When I first heard the song “The Woman I am” by Michael Benhayon (Glorious Music), I felt very strongly that there should have been a nationwide, if not worldwide, Stop Everything press release.
Every piece of media out there that relates to women, either relates to their outer beauty, sexual attractiveness or accomplishments. “The Women I Am” is the first song I have come across that sees a woman for who she naturally is without requiring her to be or bring anything;
It is a song that encourages true self-confidence rather than lack of self-worth, comparison, competition and jealousy. This is a huge leap forward for humanity as a whole.
We have recognised how deeply damaging music videos, magazines, TV etc. can be for the youth and adults in our society. Just about every way a woman/girl turns in her day she is bombarded with images and ideas of who she needs to be as a woman.
The confidence of our young women (and women on the whole) is pretty low when we come from the understanding that they should be walking around freely expressing their power, playfulness, sexiness, cheekiness and many other qualities with complete confidence and respect for themselves and each other.
Instead, our young women are often talking quite nastily about each other, mainly to feel better about themselves. Everywhere they look tells them they are not enough. To survive at high school with friends, as a young woman, it appears the main way to do this is to fall within the accepted ‘norm’ and to quickly dismiss and ridicule anyone who may step outside of this. Grown women have not escaped this either.
I am no expert on music and the video music charts, but from time to time I sit down to see what my lovely daughter and her friends are watching and listening to. I am shocked beyond words every time by the totally graphic and sexualised material that is in front of me. It is basically telling all women that they are either a ‘sex kitten’ or that they have very little worth in our society or to men.
Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.
Then I saw the clip of the song, “The Woman I Am” on YouTube. Wow, the truth and beauty it reflects to all women to remind them of the glory they naturally are, without having to do anything, is very power-full.
When I first heard this song, with lyrics and music by Michael Benhayon and sung by Miranda Benhayon, I knew it reflected the truth of who I am as a woman. It reminds me of the glory and graciousness that I am without having to do or bring anything; that simply by claiming the glory and graciousness I naturally emanate, I become a powerhouse of love. I may not always choose to live from this truth, yet it is so simple and natural for me to live this truth. I was born female, so all of this beauty is inside myself whether I am aware of it or not. All I had to do was to re-connect to the part inside me that knew all the words of the song to be true.
This song – “The Woman I Am” – is the call for all women and girls of all ages to stand in their power and walk as nothing less than the amazing sacred divine woman they are.
So why, when such a song is released, does our world not stop, re-evaluate what we have been producing up to this point and yell from the roof tops, “yes, this is what we want, this is how all women should feel from birth to death and beyond.”
So I am standing up applauding the amazing work of Michael Benhayon and Glorious Music, the new way forward they are offering women, girls and the music world. I have deeply healed much pain and anguish within me having listened to the lyrics and rhythms of “The Woman I Am” and felt how these words and rhythms resonate within me. I feel and know the truth they carry which I now know I carry within me, as all women do. As women we all have the ability to bring the same beauty and power inspired by our own individual flavor: we all naturally bring so much, just by being ourselves in all our glory.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have a deep respect for all women and the sacredness they are. I am forever appreciative of the courage and beauty they offer in standing for truth.
By TS
Further Reading:
The Woman
A Woman’s Strength is ‘KNOW’ and ‘NO’
Stephanie absolutely we cannot help but to feel the joy in the music, there are no functional human- beings in any of these videos. All the music that is being produced is asking us all to step away from being a dull human-being and to reclaim ourselves as deeply caring, sassy, very alive human-beings. We can all see the difference, so we do have a choice now.
Joseph I so appreciate your words
“When we live the delicacy and tenderness inside us, whatever we do – music, design, writing or art can’t help but carry that beauty too. Trying to produce stunning things without cultivating the divinity in you, will never work”.
What would the world look like if we all lived the delicacy and tenderness that is within us. We know it is there because we know that tenderness and delicacy lives within babies and small children, but somehow by the time the children go to school those innate qualities are being eroded so that by the time we are adults the quality has been buried, protected or squashed by the current standard of our heartless society.
There is definitely so much more to women than how we portray them as physical bodies or achievements and skills, we have a depth in our qualities that is truly beautiful, including our grace, sass, warmth and care, delicateness and tenderness, wisdom, love, and cuteness… the list could go on and on. Those inner qualities when they are known, appreciated and expressed by women truly hold and heal this world. That is so worth singing about and celebrating as it’s the truth of who we all are.
What I have found with Glorious music is that it leaves you alone it doesn’t invade our bodies as most music does, sometimes we hear music and can reject it out of hand because it is so grating to our ears and body. But there is a lot of music that if we do not discern enters the body and we can feel very emotional, sad or angry without fully understanding what it occurring.
‘The song ‘The Woman I Am’ by Michael Benhayon – Glorious Music is a powerful call indeed for all women young and old, to feel and re-claim this quality, our naturally beautiful essence within’. ‘All women young and old’, this feels so significant because we have marginalised so many women for so many different reasons, most often because we deem them to be too fat, too ugly, too short or too old. Women are so critical and non accepting of other women.
There is a wonderful feeling of unity in the video to ‘The Woman I am’, a unity that we’ve lost. Unfortunately woman pit themselves against each other, we see other woman as our rivals and so the support and strength that we are able give one another is squandered and lost in our feelings of jealousy and comparison.
Many women have mistaken being overtly sexual as being powerful but it’s not, it’s not powerful at all, even if the woman is being sexually dominant, it is not true power. There is no true power in sexuality and no true power in dominance.
Unfortunately many young women wouldn’t either listen to the song or watch the video because it’s not stimulatory enough. We have made everything so souped up that we feel instantly bored if it doesn’t excite or engage us from the word go. Music and food are prime examples of this, we want these things to tantalise and stimulate us constantly, as the advert for the well known ice cream says ‘no boring bits’.
Our job is to funnel God through, to be the widest river mouth possible for Him to flow through. ‘Trying to produce anything’ will always narrow the river mouth down and more often than not stop the flow of God completely because it’s never about ‘us’, it’s always about standing back and allowing God to flow through.
When music confirms our true beauty like this heaven rejoices.
Feeling glorious and gorgeous comes naturally when we start to deeply look after and care for ourselves.
Like many amazing and true things the world has not been ready to really embrace what this song means, yet the time will come when as a humanity we will feel more open to the majesty, divinity and sacredness this song offers us all to reconnect to.
“Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.” When society finally gets this we will see a shift towards a much loving, gentle and honouring way together.
It’s really freeing feeling the difference between this kind of music and the music that is currently all around. It makes me realise that there is another way to feel and express myself (which is my own and truly way) and this in itself is massive, as it is an invitation to just honour and BE myself as I am . How beautiful is that..
The world is obviously not ready for such positivity, love and joy in one track – as this would have been surely a number one track, no the world is not ready just yet, but it will be oneday, people are waking up to the fact that love can lead the way.
” “The Women I Am” is the first song I have come across that sees a woman for who she naturally is without requiring her to be or bring anything;” A song that invites all women to appreciate the innate beauty of who they are.
For centuries the innate beauty of women (and equally so the innate tenderness of men!) has been subjugated and crushed. Is it possible that this one song is able to turn the tide, the small pebble that starts an avalanche. If so the tide has turned and there are many incidents of these changes that allows women to reclaim their innate beauty and walk in the true sacredness they are.’
A powerful song that inspires me to live and love the woman I am.
Without Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine leading the way in what it actually means to live the sacredness of a woman I don’t know where I would be today. It is through the reflection and support they offer I am inspired to live the true qualities of a woman in my day and make this my way.
Caroline I totally agree with you, before meeting Serge Benhayon I disliked being a woman I felt I had drawn the short straw and behaved and lived very much from male energy always in the motion of doing something and fighting life.
I now know so many women in my community of Universal Medicine Students who walk sacredness and delicateness and this holds a fascination because I know that I also have these innate qualities within me I just haven’t given myself permission to express what is there to be expressed. When we live in self protection we miss out on the grandness that life is constantly offering us.
I too have always loved this song and video clip, what a great message it brings to all women, ‘ I saw the clip of the song, “The Woman I Am” on YouTube. Wow, the truth and beauty it reflects to all women to remind them of the glory they naturally are, without having to do anything, is very power-full.’
That is very beautiful indeed.. We have lived in a way that is almost ignorant to the immense beauty we inside of us have.
Well well shared. I am in absolute owe to this: ‘Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have a deep respect for all women and the sacredness they are. I am forever appreciative of the courage and beauty they offer in standing for truth.’ As we are so much love, we don’t even realize.
I agree that this beautifully affirming song sings to all women of the “glory and graciousness that we are without having to do or bring anything”. The drive ‘to do’ as a woman is so deeply ingrained that we rarely stop and simply allow ourselves to feel and to be the glorious being we naturally are. And I know for me that when I do stop and connect to who I truly am, it feels so very amazing; but I definitely don’t do this often enough.
The belief that we need to ‘bring something’ to someone or something ensures that we arrive empty handed because by it’s very reflection it means that we’re failing to recognise that our hands are naturally full of the gloriousness of us.
Ingrid, Then we need to make our life’s ambition to stop and connect to who we truly are because as you say when this is felt in our bodies there is nothing in this world that can be compared to it.
And let’s not hold back from expressing our beauty, playfulness sexiness and sacredness. ‘Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.’
This song is truly refreshing, I am so fed up with music that influences our young in such a negative and imposing way.
Thank God there are artists out there who bring out that respect, that classiness and that self honour – Bring it on.
What a treat to have listened to The Woman I Am by Glorious Music. It’s been ages since I first heard it and it had me smiling all the way through – gorgeous.
When I listen to any track from Glorious Music I feel my whole body relax and surrender to the living pulse of purpose
I too am a woman applauding “the amazing work of Michael Benhayon and Glorious Music” and how he is breaking down the deleterious images of women that are portrayed through so much of the music that has been written over many decades. The love and respect Michael has for women flows through his lyrics, lyrics that are offering healing to women, many who have lost the love and respect for themselves
Sharing the sacredness that we can all feel is such an important aspect of or returning to our divinity and this song is definitely empowering for all those who choose to openly listen.
I also really love the cover version of this song by Deborah Savran and agreed it is very confirming for young girls and women http://bit.ly/2qLQ6ny
An amazing song celebrating the amazingness all women naturally bring. To appreciate the innate beauty, wisdom and sacredness of who we are within as women, is where the true power of a woman lies. Forget the images and pictures that are pushed onto us by society and the world outside of us, as there is not-a-thing that can compare to our connection to our essence, to show us the majesty of who we really and already are.
I have just enjoyed playing the ‘The Woman I Am’ video again – it is always inspiring and empowering to sing along with this song and see the gorgeous women on the video.
There is another film clip out in the world now that shares the same message and also should have stopped the world. ‘So Lovely’ by Sounds of Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz8HWpjo1GI
It’s an important question to ask why on earth the world doesn’t stop when a music video like this is released. It is in such strong contrast to the pornographic videos that are on the music channels. But, the reality is that we are so deeply de-sensitised that something like this is just boring for anyone used to feasting their eyes on something as in your face, flashy, glamorous (definitely not in the true sense of the word) and stimulating as what is on offer today. How lost are we if we don’t even consider the fact that we all deserve to be cherished and honoured?
Yep I will stand up and applaud with you. I agree and we definitely need more true media. The current mainstream media, music, videos etc has a lot to answer for and globally we need to demand something different and more confirming to who we innately are. Thankfully there are more songs/videos etc taking the floor and reflecting something different for humanity including The Girl to Women song by Rachel Kane https://youtu.be/9UQ8DoMf_tQ
We don’t appreciate or celebrate ourselves any way near as much as we could. This is a great song for all women and men – it would be good to see more of these videos, both from men and women.
