The Limitations of Mindset

by Christine Marie Quigless | Hello@sparrowholistic.com

Many might be gasping at the title: “How dare she propose that one of the most lauded life-changing tools has limitations?”

I dare!

Mindset is a part of a greater system.

If you ascribe to the Seven (some say Eight) Chakras, the Mind, the Sixth Chakra, is one of the them, but each Chakra holds equal power within that system. So Mind becomes a member, not the captain or co-captain of the Chakra Team:

If you ascribe to the Holistic Self, the Mind, the Mental Body, is 1/4 of a 4-Part System:

As a person whose job description is literally: Menstrual Suffering Finisher, I can tell you from personal experience, that the way to ending period pain and PMS and diminishing/ending symptoms of diagnosed disorders like: Endometriosis, Fibroids, PCOS, and PMS without substances, special diets, or special workouts, is not purely mental. And, I actually believe that many of us, especially women, or anyone who has ever had a womb, mistakenly lean in to the mind and mindset because it is such a powerful tool for men, or anyone who has never had a womb/menstruated).

Here’s why: our bodies are a result of 90,000 years of evolution—since we first existed as Homo sapiens sapiens, modern humans. And those of us who had wombs spent a lot more time in the cave than those of us who did not. In fact, it is only within the last ten thousand years, with the dawning of the Agricultural Age, that women were outside of the cave and within the last four hundred years, with the beginning of the Cottage Industry, that women were outside of the cave working. How women lived, where women

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