Week Before Periods!

As I’m reaching my great 40’s, I’ve been respecting my body more. I have always had awareness, respected my body, and eaten right. I did a little bit of an alcohol role, but that was due to my emotional state at that time of life. 


Now that my body goes to talk to me, everyday. I have mapped it all out. A week before my periods arrive, there is a build up just like how estrogen goes up for the ovulatory phase. 
There is build up on the phrases, “I am alone.”
“I am not happy with my husband.” 
”Am I successful?”
A nice reminder is that these patterns exist in your mind and the mind brings it all out like garbage day. 
The kids seem to be blood sucking mosquitoes. 
I want to run as fast as I can, but my body says ‘no I cannot.’ 
Just sleep more. “We are all tired,” says every cell in your body.
“Let’s sit down and go on a rollercoaster of complaining and whining on how we have been a victim in this current world.” 
All that clarity fades away like it’s on vacation. It is awesome how the mind loves to bring up how small you are in this world; how all that you did over several years is absolutely meaningless. 
This is the time when everyone seems to be bothered. Every dust sparkles like it’s a clear cut diamond. 
All the clutter around the house some how manages to grab your attention. Every minute of the day seems like an hour. All I want to do is hide under sheets. Any meeting or phone call seems like a trip to dentist pulling your teeth.
My belly some how houses gas, as if they all got invited for a party and they have bloated me so much that my boobs can feel the pressure and expand. 


Anything that I eat has a big consequence of exploding next day. I must say, I love this time of my month. It hasn’t even hit the camping zone yet, but my body seems to be camping up on mountains. Experience teaches a lot. I have loved my body even when it is struggling to keep up with what I want to do. 
I always feel like I am a walking miracle conducting 300 trillion cells performing an orchestra. 


I love, love, love my body. Here are some tips to help you with this phase of the month. 

1. Eat a lot of greens and grains. Yes, adding oats and other grains makes a boost of serotonin hormones take a back seat during this phase. Mixture of all kind of greens and grains adds progesterone. Not raw greens as it ends up creating more gas, but good amounts of wholesome carbs. Not bagel, or pizza, or anything made of wheat; but try millets and steel cut oats. 
2. Love your body. Massage with sesame seed oil while in a candle light bath. All of these are awesome to appreciate yourself. Many women feel appreciation should come from bosses, co workers, or family. This is best time to highlight how awesome you are. Your mind is on a slippery slope. If you take the slide down it is self destructive and brings out lower ends of self esteem and self confidence. If you can highlight your accomplishments and appreciate yourself, your mind has no choice but to accept it. 
3. Go for pedicure. Get pretty and schedule appointments where you get pretty. Clean up your closet and throw away things that don’t make you happy. I have found that I am mostly honest during this time. My attachment to certain clothes or belongings seems absurd during this phase. So it’s easier to leave things.
4. Make it a rule to have cleaners during this week. If you are your own cleaning crew, get to work. You will be able to do excellent cleaning and you will feel like a women with a cape during this time of the month.
5. Finish up all pending work related to the office. So during periods, you can calmly enjoy a peaceful resting time. Do not get into arguments here, it will lead to failure and emotional crying. Save yourself from any conflicts. 
6. Eat less. As we near our periods, our inner digestive flame gets a little low. So, eating mindfully helps not get gas rent your body. This is where your mind wants you to get on emotional eating, but you can resist the temptation to avoid bloating. 
7. Let your husband know. He is not the fav human being on this planet this particular week, but you can ask him to help you so you have more time for yourself. This is the week when your husband can be a chauffeur for the kids. He can take them to park so you have some quiet time at home. It will save him from taking your emotional weakness and asking that annoying question, “are you nearing your periods?” Gosh!!! I dislike that question more than some one calling me fat. 
8. Walk. Spend time in the nature, take your lunch out under a tree and marvel about how amazing world is. Nature tends to take you into a mesmerising zone of love for yourself. 
9. Appreciate your body. This is the time many women really create a lot of negative thoughts. All of them get stuck around your energy field. Instead of self loathing, really appreciate your body for miracles it has done in the past. 
10. It’s not a great time to go on date. The mind becomes a feminist and has all hateful thoughts towards the other gender. Resist this, again if you are single ready to date, these thoughts will hover around you and push away the right person who may want to really be with you.

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