To be all of the woman I am is such a relief as it means that I do not have to bring or do anything than be me in all my fullness.
” Then I saw the clip of the song, “The Woman I Am” on YouTube. Wow, the truth and beauty it reflects to all women to remind them of the glory they naturally are, without having to do anything, is very power-full. ”
The truth and beauty is awesome and its such a joy for me as a man to watch and hear the glory being expressed.
Without a connection to and acceptance of our qualities and values we will always be susceptible to a sense of worthlessness that will always have us fruitlessly looking outside of ourselves for what lies within.
As a man there was great joy in my heart when I first heard and saw this music video , it showed women being women in truth and flaunting it . No hooking sexual energy , no teasing of what you cannot have , but just the grace and joy of living a sacred woman and expressing so.
The woman I am is not always the woman I think myself to be. These erroneous thoughts shape us to be something we are not. How reaffirming it is to know the truth of who we are so that no doubt can enter the Kingdom where our true self reigns.
Much of the music these days actually encourages rape culture, the beat and the lyrics are really quite harmful, we have become so desensitised we don’t want to be aware of the deep harm that music can cause to ourselves, our loved ones and our society.
I love that this song that calls for women to be true to themselves and to appreciate how amazing they are was written by a man, and at a point in time where women’s self worth is globally at an all-time low – I absolutely love that a man cared enough to write a song reminding women they are amazing, and that every day we should be cherishing and appreciating who we are. Amazing.
There is no other song I know of that asks a women to honour and love herself exactly as she is, most music videos I know of are overly sexual and imposing that women should look and be a certain way.
This song is not just a call to all women to live the amazing sacredness they naturally are, but equally to all men to honour women as such and in doing so acknowledging that same sacredness within them too. I can remember the first time I heard this song and whilst it was in some ways challenging to feel the depth of responsibility we actually have with honouring each other in this way, it feels exactly what is needed in our world today especially considering we pretty much have the exact opposite being lived everywhere.
‘The Woman I am’ video and song touch me very deeply. It is like someone is finally saying, I know you are not just your looks, how sexually appealing you are that matters. It is the love, nurturing, wisdom and beauty that matters. That is your real gift to the world. This is all we have ever wanted to hear. When we know this for ourselves, we no longer have to play the game of the false ideal of a woman that society has created.
I love this song – how it shows women can be sexy and sassy without it being physical but rather coming from an essence that we carry with us and develop from within.
The Woman I Am video shows us all what true beauty is, nothing to do with any physical perfection but the celebration of every woman in her essence.
I can feel the power in the title of the song “The Woman I Am”. A truth to be claimed.
“All I had to do was to re-connect to the part inside me that knew all the words of the song to be true.” – Allowing myself to do this today listening to the song, Wow is all I can say. Feeling how the song communicates to my body felt amazing. Music is constantly communicating something to us no different to having a conversation with someone, we can tell by a persons tone of voice how they are speaking to us but just because theres a beat or melody that comes with song lyrics doesn’t mean we can’t stop to be curious and feel what is being communicated.
I just loved watching the video again this morning, I want to share it with every woman I meet, I am reminded of the wonders that lie within my body waiting to be expressed out and shared, the sacredness of divinity within our female form.
The more I am open to it the more I feel music and the more I realise that most of it is harmful, the vibration that is played is often not at all conducive to health.
Unfortunately the fact that music can harm will be one of those things that as a society we don’t fully acknowledge until way in our future.
‘The Woman I am’ is a lot of fun, cheeky and sassy, sexy and joy-full – everything a woman is once the yoke of ideals and beliefs, images and expectations of how a woman should be has been cast off.
Peel back all the layers of must do, must be, women are glorious and there is a strength, a playfulness, a light, a nurturing that can change the world. We couldn’t possibly go to war when we know that feeling – jealousy and comparison would be out of the window. What lovely inspiration this morning.
I too love the song The Woman I am because I can listen to it and not feel in any way that I am somehow lacking something or need to measure up in some way. It is deeply enriching to listen to it and I love listening to it in my car with the music turned up loud.
A song that supports women to know their worth without doing a thing is gold. It goes completely against all the other messages we receive in songs these days. Doing has become an insidious disease amongst women, something we use to feel enough and be recognised. This will not stop until we feel and know the innate worth of our being.
Michael Benhayon and GM Records offer music that is deeply Evolving for us all – such a level of respect, care and love that is hard to find in our current world. This is indeed a blessing!
I so love this song! it is so very rare we get a song that honours and celebrates the women for the amazing beauty she is, to date we have many songs and music videos that sexualise women in a such a degrading negative way. How refreshing therefore it is to hear music that celebrates the heart of every women.
What you say is so true, imagine if we were brought up to know that we are ALL beautiful beyond measure for just being ourselves and allowing who we truly are to shine out? That true beauty comes from within and is equally within us all and not some outer image to attain. Glorious Music (or GM Records as it is now called) celebrates us and who we all truly are and this is simply glorious as is their music.
…. and that our beauty and awesomeness was already there BEFORE we did anything so it is not about what we look like or do but the other way around – what we look like and do is reflection of how much of who we truly are we are reflecting.
‘I was born female, so all of this beauty is inside myself whether I am aware of it or not.’ Knowing this deeply is the key, I feel, to letting that beauty shine forth.
I absolutely love the Glorious Music of GM Records as they now call themselves. It is all so awesomely joyful and non-imposing. The new website is here: http://www.gmrecords.net
When we don’t respect ourselves as women and honour the sacredness that we hold, it makes sense that we are not respected in the world. It is very supportive to have glorious music that supports us to hold ourselves in the preciousness that we are.
Speaking of women: ‘ I am forever appreciative of the courage and beauty they offer in standing for truth.’ The truth is we are all equal, the truth is we are not here to satisfy the sexual fantasies of men – or other women, we are not here to subjugate ourselves in any way shape or form.
The truth is we are here to live the amazingness that we are in all our power and glory. This song supports and celebrates this , supports and celebrates us as women. It is amazing that it has been written by a man. There are many men that are going against the trend and holding respect and appreciation for women. These men are also courageous and standing for truth. Let’s acknowledge, applaud, appreciate and celebrate them too.
‘This song – “The Woman I Am” – is the call for all women and girls of all ages to stand in their power and walk as nothing less than the amazing sacred divine woman they are.’ And this is the only way we can stop the abuse women we allow. We are all equally responsible for all the abuse that takes place, not a man or woman in this world has not contributed one way or the other.
The quality of Michael’s music is extraordinary. Never have I heard so much love and evolution in one song let alone album. Michaels music offers the listener an opportunity to connect to the deep love they really are.
This song just raises the bar on any music song/video. I feel sad when I see the music that is on MTV to me these videos are obviously deeply harming. It is so refreshing to finally see and hear music that is about truly celebrating the women and all the beauty, wisdom and love she stands for.
There is so much as women that we have accepted in the past, for instance the way we have been portrayed in songs and the media , that is false. So when there is such a rare and beautiful song written by someone who has much love and respect for women, we know it is the truth!
Michael Benhayon presents music that is non imposing and thus truly healing and listening to it has brought a deeper level of awareness in music that feels imposing on my body with lyrics that are emotional, needy for love or sometimes aggressive to the ear and body.
How glorious it would be to have true music at the top of the charts! We are however so unused to music that heals rather than harms, that does not impose, that it would be impossible for many to recognise it for what it is. And that’s fair enough – I did not have such sensitive ears either before I heard Michael Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon perform and came to understand exactly the consciousnesses their music was breaking down. But one day the truth of this will be heard, quite literally, by many.
Every time I’m at the gym I get to see exactly where we are at in our portrayals of women and I have to say it is well, well beyond sex kitten. This ramping up is on a par with the rise of sexting by and assaults on very young women – school girls. Both men and women have lost their way. Many young women believe it’s obligatory if not normal to behave in ways that completely debase themselves.
Michael Benhayon’s music is deeply healing on so many levels. How much music out there celebrates people for everything they already are? That they don’t need to do anything, own anything (or anyone) in order to be the love that they are. This music is inspiring whereas listening to some of the songs on the radio they feel so heavy and emotional. The only time I have felt heavy or emotional listening to Michael’s music is when I’ve felt the lyrics come up against how I have not lived that is within me and being celebrated openly via the song.
When I hear the song it’s easy to connect to the joy of being a woman and the way it celebrates all of us.
The song ‘The Woman I Am’ is a glorious invitation to all women to appreciate all they already are.
And I was going to say that ‘women will never know the extent of who they already are’ but thankfully that isn’t true, one day all women will not only know but will live all that they already are.
A beautiful song written by Michael Benhayon and sung by lovely Miranda Benhayon. A gorgeous and inspiring uplifting song for women !
It is really inspiring to see women claiming their beauty and divinity when this is so far from the norm. Women need true role models that reflect how to cherish and honour themselves as the women they are, instead of aspiring to be something society or the media sells that they are not.
Watching the video of ‘The Woman I Am’ is always like seeing it for the first time – there is deep joy, warmth and playfulness shining out from every woman appearing on it which is naturally uplifting in my own body. The music and song lyrics are glorious – a true celebration and honouring of the divine essence of all women worldwide.
I remember the first time I heard The Woman I Am, it was like it was written for every woman in the world to remind them how amazing they are… Imagine if all music had the same effect… there would be much less low self-esteem and lack of self worth in the world.
True sexiness comes from within and the women in this video, regardless of their age, are looking so sexy. When we claim and honour ourselves as women everyone gets to feel the magnificence of this.
When more women and men realize and understand the difference between sexiness and sexism this planet has healed much.
I love this video it is absolutely amazing, it is so refreshing and out of the ordinary to find a music video that inspires and celebrates ALL women.
When I think back to all the MTV videos I used to watch as a kid and how these influenced me into thinking I had to be someone I am not, I feel sad that as a society we have let this slip by and now accept this as normal. Our children are being influenced by these music videos, they are encouraging abuse and promiscuous behaviour. We know we have big problems in society and mental health including eating disorders, I suggest we start to look at what we are allowing as ‘normal’ on our TV screens.
The responsibility you have named here is spot on Rod. To be living the amazing beauty we all are is what the world sees and what can bring more depth and quality to all the men we know and meet.
Writing about sexiness not being a sexual thing changes so much about how that energy is used, by both men and women. Sexiness is something that belongs to women and is to be deeply appreciated by us. It tends to be used to manipulate both men and women and this has caused a lot of damage to our relationships and it is time to take some responsibility and begin to heal.
I love this video, it is so very refreshing to find a song and video that does not impose on you. Most videos these days are actually very harming and ask the lady to be something she is not. The Woman I am video is an amazing example of women in their glory inspiring and showing the world who they really are.
“. . . we all naturally bring so much, just by being ourselves in all our glory.” This is such a powerful and absolute truth that is equally worth sharing the world over. Every choice we make has the opportunity to offer this truth to all we meet. The more who chose to live in our own glory the more other women and girls can feel that they also are this deep with-in.
How gorgeous to read this and have the song and video attached, I listened to it afresh, I smiled all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed watching a group of women feel totally at ease in themselves celebrating being a woman. Now to walk it in my day.
When I first heard ‘The Woman I am’ I was truly and deeply moved. It was so felt within myself, just how beautiful I am, that I am worthy of love, as are women everywhere. That there is a sacredness that is within us all, something that is there all the time, we just loose connection to what that is and what it feels like. The video is also, light, joyful and a pleasure to watch so many beautiful women claim who that are.
