Menstruation is the process in a woman of discharging blood and other materials from the lining of the uterus at intervals of about one lunar month from puberty until menopause, except during pregnancy.
- Synonyms: period, menstrual cycle
- Technical: menses, menarche, menorrhea
- Rare: catamenia
- Archaic: time
- Informal: the curse, monthlies, one’s/the time of the month, being on the rag
What is the energetic “deal” before menstruation?
I noticed in myself – before menstruation I am more and more aware of my problems and I try to solve them, I get frustrated, it leaves me in tears, then I calm down from the first day of my menstrual cycle. Next month I’ll start over… It’s as if, 7-10 days before my menstruation, all my light bulbs light up at once. I’m going crazy before menstrual cycle and I want to “break free”. I feel everything that bothers me becomes more acute and I also feel that my glass is filled more and more… Hormonal I know what happens, but I tried to explain it from energy point of view.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of signs and symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue… and it affects a woman’s emotions, physical health, and behavior during certain days of the menstrual cycle. PMS symptoms including emotions have a lot to do with the liver and the emotion of anger according to traditional Chinese medicine. I’ve found that shame, fear, worry and regret deeper womb related but liver shuts the solar plexus gates down too, so PMS brings on the loudspeaker when we need to resolve, heal within ourselves.
We can’t separate “body only, mind only, energetically only’. They all work together. Sometimes we need to manage the mind to free the energy, other times we heal the energy and the body heals, or we heal the body and while doing so we download wisdom that helps heal the mind or spirit.
The menstruation mainly has to do with the 3 lower chakras
The reproductive system (both male and female) is the bridge between the root chakra and the solar plexus (i.e. sacral chakra). When we are menstruating, both male and female energies are at their peak, there is no balance. We are competing to do more. When the root and solar plexus chakras are “balanced” then the energies “flow better” and the daily dramas are less or less intense, or even both. It also has to do with the states of awareness, but not as much as we would think. Sometimes we might cope with our state and not be in pain. Other times we might not cope with our awareness state and still not have pain… So the body and the nervous system tell us what’s wrong, and we need to be more careful about what it’s about.
In the book Anatomy of the Spirit, The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Three Rivers Press, 1996) author and medical intuitive Carolyn Myss, Ph.D., explains that many female health problems are related to the second chakra: “Problems with menstruation,…
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