Welcome to Day 5 of the Hormonal Health Challenge here on Insight Timer.
Hormonal changes can affect how you feel,
Think and get through the day.
Today we'll explore a simple strategy to help you feel more supported through those changes.
Let's jump in.
Hi,
I'm Mary Ann Williamson,
And I'm glad to participate in the Hormonal Health Challenge,
Because the issue of changing hormones is huge in a woman's life.
And if we go through it alone and we don't realize that this is simply part of the shifts and changes within every human body,
Particularly women,
As we get older,
Then we are tempted to think that something is simply wrong with us.
So one of the purposes of this kind of conversation,
Including the hormonal health challenge,
Is to recontextualize,
To have a more expanded context for understanding what is happening,
What is changing within us,
And how can this,
In fact,
Not only be endurable,
But something that is ultimately very positive and very powerful as we become the next stage of who we are meant to be.
Let's get started.
We know that a woman's body is different than a man's.
And while men do go through hormonal challenges,
The hormonal challenges within a woman's body.
First as we go through menstruation.
Becoming a woman instead of a child.
As we then get older and ultimately reach perimenopause and then menopause,
It is very dramatic,
The different stages in a woman's life.
And if we are at the effect of those changes,
Rather than on top of them,
These things can be very painful indeed.
What is happening is more than physical.
What is happening is spiritual.
Yes,
What is happening is emotional,
But these emotions don't need to drive us.
We can drive them if we learn to ride with them,
If we learn to respect them.
Just as when a woman gives birth to a child.
Think what's happening inside there.
A new life is being created.
Well,
That's also what's happening when we go through the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause.
A new woman is being created.
As we drop ultimately and dissolve the persona and the body of a young woman.
In order to embrace and to experience the persona and the body of the Crone.
The word crone need not scare us.
We can be cool crones.
We can be fabulous crones when we recognize that this is not our less powerful season.
This is an even more powerful season.
As we mature,
There is an embrace and an actualization and a birth of new power,
New wisdom,
New body,
New emotions,
And new self.
This is registered in the human body as hormonal changes.
But those hormonal changes are simply a reflection.
Of the profound spiritual changes that are occurring underneath it all.
I invite you to close your eyes right now.
And see a white slab in front of you.
It's a white marble slab.
And see yourself lying down upon this slab on your back.
And now see that standing there at this lab is a divine presence.
And see this entity,
This being.
This Divine Presence.
It's light,
It's hands.
It's present upon you.
And as you lie there.
With all of the hormones that rage within you.
All of the shifts that change and even frighten you.
See this light.
See this presence.
Restore.
And calm.
And regenerate.
And recalibrate.
All.
Of the hormones,
All of the changes,
All of the blood.
All of the bones,
All of the organs,
As your body is now infused.
With a presence.
Of all that is creative,
All that is good,
All that is divine,
All that is holy,
All that is perfect.
For all these things.
Are you.
As you remember this in your consciousness.
Your body.
No response.
Experience this deep surrender.
And as you do,
The turbulent ocean.
Of your raging.
Hormones begin to call.
And from this calm and peaceful place.
All physical remedies.
All people,
All practices.
Spiritual,
Psychological.
Or physical.
Will be drawn to you and you to them.
As this transition into your new self.
Becomes not.
A thing of raging or suffering.
But I think of power and grace.
We allow the new.
Woman you are becoming.
To incubate here,
To gestate here.
And to be born here in you.
In your spirit and in your body.
There is no need for chaos.
This is life and life only.
And so it is.
Rest here in this place.
Know that you are on a journey that is important.
And you will be on the other side of this.
More peaceful.
And happier.
And more beautiful.
Than ever.
