This Is How You Can Hack Your Period For More Energy

I've found that aligning my activities and the focus of my weeks with the phases of my cycle or the phases of the moon if I'm not cycling has been miraculous in terms of giving me enough energy for everything.

Women are cyclical creatures, and when we start working with our cycles instead of fighting them, we tap into our superpowers of manifestation and creation.

Our bodies are so wise. Every different kind of task you might need to do will fit into one of the four phases of your menstrual cycle or the coinciding cycle of the moon, and when you begin to align your schedule with your cycles, you'll find that you have more energy for the task at hand when you're doing it at the right time of your cycle.

Now, this does not mean that 100 percent of your activities will be scheduled during the appropriate phase. Life doesn't work that way. There are way too many variables, unknowns, and unexpected things that come up.

The simple act of tracking your cycle and the moon will do wonders for your ability to have more energy because you won't be wasting energy beating yourself up for feeling the way you feel when it's completely natural to feel that way during the particular phase of your cycle.

I continue to be shocked by the amount of time women spend beating themselves up for feeling more inward for half the month. Our culture has told us that we're supposed to be "on and out" all month because it celebrates the traits of the masculine over the feminine, and being outward is a masculine trait. (Remember, this is not about male or female. For example, I'm a woman who has more of a tendency toward being "on and out." So that particular masculine trait is very strong in me.)

Wouldn't it be magical if instead of trying to push through what you're currently feeling emotionally or physically, you actually honored where your energy is and did the different parts of the project at the different times of your cycle over 28 days that would make you poised to capitalize on the kind of energy that your body or the cosmos is experiencing at that time?

When you track your own experience of the different days of your cycle and different phases of your cycle (or the moon), over time you start to get really good data on how you feel at different times of your 28-day-ish rotation.

If you look back over three months of Daily Energy Tracker data and find, for example, that on Day 20 of your cycle you always feel like being alone and doing work that doesn't require you to talk to anyone, instead of scheduling meetings and outings on Day 20, you can always set yourself up for success by making that a solo workday.