Wauw Tony, I am so grateful that you share this so obvious thing with the world.. As to see for everyone that this video is like no other, no other sexual tinted video or belief. Just who we truly are a women and what we deserve to know and treat ourselves and eachother. It is so so beautiful to see this video and read your respons, I hope the whole worlds get’s to listen to it, all all all. Thank you for having taken the time to write about this so important message. Sharing this brilliantly lovingly, nurturing video that is an role model for all women and men equally so.
When women are honoured like in the song, The Woman I am, the truth is being expressed. When I allow myself to connect with this truth there are no excuses for not living from knowing deep within that the love I seek or can ever want to be, I am already. What comes next is honouring myself in the same way – living and moving from this love – even how I type this response can be loving or not.
I agree Bernadette, love isn’t an action as such but if a person has love flowing through them then whatever it is that they do will be imprinted with love.
When I used to work in retail we had music playing all day. Being manager of the store I got to choose the songs and the albums, so really it could have been much worse. I soon realised that you cannot cater for all of the people all of the time, but soon found a way of least upset and most possible harmony playing songs that both customer and worker enjoyed. However, and this is a huge however, by the end of the day when I turned off the sound system, my body would sigh the hugest sigh of relief, it was heavenly. It was then that I realised how much these songs come loaded with emotions and messages, and how we feel these too all of the time. Something I had never truly appreciated before.
I also can remember the tears flowing as this song gently connected with my true being, it felt huge to celebrate who I truly was with no trying, justification, or drama, but ‘being enough as I am’. This song offers so much to all women to reconnect to their sacred and tender, fragile and powerful ways.
This is unprecedented in the world that we currently live in, music that truly supports and inspires. Music can have such a big impact on how we feel and it is so important that we ‘clock it’ and be aware of the messages that it is sending. I used to listen to music I thought was empowering but often I would feel angry, defensive, forceful, sad or melancholy after listening to it. I didn’t move on and heal anything I just got caught up in the problems I perceived I had in life. Road Gloria, Michael Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon inspire and heal.
Absolutely Samantha. Music has an enormous impact on us. More than most consider and hence an enormous responsibility sits with the artists and producers and all recording and support crew to produce something that is clear and truly there for us all. I would say that most have an unconscious addiction to music these days as its emotional hooks can become like the tantalising tendrils of drugs
This is how I have felt and continue to feel “When I first heard this song, with lyrics and music by Michael Benhayon and sung by Miranda Benhayon, I knew it reflected the truth of who I am as a woman.” Empowered and inspired to express who I am, without trying in anyway, a freedom of knowing I am enough. This song is a celebration and confirmation of the qualities found in women equally. I Love it.
Women strive to fulfill or become an ideal that has been created for them, one they have subscribed to somewhere along the line. And even when we feel free of these ideals there are beliefs that sneak in to guide us away from the truth of who we are. This song brings us right back to the absolute truth and love that resonates in our bodies. Thank you for providing the link, I feel it heals another layer every time I hear it.
Absolutely, those ‘layers’ of hurts, beliefs and ideals of what we often think we ‘should be’ continue to be exposed, enabling us to see them for what they are and yes this song does for me also support letting go of these and healing. I feel more accepting of my natural loveliness, tenderness, power and sacredness when I listen to this song. Music that truly supports awesome.
I agree, Kate, we are often so caught up in our roles and use these roles to measure our self worth and then the comparison and jealousy creeps in. It is beautiful to see and feel women truly appreciating themselves and each other in this video.
The powerful healing that is delivered with this song is really quite profound. I had the opportunity to share a song I liked with a group of people. The person I gave it to to bring to the group shared she had quite a reaction to the song, especially looking at the women in the video clip … It then came around to a discussion amongst a few women about how quick we are to judge but then underneath that there was an appreciation and understanding that this is not the way to be with each other, particularly as women. I loved how this song allowed space for each individual to observe and feel for themselves with no interference or agenda. It is simply a presentation. This is the power of a song without any hooks, in fact it unhooks you from any bind with a song and allows you to feel the truth the song is delivering.
The Woman I am is a wonderful Wow. “Wow, the truth and beauty it reflects to all women to remind them of the glory they naturally are, without having to do anything, is very power-full.” To be in a room with lots of women singing this song together is very powerful and an inspiration to be all that I am.
I agree, this song does remind us that we can live with one another with love, respect and appreciation. I really got a sense of that in the you tube film. The harmony and joy between the women is a joy to behold.
The Woman I Am is a beautifull song along with all the music that glorious music produces.
I usedto equate sexy with something to do with being attractive and desired, my perception has altered greatly over the last few years “Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.” I can feel how I used to dress to either hide from attention or dress up to be desired or get attention. I now am much more comfortable wearing what I feel supports me and this some times means I do get dressed up and I now enjoy it much more, it is not a choice to try and get attention, but to celebrate life. It feels very different. This differences is expressed and felt by others, true sexy comes from a foundation of power and self worth, it is joyful and playful and is not laced with a need or control.
Unconditional love is what we need as human beings. I love this song, I find it truly inspiring, most songs nowadays are always asking women to be more one way or another.
I absolutely love this song and everything it represents and stands for. The Women I am is a celebration of every women and wow do I feel blessed every time I watch it. It deeply inspires me to be all of the woman I am!
Women are saturated with messages of not being enough so it is truly beautiful to see woman standing up and claiming the beauty they are and power they possess and appreciating that equal quality in all others. Deeply healing to feel.
I remember hearing ‘The Woman I am’ for the first time at a retreat in Vietnam. I felt deeply moved to be honoured and supported this way as a women by a young man, Michael Benhayon.
Yes heartfelt thanks to Glorious Music and Natalie Benhayon for showing us the grace, confidence, true beauty and power that we are as Women and for giving us songs such as this to celebrate being a Woman. Just singing and moving to this song brings a deep healing.
A long time ago I stopped looking at what is going on in the charts; I expect I will see more of it as my daughter grows up. I see the effect that it has on my older nieces, in the way it makes them dance and feel like they need to show themselves to the World in a sexualized ‘look at me’ way. And the music makes them retreat and ‘be cool’ rather than share their gloriousness with people around them.
‘The Woman I Am’ is an example of music that confirms our innate worth as Women and I love sharing this with my daughter. In fact, your blog has inspired me to play this song to her and dance together!
Great idea. I would add Rachel Kane’s ‘Girl to Woman Song’ to the mix – an exquisite reflection of the delicateness we are. http://www.girltowoman.com.au/blog/the-girl-to-woman-song-performed-by-rachael-kane
I don’t normally listen to the lyrics of songs. When I do pay attention I am often saddened by the derogatory messages, often about women. The Woman I Am is a great song celebrating women. I love the lyrics. So refreshing.
Listening to the song again this morning touched me deeply in realizing how naturally amazing I am once I let go of all the wanting and needing to be’s.
‘The Woman I am’ not only celebrates all women which indeed it does to the highest degree of integrity, it also brings even more respect and a huge appreciation to all women from us guys.
It celebrates the sacredness and the true joy you bring to the world and no longer does it need to be hidden but celebrated by all.
The Woman I am song is just about cerebrating you as a woman that you are, not sexual, no trying to impress or lure a man. Just a celebration that we as women are amazing in our own right.
Yes this song “the woman I am” is indeed a true celebration of who I am truly as a woman and does not imply that I do or bring anything other than the fullness of myself as a woman.
This song “The Woman I Am” is revolutionary as you say. To have the words, music and melody created to celebrate Women for who they naturally are is seriously awesome. This is such credit to Glorious Music, dedicated to delivering music that is honouring and truthful. When I first heard it I was blown away by the power it holds being the complete opposite to that which is portrayed in a lot of music. Usually it is a complete misrepresentation of what Women truly are. Glorious Music has nailed it.
yes indeed… Michael Benhayon’s music should be featured on MTV, with amazing videos with every track… Time to reimprint music and videos in general… Then maybe the Australian ABC TVs famous “Rage “ music video program will have to change its name.
Yes, Katie – me too! When I watch the video I always feel that sense of joy, playful-ness, sassiness and beauty overflowing from me as it does from all those gorgeous women before me on the screen. We are so blessed to have such an instant and vital connection available. That feels like a prompt to watch it yet again.
‘The Woman I am’ is a song that needs to be played at all schools, especially high schools.
What an inspiration it would be for all the young women there – to show the presence, power and glory of what it is to truly be a woman…to be all of who you truly are.
I love this line as it makes me realise how much we have given this over to please men rather hold onto it and understand it and then have it as a something to be celebrated and appreciated between and man and a woman not a commodity that we trade.
“Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.”
When I first heard “The Woman I am” it felt so joyful, and it felt like it was written for all women, young and old. it truly is a gift from Heaven, to support women to come back to their innate loveliness and true sexiness.I never tire of listening to it. The video clip is brilliant, celebrating with all those gorgeous women!
Yes Bernadette, I am 53 and I did not feel excluded from this song. Its universal in its appeal and that’s very special in this day and age.
Julie I am also shocked by what makes up the content in music videos today and the message they give children and teenagers about sexuality. Glorious music is such a contrast and a breath of fresh air by comparison. I also love the “Woman I Am” as a song and video. Playing it in the classroom at break times the girls loved it and copied all the movement!
And recently, Glorious Music released ‘True Livingness Woman’, another hit single from Michael Benhayon that truly celebrates women for who they are and what they can be when they are treated with respect and listened to.
I felt like crying when I first saw the video, in fact I think I did. What I loved about it was that all the women were just themselves and how much love I felt for them. This is so needed for all of us young and old, we have never had role models like this before or not for a very long time. Women being themselves and being unashamedly gorgeous, sexy, joyful, playful, wise and powerful. More of that please! Thanks to Glorious Music for laying the foundation for a whole new sound.
It is a tragedy that women of all ages walk around feeling lack of self worth, no confidence in themselves and comparing themselves to every other woman. Songs like “The Woman I Am” support women to celebrate themselves and to have have fun doing it.
When women are in the activity of “freely expressing their power, playfulness, sexiness, cheekiness” men do not feel it in their groin, they feel it in their hearts.
The women I am has set a completely new foundation as to what true Sexiness actually is. The most notable point is it’s nothing like what is portrayed as Sexy in the magazines and TV shows. Instead the song, video etc.. brings us a great depth of quality, of presence and of true Sexiness. The power of the music is also very evident by the fact that you’ve shared how it’s helped you heal a number of issues – quite incredible that music has supported this when we consider most music does the opposite in my experience.
After re-watching the video clip again it made me aware of just how uniquely beautiful every woman’s essence is. We all have a different expression for the same amazing tenderness and joy within and that’s what makes this song so confirming for all. Thank you Michael Benhayon
Wow Rod thank you this is stunning. What a game changer that would be for all of humanity. Monumental.
Re-reading this blog, your words here so apt about The Woman I Am: “It is a song that encourages true self-confidence rather than lack of self-worth, comparison, competition and jealousy” – and I re-appreciated the majesty and healing effect there can be in music thanks to Glorious Music. Music by them being in stark and polar opposite to a certain famous pop star who’s recently released latest song and horrific video features sadomasochism, torture, racism, denigration and misogyny of women, violence and murder. I am completely speechless. But full of words and more for Glorious Music.
Every time I listen to the song I instantly connect to the loveliness of being a woman. Despite listening to many songs about women over the years, never have I felt anything like the joy I feel when I listen to ‘The Woman I am.” What an amazing celebration of women!
I’m with you Brooke. When I first heard the song, The Woman I am, I couldn’t’ stop playing and singing it. I felt so empowered as a woman and I wanted every woman to hear it too as a confirmation for them of their true selves. Thanks to the amazing talents of Michael Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon, we have some amazing songs that truly reflect our true nature for all to know and hear.
