"More than half of all menstruating women have cramps, in Nigeria the cramps are severe in at least one in seven women" (Medicinenet.com)
What Causes Menstrual Pains?
Having menstrual pain is no fun, when it starts the moaning and the sighs become a normal trend. Almost all women experience discomfort at the time of their periods for most, this does not interfere with their daily activities. However, for some ladies the monthly period are dreaded, it is painful, problematic and in some cases it is incapacitating, it can interfere with their lives because of the inconvenience it causes.
It is agreed that menstrual pain is a normal part of womanhood, gosh! That really hurts. But do you know why it happens?
THE CYCLE
Before you can understand menstrual pain, you must first comprehend a little bit about the menstrual cycle. According to Dr. Tokunbo Akinsanya a Gynecologist, the typical menstrual cycle is between 28-30 days, it is a natural process that happens every month as the body gets ready for pregnancy. At the beginning of each cycle the uterus develops a somewhat soft lining more like a fence made of soft blood-rich tissues in preparation for an egg that will be released from the ovary. If fertilized the egg will develop into a baby, often times this fertilization does not occur the blood-rich lining of the womb is shed, as it is no longer useful. This shedding is what we call period, or menstruation.
So why the pain?
"MENSTRUAL cramps are periodic abdominal and pelvic pains experienced by women..."
During the time that the lining of the womb is being shed you might experience some cramping pain in the lower part of the stomach, your lower back and at the top of your leg. Experts have reviewed that the reason for this pain is that the uterus wall is contracting or squeezing to remove the soft blood-rich lining it no longer needs because you are not pregnant. To facilitate this removal the womb secretes a hormonal chemical called PROSTAGLANDINS. "gibberish right?" Unfortunately it is this chemical that induces the pain.
According to Dr. Akinsanya he said, "The pains are caused by contractions in the wall of the uterus, these contractions are caused by the release of some hormones produced by the lining of the womb, this hormone produces an interrelated cycle of cramp like pain, and bleeding."
No one really know why the menstrual pain differs in women, for some women and girls it can be mild, in others it is stronger than moderate, experts have suggested that this may be as a result of over secretion of prostaglandins which causes the womb to contract more harder reducing the blood flow to the womb and causing more pain.
Constipation is one of the most common digestive complaints in the world. The symptoms includes: difficulty in having a bowel movement, vomiting, swelling in the abdomen, intestinal pain, and heart burn etc. Stress, lack of exercise, certain medications, artificial sweeteners and a diet that's lacking fiber or fluids can each be the culprit. If you've been feeling constipated for a day or even longer, you're surely ready for relief, the sooner the better. Fortunately, there are many useful natural remedies for constipation in daily life.
Here are some examples for your reference:
1 Aloe Vera
You may have heard of aloe vera being used topically for things like sunburn, but it is also considered a natural laxative. The juice can be consumed daily, or aloe vera can be taken in gel capsules. Take 2 tablespoons of fresh aloe vera gel and mix it in fruit juice and drink this mixture in order to get rid of constipation.
Aloe vera could be considered a super food. The leaf is filled with a gel containing at least 75 nutrients, 20 minerals, 12 vitamins, 18 amino acids, and 200 active enzymes. In addition to be good natural remedies for constipation, aloe vera also has many other health benefits. Just to name a few: balancing acid and alkaline levels in the stomach, helping to ease gastric irritation, forms a lining throughout the colon to keep toxic waste from entering the body and replace creams and lotions as a general moisturizer for dry skin etc.
2 Flax Seed
Tons of fiber in flax seeds has a laxative property, which can be very useful in curing mild to very serious cases of constipation. Add a tablespoon of ground flaxseed to your hot or cold breakfast cereal. They should be eaten ground up to three times a day for best effect. Flaxseed comes from the flax plant, an annual herb. Flax seed is very low in carbohydrates, making it ideal for people who limit their intake of starches and sugars. Flaxseed is found in all kinds of today's foods from crackers to frozen waffles to oatmeal. In addition, a diet of flaxseed may protect skin tissue from being damage by radiation.
