Patriarchy could be defined as an ideology manifested in social practices involving an inequality of prejudice against women, but does this social order and the patriarchal beliefs that underpin it influence the healing of the female gender?Do women suffer the effect of a Patriarchal Society still on their own bodies?
Dr. Christiane Northrup, in her book “The Body of Women, the Wisdom of Women,” explains that healing is not possible in women until we have done a critical analysis and changed certain patriarchal beliefs and assumptions that we have unconsciously inherited and internalized.
“Consciousness creates the body. Christiane Northrup-
To begin with, is Western civilization inspired by the Judeo-Christian vision that considers, among other absurdity, the female body and its sexuality?represented by the figure of Eve?responsible for the fall of humanity. No more, no less.
As for the disease, Northrup ensures that women are sick and abused; He also explains that when we get sick, we are treated by a patriarchal medical system that often denigrates the female body. Christiane highlights three fundamental patriarchal beliefs that hinder our own. Cure:
This thought would condition us to regard the body as an adversary, especially when it gives us messages that we do not want to hear, it is an element that can cause pain, without knowing that it can be a huge source of pleasure.
According to the author, it is inherent in our culture to try to kill the body as a messenger with the message it brings.
However, the body can become the best health system we have, as long as we can hear it; without entering the sexual plane, its movement generates endorphins that make us feel better, with more vitality, with more energy.
This belief is based on the myth we have been instilled in the “medical gods. “In other words, doctors know more about our bodies than we do and are therefore the only ones who can heal based on the information we can provide. .
Then we forget something so obvious: every woman has the opportunity to save a great knowledge of herself, in this sense science can help, but it will work in vain if you do not listen to the woman’s report.
Patriarchal defamation of the female body is the underlying cause of the fear many women feel for their own bodies and natural processes to the point of repugnating them. Christiane Northrup reminds us in his book that no scientific research can explain with complete precision and precision. in all circumstances, how or why a particular organism acts as it does.
In this sense, emergency physician Alyson McGregor explains that the withdrawal of 80% of drugs in the United States is due to the side effects suffered by women, the cause: animals used in medical research laboratories are male, as are cells, thus creating a benchmark for exclusively male medical research.
If we can develop it, connecting with our emotions becomes the infallible method.
Patriarchal culture has made us unconsciously acquire habits that have serious effects on our own body and mind, as they prevent us from connecting with our emotions to understand what is really going on. A patriarchal society also leads to devaluing women’s feelings, denying them, or underestimating them. affecting their acceptance.
Many women may be ashamed to express their emotions because they do not take them seriously or seem fragile; this disconnection, in turn, would keep us in a state of suffering that would increase as we stay there.
A first step towards a positive change in life and, more specifically, in health, is to name the current experience and allow yourself to feel it in its entirety emotionally, spiritually and physically.
When we recognize and abandon our own emotional feeling, we immediately connect with our feelings and thanks to them we can investigate the specific needs we have.
In addition, as we free ourselves from the sufferings and concerns that accompany it, we find the energy necessary for our bodies to heal; it is also important to replace these patriarchal beliefs with more useful beliefs, such as the fact that the female body has enormous resilience and health. In other words, to heal you.