http://www.claudinemonteil.com/2009/10/15/honoring-helene-de-beauvoir-by-gloria-f-orenstein/ Sun, 27 May 2012 14:51:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.claudinemonteil.com/2009/10/15/honoring-helene-de-beauvoir-by-gloria-f-orenstein/#comment-120 Ariel Ky Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:29:22 +0000 http://www.claudinemonteil.com/2009/10/15/honoring-helene-de-beauvoir-by-gloria-f-orenstein/#comment-120 What a great story of a shift in perception. It's serendipitous that I would be led to this website in a search for Carol Downer and my feminist roots, as I was just discussing this very possibility with a young woman in Kuala Lumpur today. How we can seek out shifts in our perceptions that alter our reality... how I want to focus more on my being than acting, and get a good balance between the two, even mastery, if you will, of shifting from enhanced beingness to actions that are ever more powerful because of the concentrated focus of the energy of pure beingness. This story is an account of such a moment, yes, precipitated by Beauvoir's response to your account of what you were facing. I can't think of anything more empowering to women than to collect these kinds of stories and give a roadmap to how to make shifts like this, to encourage and support women to navigate their lives with more aplomb. What a great story of a shift in perception. It’s serendipitous that I would be led to this website in a search for Carol Downer and my feminist roots, as I was just discussing this very possibility with a young woman in Kuala Lumpur today. How we can seek out shifts in our perceptions that alter our reality… how I want to focus more on my being than acting, and get a good balance between the two, even mastery, if you will, of shifting from enhanced beingness to actions that are ever more powerful because of the concentrated focus of the energy of pure beingness. This story is an account of such a moment, yes, precipitated by Beauvoir’s response to your account of what you were facing. I can’t think of anything more empowering to women than to collect these kinds of stories and give a roadmap to how to make shifts like this, to encourage and support women to navigate their lives with more aplomb.

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