3 Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar has long been used as a natural remedy to treat a number of health problems including constipation. Apple cider vinegar is rich in minerals, like potassium, sodium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, copper and fluorine, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, and E, bioflavonoid, and pectin. Presently, apple cider vinegar is used in food as salad dressing and in making pickles. It is very popular in daily life due to its powerful effect in many ways. Apple cider vinegar has been used in traditionally as a weight loss agent and studies have proven that indeed, it does! It helps by breaking down fats so that your body can use them rather than store them. In addition, it also can help in removing freckles and dark spots. In a world, apple cider vinegar is one of the most useful, affordable and versatile supplements you can take for your overall health.
4 Green Tea
If consumed in normal quantities, green tea can be used as part of your constipation remedies toolkit. At the same time, green tea also is very famous herbal remedies for weight loss in daily life. Now, there are so many drinking of green tea on the market. In addition, Green tea is an excellent source of powerful antioxidants, so it makes perfect sense that it could reduce your risk of cancer as well.
5 Prune Juice
Sweet with a deep taste and a sticky chewy texture, prunes are not only fun to eat but they are also highly nutritious. Prune juice is another home remedy to get fast relief from constipation. Prune is very common fruit in daily life. If you have trouble with constipation, try this not expensive home remedy at once.
Constipation is common among children, aged ones and pregnant women. Herbal therapy is one of the oldest forms of constipation treatments - numerous cultures around the world have used herbs to cure constipation for thousands of years. Herbal therapy is one of natural remedies for constipation.
It is imperative for women to understand their body as they enter different phases of their life, to and be able to foresee common problems that come with age. What the body of a twenty year old woman requires is different from what a fifty year old woman aged needs. Nevertheless, the truth is that the beauty and health of every woman gets affected by one of more of these conditions, as time goes by: facial wrinkles, breast drooping, vaginal infection, women infertility, abnormal menstruation, cellulite, varicose vein, stretch marks, menopause, constipation, spider vein, vitamin deficiency, depression and so on.
Following, we'll talk about a few ways of remaining healthy and good-looking:
How to keep your skin healthy and beautiful?
Every woman loves having a shiny, healthy skin, but few realize what spoils it. You'll accept that our body is constantly under attack by the sun, pollution, sweat, stress, misuse of items like alcohol, tobacco and various fast foods. If you are keen to have a healthy, attractive skin, you need to find ways to counteract these elements. Some proven helpful ways include nutritious food and regular exercise, coupled with a good sleep.
However, all our efforts prove to be insufficient at times, particularly with the growing years, when our body needs more attention and necessarily requires a slight use of cosmetics. It is recommended to make use of natural, safe skin products. Regular use of such natural products can significantly help to protect your looks from the effects of pollutants. This is true for the feminine beauty that pleases men, and also makes you feel better about yourself. To stay looking attractive is important for yourself, as well as for others.
It's imperative to keep your skin clean. Healthy skin demands regular care. It is vital to keep the skin clean by regularly using products which do not harm it, or disturb its normal balance. You should understand that it is under constant attack from external elements. It is certainly affected by elements like dirt, dust, sweat and pollution. all elements which disturb its peripheral balance. The use of an antioxidant cream helps repairing the damages caused by these elements.
Diet
There are many reports confirming that good, nutritional food contributes to having a healthier skin. There is no doubt that your beauty is closely related to your diet. Apart from the consumption of healthy foods, one should not have dinners late in the night. You should try eating your last meal at least three hours before retiring for the night. Eating late could lead to indigestion, which is often the cause of bad breath, acne, belly fat, psoriasis and eczema. Ideally, you should design your eating habits according to your lifestyle (sportive, active), present state (obese, pregnant) and age. Your energy requirements also depend on your sex and many other factors.
As a coach you are faced with decisions daily, but it is whether you act on those decisions or not, that can help you catapult your coaching business. Your success is connected to your choices. You can't just hope to take your coaching business to the next level, you have to be willing to take action. Decisions are a form of action, and action leads to results.
1. Decide you are going to be an amazing leader:
Regardless of how you look at it you are a leader. You are a leader for those who look up to you, learn from you, and want to receive services from you. But you have to decide that you are going to be an amazing leader, one that stands out, one who is not afraid to take risks, and one who leads by example. An amazing leader doesn't just follow the crowd, but an amazing leader is a trend setter, he or she is not afraid to seek new opportunities or to do "a new thing."
2. Decide that delegation is your friend and not your enemy:
As a coach you have many gifts and talents, but it is okay to delegate responsibility to someone who is better equipped to handle specific tasks. You don't have to try to do everything. If you try to do everything you can end up feeling drained and frustrated.
