Are you inundated with an overwhelming number of emails?
Are you procrastinating on facebook at work or while you should be making the dinner?
Are you wishing you had more hours in the day and days in the week to fit everything in?
Do you wish you could just stop?
Life is getting busier and busier for many of us. We spend more and more time doing and less time being. When was the last time you switched off the TV and mobile phone and spent time meditation, mindfully walking in nature or simply contemplating life?
Most people need to schedule down time in order to create space in their lives. Without this they keep going on and on until illness or burnout sets in.
When people choose a simpler, slower pace of life they create the possibility of more presence, peace and stillness.
Women are blessed with monthly cycles that create an opportunity to slow down and retreat during their periods. When a woman can embrace her bleeding time to go within and nourish her mind and body, she creates harmony with the nature of her cyclical being. But most women nowadays ignore them creating tension which may result in period pain, PMT and other symptoms.
We weren’t designed to fire on all cylinders every day of the month. We live in a naturally cyclical world – plants grow in Spring, flower in Summer, bear fruit in Autumn and die off in Winter only to repeat the cycle again next Spring. Our energy levels ebb and flow with the phases of our cycle with most women experienced more energy during ovulation and less during menstruation. But in the main we ignore them.
If we want our plants to thrive, we generally plant in the Spring not the Winter. Our menstrual phase is like the Winter. A time to be still, rest before the business of Spring and Summer.
Here are some tips to create more space in your life and within your cycles:
For the super busy:
- Look in the mirror and tell yourself you love yourself (this will create more compassion for yourself thereby enabling more desire to take care of yourself)
- Give yourself a hug (again, creates more compassion)
For the moderately busy:
- Massage your feet for 5 (or more!) minutes in bed before you go to sleep
- Soak for 20 minutes in a warm bath with a cup full of Epsom salts
- Do a daily round of EFT on business and lack of space. It might go like this:
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