WHAT IS YOUR PERIOD PAIN
TRYING TO TELL YOU ?
Gemma Dawkins delves a little deeper into the relationships we have with our menstrual cycles
Period pain is probably the most common symptom that disturbs women . We ' ve come to believe that period pain is something we should endure . But I ' m here to tell you that period pain isn ' t normal . With the number of women who suffer from period pain , it has become the norm to associate our periods with cramps , stabbing intense pain , and complete wipe out every month . Doctors put PMS down to the imbalance of hormones , the impact of certain foods you eat , and sometimes even the types of exercise . But what if the pain you ' re experiencing is trying to tell you something ? What if that pain in your womb , in your ovaries , is asking you to dive a little deeper and acknowledge a part of yourself that wants your attention and needs to be seen , witnessed , and heard ?
What if that pain directly manifests how you subconsciously feel about your sexuality and femininity ? What if that pain is a physical manifestation of your femininity that you have been repressing and suppressing ? What if that pain asks you to connect deeper to the feminine and heal your relationship with your mother ? What if the pain represents the relationship you have with your period ? What if the pain you are experiencing is linked to how you subconsciously feel about being a woman living in a patriarchal society ?
The womb is such a powerful , energetic centre of the body ; it ' s connected to our sacral chakra - the centre of our creativity , the centre of our pleasure , and represents our relationship with the self and our worth . It is said that when we are disconnected from this energy centre , we are disconnected from our life force - the divine feminine energy that we possess within . Everything starts with energy and manifests in the physical . Then , the body talks to us to get our attention , creating symptoms that highlight an imbalance or blockage in the body ' s innate healing system .
See , here ' s the thing , our modern-day culture introduces our period as a big problem or inconvenience . We aren ' t taught to honour our cycles or taught how they are linked to the lunar cycle . If we go back to our ancestral times , before street lights and outside lights affected us , women bled on the natural cycle of light , particularly the moon . Women would all bleed together and learn together , leaving their tribes during these times . They would share their emotions and what they were feeling at this time , providing them with a space to feel , release and let go . They would then return to the tribes and share with the men what they had learnt and what needed to change , and this ultimately scared men as they started to see how powerful women were with their emotions .
In the patriarchal society we live in today , we fail to honour our menstrual cycles . When we bleed , we shove in a tampon and continue our day like nothing is going on , completely disconnected from what the body is going through . It ' s an inconvenience , something that we disregard ; often , we don ' t even think about what our body is doing ; instead , we complain about it .
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