You have to find someone you trust who has the same type of drive and passion that you have, and outsource your services. For example, if you know web design is not your thing, then don't try to master it. When you try to master things you aren't called to master, then you lose focus and inspiration, connected to the things you are masterful at.
3. Decide you are going to provide an exceptional product or service:
You must make the decision that you are going to provide the best product or service that you can offer. This doesn't mean half-stepping or providing sub-quality products or services. This means you are doing your best to provide a product or service that is designed to do exactly what you are stating it will do. And it means you are offering a product or service that your ideal audience not only want but need.
Without an exceptional product or service your coaching business can find itself stagnant or even worse than that out of business. Offering a coaching product or service that will inspire and empower others to live a better quality of life is essential. That means your coaching product or service is something you are passionate about, it is something that you love, it is something you are knowledgeable about and it is something you are emotionally connected to.
In other words don't just create a coaching product service because you think it will make you a lot of money. That is not providing an exceptional product or service, that is creating a product or service from the wrong perspective, and yes, you may be able to make a nice amount of money, but you are sacrificing your fulfillment and passion, because you are not doing it for the right reason. And how can you offer an exceptional product or service without passion?
4. Decide you are going to give extraordinary customer service:
Without clients your coaching business will not succeed. You have to give extraordinary customer service. Now exactly what does that look like? Well, have you ever been to a company or made a phone call to a company, and you encountered someone who seemed unprofessional, uncaring and didn't understand anything you were talking about? Most of us have at one time or another, so if you have experienced that, do the opposite.
Be pleasant at all times; know your product or service, go above and beyond to offer your customers an extraordinary experience, return e-mails and phone calls in a timely manner, be caring and compassionate toward your potential clients, at the very least send thank you cards for referrals, get to know your potential customers to the best of your ability, and do anything else you can do to offer extraordinary customer service. Sometimes your extraordinary customer service skills can push a potential client to choose you over a competitor.
5. Decide you are going to be successful:
Make up your mind that you are going to be successful at what you do. Begin to think that you are already successful, and then continue to take steps to manifest the success you desire and deserve. Don't ever think for one minute that you are going to fail. If you know you have been called to the coaching profession, then you must also know that you have been called to the coaching profession to succeed. If you want to succeed in your coaching business it starts with a decision.
6. Decide you are not going to quit:
Operating a coaching business can be extremely difficult at times, and there may be times when you want to quit. But you have to make sure that you don't make quitting an option. Yes, quitting is an option, but just don't let it be an option for you. If you quit you are going to leave the individuals in limbo that you are called to provide coaching services to. And if you quit are you really going to feel any more rewarded or fulfilled? Probably not.
If you ever feel like giving up, pray and ask God to give you the strength to keep going, connect to a strong support system, look at all of the accomplishments you have made to date and draw inspiration from that, and think about one time you wanted to quit, but you were glad you didn't. If you talk to any successful coach if he or she is honest, they will probably tell you there were times when they wanted to throw in the towel, but they will also tell you that they are glad they didn't give up. And if you refuse to quit you too can one day inspire another coach to hang in there during the rough moments.
7. Decide that you will continue learning:
Continued learning is essential in the coaching profession. This may look like reading personal development books, attending workshops on your topic of expertise, enhancing your coaching skills, learning more about marketing, social media or whatever you need to learn about, to help you take your coaching business to the next level. There are tremendous opportunities for growth in the coaching profession. It is imperative that you decide to continue enhancing your education in the coaching profession; this can not only prove beneficial for you, but also for your clients as well. Continued learning can help you stand out, it can unleash creative ideas and it can inspire you. And as you learn more you can also earn more.
I think it's very fair to say that the majority of the folks that I hear from are wives. And, of those wives, many of them are in a situation where their husband is either threatening to leave them or the marriage - or he has already left. Many of the wives are given various excuses for this - the husband needs space, he isn't sure if he loves her anymore, he doubts his wish to remain married, he needs to evaluate his current life plan, etc.
Many of these wives have suspicions about the line that he is feeding them. I sometimes hear a comment like: "there are no less than eight wives in my office who have been left by their husbands in the last six months. The other day, we all got together and we actually compared our husband's reasons for leaving. Many used the excuse that they needed some time to evaluate themselves and what they wanted. But many of us feel that this is the most lamest of excuses. Most of us feel that he is in a classic mid life crisis and he is just looking to trade us in for a newer model. Is this true? Because if its not, why would a man leave a really good wife who is still committed to him?"