I agree – ‘The Woman I Am’ is a powerhouse of a song. I love the lyrics and feel myself lift whenever I hear it. It is so different from other songs being regularly played through various media streams that push the notion that women have to be or do something before they are acknowledged as having any worth. I know which way I would rather feel and live …
Love it Rob. A game changer that will lead to a channel change no doubt as more and more people, women and men are fast outgrowing the objectified images of women that are sold to us at the expense of us being able to receive images of a woman’s true beauty. We are well and truly need to change the channel here.
‘The Woman I Am’ is THE anthem for women worldwide. The women in the video are living proof that life can be lived from the inside out, without slavery to external ideals and beliefs but as a true reflection of the value within.
This is the first time I have seen the clip of the song “The Woman I am”. It brought tears to my eyes. How often do we get to see women celebrating themselves who they are and without the jealousy and comparison? It is indeed glorious and power-full. Inspirational!
This is so true, “Every piece of media out there that relates to women, either relates to their outer beauty, sexual attractiveness or accomplishments. “The Women I Am” is the first song I have come across that sees a woman for who she naturally is without requiring her to be or bring anything;”. The first time I heard this song I began to understand that all women are truly beautiful, including me and it has nothing to do with how I look or what I do. I never realised how difficult it can be to say something positive about ourself, that we like about us, that is not something that we are good at or do. I recommend that all women (and men) try this, in private, and be deeply honest about what you feel about yourself, can you say the things you love about you – that is not what you have achieved or done or do it how you look….
There is nothing quite like it.
Doesn’t it…..so so gorgeous.
The same for me, Emily. I can observe what kind of videos and music teenager look at. And when I ask if they feel that this is how women are today, they say ‘no’ they know that is all sexualized and not normal. But they still look this videos and I ask myself for how long will we women do this to ourselves and also support this by consuming that kind of videos, and also magazines etc.
Yesterday I spoke to a 7 year old boy. He said to me ‘I love this song at the moment’ – and he sang lyrics about a boy commenting on a woman shaking her hips around.
I could feel how proud he was of remembering the words, to him he might not be aware of what is behind those lyrics, but they are exactly the sort of thing that catches us in a trap of exploiting women through music.
It is a shame that at 7 years old he is already in that cycle of loving that type of music and not truly knowing the meaning. There is certainly a huge responsibility for society to speak up about this issue and stop ignoring what is happening in music video clips.
Only last week I saw a singer release a film clip in which she strips down to her underwear on camera, and kills two people. Is that really OK?
Whilst watching the video clip, “The Woman I Am” I feel celebrated as a woman.
It is very powerfull in its message – we are sacred and divine, felt when connecting to our inner essence.
Glorious song indeed!
I don’t think many of us choose to realise the enormous healing power music can have when made with Love and Truth. This is evidenced by the simplicity of just this one song.
What you have expressed here Joseph is so beautiful that it just had to be acknowledged.
I agree that this song is universal and needs to be listened to by women and men alike. The more we honour ourselves as women the more men can also honour themselves which will then bring true equality and harmony to the world.
Thank you Kathie for highlighting the sentence ‘Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.’ It as you say what we can see and feel when we watch the video.
It feels like this is something that we have all been missing out on – that because something is sacred it can also be sexy!? From what I understood as a child and young woman these two didn’t mix – you were either ‘naughty’ and sexy or ‘pious’ and sacred! It felt like you couldn’t mix the two – it was like ‘oil and water’ – they just didn’t mix. This way we were being kept separate and divided from our true selves and in a constant dilemma, which when in harmony embraces all of us. This song is offering all women everywhere the opportunity to truly embrace and love every part of themselves and to live life to the full.
I so agree Lucy – this song fully and beautifully explores every aspect of ‘being a woman’ and when we listen to the words it tenderly embraces us and allows us to connect to who we innately are. This is definitely a song for all women of whatever age – with this song there are no barriers to exclude or deny what we truly are.
‘Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.’
How great was it to discover this and the lived beauty of it in the video.
There’s a lot of mainstream music by women that is about needing a man, getting hurt by a man or getting rid of a man. I cannot recall any that confirm the greatness that women bring to the world when they are living their truth. There’s twerking and pornographic music videos that portray and contribute to a so-called empowered image of women today, but I see in them a poverty of self-respect and self-love that confirms the misogyny that we are all effected by. The video for the ‘The Woman I Am’ is the only video / song that I have experienced that confirms the true woman, her strength, fragility and true power through her nurturing expressions. And none of it is in reference to a man.
So true Jinya. for aeons women have been fed the line that they need men in their lives to feel fulfilled. The greatest point of fulfilment for any woman is to connect to her own inner beauty and tenderness which in turn allows her to feel that tenderness in others and this way we can all reflect and confirm to the world the true value of feeling and being tender.
Wow beautifully expressed Jinya, spoken like a true gentleman and in full honour of women.
This song is such a positive affirmation for women and gets right into the core of our being.
Its also fun and full of joy and shows the beautiful connections between women.
A true gift for all of us.
The music of Michael Benhayon is tremendously supportive to listen to, it never imposes what you should or should not look like or how you should or should not behave. I have found that his music always lets you know who you are and celebrates the fact that you are all that. So when he turns his music towards women, the effect is ginormous, because as women we are always told to behave and to look in certain ways, so Michael’s music is unique in that it leaves us to simply be ourselves.
Thank you, Shami for expressing in words what I feel about Michael’s music when I hear it – there is just the clarity of his expression shining through, and there for all women to embrace and confirm when they feel the music and how it supports their body.
In future times, the world will look back at the Woman I Am video amazed at its truth and its glory and at how it was so before its time.
Not only does it confirm all that I am every time I hear it, but it connects us in celebration of all women. Mind-blowing.
I love this song too- I feel all the honouring of women in it and it is amazing to have this amazing treasure of true reflection on you tube.
From a true man, there is nothing sexy about a ‘sex-kitten’.
this song is so warm, it warms my heart. Its one of my favourite songs.
The Woman I am song is such an inspiring and empowering tune that you just want to play it over and over again, to keep confirming the absolute beauty and loveliness of all women equally.
It is often disturbing or even shocking to see and feel women not appreciating and valuing who they are, e.g. in not being open to fully let in a compliment, appreciation or gift as it simply gets blocked by her protection and sense of unworthiness – basically she is rejecting love as she feels not worthy of being unconditionally loved due the hurt she holds on to. How then shall a woman be able to stand in her full beauty, grace and power?
‘The Woman I am’ presents a true expression of who every woman essentially is when she lets go of her hurts, embraces herself in full and allows herself to be seen in her glory. Women / Girls need more true inspiration, role models and forms of expression to identify themselves with who they truly are instead of the disgracing, objectifying and denigrating images that control the media as well as the minds of men and women.
Rosie this sentence stood out for me – Why is it more generally accepted and normal to pick on ourselves, find all our flaws or faults rather than see the beauty, the power, the sweetness and all the wonderful individual aspects that make up the amazing women we are. And yet I can feel the beauty, power and sweetness in women I meet and yet we have so much trouble accepting that this is who we naturally are.
I’m coming back to this blog because of your beautiful photo, very inspiring to see how you shine and inspire us all to reconnect to what we are, just as the song does unimposingly.
The woman I am song has really captured the essence of a woman, and is something women of all ages can claim, enjoy. It is more than a celebration; it is the soundtrack to women claiming back their truth, and showing the world women living from their essence. When a woman is in her essence nobody is lesser, it is so knockout powerful, it is changing the world. Young girls now have excellent role models.
I can feel the ‘lightness and freeing’ in you by reading your comment Anne – we just keep reflecting this joy outwards from the original source and magnifying that to everyone around us – and it feels that is what we feel with a woman such as Natalie Benhayon. The world is receiving a great blessing from Natalie as she walks through the world in her full beauty and awesomeness. I have received so many blessings from the Benhayon family – what an amazing privilege to have them in our lives.
It is incredible how we have degraded sexiness to be something very disempowering and submissive and competitive when it is really the opposite. There is no sexier thing in my opinion than a woman or man in their true power, not hiding away, being who they truly are and not playing ball with any of the expectations of how a man or woman should be. When we stand in our true power we are inviting others to do the same which is beautiful and sexy in itself!
Well said Andrew. The word ‘sexy’ has been bastardised and has taken on the meaning of sleaze and submission to an impulse that is based on emotion and far removed from the true meaning of love. The joy, fun and vitality that is felt with the song ‘The Woman I Am’ is empowering and allows us all to connect to that deeper love that is the fount of life which is the sacredness of women. As women honour their sacredness they are offering the world a moment to reflect and enjoy their own sexiness.
Hear hear Andrew – here is to bringing True Sexy Back – a woman or man in their full power and inviting others to do the same. Love it!
I couldn’t agree more, Andrew. Let’s reclaim this gorgeous word by embodying our own in full.
It is so freeing, as a Woman, to value ourselves for ‘who we are’ rather than what we ‘do’. This song helps us to connect to who we are, our beauty-full essence.
It is such a great feeling to find here this confirmation and appreciation for women, for Michael’s song, for Miranda and Serge Benhayon… This is the true version of emancipation: Appreciation for women, for who they are in their essence, delicate, vulnerable, nurturing, divinely beautiful beings. And in the end, this is what we men are, too.
There is something very special about Michael’s music in that it doesn’t impose, it’s very hard to listen to any other type of music directly after listening to his, as my body seems to tense for an assault.
It’s true, even though I love music I now hear the emotions and the imposing energy in the songs I hear on the street, on the radio etc. Or I hear the lyrics, where mostly there is nothing confirming about women, only objectifying, or misery, lost loves etc. Very tiring.
There is even a German version of ‘The Woman I Am’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqpoA2ubLGk
Even if one doesn’t speak German, the same sweetness and sassiness is captured from the English version. One only needs to look at the women in the video to see the grace and beauty of a woman in the way that these women move.
I endorse what you say – prompted by your comment Shevon I have just had a few beautiful moments connecting to this video and can feel the lightness and joy inside of me. These women emanate everything that is beyond words as we feel a greater and deeper beauty that comes from within that lights up the world.
Awesome to read a man sharing how appreciative he is of not having to be subjected to the ‘sexy act’ nor react to a ‘sex object’ in a video, Simon. So many videos are designed to elicit precisely those reactions in men!
A few weeks ago we had an event in Switzerland for women and a few of us sang the German translation of the song. All the women were touched, not because the song is emotional, but because they were being met in who they truly are in the song. How cool is that!
It is basically telling all women that they are either a ‘sex kitten’ or that they have very little worth in our society or to men. I feel we underestimate how deeply embedded this consciousness is that in society you are less because you are a woman, as this message is very subtle constantly coming at all women in many different shades, sizes and colours, some obvious, most not so obvious.
Indeed Jacqueline, this consciousness is still all around us in different forms. The music clip of the Woman I am is therefore a breath of fresh air, a marker and a truthful reflection of who we are as women. And it is for us who have connected to the the essence of this clip to reflect this back to other women like pioneers, but now pioneering away from an illusion to something that already exists within.
That’s lovely, Samantha. Thank you for highlighting the sentence on sexiness – sexiness is so playful when we feel it from within ourselves and are not looking outside for some imposed feeling that is more of a reaction to an outside stimulus, rather than honouring our innate beauty and all that that encompasses. When I see a picture that is contrived to stimulate there is a hardness and falseness about it – it’s as though the person has become numb of any feeling from within – they are deadened by the continual onslaught of denying their inner qualities.
