Super Tuesday
First, let me say this post is not about who to vote for or who I support, it's just about realizing some things about how I feel about having the possibility of voting for a woman. I just got back from voting. It was the most amazing feeling. I had thought long and hard about who to vote for -- Obama or Hillary -- back and forth, back and forth, and had honestly not completely decided until I looked at the ballot.
All of a sudden I realized that I was looking at a woman's name. For the first time in history, I had the opportunity as a woman to cast a vote for a woman as President. It felt to me so completely different as an experience than anytime I've ever voted in my life. I realize now that it was pride I felt. Pride that "one of my own" had made it that far. To actually be able to vote for another woman as President. Tears filled my eyes. And I still get them as I think about it. The impact of this election came home to me. I won't be unhappy if Obama wins, but I could not have lived with myself, had I not cast my vote for Hillary. I felt so in the moment, so present with what it all means -- that my choice was a woman or a man of mixed race. How fabulous, how amazing. That both were on the ballot. That both were, in my view, worthy of being on that ballot and worthy and able to do the job of President. How far we've come over my lifetime. I'm in tears as I write you. Not even able to express the totality of my feelings. Would certainly never have expected them.
All of this tells me that I have very deep and far reaching beliefs about the possibility of a woman being President in the United States. Hillary Clinton, in running for President, and being willing to go through all she's going through is changing our beliefs, our neural pathways just by doing what she's doing. Her actions are forging new paths for many generations to come.
Women's suffrage movement began in 1869-70 in Wyoming and Utah, but it wasn't until 1920 that Women's right to Vote was ratified as the 19th Amendment of the Constitution. About 50 years just to win the battle to vote. And another 88 years before a woman would be running for President.
This is a ThetaHealing Post so let's do a little Theta change on this.
I just checked myself to see if I had a belief that I could be President and of course that was no. I also get a no at the possibility of a woman being President. I suspect I'm not the only woman, so if you'd like to have the belief that a woman can be President (no) pulled and transformed, just say YES.
If you want the universal perspective and understanding of this to be the way you see it, say YES now and receive it.
I'd love to hear other women's and men's comments about how they felt after this historic event.
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