Features -Menopause and emotional release

Women who are menstruating often have some form of emotional release before a period. commonly known as PMT.

This can be mild or extreme varying from irritation to outright anger, shouting at your loved ones, and biting off anyone’s head that crosses your path.

Being totally unreasonable, selfish, having sexual aversion, jealousy, insecurity. Feeling depressed or vulnerable, weeping, and just not wanting to be your normal caring nurturing self.

Most women have experienced some if not all of these emotions.

As a homeopath I have viewed PMT as a safety valve, the hormonal changes giving a woman the chance to release any build up of unexpressed emotions over the month.

So I see PMT as a way of keeping a woman healthy, if she is not able to express her emotions as they occur.

The menopause could be seen in a similar light, with some woman experiencing many of these same emotions that they may have had before as PMT.

Again it could be seen as a safety valve. However once the hormones have settled down the safety valve is no longer there.

In homeopathic thought disease is often seen as the result of an emotion that hasn’t been expressed and integrated.

So the question then arises of how to safely release emotional toxicity, after the menopause?

Counselling or therapy is a possibility. If this is not for you, see if you can write out your anger or grief. Do this with as much raw emotion as you can muster, (it is not an exercise in writing beautifully.) Once written tear up the expletives, or burn them.

The Native Americans suggest digging a small hole in soft ground, putting your hands in the ground and emoting into the earth.

Put your emotions into some form of creativity such as painting, music, singing, and dance.If you like dance Gabrielle Roth’s 5 rhythms or the wave is an excellent way of releasing emotions.

Use exercise as a way of releasing emotions, hit that tennis ball with meaning. Garden with a vengence.

Practise EFT tapping away your emotions

Enjoy yourself, laughing is very healing, so go out with your friends have a good moan, have fun, and a giggle.

Learn how to express those little gripes as they occur. Try saying no, when that’s what you mean. Be true to yourself, and revel in this new begining, your time of power, the menopause.

Jo Pitcairn web-site manager

Page created: 25 March 2009