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 Toni Steenson, Goonellabah NSW
Further Reading:
The Woman
A Woman’s Strength is ‘KNOW’ and ‘NO’
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The Woman I am . The most beautiful true meaningful amazing awe-inspiring song ever .It is for all women everywhere and brings the truth of who we really are . Every time I listen to it I am so touched and stopped in my self to appreciate and feel deep within a magical connection to my essence and knowing and I can feel this with everyone who listens to it also. It is so beautiful to play it to another women or man and feel them melt also with the beauty and knowing it brings. Thank you Toni for sharing this and to everyone involved in making it ..Inspirational !
I totally love this song and video too. I remember crying when I first saw it as to see so much naturalness and joy was beautiful. If this video represents our true essence then it seems crazy that we have accepted the lesser version of ourselves that we think we have to adhere to as women and girls. “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” then we can clearly see how warped and sick the messages from society are about what an “ideal’ woman is. I am so totally appreciative too of the new bench mark for women this piece of music and video show humanity is possible.
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
Thank you Toni for standing up and applauding Glorious Music and Miranda Benhayon, who are as you say offering us the real way forward in celebrating women and music. I love this sentence about the song The Woman I Am, “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.” When I first heard the song I cried, because the beauty and joy of being a woman is so naturally celebrated and the video shows how we can truly celebrate and love one another’s beauty without one ounce of jealously or comparison. It is the medicine we truly need right now, to heal the devastating messages to young women that we are only good for one thing, Sex. As a young woman I found this message so unbearably crushing, I cannot imagine what it is like for teenagers and young women growing up today, where the bombardment is constant and comes in so many forms. Thank you for bringing this discussion out in to the open and openly declaring the real truth about women, that we are all a power house of love and grace, all we need to do is re-connect and know we are more than enough in this world just being who we naturally are.
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.
Toni,
I applaude this song with you. These lyrics carry with them the essence of a woman – for who she truly is not what she looks like.
The song resonated with me too – and when listening to the lyrics we’re allowing on mainstream radio – its so very different – always about looking a certain way or being attractive so men will want us and other women will be jealous of us.
We are the only species where the woman is put on show for the men. In animals – it is completely the opposite.
That makes me stop and think how much we’ve invested in exploiting women.
And thats what women of the future are listening too and using as role models.
True media should not impose – it should not need a result from the listener to be a certain way. ‘The woman I am’ absolutely does this and it truly beautiful and worth shouting about.
Well said Hannah! True media that does not impose now thats worth tuning in for!
Nature is a great reflection for me so this point you have brought up has me pondering what this shows me. It is like in the animal world the male shows and parades his grandness and then the female chooses to accept his form of grandness or not. Sometimes there is a game where she is letting him know what aspects she will and will not accept. I shall sit with this one.
Toni, you beautifully capture and evoke the essence and quality of the music of Michael Benhayon and Glorious Music and in particular the song ‘The Woman I Am’. It is a true anthem and rallying call for all women, and for men to celebrate the women in their lives.
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.
Hear,Hear Jonathan.
Thank you, Toni, for writing this. I have not until now fully let myself feel the enormity of what this song represents. As you say, it breaks through all the beliefs we hold towards ourselves as women of not being beautiful, worthy and enough just as we are. And why indeed do we settle for the ‘norms’ of society projected by the media etc which keep us far removed from our natural power and sacredness?
I agree with you Janet, I also “have not until now fully let myself feel the enormity of what this song represents”. Toni has shared such important insights into the truths that the song is presenting to ALL women, of all ages. Importantly, she has brought to the knowing for all of us the huge sacredness and power that women hold within.
Women (including all girls) just need to bring it out for everyone to see. And that is just by being who they are, not having to do anything. Amazing, so simple.
Wow – reading this stopped me as I could really appreciate what this song has brought in terms of showing a different way in music and how we are as women. It truly celebrates all that I and every other woman is, if I allow my amazingness to shine and this is exactly what I felt when I first heard it. These words capture this simply – “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” Thank you Toni, for expressing this clearly.
Beautiful Toni, ‘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.’ Wow, i find this super inspiring, when I look at young woman in our society I see such a lack of self worth and self care, music and videos such as this are exactly what is needed to show young women a truth, that they are worth it and they are divine.
Thank you for this wonderful piece Toni. On first hearing and seeing this video I was brought to tears. It reflected such beauty and depth and the truth of the qualities that every woman holds. I could feel so strongly the damage of the many false ideals that I had taken on as a woman and listening to the lyrics for me was also a great healing. A song that should be played again and again for all women to hear and feel.
