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Deepening Into Your Qi Phase
Especially if you've been diagnosed with anovulation, PCOS or unexplained Infertility, understanding and healing this phase of your cycle is incredibly important.
The Qi phase occurs in the few days around ovulation, so after the Yin Phase and before the Yang, Phase, or approximately Days 12-15 of your cycle.By the time you reach this phase, your follicles are nice and juicy and one will have grown to be the plumpest of all and become the one you ovulate.
Here, we need a burst of energy for that ripe and juicy follicle to be burst forth from your ovary, and to have the energy to travel along the length of the fallopian tube and burrow into your uterine wall. -
Deepening into Your Yin Phase
Yin is responsible for uterine lining health, follicle growth and health, estrogen balance, cervical fluid and so much more. I believe it is the number one most important aspect of fertility, and often the phase that is the most out of balance.
During this phase, we focus on cooling, nurturing and nourishing your follicles to support the quality of your eggs. One of these nurtured follicles will be ovulated in the next cycle phase, the QI Phase.
This time is about gestation, of receptivity and growth, of waiting and patience and being in the not-doing. -
Deepening into your Blood Phase
I always consider the metal, blood phase the end of the pattern, the death of the cycle. But it's important to note that time is not linear. So where there is ending, there must be beginning. There is a new beginning implicit in the ending, just as there is ending implicit in the new beginning.
We must let go so that there is room to move into water, into gestation, so that new life can occur. So many of us get stuck in an inability to let go, and are unable to move into the water, Yin phase of healthy follicle development and even gestation.
The energetic of this phase should be about encouraging your body and your unconscious to let go of that which is not serving your highest conscious priority. -
One of the most effective ways to track your fertility
Why An Ovulation Predictor Kit Only Tells You a Part of the Story
While of course it’s important to know if you’re ovulating based on the hormone levels in your urine, a significant temperature spike in your BBT chart (at least 5/10ths of a degree) is a good indication that you’ve ovulated. However, only knowing that you’ve ovulated isn’t really enough to tell you HOW to correct an imbalance that might be impacting fertility. For instance, if your temperature doesn’t STAY elevated, even if you’ve ovulated, conception won’t occur.
