First, ask yourself: What is a hot flash, really? Western medicine can confuse you with its technical explanation of what more simply for me, are hormones which are doing their dance. Just joking around with yourself would be a good way to start, especially if you take yourself seriously most of the time. Look on YouTube.com for a scientific answer about what hormones in females do, and you will be hard pressed to find an answer from doctors that will help you to help YOURSELF cool them down. We humans can learn to take our own health into our own hands by relaxing. Cerebral answers will make you tenser than before you started searching. All ancient people always used images to help them to relax.
We all have dancing hormones, (women are more famous for them, but men have them, too.) Imagine a nice, happy image of YOUR very own hormones dancing in YOUR brain and nervous system. It might be true that most people like to dance, but of course some do not. We are talking however about your very own hormones dancing, not the physical you being observed by anyone. Most people might have fun doing this if they take the time to practice this first exercise I right away give you in this article: Simply, in the safety of your own quiet space, acknowledge that YOUR OWN HORMONES can dance in a pleasant way in your body. This is a form of a positive mantra, or repeated words that are enhanced here by an image of, perhaps, little wiggly shapes that you imagine are hormones, dancing in your body. Nobody knows but you that you are doing this exercise. Indulge yourself and give it about five minutes of at least three repetitions. See how you feel after that and find a way to agree that you feel better than before you started. Looking at positive possibilities and suspending suspicions will help you. So many of women around the time of getting hot flashes need to play and relax!
We female humans are quite like the train of life that has been going along one type of track from the years after preteen and teen, and suddenly, even if we have been warned, there looms ahead a track switch that nearly topples the entire train. This is true for many but not all women. Some women naturally handle this change smoothly. Our modern world has made a dependence upon drugs seem a normal way to feeling happier and healthier than stress overload has permitted for so many. Really, what if a simple exercise like the one above could jumpstart you back toward a simpler and healthier, (and cheaper way,) toward feeling good. Ancient remedies allow you to stop taking lots of pharmaceuticals. You begin learning that you are in charge of cleaning up the jumpier nerves by eating healthier food and eventually learning these mind-spirit-emotion- transformative exercises that ask you to tune into yourself. You need to learn to focus on specific points in your body.
What are humans like you and me? A very simple answer is: beings walking around in electric bodies with varied currents pulsing through us. Ancient people were more tuned in to their electric and spiritual bodies and literally danced and chanted their way into transformation times. Nowadays, you must have watched three thousand commercials or so from drug companies. Do you get confused? Even with reading about more natural herbal remedies you may well get equally confused. It's no wonder that you might well opt for something simple and seemingly silly.
This answer might be to become more user friendly with your body. It takes training. Through practices like the one above and the next to follow, you can become sensitive enough to signals which indicate to you that you are coming into menopause. You can drop your fears by practicing to convince yourself that it IS a good time ahead to becoming a more mature woman. Start looking at yourself newly. Are you not just a body with signals that can be finely tuned? You no longer are sentenced to being lost and/or simply nervous.
Try this technique from Ancient China: Start to really get to know the points along your spine and some in front of your body, where you can focus your mind. This one technique that can be learned is called Ovarian Breathing. This is a first step to be practiced over and over every day at least 5 minutes and also at the onset of a hot flash. This first step may well lead you to experience yourself newly. Agree to yourself to go slowly and think of it as a fun type of game.
Begin by relaxing in a comfortable position. Sit upright or lay back on an angle, but in either choice of posture, keep your spine straight and supported. Feel open. It could be best done standing, especially if you tend to be "spacey." No matter which way, imagine you are rooted to the earth like a plant, (preferably a deeply rooted tree.) Keep up your awareness as you follow the summary below and continually re-engage your tree-like roots. Follow this summary of Ovarian Breathing. It is perfectly safe when done as suggested:
Smile a genuine smile and engage your endorphins and serotonin, which are some of the "feel good" neurotransmitters in your brain. Start letting those transmitters of good feelings start washing you from head to toe. Play with that idea/image awhile. Then do it in this more regulated manner:
Let the "Smiling Endorphin Wash" spin around your eyeballs as if you were wrapping them in gauze bandages, very lightly.
