Perhaps you recognise some of these scenarios?
-feeling extreme anger or frustration and then acting on these feelings
-finding yourself spending a lot of time worrying about the future
inability to sleep at night
-acute body tension
-overwhelming feelings of stress, anxiety, sadness, or grief
-feeling unable to cope
-feeling lost as your body changes
-feeling stressed about having hot flashes
The journal of The International Menopause Society in 2019 highlighted research showing that mindfulness results in women experiencing fewer menopausal symptoms.
The study involving 1,700 women aged between 40 and 65, showed the higher the women scored in mindfulness, the fewer symptoms they experienced.
The symptoms included memory fog and hot flashes irritability and anxiety, sleeplessness, and depression. Researchers working on the project found that with mindfulness the women could manage their symptoms much better.
Mindfulness is an invitation to stop trying to escape the present moment, but instead, paradoxically lean toward these experiences. With practice, it's possible to allow thoughts, feelings, and body sensations to "just be". Once we stop fighting, we find there is space to allow this natural process to unfold.
Maybe it's time... to practice something new. If you find yourself repeatedly stressed or anxious then this 5-day course in mindfulness may be the launch pad you need. Learn to work with the changes and challenges the perimenopause brings.
In this course you will be given tools to help you work with the moments of stress in your life:
The over-thinking mind
Difficult emotions
Dealing with body discomfort, including hot flashes
And learn to be more compassionate to yourself when these moments occur.
Created by Emma Reynolds, an accredited Mindfulness teacher. ** The course consists of short meditations (7 minutes+) and lots of clear, practical information on what causes stress, why we have it, and how we can help ourselves out of old unhelpful habits.
** MBSR teacher (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
Emma is a Mindfulness Expert, trained in Mindfulness for Stress Reduction (MBSR). She has vast experience teaching groups, on retreats, 1-2-1, and online, to a wide variety of audiences.
Going through perimenopause herself she realised how important her Mindfulness practice has been to her to navigate this new and sometimes challenging time. As she started to explore the research she realised there were already many excellent studies concluding that Mindfulness has the ability to help women with the symptoms, from overwhelming emotions and negative thinking, to coping with hot flashes and body discomfort. All of this compounded her wish to share these practices in a way that could have a meaningful and positive impact on women's lives.
Her work to date:
- Mindfulness Expert at PeriHub.
- Working with a variety of private clients: CEOs, teachers, professional businesswomen, professional musicians, full-time mothers, and perimenopausal women.
- Through her continued collaboration with Macmillan Education, she has reached 30,000+ teachers worldwide through webinars on Mindfulness.
- She has now gone on to create the content for Macmillan's first International primary school mindfulness course.
A regular content creator for the Wellness App in America, Emma offers Mindfulness Q and A sessions, and weekly online meditations and is now creating Mindfulness courses for their corporate groups. She also works regularly with Omlines to create and deliver webinars and courses for corporate groups online and in person....
Lição 1
An Introduction To Mindfulness For Women With Menopause
This is both an introduction to the 5 day challenge and also a chance to try a first meditation. In this session, Emma Reynolds, Mindfulness expert leads you through a gentle practice connecting to the breath and body.
Lição 2
Becoming Mindful Of Difficult Or Looping Thoughts
We have thousands of thoughts each day, many of them repetitive and often times negative. In this session we begin to sit with the thoughts and explore what it is like to become the observer of this experience called "thinking"- and in this way begin to see how we can become less tangled in negative thoughts.
Lição 3
Practicing Becoming Aware Of Emotions And How They Feel In The Body
In this session we explore our current emotional state. Often we try to ignore or escape negative or uncomfortable emotions- which just compounds the problem. Instead we practice discovering where emotions are felt in the body.
Lição 4
Mindfulness Of The Body
In this session we will go deeper into how the body is feeling and letting go of our judgments. In this way we move away from the busy mind and really turn up with patience and compassion to how the body is feeling.
Lição 5
A Practice Of Gratitude: Helping Us Bring Balance To Our Lives
We as humans have a negativity bias, it's part of our survival mechanism. But it menas we see our lives in a distorted way as we can ignore what is good in our lives and obsess about what is wrong. In this practice we actively seek out and feel gratitude for what is good, right here, right now.