There is a point within us that determines everything that follows. A silent vertex. A place of origin from which our perception, our choices, and our responses emanate. In spiritual and energetic language, this is what I understand as positionality: the place from which we stand within ourselves. It is not geographical. It is not social. It is not even psychological in the conventional sense. It is the subtle inner center from which our frequency radiates into the world.
Every interaction we experience, every reflection offered by another person, every circumstance, every apparent challenge or grace - meets us at the position we occupy within ourselves. From that inner stance, our field reverberates outward and receives its echo back.
If our position is grounded in clarity, presence, and responsibility, the reverberations that return to us tend to amplify those same qualities. The environment mirrors coherence and potential.
If our position is rooted in fear, contraction, or unconscious habit, the echoes we receive often reinforce those same lower frequencies. Life is constantly responding to where we are standing internally.
Recently, while deepening my studies in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the conscious exploration of altered states of awareness, a colleague shared a passage by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the Jungian psychoanalyst whose work Women Who Run With the Wolves beautifully explores the archetypal intelligence of the feminine psyche.
Her writing touches something ancient and familiar: the profound intelligence of the Yin. The quiet, intuitive, receptive force that moves through softness, patience, and deep listening. Yet Yin does not exist in isolation. It is always in conversation with Yang, the force of direction, assertion, structure, and determination.
Where Yin listens, Yang acts. Where Yin receives, Yang shapes. Where Yin holds the mystery, Yang brings form. The harmony between these forces is not static; it is a living negotiation. A dance of complementarity where gentleness and strength continuously inform one another.
During a recent meditation, I felt moved to record this passage and listen to it repeatedly, not simply as words to understand, but as a frequency to absorb. A reminder to establish this wisdom not only in thought, but in the memory of the body.
To let the message settle in the cells. And it felt natural to share it here, because wisdom, like the ocean, does not belong to any single drop. AsRumi once said, You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Listen to | WE where Made for these TIMEs, text by Clarrisa Pinkola Estes – Audio by Margaret Rosania
