My personal spiritual PMS theory

The day before you get your period, you might feel depressed. You might feel bad about yourself, insecure, even hopeless. You might cry.

Then, the next day, you start bleeding and you feel good again. We have all been there.

After shedding a lot of old tears yesterday, I started bleeding today, and finally I understood: I was letting go of negativity and emotional ballast. By pushing out the blood, my body was pushing out painful memories, fears, negative thoughts and beliefs, from where they were stored in my cells.

So why is Pre-Menstrual Sorrow necessary? In order to release negative emotions, we first have to be aware of them. I have been working with this concept for a while now, and it really works for me. If I am not aware that something is bothering me, it is going to continue to bother me surreptitiously.

For instance, I might get annoyed that my friend is always late for our dates, and it might ruin my mood for the rest of the day. If I'm not aware of how much my friend's tardiness is bothering me, my days will continue to be ruined by it. But one day I might realize and it and notice to myself "Hey, I'm really annoyed that she is always late. It makes me think that she doesn't respect and value my time." And then I can do something with that. I can either decide to let it go, or I can talk to my friend about it, or I can investigate more deeply why I get so upset at other people's tardiness, or... However I direct my new awareness, I probably won't get as upset when my friend is late in the future. At the very least I can stop it from ruining my mood for the rest of the day by reminding myself: "This always happens. She is late and my day is ruined. I don't like that." And I can then choose to let go of that negativity and have a good day anyway.

My theory is that PMS is your body's way of making you aware of what's been bothering you over the last month. PMS brings it all up and out, in your face, so that you can't deny that it's there. Your body does this so that the next day you can let it all go with the blood that exits your body. If you didn't know what was bothering you, it would stay right there in your body and it would undermine your sense of well-being in subtle ways, so subtle you don't even know it's happening. That's why you go through a day of increased, albeit painful, awareness of what's been gnawing at your heart. So you can let it flow and let it GO! Thank the universe for PMS.