The Optimized Woman: Using Your Menstrual Cycle to Achieve Success and Fulfillment
Miranda Grayamazon.com
The Optimized Woman: Using Your Menstrual Cycle to Achieve Success and Fulfillment
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Select a single problem you want to solve, and ask your computer brain for insight and solutions. Now find something fairly mindless to do, such as washing up, or go for a walk round the block. Concentrate on your action and allow your brain to process. Your subconscious will respond by sending you the odd thought about your problem. Run with the t
... See moreThe Reflective phase is our Optimum Time for reviewing how we feel about ourselves, about who we want to be and where we want to go in life.
Cycle phase Optimum Time actions Dynamic phase Approximately days 7 – 13 A good time for: • Logic tasks and problem solving • Learning • Planning • Detailed report writing • Understanding and structuring complex information • Starting projects Not a good time for: • Summary or brief reports • A casual attitude • Joint projects • An empathic approac
... See moreIt can be far more productive and effective for women to use positive affirmations in the Dynamic and Expressive phases.
Reflective phase Approximately days 1 – 6 A good time for: • Reviewing projects and relationships • Focus on core principles • Appraising feedback • Committing to decisions and changes • Assessing personal life goals and direction • Creative reflection • Intuitive insight Not a good time for: • Physical stamina • Learning and memory skills • Concen
... See moreNegotiations • Inactivity • Detailed, precise work • Logical reasoning
As the Creative phase progresses our levels of mental focus and patience can drop, creating frustration and anger if we can’t find things or have the information we need readily to hand. To help prevent this we can use the end of the Expressive phase to review the tasks and projects of the week ahead, and locate or create everything we are going to
... See moreOur puppy mind is able to: • rummage through all the unconscious information we hold • find connections that we had been unable to formulate consciously • discover the core patterns beneath details • point out the relevant information, opportunities and coincidences which surround us all the time.