Natural Wellness Strategies for the Menstrual Years Womens Wisdom

Menstruation, or moontime, is special for a woman and shifts in mind, body, and spiritual energy can cause both challenge and opportunity. This practical health guide reconnects women to the experience of an important stage of human development. The book examines and teaches how to work with the different menstrual energy patterns through natural self-help strategies that include nutrition and herbs, the Triple Goddess, meditations and imagery, vibrational healing using quartz crystals and flower essences, and hand reflexology. Using a down-to-earth, nature-connected approach to menstruation, women will learn to embrace this essential process of their womanhood. Positing that shifts in the mind, body, and spiritual energy can be as much of an opportunity as a challenge, this self-help guide offers sage advice to menopausal women. Erasing the stigma that is often attached to this transitional period, experiences of the Dark Goddess are explored and embraced. An exhaustive list of helpful strategies are highlighted, including nutrition and herbs, meditations and imagery, flower essences, vibrational healing through quartz crystals, reflexology, and more. Celebrating a reconnection with natural life cycles, thought-provoking suggestions are explored for envisioning this profound change as a rite of passage, and not something to fear. --Publisher Like menopause, pregnancy brings about profound shifts in mind, body, and spiritual energy that create challenges and opportunity. This second book in the series offers sage advice for working with these shifts, a broad range of techniques that will connect those expecting with the joyful rite of passage in womanhood while helping them move towards a positive birth experience. These self-help strategies span from the physical, such as nutrition, diet and herbs, to the mental through meditation, imagery and ritual to help calm and focus the mind, as well as the more esoteric, such as using crystals, flower essences, and archetypes of the Goddess to balance the subtle energy system. Menstruation, or moontime, is special for a woman and shifts in mind, body, and spiritual energy can cause both challenge and opportunity. This practical health guide reconnects women to the experience of an important stage of human development. It examines and teaches how to work with the different menstrual energy patterns through natural self-help strategies that include nutrition and herbs, meditations and imagery, vibrational healing using quartz crystals and flower essences, and hand ref lexology. Moving through the menstrual cycle -- Premenstrual syndrome -- Cultural and spiritual perspectives -- Good nutrition -- Wort cunning -- Using flower essences for menstruation -- Relaxation and meditation -- Chakra healing -- Quartz crystal healing for menstruation -- Hand reflexology for menstruation -- Creating rituals. A guide to using natural methods during pregnancy, discussing nutrition and herbs, chakra healing, reflexology, quartz crystals, and relaxation and meditation