Help - I'm Menopausal: - a Spiritual Journey for Grown up Women

By Inge Hajslund

Help - Im Menopausal is written for women approaching menopause.

Through spiritual and mental exercises, you will be safely guided to let go of old negative patterns, replacing them with a much more positive and fulfilling focus and energy. This leads to a life in joy and authenticity.

You will find that the examples from other women and the twenty-two exercises in the book will help you easily and safely through the process.

Get started now and enjoy this amazing journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504365697

Inge Hajslund

Inge Hajslund was born in 1958 and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with her husband. She has two sons—one living in Holland, one in Copenhagen. She is a certified NLP psychotherapist, master trained coach, clairvoyant councilor, and social worker and is registered with the RAB and MpF according to the regulations of the Danish National Board of Health. Furthermore, she is educated in Jungian sandplay and infant therapy. Inge has always worked with a wide variety of human troubles and, therefore, has a lot of experience within areas such as family dysfunction; abuse of alcohol, drugs, and food; issues of violence and sexual abuse; crisis treatment; stress and conflict management; and personal and spiritual growth. Inge runs a therapeutic clinic north of Copenhagen and is a guest lecturer in several training academies in Denmark. For more information, visit www.ingehajslund.com and/or www.ingehajslund.dk.

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Copyright © 2016 Inge Hajslund.

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The book is comparable with books on personal growth by Susan J. Jeffers and Louise L. Hay. A very approachable guide book and an easy read which will be useful for anyone with an interest in a spiritual angle on the subject. The Danish Library Center

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-6568-0 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date:  09/23/2016

Contents

Welcome

PART I:    The Intuitive Approach

Menopause - what is it good for?

Hurry slowly

Energy

The energy system (Chakra system)

The energy centres (The chakras)

And what does that have to do with menopause?

Meditation on the energy centres

Your Inner Core

The Ego

PART II:    When The Past Is Blocking

Emotions

The final reckoning with The Victim

Forgiveness

Old truths

Fear and resistance

Goodbye to the old truths

The opposite

Reclaim your strength

What have you learned so far?

Every day is a process

Part III:    Finding Your Way

Your childhood dreams

Is it important enough?

The Wheel of Life

A snapshot

Your wildest dreams

Do we really need to be realistic?

Allowing your dreams to come true

The energy - The Law of Attraction

The psychology – that which you give your attention, grows

What you do, mirrors your inner truths

How does it realy work?

Building the bridge

Building bridges

Goals and action

An example of an effective piece of planning

Gratitude

Have a great journey

Afterthoughts 2016

The Exercises

The wheel of life - for copying

Appendix

Bibliography

Thank you

About the Author

Welcome

My whole life I have been dedicated to working with people and helping them make life work in the best possible way. The first years of my adult life I worked with people as a socialworker, and in the later years I have worked as a therapist and intuitive councillor.

I have developed a curiosity towards understanding people’s differences, and I believe that each individual is put here on Earth with an enourmous potential just waiting to be set free, developed and lived. So when I hit menopause it was natural for me to seek out what possibilities might be hidden in this phase of life. I read a lot of books on the subject, everything I could get my hands on, also in an attempt to understand the so called normal reactions, and to know more about what could be done to alleviate the more bothersome aspects of the phenomenon. A lot of litterature has been produced about the physiological and psychological symptoms, about the hot flashes, the disrupted sleep, the body losing its vitality, tiredness and the mood swings. But we do not write or talk a lot about the strengths we, as women, get access to at this point in our lives. The common denominator of the material I got hold of was, that it mainly focused on the physical and cultural aspects, but in no way dealt with the energetic and mental developments.

Through my work I gradually started to notice a shared change in the energy system of women in their 40’s, some in their 50’s, that made me curious. What could that be? I discovered some shared characteristics that ensure, that we women are able to reach new depths within ourselves, when we are approaching menopause. A lot of women feel finished when they first notice the hormonal changes, how the body starts to sag and how they no longer get their periods - and some women sit down and turn their attention to the next generation. That is very commendable, but I think there is more to be had out of life, even in this phase.

A lot of women have spent a large portion of their lives taking care of others. For many of us, husbands and children have demanded a lot of our attention, and alongside that we may have had a job, where we needed to perform. At the same time we are naturally equipped with a smaller og larger need to help (usually larger), which means that we will have had a lot of external obligations. How many times have you put yourself aside, saving your own needs for last and taken on responsibilities, that might as well have been somebody elses? Now that the children are out of the house and living their own lives, and your job or your career more or less takes care of itself, it is your turn to rediscover your inner pioner and bonvivant. Doesn’t that sound lovely?

When we women approach menopause our energy system change, becoming more introvert and providing the opportunity for even deeper reflection. We are given the opportunity to explore the depths that exist within us, and in that sense a huge potential is just waiting to be released. Luckily many women use this time to live out their dreams instead of spending it on wistful reminiscing, and I would like to help you do that too.

Now is the chance to say goodbye to what was, to celebrate what the past has given you and embark on a new cycle of life, in which openness, curiosity and personal opportunity are at the forefront. I want to help you sharpen your intuition through a deeper connection to yourself, to make you able to draw on your full power and energy, and to teach you how to take yourself seriously in a whole new way. Through simple techniques and excercises you will be able to work and educate yourself, through the inevitable realignment caused by the changes that your surroundings and your inner and outer life are going through.

I have worked with women going through menopause for some time now and have been given the opportunity to provide inspiration and release, helping women turn a life crisis into a positive journey and the development of a huge potential that has been dormant for many years. I have worked with women intuitively, in therapy and coaching, with individuals and groups. And all have found new perspectives - new paths and possibilities in themselves. Of course it varies how much we have put ourselves on hold, and of course it varies how much baggage we carry with us, that need to be sorted and released. But we always have the opportunity to acquiant ourselves with new sides to our being - and in this phase of your life your energy system is especially well suited for that kind of development.

This book has been written to provide you with easy ways to find the inner resources, that will create a rich and loving life filled with growth from here on - a life full of inspiration, surplus and the opportunity for pleasure based on, what you as an individual, need and want. The book is designed as a kind of manual for personal growth, and is laid out in different sections, giving you insight into various themes and helping you work your way through the the different excercises.

In the book, you will find numerous examples from women, who made this journey and went through these processes, and I want to emphasize, that all examples, I bring, have been anonymized. Therefore any equality to persons, you might know of, is random.

You may not need to do all the excercises, so do what comes naturally to you. I do recommend that you do all the excercises in the section The intuitive approach, since they will provide you with the foundation, that will help you fully benefit from working with yourself. Repeat these excercises as often as you need to. You will find sound files of most of the exercises for download on www.ingehajslund.com. The book is divided in three main sections:

I: The intuitive approach

II: When the past is blocking

III: Finding your way

At the back of the book you will find an overview of the excercises, making it easier for you to work on a specific area at a later time, and a bibliography pointing to some of the books, that deal with the various themes in a more profound manner.

It is a good idea to get a notebook before you delve into this book. If you are more comfortable with a