Cultural background
Millions of women, all around the world are experiencing menopause, or perimenopause, every single day. Menopause and its accompanying symptoms tend to be highly medicalised in the Western world.
In societies where age is more revered and the older woman is the wiser and better woman, menopausal symptoms are significantly less bothersome.
In many countries and cultures, menopause is considered a new start—a chance for greater freedoms and a time to embrace your life’s experience.
Western countries
In the US, UK, Canada and Australia, menopause can be seen as a time to dread and navigate in silence. Work, home life, and everyday activities that we once took for granted can feel like minefields.
In western countries average age of menopause is 51-52. About 75% of women experience hot flashes and many others experience sleeplessness, vaginal dryness, weight gain, and mood swings.
Asian countries
“Konenki”, the Japanese equivalent of the menopause, is commonly understood to be associated with aging; it is believed to be a gradual transition beginning at age 40 or 45 and entails an entrance into the latter stage of the life cycle.
In traditional chinese medicine, menopause is called the ‘Second Spring‘ in a woman’s life. It represents the renewal of energy and opportunities as there is a shift from fertility and reproduction, to conserving and nourishing the self.
India
Nearly 4 per cent of Indian women experience signs of menopause between 29 and 34 years of age. Traditional ayurvedic medicines such as aloe vera gel, shatavari, fenugreek seeds, ashoka powder are being used to manage the symptoms of menopause.
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Vesta's Words
As a Yoga Sadhaka, I wished to interrogate my guru (Teacher Sharath Jois) on the matter.
Wherever I was searching the benefits of a regular yoga & meditation practice, were highly encouraged to counter effect the negative side effects of Menopause. (I’ll get back to this matter later on this book). As I travelled this year to Mysore, India, for my yearly two months visit to my Guru Sharath Jois. I was granted with an interview.
Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart.
When you’re young, there’s so much now that you can’t take it in. It’s pouring over you like awaterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
I see menopause as the start of the next fabulous phase of life as a woman. Now is a time to ‘tune in’ to our bodies and embrace this new chapter. If anything, I feel more myself and love my body more now, at 58 years old, than ever before.
All of a sudden I don’t mind saying to people, ‘You know what? Get out of my life. You’re not right for me.’ It’s wonderful and liberating.
If you deal with it in a healthy fashion then I think you come out the other side a better person. I’ve got so much more energy now than I ever had in my early 50s before the menopause.
The very best way that you can help yourself is to develop and sustain a positive attitude. The way you think and feel about everything will make all the difference to your experience.
Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.
A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.
Women are always being tested … but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves.
I think our bodies are beautiful, and I think celebrating them and being comfortable in them—no matter what age you are—is important. There shouldn’t be any kind of shame or discomfort around it.
I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse; it’s just different. You change, and that’s okay.
For you, it’s a joke, but think about it for me, everything is going south. Menopause is one of themost significant things that happens to women. As someone who is in that phase, it is very frightening, because everything is basically out of your control.
The anticipation of a problem creates bigger problems than it really is. One has to adapt to alifestyle change to remain in the best of health. What works for one in their 30s or 40s cannot workin your 50s. You need to understand what you are getting into and make those small changes. One can have methi to regulate hormones. Zinc too. Start exercising, limit your alcohol intake if you drink and get into bed earlier.
I didn’t know what peri menopause was, I thought after a certain age we go through pre menopause up to 10 years before menopause? But did you know you could go through perimenopause up to 10 years before menopause ? It’s like the body is getting ready for menopause?
Menopause is considered as a “problem” rather than something normal every women experience.There’s a very important message behind it because what we’re saying here is that there are noexpiration dates for women.
I have a very healthy baseline, and also, well, I was experiencing hormone shifts because of infertility, having to take shots and all that,” Obama explained. “I experienced the night sweats, even in my 30s, and when you think of the other symptoms that come along, just hot flashes, I mean, I had a few before I started taking hormones.
Menopause is like autumn leaves falling; it’s a natural shedding of the old to make way for the new.
Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They’re a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart.
When you’re young, there’s so much now that you can’t take it in. It’s pouring over you like awaterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.