To be able to connect to women who ooze their essence is truly magical – I just love watching the women on the ‘Woman I Am’ video – it connects me instantly to a joy that is felt deep within. It ignites the spark that connects us to the same spontaneity and joy. I truly feel the woman I am and that is awesome.
Michael’s music is the most unimposing music I have ever listened to and I have listened to a lot of music.
Yes Kevin I find that so much music gets stuck in my head, or makes me feel emotional because of the lyrics or the way the music has been arranged. Some music can also feel very aggressive and jarring. What I love about Michael’s music is the fact that it leaves me alone and does not disturb me in any way. Quite remarkable. The lyrics are always celebratory.
I love this line too Michelle. Is there any other song out there that celebrates who you are without that ‘celebration’ being based on comparison or the idea that you are the ‘best’ in some way??
Our notion of celebrating who we are and building our sense of worth has been (for the most part) based on comparing ourselves with other women and evaluating our place from there.
The song is revolutionary in the way that it confirms who we all are – as equally amazing, equally whole and equally spectacular – with no need to measure up to one another to know it as the truth.
I agree Josephine it certainly stopped me in my tracks and suppported me deeply consider how I expressed as a woman and inspired me to claim the woman I am.
It is really sad that society encourages this competition amongst women preying on them through and increasing their lack of self worth. That’s why it’s so important for songs such “The Woman I Am” to be broadcast far and wide to start shifting the consciousness around what it is to truly be a woman.
So true Janet. Women truly appreciating themselves for who they are and allowing their true beauty to be seen is very powerful and inspiring. The essence of a woman comes from within not from the external pressures society dictates. This song honours all women and their innate beauty and it is a joy to sing along to 🙂
Beautiful to have the real woman able to come out of hiding, not only for us, but for all children and everyman. Remember the quality of a woman is the quality of her children (society).
‘The quality of a woman is the quality of her children’, beautifully expressed Concetta and true.
Yes, I love coming back to the song and video clip as a little reminder every now and then of the true woman that I am. When I go into a drive or a push I find that when I listen to “The Woman that I Am” I am able to come back to feeling my innate essence, feeling me and who I really am.
So true Elena when we are feeling vital and alive we can connect to our sexiness whatever the circumstances. It is part of our essence and part of who we are and it is a feeling that fills our body and overflows with the joy of living life. It comes from a fullness and not from the need of sex.
I guess you could say that the “Woman I am” song is the only song out there for woman that expands the horizons of who women are and celebrates how amazing woman naturally are, whereas most music squashes women into a box of how they should be and doesn’t allow for that unique expression.
That feels so true what you say Stephen there is an amazing expansiveness about the song, as with all Michael Benhayon’s songs as they do not impose, as they reflect back to us who we are innately. Women and men can become squashed into a box when all the natural feelings of connection have been squeezed out of us.
I agree, what this song does is 2-fold, – it celebrates the woman full stop. And in this allows a woman to celebrate herself as this and in all her beauty, but equally it also establishes within men an honouring of the woman in which they can feel the sacredness a woman holds, so clearly expressed, felt and heard through Michael Benhayon’s words in the song.
Well said Stephen – I know when I listen to The Woman I Am I feel confirmed and celebrated for being who I am, not like others asking me to be something to fit into an ideal picture which feeds the need of what people want a woman to be. A need based on an emptiness because most if not all of us have been brought up looking out from who we are and are not connecting to the inner beauty that is inside of us. A beauty that is beyond anything we have decided is more attractive than what we really are. So much exposed from an amazing song.
Such a liberating an joy-full song, with no boundaries to the love that it has, for women everywhere.
I often walk and play the music “The woman I am ” by Michael Benhayon- it truly is very beautiful, inspiring, honouring and healing song for woman- celebrating who we are from within, not who we need to be according to society or the media.
Just the thought of that Rod made me smile. How delicious would that be.
Finally there is a song that when I listen to it I feel more – more beautiful, more appreciative of myself and all women, more inspired to be myself and to celebrate who I am, rather than the glut of music out there that makes me feel less; less beautiful than the models, less acceptable by society for who I am and needing to be something else.
Yes Kerstin the song is reflecting and with that reminding us women who we truly really are – tender, precious, fragil, still . . . we are just wunderbar.
There is great power in the song and video “The woman I am” because it raises awareness of how naturally beautiful, stunning and cheeky a woman of any age can be when she chooses. There is also a quality in the video of a sacredness, that all human beings have within them, very clearly shown in the women portrayed who reflect how life itself is sacred when we connect with and claim ourselves. I agree with many other comments what the quality of this clip, in how it portrays women specifically and human beings in general greatly exposes the quality of almost all other music and video on the internet and TV as being dull, heavy and misleading in regard to what life is truly about.
Thank you for celebrating this wonderful song, I used to cry whenever I heard this song or had a go at singing along with it. There was feeling of sadness that I had not been living it but also a knowing that I had this sacredness waiting to be lived.It was very inspiring and healing. It is a great marker for me that when I sing along with this song now I do so with joy and I feel amazing. I celebrate the woman that I am.
I agree – currently the world doesn’t know another way to chose, but it is with these things, ‘The woman I am’ and Natalie with love, that will start to give the world a choice.
Amazing – true beauty and sexiness, a sexiness that is never sexual, never targeted, never wanting of anything and wow, does the world need this.
True beauty and sexiness are utterly mesmerising and also magnetising, they pull others in but not in a controlling or manipulative way but in a way that silently invites others back into the bosom of oneness.
‘The Woman I am’ is the first of many new songs to truly celebrate women and bring this serenity and honest connection to ourselves and our divinity back for us all to feel deeply. It is deeply touching, real and brings a knowing for all women to feel inside themselves also. I love it and play it joyfully all the time. Thank you for sharing this song.
How gorgeous Natalie – I can feel the play-fulness in your comment and it is inspiring. It is good to be reminded that the choice that we make to hang on to the challenges of the day is just that, and we can change things quite simply by making different choices that support us to connect to our true inner beauty in any moment.
Sandra what you have written is gorgeous. What would the world be like if we all did honour who we truly are and live that way. Hearing the music and the lyrics celebrates the beauty and grace in all women and watching the video for ‘The Woman I am’ I saw the immense joy, beauty and power in every single woman on the video and my heart was so full of appreciation and knowing that this is who we all are. Indeed GLORIOUS MUSIC.
Thank you Amelia, I have only in the past year or too started to realise what the music I was listening to were doing, imposing. Now, I listen to the music I used to enjoy and I can really hear it so clearly that it is definitely imposing. I used to get sucked in, get lost in the lyrics and feeling the song’s emotions and never did I once stop to feel that this way of listening to music was actually harmful and giving my power away until now. With Glorious Music I have only ever received healing, appreciation, truth and joy. And this is what music should be all about, a celebration of who we are.
“The Woman I am” goes straight to the heart of the matter and debases the age-old lack of self worth that women have. It is an opportunity to deeply celebrate ourselves as women.
Thank you for making so clear the vast difference between the awful and ‘normal’ portrayal of women and the truth and beauty that “The woman I am” brings to the world. They might as well be from different planets, but alas, it is all happening right here, under our very noses.
It’s amazing how we all effect each other!
It’s wonderful and such a joy to see women celebrating themselves and loving who they are. When you watch the video of the Woman I Am, all of the women are so different in the way they look and move BUT they all carry themselves with such a sweet and graceful manner and there is zero competition between them. Just shows what’s possible when we love ourselves to the max.
My children come home from primary school singing sexualised lyrics of songs that are played at school during various events. No wonder there is a real problem later in schools with over emphasised sexual pressure from peers to be accepted. This does not just suddenly start out of nowhere, it starts at primary school at the age of 5.
Wow! Thank you for sharing that Matthew, I feel somewhat shocked but it’s the truth. Kids are not even safe from the influence of media and popular music. I guess it’s about being open and honest with them about the impact that sort of music has on the way they are and grow?
And the videos that go with most songs these days are nothing short of soft porn. I recognise that many would simply say that I am being a ‘nanna’ but having started watching MTV recently it’s quite incredible the amount of simulated sex that accompanies modern songs. There is an absolute glut of pouting, licking, grinding and writhing that goes on from women who are wearing clothes that reveal and accentuate their butts and boobs. And as music is so important to young people, these are the images that they are seeing. Everything about these images shouts ‘be sexual, be desirable, be wanted, be popular, be famous, be liked’.
The words of the song, just tendering and lovingly invite you back to yourself with no agenda. It truly says, come on girl, you’ve got it, and you know it so don’t hold back who you are, just bring it. True sexy at its best.
I absolutely agree with you – this song is a new marker and should be in all the radios and news front page, the first song that is honouring women with each other and being themselves for a change,
As a man it has been amazing and lovely to see and feel the true sacredness, inner beauty and stillness that women are. Rather than the images and ideas we are fed about women, from the media or other men.
This is gold “Sexiness is not a sexual thing – the truth is, sexiness is just one of the many playful and cheeky aspects that make up the sacredness of women.” This s something i have been sharing with my daughter, she is still in primary school and is already getting strong messages from society about what sexuality and sexy means. This definition is awesome and something that we can embody as women that is not about the outside or trying to impress, it is purely being ourselves.
Yes, I agree, the sentence you highlighted is gold. I too have a daughter at primary school. I feel it is important to talk to her about what is out there and to remind her that she is amazing just by being herself, no need to prove or impress anyone. What society is accepting is actually not true or supportive in so many ways. It is a matter of learning to discern what is true and what is not. By me living the truth and just being myself and not let the pressures of society dictate who I am, I am setting an example for my daughter. I can only show her the way but I can never impose it on her. She will ultimately make her own decisions and for me, learning to let go of control and allow her to just be, is amazingly healing for me too. I love Glorious Music, I listen to it everyday and my daughter joins in too. She also loves it and sings along to the songs. The lyrics have amazing messages and she is connect to them, so beautiful to see and hear.
The woman I Am is such a ground breaking song , in celebration of who we are as a woman. I loved the blog thank you
It is amazing that this song has been written. I wonder though, why only now when music has been in existence for so long? Now that it has been written and recorded, it has laid the foundation for music to change in the years to come.
Yes for me too Eva, this song made me remember what it exactly means to be a woman. And how beautiful and glorious that is.
This is certainly a very unique song, celebratory without the emotional hook that most songs deliver, I have listened and enjoyed it many times and found it be both inspiring and profound. When accompanied by the music video the power of the message in the song comes through even clearer. To celebrate women seems even more important in these current times where domestic violence has become a huge issue and one that won’t go away of its own accord.
Listening to the Women I Am as a man brought me an instant and deeper appreciation of the beauty, grace, strength and stillness that all women naturally are. It washes away the ideals or pictures of what a women is and brings back the true essence. An incredible song that is joy to hear.
And as a man I can say that I love this song. Even though it’s called the woman I am the song could easily be for the men too because beauty is indeed genderless.
Well said Matts – beauty is genderless and it is a gift for all men that you are reflecting this out to them. I know that I can feel the tenderness, sensitivity and beauty in you and in all men and it is also powerful for us as women to receive such reflection when this is powerfully claimed.
Great comment Matts, beauty is indeed genderless.
Absolutely Joan. Whenever I hear ‘The woman I am’ it brings me back to the deep tender power that I know I hold and that can absolutely be lived in each and every moment if I so choose.
When a young friend who has just finished an M Sc in womens’ attitude to ageing saw the u tube video she was amazed that older women, as she put it, could be so beautifully sexy. It really was a shock to her. In all her research she hadn’t come across anything like it.
This shows how useful and vital such a song and video as ‘The woman I am’ is to society. It is able to break the false beliefs that we have adopted about women on so many levels including aging. Its impact directly and indirectly is profound.