I totally agree Toni, we need more of these true reflections in the media. We need the true power of women to reflect what is going wrong in todays society.
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.
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!
This is without question a very powerful article and one that holds a clear direction for all women. Connecting to this sacred and simply very playful part of us either through the glorious music or by our own simple choices are an important part of really getting to know ourselves intimately. Something I feel is a vital relationship to build on.
Toni, your words are beautifully expressed on the real truth expressed in this song. There is none so blind as those that will not see … now, there is something out there that is worth seeing. It should spread like wild fire on the winds to show women and men alike what real sexy is, not to put women on pedestals but to look them in the eyes and see the depth of their beauty and power.
hear hear Steve – i love what you share and confirm about the true depth and beauty of a women being in her eyes.
Wow Toni reading your blog is really feeling this powerhouse of love…thank You for expressing this for all of us. It is so true. Very inspiring to build on confidence and live this beauty and sacredness that we are as women. With love Nadine
Great blog Toni you are totally right this is a great ground breaking song that needs to pave the way to bring around a change to the state of an appallingly over sexualised music biz, which a lot of it is straight out porn and the lyrics are so detrimental to all women.
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?
And about what we as humanity have come to accept as what we want and ask for (apparently willingly so)
Dear Toni, I agree with every word you have written on this page.
You are very right to aks why the world does not stop re-evaluate its way with women in society after the release of this song. Women are to be treasured and seen for the amazingness they are, as it is for us as women to feel how amazing we are for ourselves. Thank you for writing this Toni.
Beautiful Lieke – “women are to be treasured and seen for the amazingness they are”
How true this is Toni, the song The Woman I am reflects this deep beauty, joy, playfulness and cheekiness of me as a woman. It brings light in all the wrong belief systems we hold onto as woman and ignites us to choose us as the women we are, the truth of our womeness and the deep love everybody of us holds deep within.
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.
Thank you Toni, reading your blog reminded me of how important it is that we keep sharing Glorious Music and reminding the world of the true beauty that lies within us all. Humanity has become so used to overstimulation of the senses from music videos, whereas “The Woman I Am” is stripped back to a white background and sensationally, truly beautiful women of all ages. It is a beholding song, and Michael Benhayon is a true master of Soulful music with no self whatsoever. A first in my lifetime and the way forward for true music that does not impose, but rather uplifts to where we can be.
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.
absolutely Toni, this song is a celebration of what women truly are and a breath of fresh air in music land. It is amazing how much we have lost the sense of sacredness and true sexiness, leaving our girls with terrible and surely very confusing role models that are the opposite of what they feel inside. Michael Benhayon and Glorius Music bring to us a whole new experience of music, one that leaves us unimposed upon and supports us to return to our essence.
Very true Carolien; when women lose their sense of sacredness and sexiness, young girls do indeed become confused as what they feel inside is so different to what they see outside in other women… But that’s why The Woman I Am song is so incredible, and why women like Toni who are re-claiming their true beauty are important, incredible inspirations.
What an amazing, powerful blog Toni, you have claimed the beauty you have inside you as a woman and are undoubtedly an inspiration to your daughter and the women around you. I too love this song and sometimes play it over and over to constantly remind me of who I am, it is inspiring.
“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”, I totally agree and thank you for sharing.
Thank you Toni Steenson for promoting this song and video clip to the world. As you say, it is so needed that women and men in the world get to see the true nature and glory of women and this song it bringing it all.
Beautifully said Toni. This song is a whole new marker for women and for men and rightfully so, should be front page news. How is it we have become so comfortable with the denigration of women that it is now the norm? Thankfully this song it out there and will no doubt live through generations to come as the way forward for how to truly celebrate and honour women.
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!
I agree with you Sara. When we stop and ponder on how the denigration of women has not only become the norm but with each successive generation how more extreme it becomes in the media – it defies belief!. To have true female role models who do not hold back the amazingness they are, which then inspires that same quality to shine in all the women they come into contact with is precious beyond words. As more and more women recognise their true power a new, gentle revolution begins, one with self love at its core.
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.
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,
“Great question Sara, why have we become so complacent about the atrocious way we allow women to be portrayed in the society today.” I agree.
When I stop to ponder on this question all I get is it would shake the very foundations that holds the worlds power at present….. It would inspire true change……will the powers at hand let this emerge, or have they too much to loose???