Now connect a spiraling line downward from each eye and do the same spiraling around your nipples.
Then spiral straight downward from the nipples to the ovaries, (or to where the ovaries were before a hysterectomy! You might need to look at an anatomy book.) Do that all in one soft, easy inhale. Three spirals at each station are enough.
Now exhale as you spiral inwardly to the uterus and then down to the perineum. (The bottom-most part of your torso where your sphincters are located.)
Let you mind go down the outside and front of your legs and know that your tree-like roots keep you safely connected to Mother Earth. Go back to the perineum via the inside and back of your legs.
Next, go up the sine on the following points, one by one. when you begin be in an attitude of being experimental until you feel you have felt you have found a variant in your experimentation that feels outstandingly better than others. Make certain to keep your breath relaxed and even and coming from your diaphragm, not your chest. Relax that chest and your shoulders. Spiral each next of six points lightly three times each in the direction that feels comfortable, or go both clockwise as well as counterclockwise at each point!
The first point is the sacred sacrum bone.
Follow with the vertebrae on your genuine waistline also called belt line, (Lumbar 2-3.)
Then the vertebrae above your bottom rib, (Thoracic 11.)
Next go to the big bone at the back of your neck, (Cervical 7.)
After that, the occipital, where the base of skull meets the neck.
Finally roll your eyes up and spiral at the crown, (the top-most part of your head.)
Smile and relax more as you repeat the process of learning by repeating the exercise of following through steps 1.-5 and 1.-6. a few times. You might repeat the entire pattern a total of three, six or nine sets.
To totally finish, smile back down to your belly button and collect a spiral of energy there at your navel. First spiral counter-clockwise from the navel outward, and then return inwardly in the clockwise direction back to your navel. Do about nine spirals in each direction, and if you like how it feels, do 18 each way. If you like it very, very much, do 36 spirals counter- clockwise and 24 clockwise. You can use your hands to help you to spiral. Feel as though all your energy is tucked safely like a jewel in your navel, only it is located within your belly.
Let yourself study playfully and lovingly, without performance anxiety or ego. You are awakening your spine, the electric messenger of orgasm which is the physical form of the feeling of rapture in your heart and/or bliss in your mind. The Ancient Chinese have known for thousands of years that these good feelings are transmitted to us if we can claim an ownership that is perfectly normal. Opening yourself toward this power is liberating! You will feel terrific! You will feel, after practicing regularly, perhaps for weeks or months for some, perhaps right away for others, that you are getting into the electric stations of your body, and adjusting your own energy rhythms. What does it matter if you are quick to get it or slow? It simply is not a race. Play at it and trust the ancient wisdom. It's free. There are no side effects, if you relax into it and let go. Your right time will come toward building your own TRUST in this ancient process. Always, always return to your navel and do the spiraling there, even if you want to quit mid stream. Please do that! This technique can be adapted for usage for newly menstruating teens, women who have various complaints after menopause, women looking to become pregnant, and women with a libido that needs balancing. These slight adaptations are given in classes you might take from a Universal Healing Tao teacher or can be found in books by Grand Master Mantak Chia. That web site link can be found on my web site below. You might also look for another teacher who might know similar techniques. Some teachers you may contact can give lessons to you over the phone. Seek and find your way to comforting and peaceful maturity as a spiritual, healthy being on this planet.
Raven Cohan went through a carefree menopause by using these techniques and considers herself a sexy, happily married senior at 65. Not only is she a senior in age but she is a Senior Instructor with Grand Master Chia's Universal Healing Tao. She has been his student from the first class he offered amonst his first non-Asian students in 1981 in N.Y.C.. She now has nine certifications from the organization since 1983. Look at more articles of Raven's on E-zine.com and on her Web site at http://www.taoTLC.com. Raven is writing a book mostly about Mantak Chia's exercises with some humor and her personal incites. This article is part of the book, which has an amusing title that is being kept under wraps
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