“We follow the infradian rhythm, which is linked to the menstrual cycle. When you understand your infradian rhythm and how it informs your unique female biochemistry, you can become calmer, happier, and healthier, as well as more productive at work and more satisfied in your relationships. Your hormones will stay balanced and you can live a more symptom-free life”
– Alisa Vitti
Benefits of Tracking
Tracking your menstrual cycle and changes on a regular basis has so many benefits in terms of assessing your overall health, managing issues such as endometriosis, or trying to get pregnant. It helps us to identify patterns, which then help us make more sense of the information we discover. Put simply, our bodies and brains are different during each phase of our cycle, so our food, exercise and self-care should be different each week too.
Benefits for Endo Warriors
Through tracking our symptoms at different phases of our cycle, what we eat and how we react, how more or less sleeps affects our mood, differing types of exercise at different times, when our pain or flare ups arise or when we feel more steady helps us to manage our life with a feeling of calmness and control. Pain no longer has to be normal, we can create tools for a healthy lifestyle for us. We can spend our energy on things that matter to us and keep us grounded.
Things We Can Track:
- Energy levels
- Pain with a sliding scale
- Physical symptoms
- Mental symptoms (feelings, emotions, thought patterns)
- Length of bleed
- Allergy sensitivity
- Cravings
- Desire to be alone versus social
- When you ovulate
- Sleep
- Inspiration to create
- Ability to focus
- Anxiety, sensitivity levels
Allowing us to:
- Understand our energy and moods better
- Manage stress
- Track pain and symptoms
- Help plan our lives better – social/creative/intuitive time/self-care/travel moments
- Move better
- Know which meridian lines to attend to in our yin practice
- Make lifestyle changes to meet our needs
- Speak to our Dr with ease and factual information
A period is never just a period, it is a unique insight into how your body is functioning. If we track it we can make it work for us (and not against us). Begin by documenting everything you experience throughout your cycle. Once you have done that, over the course of a few months, start to look for patterns. Work out a plan of action for living more harmoniously with your infradian rhythm.