These are questions that I have asked myself. I do have some theories. But that is all they are - my own opinion. I'm certainly not a man so I can't say that I have experienced a middle aged man's thought process. But I do hear from a lot of men on the verge or leaving or who have already left. Even young men express some of the same justifications for wanting to leave. Below are some of the reasons that I believe that men really leave their wives.
The Reasoning Behind A Mid Life Crisis And How They Contribute To A Man Leaving: I have had many men tell me that the mid life crisis is a myth. Perhaps the wording of it is a myth because frankly, I believe that it happens to young people too. But over and over again, I hear from or about men who get in a point in their lives where they are asking themselves "is there all this is? And if I only have so much time left, is this really the way that I want to live in my remaining time?"
By the way, women of any age can ask these questions too. Young men can ask these questions. You don't have to be middle aged to have these concerns. But middle age is when these concerns come to the service for many people. People often tell me that a man going through this will suddenly think that he doesn't love his wife anymore and this is why he has to leave. I don't think that this is always true. I've had men tell me that they leave precisely because they do still love their wives. They hate looking at her every day and knowing that they are being unfair. And they know that they can't accurately evaluate how they are really feeling if they are with her every single day because they will feel guilt because they care. Many will say that this is the coward's way out and I could see that argument. But many of the men are trying to do the right thing while still staying true to themselves, at least in their own mind.
They Are In A Situation That They Feel They Just Can't Endure Anymore: The above scenario, described a situation in which the man wasn't really angry with his wife. There wasn't anything wrong with his marriage. He just was wondering if it was enough at the stage of life he was in.
However, in many scenarios, the husband is dealing with something that he thinks is a potential deal breaker. Perhaps there is a serious disconnect between the spouses. Or perhaps the husband feels that his wife has done something so wrong that he will never see her or the marriage in the same way. There are many possibilities here. But in this situation, there is a definitely something that brings him leaving into motion. Perhaps the spouses no longer get along or this is a conflict that he believes just can not be worked through. Whatever the reason, he believes his life is going to be better leaving her than it will be staying with her.
They Want To See How They Would Feel Not Living With You: Many men who leave suspect that they might be happier if they were not living under the same roof as their wife. They aren't sure that this is always going to be the case. But they know that, right now, they think it would be prudent to leave and see how this makes them feel. If they miss their wife, then they will know that their feelings or discontent were mistaken. If they don't, then perhaps they need to think about if the marriage is working anymore. I guess you could call it an experiment of sorts.
None of these things are insurmountable. And frankly, sometimes, you don't have to do very much to get him home. Sometimes, he realizes that he was wrong in his assumptions and he misses you. And other times, he takes his time coming to this determination or only does so once you are willing to remove some of that disconnect I talked about earlier.
These days, men always say it is hard to find a Christian girl to date or marry. The girls also say the same thing "husbands are scarce". And I asked myself; "have they taken the place of fuel?" I was having an interaction with some ladies and I asked them the type of men they want to marry. They all had different views. Some said they want God-fearing guys, some said they want rich, handsome and God-fearing guys. Others said tall, six-packs and smart guys. I asked some guys what they think about Christian girls. They said, they are hard to find, and even the ones you will see around are all fake and desperate.
But I hear couples say how they met their partners through God's revelations, dreams or pastor's confirmation or through church activities. The Bible says "he that finds a wife, finds a good thing and obtains favor from God." It means that your partner is not someone you see anywhere or that easily. Nobody is saying it will be difficult before you find her or see him, but you will have to look beyond the distractions and noises out there for you to listen to that one voice that is meant for you, that is the hard part. But with God, all things are possible.
I always believed that everybody that goes to church is an eligible Bachelor and Spinster. So the options are many and easy to choose. How can we have so many men going to church and yet the women complain that husbands are scarce? Or how can we have many women going to church and yet The men complain that the women are fake? I tried to understand this, and I realized that we all want more than just going to church. Everyone is looking for something special and different in the person they want to spend their lives with. But one thing I realized we do not know is, for us to see such qualities in others, we must be ready to have them in us. Because the way we expect our partners-to-be to have them, is the same way they expect us to possess them too.
