by Cherise Holt, Nurse, Australia
At a recent Women’s Presentation in Brisbane, a group of women shared how truly beautiful it is when we re-connect to ourselves as women: a connection that we override when we invest in fulfilling the roles we have adopted, or live under the pressures from ourselves and from a society that constantly tells us how and who we should be.
As women, it is important to reconnect to our bodies… what are we really feeling? In any moment, when we begin to ask ourselves this question we realise that our bodies never lie to us. If we are feeling stressed, tired, unwell or out of sorts, tense or exhausted – our bodies can feel it: or if there is something we don’t want to do, perhaps something doesn’t feel right. In addition, we may find ourselves doing too much in our day, or doing for others ahead of ourselves; or even when we are simply being hard on ourselves – we know about it. But when we make the time to stop and feel, we get to see that there is another way to be; a way that is honouring and cherishes the woman we already are.
Beneath the pressure to keep up with life, the truth of what we really feel remains deeply felt in our bodies. These pressures we have been bombarded with leave our bodies affected, taking the brunt so that our health suffers. We only need look at the increasing rise in women’s health issues, exhaustion, illness and disease to wonder – is the way we are living indeed supporting us, or not?
Many women of all ages have found it extremely supportive to map our own natural body cycles. Understanding further our bodies’ own menstrual and ovulation cycles, and also our connection with the cycle of the full moon, all helps develop a greater understanding of what it means to re-connect to our body’s own natural rhythm. Developing awareness of what we are really feeling as our bodies experience the emotional and physical change throughout the month is truly supportive.
A woman’s period, and the day of the full moon, are precious times for us as they are times of clearing. An opportunity to clear the way we have lived with ourselves during the previous month; a time to deeply connect to who we are and also re-imprint or make a change for the coming month and beyond…
A time to ask ourselves, how are we feeling? How have we been living with ourselves? Have we been as supportive, honouring and deeply nurturing with ourselves as we know to be possible? Of course, these questions we choose to ask lovingly, with honesty and appreciation for the very fact that as we are willing to ask them, we are already choosing to re-connect with our bodies.
Many women have found the natural connection with their bodies a time of celebration. I know I actually look forward to getting my period and enjoy immensely how this time has become a time of honouring me.
Amazingly, this is the opposite of how most women have felt about periods in the past, as the period or menopause was once, and is still for many women an experience of pain, high emotion, discomfort and inconvenience. However for me, during this time I feel deeply connected to myself as a woman, and a truly lovely quality within me is apparent. I recognise that what I feel is worth honouring, and that I simply adore how natural it is to be delicate and tender with myself.
This ‘quality’ is within every woman naturally, and when we choose to make the connection to what is inside of us, we find it is something so exquisite that we only want more of it.
And we begin to ask ourselves, how can I nurture myself more? Women radiate this quality when we give ourselves permission to connect to what is already there. We leave behind the ideals and beliefs and instead begin to celebrate our natural way of being, expanding from our delicateness and discovering the possibility that we can live this quality and be deeply nurturing with ourselves, and then with others, every single day.
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