WOMEN'S CIRCLES

EACH TIME WOMEN GATHER IN CIRCLES WITH ONE ANOTHER, THE WORLD HEALS A LITTLE MORE

TreeSisters: women seeding change

Did you know that up until twenty years ago, all stress research was done on men? Researchers thought that female hormones fluctuated too much to measure accurately, so they left them out of their studies...

Luckily, some researchers embarked upon a ground-breaking stress study – one that included women. What they discovered could have a potentially radical impact for women, especially women who are engaged in a healing journey of any kind.

Taylor’s studies show that the typical ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze‘ stress response isn’t always what happens for women. Rather, the female body often responds to stress with a flush of different hormones, including Oxytocin, which instead creates an attitude of ‘Tend and Befriend'.

In times of stress women don’t move to run or fight, they reach out to protect and connect.

Oxytocin is sometimes referred to as the ‘Goddess Hormone’, and along with the other ‘Tend and Befriend‘ hormones, it serves as the female body’s natural de-stressing mechanism, by:
~helping muscles to relax
~reducing blood pressure and cortisol levels
~increasing pain thresholds
~activating anti-anxiety effects
~and promoting the body’s natural healing response.

Women’s circles can be a tend and befriend heaven. Deep listening with no agenda, hugs, feeling ‘seen’ and ‘met’, low light and soothing music, a sense of kinship, eye-gazing, and respectful touch all activate oxytocin.

Could the friendship, bonding and support within women’s circles have tangible, measurable healing effects for chronic health problems?

Read the full blog "The healing Keys inside the Female Body" here: 
https://treesistersofficialblog.wordpress.com/…/the-healin…/