I always salute females for their
journey through this phase of permanent cessation of their menstrual cycles. Every
day in a female’s life during this phase is a day of untoward worries, social
anxieties, physical uneasiness and internal negativism. They try to seek the
best mental support from the family around….and the family tries to provide it
to the fullest. But in the Indian society the story differs a bit. Indian
society or Indian living is an amalgamation of various aspects woven with one another.
The male dominance is still prevailing, of course reduced then the previous
times. The cultural and religious norms still make women their puppets here.
With the exceptions of a few percent,
majority of the females residing in the urban setup in India, working as well
as nonworking, have a specific routine dedicated to their family and work. It
might sound funny to you, but say for a house-wife; maintenance of home, care for
her family, social and domestic excursions ; these all procedures in her daily
life becomes a routine and gradually when she reaches the middle age, these all
become a part of her behavioral output. It’s good for her to carry out these
tasks with great efficacy and vigor during her younger times. But when she
reaches her middle age, the things go different. The physiological decaying has
been initiated during this age. Besides the inherited pathological
abnormalities for which she is suppose to be ready now, there comes an era of
Menopause.
Estrogen deficiency leading to the
physiological regression of the reproductive organs of the females and related
changes, it forms the base of menopause. But for a simple, less educated,
religious, family bounded, indian house wife; are the terms “estrogen
deficiency” or “menopausal symptoms” or “osteoporosis” or “cognitive and
emotional changes” …..Understandable? My
observation and research in this area denies…For them what is important are
simple expressions that make them uneasy in maintaining their designed way of
life since years. So how Music is applicable here as a therapy in this aspect?
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(As said in the lectures by Dr. Parth Oza)
still to continue
Thanks
Dr. Parth Oza