Thank you Toni for bringing this truth into the world, ‘The woman I am’ is the only song out there that truly celebrates women for who they are. It is time for all of us to say ‘STOP’, we don’t want this anymore, no more denigrating of women. We all carry this power to make real change and live as and reflect from the women that we innately are: gorgeous, sexy, wonderful, powerful, beautiful, inspiring, cheeky, nurturing, still and stunning.
With so much focus on our outer appearance and many times how it doesn’t measure up to an idealised image of what we think we should be, this is certainly a refreshing change. Yes, I’ve heard many times in my life that ‘beauty comes from within’, but always brushed it off as a polite way not to focus on our flaws. But since seeing this actually lived by Natalie Benhayon and the other women in her family and some friends around me I now see and feel the truth and power in those words. I have since began to connect to my true beauty within my own heart which has begun to free me from the shackles of low self-worth and self-loathing. This, I have found is THE way to re-claim ourselves as women. Thank you Toni.
The beauty that comes from within, starts within and then explodes out. Since I have been exposed to true beauty I no longer find what I used to see as beautiful as beautiful, in fact sometimes I find it repulsive. It is not the appearance that is repulsive but the way in which the woman has put this appearance on for display. It can be quite sad to observe as I can feel the beautiful woman in-front of me pleading for attention and recognition, and this can feel quite sexual and grotesque in nature, even though underneath all this trying she is, this beauty she strives for, this is undeniable.
This is a superb blog Toni. Isn’t it amazing that one song can inspire all of what you have shared. I find this quite amazing. I have been a music fan my whole life and never has any piece of music asked me to stop and to really consider who I am as a women. Not in a ‘feminist’ kind of way, but in the way that says “Do you know how precious and divine you are and how powerful you are”? This is music that offers healing as we begin to uncover the beliefs that we have of ourselves as women that prevent us from connecting to this inherent beauty that is always there for us.
So true Jennifer, and we, the world, are creating the forms of music out there by the support we offer when we press the play button. What do you truly feel to support?
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.
Toni I clicked on the link and listened to both English and German versions of the song. The music, the lyrics, the beauty full faces of everyone in the videos and the joy made for a very nurturing moment for me this morning.
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.,
Awesome Toni , what you have written should be front page story in a major paper or magazine, its so crazy to see the sexualisation woman portrayed in music video, film and media. It is definitely giving out a completely wrong and sick view of how and what woman should be. I agree totally with what you have said quoted ” 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.”
Hi Toni, I loved reading your blog and I agree – this music, this song “The Woman I am” has a place to be there at the top of the charts for all the world to see, hear and to feel.
What is it I wonder about our human race that doesn’t recognize the opportunity to be up-lifted and brought to a deeper awareness of their true being – and in this case the beauty and true deliciousness of the feminine being. Maybe we could support a world-wide television programme with Natalie Benhayon expressing “The Woman I Am” – now that would be extra-ordinary.
Seriously does any one know how to make this happen??? If so let’s see if it is a possibility because boy-o-boy would it rock the socks off the world. As a joke imagine watching A Current Affair and then Natalie Benhayon came on expressing what she felt living and loving in a woman’s body is about for her and then this clip played. It may take 5-10minutes of the program yet it would be the program.
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.
Toni thanks for sharing the true honouring that all woman can feel with THE WOMAN I AM video from Michael Benhayon. You’ve made a great point in sharing the true meaning of the word sexy which encompasses being playful and cheeky not projecting a less than approach that is often shared in current songs and music videos.
A great call out to what is true and what needs to be questioned.
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.
Bianca what you write is so true “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.” I love the way you expressed this.
‘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.
Thank you Toni, I love that you have written about this song. It is so worth celebrating and I feel like it was a gift to me and to all women. I was listening to it yesterday in the car and thought to myself, why do we not celebrate ourselves more often? 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.
This song, have really supported me to see the amazing woman I am and that you are are that all women are.
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.
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.
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.
here here Rosie
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.
Wow Toni, this is a beautiful confirmation of you and all women through your connection with and appreciation of the lyrics and music of Glorious Music and Michael Benhayon. The availability and presence of this song is a true gift and legacy for girls and women as we reconnect to the depth and sacredness with us and begin more and more to live from our true glory. The simple truth of this is profound and immediately available within every woman!
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.
Beautifully written Toni.
