Okay thanks for that information, Patrick.
If there is no ring around the outside of the iris ( are you sure? most people do ), but if there is no ring then your wife is likely sweating fine through the skin. This is a difficulty in contemporary society, due to pollution and all manner of industrial waste. If she is sweating well through the skin, hot flashes will be more mild than otherwise. Still not easy to bare in the beginning, but more mild than if the body cannot easily break a sweat through the skin. As you might imagine.
The breath is where we can really get into some good work, that will not only help with this situation but all life situations really. What the breath rate shows us is the nervous system, whether we are in ( /activating ) the para-sympathetic, commonly referred to as "rest and digest" - or the sympathetic, "fight-flight". We can tend to our lives in the latter. A breath rate over 10 breaths per minute would indicate this *the average breaths per minute for contemporary peoples is 12-18. This is excellent for when there is an emergency to deal with, and not so excellent the rest of the time. It can be challenging to vacate the "there is an emergency" mental framework. But this is what I would suggest as a most excellent step1.
We're going to have slow this breath down, activate the para-sympathetic nervous system, so the body can more aptly see to its processes without our superior interference ( lol ), and your wife can have a more pleasant experience of them. Bring to mind giving birth, breeeathe, long deep breaths, why? to activate the para-sympathetic system. The brainwaves through this process will begin to shift from beta, igniting those alpha and theta patterns and creating a sort of "buffer" between consciousness....ourself....and the experience of the physical system. This helps us be more acutely aware of how to support and move in right alignment with the body. So - first we need to get the system out of alarm and into rest mode.
We're going to have to lengthen the 2-3 second breath, not all at once but gradually toward an 8+ second breath.
This will help your wife ride those waves. ( flash after flash after flash.
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Staying with the breath a moment longer.
There are many breaths which "cool" the body. If there is an interest in this we can dive into it further. To just give you one example: roll the sides of your tongue up together to form a tube and then breath air in through the tube. Cool, right? This particular breath will also help slow the breath down, drawing the breath long, because the opening through which the breath is flowing has been narrowed. This breath is called sheetali pranayam @2:45 you can watch it being performed.
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From here there is a move to the diet and hydration.
HUGE topic of discussion - but, essentially this will be a matter of minimizing what causes acid ash in the body and maximizing what creates alkaline ash in the body.
All dis-comfort and dis-ease in the body stems from inflammation which at its basis is an incorrect acid/alkaline balance.
We eat far too many acid ash forming foods here in the West. Gonna have to clean house.
There is no easy fix. I am here if you want to dive in, though.
Always.
If there is no ring around the outside of the iris ( are you sure? most people do ), but if there is no ring then your wife is likely sweating fine through the skin. This is a difficulty in contemporary society, due to pollution and all manner of industrial waste. If she is sweating well through the skin, hot flashes will be more mild than otherwise. Still not easy to bare in the beginning, but more mild than if the body cannot easily break a sweat through the skin. As you might imagine.
The breath is where we can really get into some good work, that will not only help with this situation but all life situations really. What the breath rate shows us is the nervous system, whether we are in ( /activating ) the para-sympathetic, commonly referred to as "rest and digest" - or the sympathetic, "fight-flight". We can tend to our lives in the latter. A breath rate over 10 breaths per minute would indicate this *the average breaths per minute for contemporary peoples is 12-18. This is excellent for when there is an emergency to deal with, and not so excellent the rest of the time. It can be challenging to vacate the "there is an emergency" mental framework. But this is what I would suggest as a most excellent step1.
We're going to have slow this breath down, activate the para-sympathetic nervous system, so the body can more aptly see to its processes without our superior interference ( lol ), and your wife can have a more pleasant experience of them. Bring to mind giving birth, breeeathe, long deep breaths, why? to activate the para-sympathetic system. The brainwaves through this process will begin to shift from beta, igniting those alpha and theta patterns and creating a sort of "buffer" between consciousness....ourself....and the experience of the physical system. This helps us be more acutely aware of how to support and move in right alignment with the body. So - first we need to get the system out of alarm and into rest mode.
We're going to have to lengthen the 2-3 second breath, not all at once but gradually toward an 8+ second breath.
This will help your wife ride those waves. ( flash after flash after flash.
_________________________________
Staying with the breath a moment longer.
There are many breaths which "cool" the body. If there is an interest in this we can dive into it further. To just give you one example: roll the sides of your tongue up together to form a tube and then breath air in through the tube. Cool, right? This particular breath will also help slow the breath down, drawing the breath long, because the opening through which the breath is flowing has been narrowed. This breath is called sheetali pranayam @2:45 you can watch it being performed.
________________________________
From here there is a move to the diet and hydration.
HUGE topic of discussion - but, essentially this will be a matter of minimizing what causes acid ash in the body and maximizing what creates alkaline ash in the body.
All dis-comfort and dis-ease in the body stems from inflammation which at its basis is an incorrect acid/alkaline balance.
We eat far too many acid ash forming foods here in the West. Gonna have to clean house.
There is no easy fix. I am here if you want to dive in, though.
Always.
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