Taking Back the Female Menstrual Cycle - How to Reconnect With Our Feminine Power
The female menstrual cycle is surrounded by taboo and shame in our culture.
It has become something to be embarrassed about, something to keep secret and not talk about.
This didn't used to be the case in other ancient cultures.
Women were believed to be more powerful, magical and have special abilities during their menstruation.
They would gather together with the other women and connect and care for themselves.
Even today it is believed by many that women are more intuitive, creative and even psychic during certain times of their cycles.
In particular during their bleeding.
This is a big jump from the dirtiness and stigma that surrounds the menstrual cycle currently.
We are embarrassed to be seen buying "supplies".
God forbid anyone, particularly a BOY, should know that I am on my period.
(But WHY is it so embarrassing?) It is considered dirty and smelly.
Women are marketed deodorants and scented products to deal with the smell.
Companies that sell feminine hygiene products, like Proctor and Gamble, are making a KILLING off of the female menstrual cycle, with no regard for the health of the women using their products.
With chemicals and pesticides being put into these products, and dioxin from the bleaching process, commercial feminine hygiene products are hardly "safe", yet are widely used by women everywhere.
It is time to take back the female menstrual cycle.
There should be no shame and dirtiness associated with it.
It is a natural part of every woman's cycle and should be celebrated and honored as such.
We need to get back into our cycles, to recognize that we are cyclical creatures, that we operate on this cycle that relates so closely to the moon's cycle.
We go through this ebb and flow every single cycle, which is about 28 days, and yet we still act as though it is not really part of us.
We act like it is an intruder, an annoyance.
Aunt Flow come to town when it's least convenient.
What would happen if we were to celebrate it instead, to allow ourselves to experience it, to be with it? What if we stopped trying to hide it, to disguise it? And what if we embraced the experience as natural, part of us, and something to be shared and honored? It would change the lives of women everywhere to begin to live like this.
There would be more connection between women, but more importantly there would be more understanding and connection with our own bodies.
We would be able to embrace who we really are as women and to live our lives as the powerful women that we are.
It is time to take back our power as women, to reconnect with the physical bodies we are living in, and to reconnect with the world around us.
And the female menstrual cycle is a key to doing just that.
It has become something to be embarrassed about, something to keep secret and not talk about.
This didn't used to be the case in other ancient cultures.
Women were believed to be more powerful, magical and have special abilities during their menstruation.
They would gather together with the other women and connect and care for themselves.
Even today it is believed by many that women are more intuitive, creative and even psychic during certain times of their cycles.
In particular during their bleeding.
This is a big jump from the dirtiness and stigma that surrounds the menstrual cycle currently.
We are embarrassed to be seen buying "supplies".
God forbid anyone, particularly a BOY, should know that I am on my period.
(But WHY is it so embarrassing?) It is considered dirty and smelly.
Women are marketed deodorants and scented products to deal with the smell.
Companies that sell feminine hygiene products, like Proctor and Gamble, are making a KILLING off of the female menstrual cycle, with no regard for the health of the women using their products.
With chemicals and pesticides being put into these products, and dioxin from the bleaching process, commercial feminine hygiene products are hardly "safe", yet are widely used by women everywhere.
It is time to take back the female menstrual cycle.
There should be no shame and dirtiness associated with it.
It is a natural part of every woman's cycle and should be celebrated and honored as such.
We need to get back into our cycles, to recognize that we are cyclical creatures, that we operate on this cycle that relates so closely to the moon's cycle.
We go through this ebb and flow every single cycle, which is about 28 days, and yet we still act as though it is not really part of us.
We act like it is an intruder, an annoyance.
Aunt Flow come to town when it's least convenient.
What would happen if we were to celebrate it instead, to allow ourselves to experience it, to be with it? What if we stopped trying to hide it, to disguise it? And what if we embraced the experience as natural, part of us, and something to be shared and honored? It would change the lives of women everywhere to begin to live like this.
There would be more connection between women, but more importantly there would be more understanding and connection with our own bodies.
We would be able to embrace who we really are as women and to live our lives as the powerful women that we are.
It is time to take back our power as women, to reconnect with the physical bodies we are living in, and to reconnect with the world around us.
And the female menstrual cycle is a key to doing just that.