Not only is this an amazing song that celebrates women, it is also an almost one of a kind that doesn’t simply focus on emotions like break ups or a new relationship.
True Rebecca – it is very liberating to listen to a song that is completely free of emotions or anything else that have us hooked in. This unique song offers us feeling celebrated to the core.
Hear hear Gyl it is a beautiful reflection.
If we start with the premise that young people are delicate, precious and sensitive…. and then consider the impact of all these highly sexualised and aggressive images on them we can begin to appreciate the enormous damage that its doing to the youth of today.
Actually I’ve also observed an ‘interesting’ reaction in women hearing that song – squirming, uncomfortable, held to listen because the truth in it was felt. One woman in particular I could see struggling with accepting the truth of her beauty and amazingness for herself , when everything in her experience had repeatedly confirmed her lack of self-worth to her. I could feel her becoming aware of the discomfort in the tension between her old patterns and the truth. I could feel her feeling the discord, disempowerment and illness in her life, and yet something in her resisted accepting her beauty and amazingness as a woman, as if to do so would be to have to take responsibility for how her life had been rather than be a victim and place the blame outside. Great to become aware of this – strong stuff, and shows how powerfully healing music can be when it brings truth and the permission to fully feel it.
Thank you for sharing this observation Dianne – it has given me a new level of understanding whilst also confirming how much more I accept my own innate beauty as I deepen the connection to the woman I am. This is a work in progress – as I unfold and become more willing to be open to an ever deepening awareness.
I have certainly noticed that as well, Dianne, often there can be an attitude that it is “not for them”, or “achievable”, and a feeling that it is being “too uppity” or falsely claiming something that is not true. I was immediately inspired by “The Woman I Am”, and feel great every time I play it; it helps me to connect with the joy and the woman I am, but even so I can also sometimes feel I am not “living up to it”. So it also informs me where and when I am not choosing to be all that I am, and then I can feel into that and make some changes in my choices for myself. It is not many pieces of music that bring such responses, affirming or rejecting, which just reveals how powerful and true it is.
We’re masters at blocking out the truth, we can do it upside down and in our sleep (and we do) because lets face it if we weren’t masters at blocking out the truth then we’d be living it and we’re not, in actual fact we’re living a million miles from the truth of who we all are and yet at the same time it’s also right there inside us.
I got goosebumps from head to toe when I read your comment Rod.
It really is a women eat women world – society sets girls up to constantly feel inadequate and compare to others, their hair, make up, clothes, body – everything is assessed, compared to, criticised or desired. This song cuts through all of that, and call women back to the natural beauty within them.
Hilarious, but very true Rebecca and Rachel; ‘a women eat women world’ is pretty accurate and it’s crazy how much comparison, criticism and judgement we have towards one another. The Woman I Am certainly cuts through this, and even in the video you can see the women who are on the screen together are enjoying the joy of each other’s company, without an ounce of any comparison etc.
Yes, definately Susie. Is there any other song out there that not only celebrates one woman in her full glory, but all women, equally?
It is outrageous that this question actually made me stop and think Kylie. How backward are we living for such a sweet and celebratory song to be seen as different to the norm. We need to bring respect, and decency back into mainstream music.. too often in retail shops, even on the radio I hear music about sex that young children are exposed to everyday.. this isn’t cool and in fact is a far cry from the purity felt in ‘The Woman I Am’.
To listen to EVERY word of ‘The Woman I Am’ and allowing each word to sink in is so healing. To know that this song is about you, me and all women no matter where we come from. No matter the race, nationality, job title and height. Single, married or with children – this song presents to the world the absolute unifying truth that is equally within every single woman on this planet. This is Truth to the bone!
Beautifully said Shevon – this song represents the absolute and unifying truth for every woman.
When a woman has a relationship with her sacredness, and lives with the celebration of this, it gives men permission to be in their tenderness and be themselves. This song is truly powerful, when I first heard it, I felt it was the first song I had heard that just celebrated a woman’s inner beauty, it felt quite empowering, I love it..
What else out there actually just celebrates women for who they naturally are?
It’s worth looking around as pretty much everything out there is about achieving, looks, perseverance, hard work, all confirmation that we need to be more, to be great, to be a certain way… The effects of this are far reaching and deeply ingrained. This song is a breath of fresh air, being a woman is so much more than what we are currently shown.
Well said, Tony. There is nothing less sexy than someone who is desperately trying to hide from the world the emptiness that they feel inside by projecting out a superficial beauty or sexiness. The more we can accept what already lives inside us, the more our natural sexiness can’t but ooze out of us.
‘Sexiness is not a sexual thing’ this is so true and something we really need to learn and understand.
Thank you Tony , a beautiful sharing and inspiration ‘The woman I am’ is so touching real and revealing for everyone listening and also reading this. Ones own inner beaury cannot be denied when listening to this and felt deeply within and that of everyones at the same time.
So beautifully said Katerina. You’ve inspired me to play this to three generations of women in my family who range from 6 to 77 years old.
I totally agree with you Anne, just as you describe your feeling to the song is how I also feel.
I listened to the woman I am on repeat in the car the other day, and it is amazing how empowering it is. It is beautiful that a song that celebrated women completely for all that they are was written by a man – the awesome Michael Benhayon – showing absolute equal-ness and appreciation for the women in his life.
Great question Sara, why have we become so complacent about the atrocious way we allow women to be portrayed in the society today. We are so awesome and this song truly celebrates and heralds that awesomeness. It will certainly live on for generations to come as the true way to celebrate all women. Definitely front page news.
“The Woman I am” is a stop moment for all women to feel how amazing we are, just listening to the words is uplifting and unifying….truly Glorious Music.
Me, too, Donna, well said. And when I watch the video I feel so much love between the women and enjoy how each of the women is uniquely beautiful and shining in their own way.
This is a fantastic piece of music in which yes the world should have stopped and questioned what are we doing; but because it gives women the strength to know their inner beauty, it’s as if the song can’t be used like ammo against each other in the way we live now… Raises many eyebrows to the way we live and treat each other.
Gorgeous Hannah, a superb reminder right here right now, we are all worth celebrating.
It’s a while since I have watched a chart music video, (at least 5 years maybe 10) so I felt to watch a video on MTV to see what the norm is. The very first video I clicked on was extremely aggressive with violent scenes and was using women as sex objects. It left me feeling a little disturbed about the message it was sending the young women and men that watch these videos. In stark contrast the video and song of ‘The Women I am’ confirms the gracefulness of women and their natural beauty. This song definitely needs worldwide exposure for all to see.
So true Rosie, it is crazy how our default position so often is to go to self criticism and not to appreciation, this song confirms the natural beauty of all women unlike any other.
Imagine being an 8 year old girl and hearing this song 🙂
Then imagine every single 8 year old girl in the world listening to it.
Is it not possible that this fact alone would change the world?
Well said, Suzanne. To be confirmed in our formative years of how precious we are, can make all the difference.
We women are sweet, delicate and tender – when we show our inner beauty.
Yes Monica and when we allow others to see and feel us in this expression of sweetness, delicateness and the tenderness of who we innately are, we offer countless opportunities to others by way of reflection. By one smile we are reaching the whole world.
Listening to this song, I have no flaws or faults. I actually want to be nobody else but me and who I am is not just OK, but is actually really, really, really great 🙂
I agree Suzanne. Being who I am, all of it, is just great. Amazing actually – there is so much of it and it feels so warm, expanded and all-encompassing.
‘That simply by claiming the glory and graciousness I naturally emanate, I become a powerhouse of love.’ It is easy to see others do this and think ‘Oh, I am not there yet’ but we are – it is naturally within all of us, we simply need to give ourselves permission to let it out . . . and then kerpow! Let’s go!
I love your comment Carmel. We can indeed trick ourselves into thinking that we are not there yet, this is something I use to keep myself small, but we are it, it’s already there waiting to simply be connected to. Indeed Kapow! let’s go!
I too love the song ‘The Woman I Am’. It feels so embracing of who I am as a woman as well as every other woman in the world. Plus it is also powerful for all men to listen to and feel the true beauty that resides within all women. A healing all around really!
‘The Woman I Am’ is such a beautiful celebration of women. I had a healing when I first heard it and really just wanted to “celebrate my beauty” as in its lyrics. I could feel my joy, my beauty and my sacredness.
Glorious music really is glorious music
Yes Jess – true sexiness is far from the so-called ‘sex kittens’ rolling around half naked on TV or magazines.
hear hear Steve – i love what you share and confirm about the true depth and beauty of a women being in her eyes.
Gorgeous Rod, look out men for the true sexiness in women and look out women for the true men!
Hear hear Marcia!
I agree Rod, we ŵomen need to take responsibility and truly start to express from our divine sacred essence, only then can we make a change. Only then the ripple will flow through the world, as everyone feels the wave.
Indeed Amita! This is so inspiring to read 🙂
That’s it – right now in this moment. NOW is always the time. Well put Hannah.
I love your expression here Joseph – “Here’s to true self-confidence, the loveliness of us and allowing this to shine right through.” That just says it all.
Well said Annelies. I am fully feeling the same. Every woman in the world needs to hear & feel this again..
So true Rod, it would be very liberating for both men and women – as you say a true game changer for humanity.
“The Woman I Am” is a truly beautiful song with wonderful lyrics and by women all over the world learning to honour and claim themselves, men will naturally need to get their act together.
Love it Kevin, and that there are women inspired by this that are leading the way.
Beautiful Lieke – “women are to be treasured and seen for the amazingness they are”
Well said Hannah! True media that does not impose now thats worth tuning in for!
It is ground breaking Kevin. A track these days can go viral in no time at all. But it is interesting to think about what does go viral, what is ‘popular’ and what ‘makes the charts’. The tracks that promote women and men selling themselves out for fame and fortune are popularized the world over. A track such as ‘The Woman I am’, which can change a woman’s life forever by reminding her of her true power and sacredness, should be number 1 immediately. What is this saying about the state of the music industry?
The song ‘The woman I am’ is indeed the only song in this world honoring every woman how she is, without having to look or be a certain way. A huge healing for every woman to listen to again and again. Thank you for sharing and wow, your foto says it all: a power woman, radiating beauty!
I cried the first time I heard this song, it just hit something deep within me and you can feel it’s written for all women to feel how powerful and beautiful they are naturally. This song truly celebrates women and is a joy to listen to.
Beautiful powerful comment Hannah – definitely time to truly celebrate.
Written with all the true power of a woman who ‘is’.
I agree Emily, it is amazing the contrast between the ‘woman I am’ music video and most usual music videos about women. It is amazing just how degrading some can be. And just the ‘woman I am’ is simply a celebration of everything every woman is in a way that doesn’t ask them to do anything, just be themselves.
This song celebrates women in a way that I’d rarely seen before and the beauty is it really is a song for ALL women, about ALL women and who we really are deep inside. It’s a beautiful song to listen to or sing along to. Singing it to yourself while looking in the mirror is highly recommended.
Lovely recommendation, Shevon! we can do a little dance with it too
I love that Shevon and what a gloriously beautiful reflection that would be looking back at ourselves from the truth of what it means to be a lovely, sexy woman in the world.
Yes Shevon I agree – for me the video clip showed as well that it is about ALL women because all the women in this clip are women like you and me. Women who walk what they talk and don’t hide behind a mask. They are real role models for us to see and feel that there is an other way to be as a women – wunderbar.
Absolutely Rebecca… As you say, ‘The Woman I Am’ is a celebration of being (not doing) a woman. There is nothing to aim for or to live up to, no expectation or imposition, simply a reflection for us to celebrate and appreciate who we all really are.
