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The Benefits of Menopause
What is menopause? What are the benefits of menopause? Is it only a list of symptoms with negative impacts on our lives? Or is it a transition? A change from one life and its processes, into a new life, and a fresh start!
There are benefits to menopause, but all we seem to hear about are the negative aspects and how to fix them.
Stop and think a moment!
Ancient cultures viewed menopause as an awakening, a move to a wiser and just state of being. Many cultures, around the world, view it as a time to re-energize and take a fresh look at life and living.
I have started a list of benefits I have discovered in my research journeys and I invite anyone else to add their two cents worth. At the bottom of the page is an invitation to submit your comments. Let's start a movement here by listing all the benefits we can look forward to in the coming years!
Increased Creativity-many women discover their inner artist during this time. Children are grown, careers are well established and there is more time to let that
inner creative voice express itself.
The obvious benefit, sex without waiting to see if you missed a period.
Time and energy to develop a stronger more stable and intimate relationship with life partner.
Most women are financially settled at this point in life and can explore traveling.
They also have the time to seek out experiences. Not get experience doing a variety of things, but actually absorb herself in an experience. Once M's son left for university, she fulfilled a dream of working with horses. She traveled to Wyoming and worked as a ranch hand for three months, totally immersed in the experience.
One of the most effective ways to stay happy is through service. When you do something good for someone else your brain gets a rush of
serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter.
Many women find the motivation and time to complete a university degree.I knew that after homeschooling my children for thirteen years that when they moved out not only would I be hit with perimenopause but also with an empty nest. Just as I headed into perimenopause I found the desire and passion for finishing my degree. I'm almost there!
Call it experience, wisdom, or menopausal insight, but most women in this stage are able to view relationships and people with a more tolerant understanding eye. We can gently and diplomatically offer solid advice and direction that makes sense. In different cultures this was the time that women were given places of power and honour within the community because they had a greater depth of insight about people and their motives.
Passion for justice. We feel injustice strongly at this time in our lives because we can see where it may lead to. When we are focused on children or a career it's difficult to look outside that sphere of diapers and paper clips. Now when we see an injustice we can act, standing up for the rights of those who are unable to stand up for themselves. B & K, in their late fifties, decided to sell the business they had spent more than 15 years growing to join a world aid society and help build wells in developing countries.
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What Other Women have Added
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Taking the Heat
Menopause blog comments on taking the heat during menopause.
Economics of Menopause
What do menopause, singleness and caffeine have in common? You guessed it lower heating bills.
Lets start from the beginning; lets say the winter of ...
Taking my power back
I have always been a people pleaser and the ultimate care giver but not to myself. I put others before me.I have noticed a big shift in going through menoplause....
Sleeping Alone!
This isn't a story as much as a statement of the benefits of hotflashes. My hotflashes come at night and I radiate heat. My husband can't stand the warmth ...
Women Who Discovered Themselves
Throughout history there have been women who, in the menopausal years and beyond found their calling. These women rediscovered and reinvented who they were and made an impact on their community and world.
Jane Adams at the age of 55 became the president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. At the age of 71 she received a Nobel Prize.
Aung San Suu Kyi at the age of 44 was put under house arrest by the military for participating in a mass gathering. At the age of 46 she received the Nobel Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Rachel Carson wrote her most well-known book, Silent Spring, at the age of 55.
Indira Gandhi was elected as the president of the Congress Party in India at the age of 49 and later became the Prime Minister of India.
What is menopause? What are the benefits of menopause? Is it only a list of symptoms with negative impacts on our lives? Or is it a transition? A change from one life and its processes, into a new life, and a fresh start! 
