An abundance of amazing things happen when we dare to revere the menstrual cycle. Here are four of the ones we love the most…
ONE: We Reclaim our Own Rhythm and Timing
The need is great, and there is big work to do, but in order to step up, we all need to be more rested, resilient and resourced. When you’re connected to your own cycle, you’ll find it much easier to trust your own timing and not get caught up in the urgency around you. There’s a natural momentum, an effortless flow.
Society’s timing is not personal – it’s unconnected to who you are and the meaning of your unfolding story. Trying to keep up with society’s timing could leave you bereft, rudderless, under pressure and stressed to the point where your creativity shuts down, or you burn out completely.
The pace of society isn’t connected to your needs and nature, nor is it connected to the ineffable forces working you. If you march to outer rhythms all the time, you lose connection to your inner authority.
TWO: We Organise the Atmosphere Around Us
This rested trust of our own natural rhythms ripples out to the world around us. A magic is unleashed when we become really congruent with our cycle: we start to ‘organise’ the atmosphere around us in this new rhythm of living, of respect for organic life. In this way we influence our community, our friends, our partners, our children.
THREE: We Give Ourselves Permission to be Unique
Cycle awareness teaches us to think for ourselves and to BE ourselves. We become natural leaders; grounded in our own authority and knowing.
The menstrual cycle is here to serve you, and it’s here to serve the world. It’s profoundly intimate and utterly universal. When we allow ourselves to be worked by our cycle, we bring the power to create seemingly impossible changes that are much needed, in our own unique way. Exactly as we are. There are thousands of ways to meet the crisis point we face environmentally, economically and politically - the more you get intimate with your cycle, the more you come to know and trust your own unique way of contributing.
FOUR: We Model Radical Self-Care and Sustainable Living
On an inner level, the cycle process wakes us up; it shatters the illusions of our youth and the stories fed to us by culture and restores us to participatory consciousness. It’s this mature form of awareness that the world is so sorely lacking.
When we are cycle aware, we can’t be easily manipulated or controlled. We become conscious creators rather than unconscious consumers.
FIVE: We Stop Abandoning Ourselves
The cycle is uncompromising in its agenda to hold us to our truth, and so we will not abandon ourselves. Imagine the threat of this to patriarchy?! (Perhaps now we can understand why the cycle has been so demonised over centuries, and why it causes so much grief to women who have been unable to listen to it for whatever reason.)
As you know - and we imagine you’re with us in this quest! - we would love every single woman and person with a menstrual cycle to be resourced and equipped to practice menstrual cycle awareness.
Imagine a world of cycle-aware conscious creators, re-organising our world with a reverence for Life at the centre.
Thank you for the role you’re playing in this menstrual revolution, simply by committing to your cycle awareness practice.