This is gorgeous Hannah, ‘“The Woman I Am” – not the woman I could be, should be, will be if I look like that/ buy that/ be like that / achieve some massive milestone or huge transformation. The Woman I Am, as I am right now – as each of us are right now – is so worth celebrating!’ This really helps me to understand the power of this song and why it is so different to other songs out in the world, it is saying we are enough already, just as we are, very powerful.
Absolutely it is a song of complete acceptance, self-worth and celebration reaching out to women everywhere to do the same. What is really beautiful about this song as well which is so different to others is it is not about striving to get somewhere or making ourselves out to be something we are not; it is a call from deep within to truly reconnect and honour our beauty, sacredness, playfulness, joyfullness, sexyness and so very much more.
Well said, Hannah. To just be who we are, feel the truth of that in our bodies, and drop the mental perceptions that keep us lesser – a simple recipe for self acceptance and love.
The world is full of beautiful women, If you really look and see their true self’s, every women is beautiful. The song just helps women everywhere feel for themselves and believe they are all amazing.
Beautifully expressed thank you Kehinde.
I love the songs of glorious music. The woman I am reminds me deeply I am already beautiful, I am already amazing. No goals needed.
Well said Kerstin, this is so true. It is a beautiful reminder.
love that Emily – feel free to be yourself ladies! How gorgeous it is to have the inspiration of the ‘woman I am’ song to support us to be just that free to express ourselves as the simply amazing women we all are.
‘This song – “The Woman I Am” – is the call for all women and girls of all ages to stand in their power and walk as nothing less than the amazing sacred divine woman they are.’ And it is absolutely worth for the world to stop and take notice, let this song be deeply felt, the honour, the respect, the love and absolute adoration for women, rightly deserved and celebrated. The Woman I Am.
Thank you Esther for expressing so beautifully just what the world needs to hear – it inspires us all when we are presented with the truth of what we are, and our potential as women.
Great point Hannah – quite often I may think about how good it would be if I could do that/look like that/etc, but this is not embracing the WOMAN I AM, at this current point, as that is really what it is all about. The future never arrives if we don’t embrace ourselves today
I feel that line about sexiness being just one of the playful and cheeky aspects of a womans sacredness so freeing. A woman is naturally this way and to express it without fear of giving sexual ‘come on’ signals is a joy.
Absolutely Catherine I agree. This line also stood out for me as I know my sexiness is not sexual yet the world around us continues to portray it as such by objectifying women’s bodies. It feels horrid and degrading and the total opposite of how I feel when I watch this video. Being sexy is just part of who I naturally am and is a gorgeous and fun expression of that, I don’t need to try or put it on, I am just that in connection.
That feels so true Candida – sexiness is a natural feeling that is innate in all of us and does not need to be influenced or contrived by the outside.
Yes Candida we are all playfully sexy in our own ways and it is in our connection with ourselves where this is so strongly felt.
For me, true sexiness is a feeling I have on the inside and not something I want to parade on the outside. Something that I have done in the past which just left me feeling more empty and a bit of a fraud because that is not what I was feeling on the inside. And yes, it gives me a feeling of joy feeling sexy on the inside.
Sandra you are spot on when you talk about sexiness being a feeling on the inside. So often in music videos and in magazines the focus is actually on a woman’s sexual organs. We see breasts, butts and mouths doing erotic movements and these images get taken on by girls and boys as to how women should behave in order to be sexy. I took images of what I thought was ‘how to be sexy’ into the bedroom and ‘played them out’ not questioning that there was another way to be sexy. No man ever showed me another way either, and so who are we being in the bedroom and who will our kids be in the bedroom having gorged on titillating music videos?
Catherine I agree that women are naturally sexy but given such a sexualised media many may fear it being misinterpreted as a sexual ‘come on.’ ‘The Woman I Am’ liberates women by saying it’s 100% your right to claim your sacredness as a woman. Lyrics and video show women expressing their natural sexiness and playfulness in all it’s glory.
Well said Rowena. The current messages to young woman are devastating. So much of who we are is being packaged into a tiny dot and we think that is all we are. We = as women = are so divine and sacred and powerful and gentle and incredibly sexy. As we are. Not for anyone else. We are the women we are.
I too “am standing up applauding the amazing work of Michael Benhayon and Glorious Music, the new way forward they are offering women, girls and the music world.” I have healed and celebrated so much by listening to these glorious songs.
It is a relief to listen to “the Woman I am”, sing and dance along to it and feel how powerful it is to celebrate myself as a woman within any mixed messages been given.
The women I am is very inspirational, especially in light of the current portrayal of women in music videos and in songs. The message they give to women, whatever their age, is that to be attractive, sexy, successful and liked, you have to look and act a certain way, often completely disrespecting your body in the process. But what the women I am reflects is that a women’s beauty, sexiness and warmth comes not from anything we do, but simply from who we are. This message is so needed for every woman, for it will begin to heal the massive amount of comparison, jealousy and lack of self worth so many women have.
I find that the music videos these days have become very overly sexual and one step away from porn – what message does this send to young girls and women of all ages.
‘The Woman I Am’ song and video are none of the aforementioned and celebrates all women as being naturally beautiful from the inside out.
I would also agree with all you share in regards to woman and girls in this world, and epidemic levels of lack of self worth. I observe and hear this in school everyday – as much as it is hugely supportive to talk about it and share it with girls and woman – it is also hugely important and powerful to be living in a way which claims we are worth loving and caring for deeply and that starts with ourself. This video and those woman in it, alongside many others are a living testament to the fact that taking care of, loving and nurturing ourselves allows us to connect to and be the innately powerful, sexy, beautiful and amazing woman we all are.
A glorious post about ‘The Woman I Am’, a song, which helps me and women connect with our innate power and beauty. I just had to listen to the song and watch the video again, its so irresistible.
Very true Lorraine – it is irresistible, becuase we can feel we are being honoured to the bone.
What a beautiful, nurturing way to start your day, beats listening to Breakfast News any day.
I agree Sandra, great way to start the day, it lights up the cells in my body.,
I often play this music on the way to work and it makes me smile inside, and inspires me re-connect to my tenderness as a woman and to take that with me into the office.
The music by Michael Benhayon ‘Glorious Music’ is deeply honoring and appreciating all men and women equally and therefore very supporting and healing for humanity. A music which is not imposing and full of emotions but heavenly inspiring to remind us who we truly are to reclaim and live that truth.
This is a major difference within this song, that it does not impose, is not full of emotions and yes is deeply honouring of men and women equally so.
Michael Benhayon’s music is glory in music for sure. I have felt it clear and heal my body many times, bringing back to us our glory, and it honours and holds all of us equally. Music is a great science and I listen to it every day.
I agree Rod, if all women were to express from their divine essence the world would be a very different place. I have met women such as this and they not only stop men in their tracks, they stop women too! Their gorgeousness and power can be felt a mile off.
As we embody the words of Michael Benhayon’s song ‘ the woman I am’ each one of us reflects the same to the world.
That is beautiful and very inspriing, as we embody the song, we reflect ack to the world.
‘simply by claiming the glory and graciousness I naturally emanate, I become a powerhouse of love.’ To live knowing that we are naturally beautiful inside makes it easier to let go of the belief systems that hold us back from being that powerhouse.
I love this line too Carmel ‘simply by claiming the glory and graciousness I naturally emanate, I become a powerhouse of love’. Wow, so very beautiful and true.
I agree Rod – and I am realizing it is our responsibility to do this if we ever want anything to change in this world. We have to do it for ourselves true but the whole world is waiting for us to do it.
Beautifully shared, this song is amazing and inspiring. The lyrics just touch our hearts with so much joy and love.
YES Sara, through songs like ‘The Woman I am’ and other songs from Glorious Music, we claim our true place and equality on behalf of all women and therefore play a critical part turning the tide on the denigration of women. Let’s celebrate our glory!
This is a beautiful blog and The Woman I Am by Michael Benhayon and Glorious Music is a divine song about the truth and celebration of all women. The first time I heard this song it was like finally someone saw and expressed the truth of what being a woman truly is, this truth that I know absolutely with no doubt to be true, and is inspired even more to express in commitment when I heard the song.
This song allows all women to connect back to the truth of their grandness, as women we are so much more than what we have been confined by societal standards to be. It was also by feeling into this grandness–the naturalness of this grandness, that I cried.
So many messages about and for women have become sexualised and obsessed with the look women portray, as you rightly point out real sexiness relates to how we feels about ourselves, not the outward appearance. Michael Benhayon’s song captures that beautifully for women to be who they are.
It is so wrong that women today have become obsessed with how they look which drives them to having all kinds of surgical procedures done, and then afterwards, they still feel the emptiness as before….because they fall for the trap that beauty is only on the outside – a message that women are bombared with 24/7. Real beauty and sexiness is when a woman accepts everything about herself and does not hold back in expressing how glorious she is.
Stephen you are so right about how the messages for women have become totally focused on how we look and the way we move, (gyrate). I feel an equal injustice has been done for men as well. In music videos and in magazines men are portrayed in a way that conveys physical toughness, toned physiques, wads of cash with gold and girls hanging off their bodies. It would be great if Michael Benhayon wrote a song called ‘The man I am’and I reckon the accompanying video would be incredible.
Hear,Hear Jonathan.
I remember when I first saw and heard the song/video the feeling of true celebration of women and all that we are was amazing and humbling. I like you wanted everyone one to see the video!
I often watch the German edition of this video clip as I absolutely love the watching the women being so tenderly and genuinely themselves. I love to sing along, although I don’t know german that well, it reminds me that all over the world we women are exactly the same – divine and amazing just as we are.
“I like you wanted everyone one to see the video!” And I still do, vanessamchardy. I will be sharing it soon.
Jonathan, that is so lovely to read – for men to celebrate the women in their lives. This beauty and love is the truth of who we truly are. It is time to start claiming this fully now and treat ourselves accordingly.
I agree Leonne, it is very disturbing that we have allowed this music industry to descend to this level. And then we wonder what to do about the alarming number of women getting brutalised within their ‘love’ relationships….
Hear hear
When I was younger going through school, I used to be shocked when I overheard the bitchiness and bickering that went on amongst girls. It shocked me because it made no sense with how I felt women to be in essence, even at that young age. The two did not equate. I had the same experience later in life when I coached a women’s hockey team, and could not believe the games of manipulation and emotional turmoil that went on between players of the same team. It did not make sense that women needed to be this way. I know that these experiences are not stereotypical ,and I am married to a gorgeous wife who does not play such games, but it did open my eyes up to the fact that there are a lot of women in the world who really do not understand their own true beauty, and so all too often they get caught in games of comparison with each other – which is a pity, because a woman who knows her own truth is a beautiful woman indeed, and it is a beauty that goes beyond the physical, and yet funnily enough they become physically beautiful despite their particular shape or size – at least to those who really allow themselves to see them for who they truly are.
I know the feeling Adam! In the past I have been very enjoined in the ‘bitchiness and bickering’, and on some occasions even the things coming out of MY mouth shocked me! As you say, this way of being is incredibly far from how women naturally are and can be.
So true Adam, is it no wonder that women’s health issues are so dramatically increasing, when women are expressing in a way that is so far from our innate essence and beauty.
So true Adam I know women that you would not consider beautiful in the temporal sense but when you get to know them for who they truly are you see them as physically divinely,beautiful and I also have observed the opposite happening. Women who you thought were beautiful looking and once you get to know them and if they are not nice women there looks fade into the back ground and you can only see the energy of the way they express.
“The woman I am” is such a lovely reflection of what truly is that radiates so much joy and stillness. A powerful moment to stop and feel that there is another way than our modern, hectic live full of stress and comparison.
