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Usually just before having their monthly cycles and also on the days of periods, women become a lot depressed. Their energy level falls, and they behave very moody & irritated. Not their fault at all.

Menstrual bleeding is also termed as uterus cry by few docs and psychologists. The depression happens because – the egg that was released to be fertilized is not happy being ignored. And also the blood oozing out brings in a lot of bodily & chemical changes that leads to weakness for women. Imagine men bleeding for 3 –5 days from their butts – and still expected to report to work at 9 am?

For these reasons, women were given complete rest in olden days. They were made to sit idle for all the 3-5 days, and do nothing and take complete rest. I think even the Corporate companies should give women holidays on their days of periods, and compensate it by making them work on Saturdays & Sundays. It will help the women to remain healthier, and eventually will lead to increase in company’s productivity.

Now the sad part, like most people may complain about, is – women were made to sit outside their house, they were given just mats to sleep, they were never allowed to touch or cook or enter prayer rooms.

Go to any meditation center to learn yoga or meditation – they will make it a point that women don’t do them when they run their periods. Why is that? Even today women are advised not to enter temples, or meet an astrologer or saintly person, or to cook for people (both men & women) who are on abstinence (like abstinence for lord Ayyappa). Why is that?

From the spiritual angle, when a woman is having her periods – her energy points also known as chakras are affected very badly. And meditation & yoga is all about working on your chakras. In fact even the Aura they carry around them gets badly affected – proven by Kirlian photography scientifically.

Whichever brand they might use – Carefree or Stayfree – nothing keeps them germ free. Not them alone, anyone who is bleeding will be a prone zone for any virus & bacteria. Hence for simple hygiene purpose they were asked not to cook, or visit places where lot of people come – it could be market or it could be temples.

And why sleep on mats and not bed? Experiment this for yourself – when you have an acute body pain out of tiredness & exhaustion, try sleeping once on a cozy mattress and the next time on the floor spreading an Indian mat, and check for yourself, which option cures your body pain faster!

No Indian system (few existing now and few been eradicated due to mere ignorance) did or had anything to embarrass women or put them into trouble. They were always pro women, and always in the interest of guarding & supporting the weaker sex.