When a woman lives and expresses “as nothing less than the amazing sacred divine woman they are”, then imagine the affect on men. For some it would be confronting, yet for many it would be the catalyst for men to come out from behind their defensive shields and open up to love. And ultimately, love would prevail.
For humanity it would be a game changer.
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.
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.
So true Rod, it would be very liberating for both men and women – as you say a true game changer for humanity.
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 🙂
Gorgeous Rod, look out men for the true sexiness in women and look out women for the true men!
Hear hear Marcia!
I got goosebumps from head to toe when I read your comment Rod.
It’s amazing how we all effect each other!
What is truly amazing is that Natalie is maybe one of the youngest women on the clip but the support she offers and inspires all women shows this has nothing to do with age but simply choosing to be all of you no matter who’s watching or who’s reacting, WOW what a powerhouse of Love and unity.
I love that Toni – ‘no matter who’s watching or reacting’. Often times we can hold back just being ourselves and play small because a) we’ll stand out or b) because we don’t want to upset anyone, but that behaviour really is very damaging and can be the precursor to illness and disease. Who we are is meant to be expressed and shared and not suppressed and stifled. If we stifle our natural vivaciousness, joy, love and sexiness we become sick as all that energy that was meant to be let out and shared is trapped inside, like a pressure cooker!
Just the thought of that Rod made me smile. How delicious would that be.
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.
Wow Rod thank you this is stunning. What a game changer that would be for all of humanity. Monumental.
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.
Mm I agree Toni. ‘the woman I am’ is completely different to what most video clips and songs portray of women. I’ve actually only just really realised how different it is and the incredible-ness of it. This would be the only song I know of to celebrate women in all their glory.. To not diminish the beauty of a women to suit another person but fully open it up and let it be known. Gosh, super incredible.
I like this line when you said ‘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.’ Feel free to be yourself ladies !
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?
Alexis what you share is very open and honest. I have noticed how impactful our sexual relations are on our children. Even though they do not witness the physical act they feel it. I know this to be true as I have noticed a difference in my children’s behaviour dependent on whether my husband and I deeply connect with each other and make love or if we fall into the trap of having sex. I t amazed me when I was open to seeing how this effected my children.
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.
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.
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.
And from there we as Women have the power to truly change this world and reflect to all of humanity how simple it can be to live in a truly honouring way as a women.
YES LET’S BRING IT LADIES and set the world on fire.
If we momentarily forget how to do this we can come back to this song/video clip and be re inspired, it is all here.
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.
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.
I agree Stephen, I would go as far as to say it obliterates the ability for a woman to come from her true expression completely.
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.
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.
So much of the music out there confirms young women as what they are not therefore implying that there is something else they have to be (sex kitten etc.). The Woman I Am – presents the what is- the who we really are as women – deeply nurturing and sacred and as mentioned by Toni – sexy without being sexual… this is a great realisation for all women and men.
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.
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.
To me it appears it depends on how willing we are to feel our own beauty that effects how we hear this music. I noticed one day when I was not quite myself and I was listening to Michael’s music I found it to be something I did not enjoy as I normally do and I could not feel or hear the beauty this music offers. It made me consider that if we feel bad about ourselves and do not see ourselves for our inner beauty we may not be able to appreciate all this music brings.
I so agree with you Christoph. “The Woman I am “is a song that asks you to connect to yourself and to your natural expression. Emotional music and highly sexualised videos invite you to check out and numb yourself to how you are feeling or to get you to be emotional and identify with those emotions rather than with your essence. It feels like many are not yet simply ready to let go of the “buzz” of emotions or to admit that this is not who they are.
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.
Christoph the lude graphics are an integral part of the buzz and generally the more buzzed up the better !
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.
Roberta what you offer in your comment is so true. Music is seen as powerful and great depending on how much of an emotional response it can conjure up. It is like we thrive on emotions to the point we seek out emotions that are not even our own.
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.
From my experience and talking with my teenage son it appears young men feel very uncomfortable around women and girls their age that put on the fake sexiness society deems as sexy. Young men feel quite intimidated and do not know how to act or what to do when a woman presents themselves in this way. Of course if they are in front of their mates they will act like they like this behaviour and encourage it but on the inside they are cringing.
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!
Suzanne I have to agree with you. We choose the music we listen to because of how it feels and the emotions it delivers us. As an example when we have a relationship break-up we choose to listen to music that allows us and fosters our feeling of sorrow. ‘The Woman I am’ offers no such emotions, rather it simply lets us be and inspires us to feel the beauty within, not many of us want to go there.
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!