Absolutely Michael – well said, I love the song because of that – it shows a different way
I had a similar experience when I first heard the song, and then later on watched the video. To me I just felt like every woman – and every man – should hear this song. Fantastic blog
Wow this is spot on, the state of how we in general treat ourselves as women is appalling. ‘The woman I am’ is more than just a great song, it’s revolutionary in its call to women to remember who they truly are, and to appreciate that greatness and that grandness. AMAZING song and amazing blog too!
The Woman I Am – this song is gold, it uplifts me every time I listen to it for the divine simplicity that this song presents. I love all the music from Glorious Music for this reason, and I stopped listening to ‘other’ music because I came to realise it does not uplift but rather leaves me feeling
irrated afterwards.
I remember when I first heard “The Woman I am” the tears welled up, it left me feel the woman I was. It was the most beautiful feeling.
I remember the first time I heard the song too, I was deeply touched and confirmed in the beauty that I naturally am. I couldn’t stop singing “The Woman I am” for days and days.
I was the same Bianca! In fact even now, for days after I hear the song I get snippets of the lyrics popping into my head to sing 🙂
Me too Fumiyo, it is the most beautiful celebration of women and the tears definitely flowed. I had the privilege of seeing the video at the same time and the joy of seeing women gracefully celebrating themselves and one another brought a mixture of joy, relief, inspiration and love all at once. A ‘must see’ for all women, especially young teenagers who sadly lack any true role models to show them what being a real woman is truly all about.
I felt the same Fumiyo. What’s amazing is that through ‘The Woman I am’ we celebrate not just ourselves, but all women.
A very similar feeling for me Fumiyo. To feel the true woman that I am reflected by the video and the lyrics was powerfully healing.
It sure reminds us of the quality we can live when we choose to become responsible for the choices we are currently making and how they can prevent others from seeing the quality we live in.
I too love ‘The Woman I am’ song and the video clip. There is nothing like it in the world and it is so honouring of the sacredness of women. I cant say the same for most of the other songs & videoclips out there. Recently I had a reality check of what is becoming the norm & I was so shocked at what I was witnessing. The Anaconda video clip which most young girls and teenagers would be watching is so disgusting and degrading of women as objects. We need more video clips like ‘The Woman I am’ so that girls can get a reflection that there is another way to be and live that is respectful and self-honouring…rather than the objectified & ‘slutty’ persona that has become pornography in mainstream media.
Awesome, thanks Marika and I agree we need more video clips that show women expressing in their true beauty and true sexiness with no hook or enticement which the media is currently so full of. The other day I was at the shops with my children who looked at a women’s magazine and they said to me after looking at the cover “being sexy is not being yourself” I confirmed what they felt and said yes the way it is portrayed in the media is not about being yourself and is a false, put on sexy. We then spoke about my understanding of what truly sexy is – allowing ourselves to be connected to our sacredness and letting this sparkle for all to see, it is a most natural state of being and one that is innate in us all.
‘allowing ourselves to be connected to our sacredness and letting this sparkle for all to see’ – Beautiful description Bianca. Sparkle is the new sexy.
I so agree Bianca – that word ‘sparkle’ really captures what we feel when we are emanating out to the world what it is to be a true woman in our tenderness and sexiness – every cell is reflecting this out to the world in a very playful and powerful way that claims our true essence.
And to observe that is such a joy!
The difference in the way sexiness and beauty is portrayed by these music videos is like comparing chalk and cheese.
The words and video of ‘The Woman I Am’ are extraordinary, especially in contrast to what is popularly available these days. Each time I listen to it, I have the opportunity to let the words sink deeper into me, to accept that women (including me) are amazing, powerful, beautiful etc and there is nothing for us to do for this to be true. This helps to undo all the years of societal messages about what it is to be a woman. I love the video and it sometimes makes me cry. To see women in such beauty and joy – together in harmony is such a gift. You can feel the love and support between them and the power that women united in harmony can have.
I like what you say here Fiona about how the song helps to undo all those messages around being a woman. It seems that this is true for me as a man as well, the song helps to clear many ideals around women and see the inner beauty there naturally and equally in all, regardless of outer image and even regardless of how charismatic one may be.
Simon I really like what you have shared here, I hadn’t considered that the video could clear ideals that men have around women, which is even more testament to the power of it.
I sometimes cry too when listening to this song Fiona. It’s because I become overwhelmed with appreciation that Michael Benhayon wrote this song in the first place. And then it is because I feel the depth of understanding of what Michael wanted to share with the song that Miranda Benhayon sings the lyrics with.
On watching the music video too, I feel every woman’s simple beauty and their understanding too, that this song is so very powerful for every single woman out there and they don’t even know it.
I am still able to be amazed and in awe at how much the Benhayon family, and equally many, many others, work for humanity, for no reason that involves themselves, but because they see so easily how much of a difference truth is in people’s lives and they want nothing less than for men and women to know the truth. This song totally nails that concept.
How beautifully expressed Suzanne – your words have offered a new depth of appreciation and understanding of how well served we are by the Benhayon Family. What they offer is a reflection and confirmation of truly living life responsibly and fully exploring our inner depths which offer us true wisdom.
so true Susan, we are very well served and supported with the Benhayon Family, their reflection is what we have chosen, too.
I agree with all the comments above, and I find it all, that is the reflection from our amazing brothers and sisters in the Benhayon family, the music that is subsequently inspired, and in this case of reference “The Woman I Am” all quite humbling and divine.
Yes, I agree Fiona, the song and video are divine, made with love. I find that when I listen to this song it helps me to reconnect and feel me as woman. Sometimes if I am feeling a little off, I like to turn up the volume and sing this song, it helps me to get back in touch with the beauty, the preciousness and loveliness of me as a woman. Other times I like to listen to it simply as a celebration of me and of all women.
What the world needs now is music that “…encourages true self-confidence rather than lack of self-worth, comparison, competition and jealousy…” This song, The Woman I Am, delivers this in truck loads, and should be gracing the music charts at the very Top. This is music my daughter and her friends, male and female, can listen to freely, without fear of being tainted with a brush that isn’t them.
This song is very different. Interestingly, most consumers of music are asking for the buzz that comes from listening to emotional music or highly sexualised videos – as if the disgust at the graphical display immediately gets overridden by that buzz.
It will be a few more years until an empowering song without the emotional song – even one that sounds as great as this one – will become mainstream.
It may well be that ‘The Woman I Am’ may not yet be mainstream, but it should, and could, be (!) if / when more of us stood up to confirm that most of what is currently popularized, does not in any way truly celebrate women. Thank goodness for music such as that offered by Michael Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon, which offers us a different approach to music, one which does not impose and which does not involve emotion, but one that simply allows us all – men & women alike – to simply be and feel who we naturally are.
In watching the film clip again I agree Angela this song in no way imposes upon us anything and yet tells us all, that we are sacred and divine and that this innate quality within all women should be celebrated by all.
It’s a joy to watch th music video which is just filled with harmony – there’s no rivalry or any one woman trying to get her face in front of the camera. It is the epitome of what the song is about. It’s often easy to listen to songs and get caught by a catchy tune and be oblivious to what I’m singing – but with the Woman I Am – when I really listen to the words and pay attention to each word as I sing – I can’t help but feel beautiful.
The music doesn’t come at you in any way and the music clips do not hook, entice or parade.
What can be felt throughout The Woman I am music and video clip is a quality of being – the true quality of women and the lived quality of this truth – very powerful.
Christoph the lude graphics are an integral part of the buzz and generally the more buzzed up the better !
Yes the “buzz” factor is what often keeps us buzzing so that we don’t have to feel what is truly going on and after a while a new marker appears, which leaves us feeling that the last buzz just doesn’t work anymore.
I agree Suzanne, currently music is helping to stuff up people with extra emotions – heightening depression and sadness or helping to check out at a club or simply walking around constantly with your headphones in. The world needs to be given equal opportunity to experience another quality of music.
Exactly Rebecca and what a beautiful quality of music it is. The world needs more music like this so people can feel the difference for themselves.
I agree with your words Rebecca, “The world needs to be given equal opportunity to exerience another quality of music.” – the word that stands out for me here is ‘quality’. I happened to turn on a t.v. show where one singer was pitted against another singer in a ‘battle’ to see who could flood the auditorium with the most emotional output, to the point that not only were many in the crowd ‘balling their eyes out’, but most of the judges were also – my goodness me, as if we don’t have enough emotional garbage in the world to be affected by already. What an absolute joy it is to listen to and watch the music of such a quality as “The Woman I Am” – no imposing energies, no comparison, no jealousy – just harmony, playfullness and joy.
Roberta you are right but the problem is that because many are so used to being lifted up, shaken around and basically made to feel extremes then when they are presented with anything that leaves them alone to feel themselves then they feel very little other than bored. Once the inner has been fed and watered enough to sprout then being left alone is utterly gorgeous because you get to feel your own flower bed.
Exactly – wow – when I read that line I was shocked to feel actually how little music actually encourages women to be confident and sassy and true to theirselves. This shouldn’t be a rarity but it certainly is!
Very true Meg you only have to watch some of the young women singers today and the disregard for their body and who they are is sad, they have no respect for themselves as women it is as though they are trying to trash anything that would make them feel like a true sassy and sexy woman. The more they can trash their bodies the better they think this is…….what sort of message is this sending out to our young today and what sort of message does it send to young men when all they see is young girls like Miley Cyrus looking and behaving like porn stars
You make some great points here Alison and sometimes we can be in a self-destruct mode, without even realising it, doing all that we can to suppress our natural beauty by behaviours that make us look acceptably ‘sexy’, but as you rightly ask what kind of message does this give out to the world including our young men? How will they know what a true woman is? A woman who respects and loves herself to the bone, if what they see around them is completely the opposite?When we look at it like this I feel very responsible as in no way shape or form, knowing that another way is possible now, do I choose to contribute to the demise of women by not loving and respecting myself. The whole world, including our young and older men, deserve to feel the glory that shines from a woman who just loves who she is. I’m sure if we spoke to the men they would have a lot to say about how being around a woman who has claimed herself, leaves them feeling, especially about themselves and actually we have a number of men who have commented on this blog as some rich examples.
And you can’t but light up – a whole being smile when you listen to this music for The Woman I am is deeply honouring of a woman’s true essence and quality and no where else in the music world are women confirmed in our divinity and celebrated for all that we naturally are.
You won’t see this song in the current pop charts as we know it because I feel this music does not align to what the entire music industry dictates popular music should be. Fortunately in this day and age we do not have to succumb to the music industry’s over endorsing power because we can now produce quality music in our own homes and share it with the world via independent channels. This is something to celebrate for it gives music back to the people. We are only at the tiny tiniest beginning of unravelling the absolute harm music and the music industry has been delivering. It’s hay-day is over and the towers are crumbling down. It’s up to us to share this in the best way we know how – play it, sing it and declare the truth you know it to be from every cell in your body. This music belongs to all of us and we know it!
Absolutely claimed Suzanne…you have called out the music industry’s game and the fact they no longer have control, but also the truth and knowing of what this song offers and to share this with everyone, everywhere…pure gold!
It is shocking at times hearing the lyric of songs played on mainstream radio, in shopping centres and retails stores, sex, rape and cheating are such common themes in modern music and we continue to expose our children to this day in and day out – so the next generation grows up thinking this is all normal. Young girls grow up equating becoming a woman to sexualising yourself.
I’ve been shocked too by the lyrics of many songs – shocked not only that the language and what it conveys, but the fact that few blink an eyelid when listening because it has become so normalised. ‘The woman I am’ exposes how far we have come who we really are , and offers inspiration for what we are returning to.