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Healing the Wounded Womb

by Sandra M. Yee, DCM

Women who are healthy and whole give great energy to great creations – art, children, ideas, social movements. Symptoms such as cramps, moon cycle irregularities, fertility disorders, sex drive imbalances, and so-called fibroids point to unresolved wounds in our emotional, physical, and sexual bodies. Reproductive dis-eases are not here to plague us but lead us towards healing the deeper emotional issues that block us from our full creative power.

Our bodies are poems, expressing the nature of our emotions. People who have constipation usually hold on to grudges. People who hold tension in their shoulders usually pressure themselves with enormous responsibilities. Women with menstrual cramps usually direct incredible anger against men and/or their sexual partners. Women who suffer from chronic pelvic-area infections usually feel great shame in their sexuality. Women who cannot conceive are often eaten up by fear.

Our bodies do act as couriers, carrying messages from the soul – the need to slow down, the need to let go of the past, the need to leave a stressful job or relationship. Our bodies’ apparent breakdowns symbolize the toll the external world takes on our emotions, or more appropriately, the power we give to the external world to control us.

A woman’s power lies in her womb. Symbolically and literally, this is the place of creation. Those of us raised in the West have been divorced from this power, as we are taught shame instead of celebration of our creative nature. Thus, we lust for a more masculine power: status in the corporate world, material successes, control or denial of our emotions. To no surprise, healthcare coverage costs more for women because we ask others to take care of the intricate machinations of our body. We have forgotten how to read our own body language and to listen to the urgent whispers of our intuition.

Disconnected from nature and ourselves, our society falls into dis-ease and disorder. Women especially feel the impact, as many of us curse our monthly cycles (and thus reject our womanliness) and create dis-ease in the spaces that should be creating life.

Healthy babies and bold ideas are born from a strong womb. As women take on greater responsibilities of leadership, we do not have time to be doubled over in cramps or be left panting with hot flashes. Many natural medicines and techniques – from acupuncture to herbs to yoga – exist to help bring the female body back to health. Even if we must resort to surgery, the most important matter is our intent to heal emotionally and grow spiritually.

Western Medicine has thousands of different names for thousands of different dis-eases. In ancient acupuncture, we can trace all symptoms down to one of twelve organ meridians. Strengthen the meridians, and the systems they govern become strong enough to heal themselves and thus expel dis-ease.

Reproductive health is determined by the strength of the Kidney and Sanjiao (“Triple Warmer”) energy meridians. Kidneys manage sexuality; Sanjiao manages the endocrine/hormone system. Through acu-point balancing we can return the flow of energy to a healthy balance and in this way reverse dis-ease, but the power of your mind and the decision of your heart must keep the energy there.

Acu-points act as antennae, calling our power back from where it has been misspent – perhaps resenting an old spouse or lover, blaming a parent, or despising our jobs. When we give our power away, consciously or unconsciously, we roll our energy forth like umbilical cords, feeding people and situations with our life force. Feeding them with anger, our “fetuses” grow and fester into greater anger, and we eventually give birth to dis-ease, when we are forced to confront the issues that have been eating us up through the years.

Once again, acu-point balancing can help return our power to us, but we must make the conscious decision to forgive and release the past. Feeding our past with love and forgiveness, our pasts swell and enfold us in love and forgiveness of ourselves.

As innately creative beings, we women determine each moment to create more grace or more chaos in our lives. When we repress our creative desires, our dreams die in our wombs, and our powerful creative energy is then spent on regret and resentment that we cannot fulfill our purpose. When we exercise our power to create, our lives flourish, our health flourishes – and we give birth to the miracles that help change the world.

This article originally appeared in the program booklet of the Uterine Fibroids Symposium held at Georgia State University in 2005.