Did you know that you can transform your life simply by syncing with your menstrual cycle?
Making little switches in your life and living in tandem with your natural rhythm as opposed to fighting it—can literally turn your world upside down for the better!
In this article, we take a look at some of the benefits of cycle syncing and paying close attention to your inner seasons of sacred menstruation.
What Is The Menstruation Cycle Syncing Method?
The menstruation cycle syncing method is the process of aligning your habits, lifestyle, diet, exercise, and mindset to work with your menstruation cycle and its different stages.
By making small changes in tandem with your menstruation cycle you can improve your lifestyle and overall well-being. The practice of menstrual cycle syncing allows you to work with the changing needs of your body, mind, and soul during the different stages of your menstruation cycle. This allows you to work with your needs as opposed to working against them or trying to ignore them.
This approach to the menstruation cycle often results in improved mental health, overall lifestyle satisfaction, and general holistic well-being.
What Are Your Inner Seasons?
Your body works on different rhythms to regulate itself. The most commonly known is the circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm helps to regulate and manage your sleep-wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours.
Infradian rhythms are also biological cycles, but they last longer than 24 hours and commonly repeat roughly every month. Your menstruation cycle is one of the most common infradian rhythms.
Much like mother nature, your body goes through different seasons during the menstruation cycle. Your menstrual cycle goes through four different phases: the menstrual phase, the follicular phase, ovulation, and the luteal phase. And the different phases of your menstrual cycle correlate to the seasons and are known as inner winter, inner spring, inner summer, and inner autumn.
If you want to learn more about your inner seasons then you can check out my blog post on the inner seasons of your menstrual cycle.
What Are The Benefits Of Menstrual Cycle Syncing?
There are so many benefits to living in alignment with the infradian rhythm of your menstrual cycle ranging from physical and mental to emotional.
Every woman’s menstruation cycle is unique, and you will experience an individual set of different symptoms based on your individual body. However, learning how to live in alignment with your unique moon cycle will help you to be in more control of your life and happier overall.
Here are just a few of the benefits that can come with learning to sync with your menstruation cycle…
1. Increased Productivity
Syncing with your menstruation can help you to increase productivity because you’ll understand when you commonly have higher energy levels and lower energy levels during the month.
Women often feel higher levels of energy around ovulation, so this can be a great time to start new work projects, go on a long-distance holiday, or finish off tasks that you’ve been avoiding.
You can use this extra burst of energy to tick things off your to-do list and you’ll often find that you can do it with gusto and much more ease.
Using the increased energy that you experience during certain times of your menstrual cycle helps you to achieve your to-do list without feeling overwhelmed and burnout because you’re not fighting against the natural rhythm of your cycle and hormones—you’re working with it.
2. Less Internalized Guilt And Shame
Living in sync with your menstruation cycle helps you to stop beating yourself up because you understand yourself on a deeper level. It allows you to tap into your inner wisdom.
When you start noting regular occurrences during your cycle you can preplan for certain events or symptoms, and compassionately understand them when they do arise.
Perhaps you always tend to feel emotional around your menstrual bleed.
As opposed to beating yourself up each month for being emotionally sensitive, you can give yourself grace and compassion because you understand this is a totally normal and natural part of your infradian menstrual cycle.
Or perhaps you tend to feel low energy and are lacking motivation around your menstrual bleed. Instead of beating yourself up for having no energy and being slow at work, you can drop the guilt and shame by replacing it with kindness and understanding that this is just a normal phase of your monthly menstruation cycle.
Instead of trying to suppress or ignore unwanted feelings, energy levels, moods or emotions—instead you can give yourself permission to rest and relax when you need to, rather than pushing against what your body needs.
3. Deeper Understanding Of Emotions
It’s empowering to understand your emotions! A lot of your emotions are solely controlled by the fluctuation of hormones. And understanding that you may be more irritable, sad, or happier during certain times of the month can be really powerful and liberating.
Having a deeper understand of your emotions not only helps you to understand yourself a bit better, but you can also share this information with those you love and those who are close to you.
If you need space because you are short-tempered or experiencing mood swings, then you can lovingly share and explain this to those around you. Instead of getting into unnecessary arguments with you when you may be easily triggered, your friends and family can support your monthly cycle by giving you grace, compassion, and space.
This helps you to cut out the drama and frustration from relationships so that you can feel more love and joy at home and in your community.
4. Natural Family Planning And Contraception
If you’re preparing for parenthood, or you want to avoid parenthood then tracking your menstruation cycle is going to help!
If you want to become a parent—or you’re avoiding parenthood—then knowing when you’re ovulating is really important.
You can either ensure that you strategically have sex around ovulation, or you can avoid it and use extra protection around this time of the month.
