Question: In the last few decades problems related to reproductive system in young women are increasing. What can be done to prevent these issues?
Sadhguru: In today’s world, the way the society is structured, the way the many aspects of life has
arranged itself women have to care much more about their health than men.
Simply because, nature is invested a very elaborate reproductive system, in a woman.
We were all born out of a woman’s womb. So there was an elaborate system inside.
Normally, if you look back, they would start using their reproductory system
by the age they were fifteen, sixteen. It was put to use. Probably throughout their life.
At least throughout their reproductive life, in some way it was put to use.
If a woman had six, or seven or eight children in her lifetime,
most probably it was spread out throughout. So reproductory organs were used in a certain way.
Because of that she did not have those issues, as they have today.
Another reason is, both men and women of course, were working hard physically, physical work.
Because of physical work, there never was as any fat around the abdomen.
At a young age, if a girl gathers abdominal fat, she is asking for it. There’s simply no two ways about it.
How soon or how late depends on various genetic and other aspects of life.
But once abdominal fat gathers then a young woman is definitely inviting trouble for herself.
It will come! Not enough activity, physical activity I mean, they may be working in office
that doesn’t mean anything, because that’s not physical enough.
If you are working in a field, that would be different.
I think the problems that you are mentioning, largely are happening in urban woman.
Simply because their physical activity… even if they exercise, it’s half an hour,
one hour in the morning. Rest of the time they are sitting, sitting, sitting.
So because of this, there is not enough activity in that region.
That’s one reason. Another thing is reproductive process is not made use of, that’s another reason.
So if you are not using reproduction process that is - if you are not bearing
a child, before you are twenty-one years of age, it's very, very important that you must do Hatha Yoga.
If you do gym, if you run, if you do this and that, run to some extent
But if you are just gyming, and doing muscles and you are looking fit, that's not good.
You must do intense Hata yoga. From the age of twelve if a girl child starts doing Hatha yoga,
she will go through all those issues, people who... people most of them think is a big issue,
and go through lots of struggles for every stage of development within themselves.
They will go through this effortlessly. So this has to come,
that if reproductive health of a woman has to be maintained, without reproducing
it's very important that certain things are done. And that part of what you are doing
should be largely focused in the thoracic region or the abdominal region must be worked in a certain way.
There is no system which works it the way the Hatha yoga...the systems of Hatha yoga will work it.
And there are specific asanas and processes, which can be taught.
If they do this, they need not go through all those medical stuff,
that unfortunately the numbers are raising in a big way. Another dimension of this is also urban young
women these days are lot of them are very disturbed about something or the other.
At one time, only your family or your children, or your husband or your immediate friends disturbed you.
Now you have friendship across the globe and just about anybody can freak you, anytime (Laughs).
So just a message is enough, that you worry about it for next three days.
For whatever reasons, I don’t want to blame it on any one thing.
It has become a norm that everybody must be stressed. So this also can be very easily handled.
The basic body chemistry can be brought to such a level of balance within you.
If you do the right kind of yoga, and this is the solution for the future generations.
Otherwise this will rise, because today I think including the rural, tribal, all kinds of women put together,
the average child-bearing age, I think has gone up to twenty-two or so.
But I believe, in the next twenty-five years it will go to thirty-five most probably and it’s a very good thing.
So if it goes up to thirty-five, then the number of these type of issues that young women will have,
will multiply manifold. Unless they take care of themselves.
Taking care of themselves is not about medicine, not about doctors, you must start yogic processes,
so that the body brings a certain balance chemical balance is there in the system,
hormonal balance is there in the system, all these glandular … secretions are happening well,
in a balanced manner. If this is happening, they will not go into this mode of unnecessary ailment.
Well a percentage of people will always have some physical illness, that’s a different matter.
But right now there is an unnatural level of percentages. The society is reaching an unnatural level of sickness.
So that has to be brought down. It’s very important.