I see people flipping out on their kids. I do not trust a man who does that and I don't trust me if I don't know my own power. So when we're in a society where men are demasculinize because we're told it's not ok, only when you do sports, only when you're an M MA fighter, then can you show it then what we have is a lot of castrated myth, deep breath. And we have this scarcity mindset. Ah, if I'm in my full power, that means that this man can't feel his full power or if he's in his full power, I can't show my full power. Therefore, one of us has to be on the top and the other has to be on the bottom. And what we want to bring into play here is the cultivation and the celebration of each one of our powers as a collective. So that we through being married by another man can feel our own power and our own intensity and know that it's not only invite invited, but it's celebrated because it's what we need as a collective to rise and to create the world that we will. It's OK to feel competition with another man. I just had this recently with uh in the art of festival Stefanos CDOS who was a very uh impressive man. He's a leading coach and breathwork facilitator and just a very solid man. And I went up to him and I said, I feel competition with you. And I wanted to come and introduce myself and say that I wanna change this paradigm in myself. And I wanna say I see you brother, I celebrate you, you inspire me. And there's a part of me that feels less than you and it keeps me separate from you. So I want to break that down and I want to feel our power together. Boom. He opened to me like a flower like and when we can do this with each other and celebrate said, wow, your power scares me and I want to feel it and I want you to support me in mine. We become powerful beyond belief, deep breath. So for a moment, just close down the eyes, bring your back straight. Just a question to take into your own journey. Because all that you really know. Do you hold your power back? Do you constantly compare yourself to other male bodies that you see as more potent, more virile, more on mission on purpose? Or do you know inside yourself, the alignment of your body, the strength of your masculinity, the potency of your sword and wherever you are here. And now today is absolutely fine. This is part of why we gather in this way. And so some of those pieces can be addressed, felt and embodied. And that's the nature of this work that we do. It's not just sit around and talking about these concepts in just a moment. We'll go into some practices that will help you meet your edge with another brother will help you see in front of you, the potent warrior that's being reflected back into you. So rather than saying, oh my God, he's so strong. It's like, oh my God, I'm so strong, taking your hand up to your heart space. And to remember the gift of being in this male body that's built differently, that's structured differently. That's come into this earth of the particular format and framework that supports delivering and being on this mission that you are in this lifetime. And so when you can meet these competitive layers of your masculine edge, the competitive layers inside of you that maybe you've been afraid of really addressing the result is more integrated, embodied and whole human that gets to walk out, not just from these practices, but from this entire initiation journey that we're on to breathe in this awareness, let it out with. It sounds, you know, anything like that?