Comments on: How to Trust Your Instincts http://www.circlebloom.com/how-to-trust-your-instincts/ Programs to Improve Fertility and Women's Health Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.circlebloom.com/how-to-trust-your-instincts/comment-page-1/#comment-266 uberVU - social comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:24:48 +0000 http://www.circlebloom.com/?p=4220#comment-266 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by circlebloom: I'm excited about this post: How to Trust Your Instincts. http://ow.ly/1qXN0 Please let me know what you think...... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Lisa http://www.circlebloom.com/how-to-trust-your-instincts/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Lisa Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:11:09 +0000 http://www.circlebloom.com/?p=4220#comment-264 Joanne, the subconscious is such a mystery, but I agree wholeheartedly that the more you engage in giving your mind and body a quiet time and place to connect, the more your conscious mind can recognize. I have had a special pen and paper next to my bed for years; the pen lights up so Idon't have to wait until morning to write down what I remember. I don't use it often, but because I know it's always there, I am open to the possibility. In my experience, one of the most pervasive thoughts held by women who have not been able to conceive, or women who have miscarried, is that their body has let them down. This can bring on a lot of emotion. If a woman has taken care of her body with postive effort in the areas of nutrition, fitness, sexual health and reproductive health, she can feel betrayed. Her body can achieve its own persona, detached from her mind and heart, so that she can feel angry at it without blaming herself. Other women, who take the infertility and miscarriage as a personal failure, can suffer from guilt, low self-worth and lack of hope. Both of these responses can be turned around! I believe that there are 2 key tools to develop and use here: 1) Self-awareness and 2) the willingness to let go of the notion of what "should be" (expectation) in order to accept what is and work on changing it for the better. Thank you, as always, for a thought-provoking post. Lisa Joanne, the subconscious is such a mystery, but I agree wholeheartedly that the more you engage in giving your mind and body a quiet time and place to connect, the more your conscious mind can recognize. I have had a special pen and paper next to my bed for years; the pen lights up so Idon’t have to wait until morning to write down what I remember. I don’t use it often, but because I know it’s always there, I am open to the possibility.

In my experience, one of the most pervasive thoughts held by women who have not been able to conceive, or women who have miscarried, is that their body has let them down. This can bring on a lot of emotion. If a woman has taken care of her body with postive effort in the areas of nutrition, fitness, sexual health and reproductive health, she can feel betrayed. Her body can achieve its own persona, detached from her mind and heart, so that she can feel angry at it without blaming herself. Other women, who take the infertility and miscarriage as a personal failure, can suffer from guilt, low self-worth and lack of hope. Both of these responses can be turned around!

I believe that there are 2 key tools to develop and use here: 1) Self-awareness and 2) the willingness to let go of the notion of what “should be” (expectation) in order to accept what is and work on changing it for the better.

Thank you, as always, for a thought-provoking post.

Lisa

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