The secret of menopausal wellbeing that can transform your life
Contents
What is wellbeing?
Where does wellbeing come from?
The truth about wellbeing
How to tap into our wellbeing
What is wellbeing?
What does wellbeing feel like for you?
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We know it when we feel it and it can encompass many things. It’s that delicious feeling of contentment, a sense that all’s well in the world when we literally want for nothing.
But as we near menopause, with all the challenges this time of life can bring, it can sometimes seem more elusive, a mere memory.
And when we are battling physical symptoms or concerns about aging or dealing with elderly parents or teenage children, it can feel further away from us than ever.
Understanding where wellbeing comes from and discovering how we can have more of it isn’t always straightforward.But once we understand the truth about wellbeing, then no matter what bumps and storms menopause brings, we know we are unshakeable.
Where does wellbeing come from?
We’re taught from such a young age that wellbeing comes from the things we own – the car we drive, the house we live in, how we look, or the impressive job title we have.
Spend any time scrolling through social media and it can also seem as if wellbeing comes from complicated self-care routines and how often we are able to book ourselves into an exclusive spa.
But it’s funny how these practices that so often begin as nurturing routines can quickly deteriorate into yet another set of chores to be completed each day.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing these activities especially when they are something we enjoy doing. We are simply getting it the wrong way around when we do them to reach a specific goal of feeling good about ourselves, when we start to believe that doing them is essential to our wellbeing.
The truth about wellbeing
The truth is that wellbeing is already ours.
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There is nothing we need to buy or do to uncover it.
Endless routines or self-care practices are not required to maintain it.
We have it now, no matter what is going on in our lives – it comes as part of our innate humanness.
I get this can seem unrealistic when we are up to our eyes in difficulties in our own life or overwhelmed with events in the wider world. But wellbeing isn’t about complications or adding anything extra to our life.
It’s far more simple than that.
Even in the most trying of circumstances, the most difficult of episodes in our lives, all of us can point to moments when we have gasped at the incredible beauty of a starry sky, shared a deep connection with a loved one or felt inspired and touched when hearing of acts of kindness or heroism.
During these moments, however quickly they pass, we sense the truth of wellbeing and we realise that it was never about having to “do” or “try” to create the right conditions. More we see that it was about falling into a feeling.
I’m sure you know what I’m talking about - these experiences are common to all of us. Admittedly, they may seem more obvious when we’re on holiday or doing something we enjoy but wellbeing can even be found amongst the routines of daily life.
This sense of wellbeing naturally develops as we settle down and slow down our minds and our lives, as we notice the world as it is in this moment. What we’re in effect doing is turning down and tuning out the loud voice in our head so that we can hear the quiet, always present, gentle whispering of our soul. The voice that knows there is nothing wrong with us, that we’re not broken, and that all is well.
How to tap into our wellbeing
To uncover your own innate wellbeing, trust it’s already here and it will always be with you no matter what the circumstances and difficulties of your life.
Take one or two deep breaths and be with yourself, now, in this moment. Look around you, notice what you can hear and immerse yourself in the present moment. Remember that the stories that we tell ourself that take us away from wellness are so often to do with the past or the future.
Start to acknowledge that feeling of wellbeing whenever you notice it showing up. I promise you, the more you pay it attention, the faster it will become a greater part of your life.