If you want to avoid hormonal birth control and prefer more natural methods of contraception, then tracking your menstrual cycle is a central practice of natural family planning.
5. You Can Prepare For Your Common Menstrual Symptoms
If you know that you have certain symptoms at certain times during your monthly cycle, then you can prepare for them instead of being caught off-guard.
For example, if you commonly bloat or have migraines at a particular point in your menstrual cycle—it’s great to know when that will likely occur so you can prepare.
If you know you’re going to feel bloated and uncomfortable with menstrual cramps and period pain, then you might not want to book a dinner date with the girls and have plans to wear your favourite skin-tight bodycon dress during that night!
Or if you know your monthly hormonal migraine attack is going to occur during a particular week and that you’ll be in considerable pain, then you can reschedule work arrangements to make space for some downtime instead of having to grimace and bear it.
Sometimes PMS symptoms can be inconvenient at best, and severe and debilitating at worst. It makes a massive difference in being able to prepare for the different symptoms that you experience.
6. Plan A Health And Fitness Schedule That Benefits You
Your health, wellness, and fitness routine should benefit you and be tailored to you. And this also means tailoring it around different times of the month to accommodate your menstrual cycle and hormonal fluctuations.
If you commonly have a lot of energy on the first day of your menstrual bleed and ovulation then you know that you’ll be able to conquer a workout that requires more energy during those times.
Whereas if you feel more sluggish and have lower motivation around your menstrual bleed then you know you’ll want to take it easy. For example, when you experience lower energy you might want to enjoy a gentle yoga class instead of an energetic spinning class.
Taking it easy when you know you will feel low energy allows you to enjoy good exercise whilst still having the energy to spare for the rest of your day. As opposed to burning yourself out with your exercise and feeling depleted for the rest of the day.
Your fitness routine should not be fixed or stagnant, it should flow with your natural rhythms.
7. Tap Into The Power Of Your Sexual Energy
Sexual energy is one of the most powerful and abundant energy sources out there. It’s quite literally the seed of life itself.
When you sync with your menstrual cycle you also learn to pay attention to and sync with your sexual energy and svadhistana chakra too.
The svadhistana chakra is also known as the sacral chakra and it’s responsible for creativity, passion, sensuality, and sexuality.
Becoming more attuned to your sexual energy can improve your sex life because you’ll become aware of when you enjoy being more sexually active and when you tend to have a lower libido too.
If you’d like to learn more about your divine feminine energy and sexual awakening for women, then be sure to check out my blog article here.
8. Feel Empowered
Tracking your cycle and being self-aware of your natural rhythms and hormone levels helps you to feel more empowered and liberated overall. You no longer feel like you’re being controlled by your menstrual cycle, and you’re no longer a ‘victim of circumstance’.
Period tracking allows you to take control of your destiny and what you’re experiencing or feeling every month. It allows you to tailor your life with deeper awareness around your natural rhythms so that you can enhance your lifestyle for the better as opposed to fighting against it.
You can take advantage of natural highs in energy for extra activity, and lows in energy for guilt-free rest and relaxation.
You’re no longer trying to guess when your menstrual bleed will arrive—because with a fair degree of accuracy, you already know. This prevents you from being caught off guard by your menstrual bleed or other symptoms during your menstrual cycle.
9. Tailor Your Diet To Enhance Your Lifestyle
Tailoring your diet to your menstrual cycle can improve your overall well-being because it supports your natural rhythm. For example, you can tailor your diet to certain symptoms that you experience during your menstrual cycle.
If you often feel bloating you can consume certain whole foods, fresh fruits, and herbal teas that help you to combat or ease bloating. If you feel sluggish, you can eat foods that support better energy balance and give you a boost of protein, vitamins and nutrients.
Tailoring your diet around your menstrual cycle is an easy way to help you to feel healthier and happier!
10. Learn More About Your Body
One of the great things about period tracking is that it helps you to learn more about your body, hormones, and fertility.
Unfortunately, the majority of sex ed curriculums at schools are subpar, and far from holistic. This means that we go into adulthood not truly understanding our bodies or the bodies of those around us.
Period tracking empowers you to learn more about yourself and those around you so that you can live a fulfilling and self-empowered life.
Most things in your body are controlled by hormones and it is really helpful to learn about the effects of hormones like estrogen and progesterone.
Not only that, but learning about your menstrual cycle helps you to better support other occurrences that you might experience such as irregular periods, intense emotion, or other uncomfortable symptoms.
If you’d like to learn more about the interesting connection between your vagina and vocal cords, then be sure to check out my blog article here!
Conclusion
These advantages are just scratching the surface of the benefits of syncing with your inner seasons.
What other benefits of syncing with your sacred menstruation do you enjoy? Let me know in the comments!
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