Menstruation is not a punishment, it is an OPPORTUNITY.
I have lived through this TRANSFORMATION and I want to share my path with you, to encourage you to feel the pleasure of being a woman and being cyclical.
For me, menstruation used to be so painful that I needed medication to cope with it, and sometimes I even had to leave work to lie down for hours.
The first day was usually the hardest. At work, people would often ask me if I had been out partying, because my face said it all (pale, dark circles under my eyes… the exhaustion was obvious). When I explained that I hadn’t slept well because of my period and that I was still in pain, they were shocked.
WHAT WE CANNOT TRANSMUTE EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY, WE TRANSMUTE THROUGH THE BODY.
Over time, I learned to embrace that pain, to welcome it with attention, and to listen to what my body was shouting at me.
Tending to what I needed to release—through my decisions, emotions, and thoughts—made the process more bearable. THE PAIN WAS NO LONGER A LIMITING DICTATOR, BUT A TEACHER TO HELP ME GROW AND LEARN FROM MY PATH.
I like to care for my body during my bleeding days, giving myself that love to release whatever needs to be let go. In this way, nowadays I generally have a peaceful period, with no symptoms or just mild discomfort. On the months when pain appears, it’s usually on the first day, and I can see what I need to attend to in order to accompany the symptom—something that allows me to better sustain myself in this process of renewal.
THE FULL MOON
The greatest gift I have experienced in relation to menstruation is living it hand in hand with the full moon.
Bleeding, releasing, letting go under the full moon is, for me, a blessing, as all the energy supports the opening and it becomes a warm, welcoming, and light moment.
It is allowing myself to be carried, to merge with what I Am in presence, releasing the rest with lightness. It is a celebration of life to allow its cycles.
In general, I live my menstruation with the full moon. Only when I am facing intense matters does the cycle shift, but I still embrace it, because I see that I need to step out of the space of greater light to enter the shadows that ask to be heard.
To live through change, we must walk through change.
I WISH YOU LOVE IN YOUR CYCLES,
Ester
