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Believe it or not, our bodies are equipped to prevent conception from
occurring during times of anxiety or extreme mental distress***. The
presence of fight or flight hormone adrenalin, secreted by our endocrine
system during stressful times, directs our body that conditions are not ideal
for conception. Adrenaline inhibits us from utilizing the hormone
progesterone, which is essential for fertility. It also triggers the pituitary
gland to secrete higher levels of prolactin, a major driving factor of
infertility.
Recent Harvard Medical School**** research also reveals that a disturbed
mental state, pessimism and emotional triggers raise levels of stress
hormones, such as adrenaline, catecholamines and cortisol, which inhibit
the release of the body’s main hormone, GnRH (gonadotropin releasing
hormone), responsible for the release of sex hormones. Subsequently this
may suppress ovulation in women, reduce sperm count in men and lower
libido in both the sexes.
To repair the fragmentation of the mental being for a healthy conception,
the meditative activation, opening and empowerment of the energy
meridians or subtle chakras (Sex Chakra most important among them) is
most essential. Here, I would like to point to the physical and subtle
health-promoting, overall disease-preventing and stress busting