Video není dostupné.
Omlouváme se.
Redefining the Indian Myths and Beliefs about Menstruation | Rhythm Rastogi | TEDxSayajigunj
Vložit
- čas přidán 25. 09. 2018
- Rhythm Rastogi is an 18 year old high school graduate from Vadodara, Gujarat. Since the past four years she has been working in the field of menstrual hygiene awareness for young girls and women and has been coined as the 'Padgirl of Vadodara' for her efforts in spreading knowledge to over 300 females of the city. She has been recognised by various media channels, news outlets and celebrities for her work. Rhythm aims to dissipate the stigmas surrounding menstruation and propogate it as a healthy and normal process. Rhythm Rastogi is an 18 year old high school graduate from Vadodara, Gujarat. Since the past four years she has been working in the field of menstrual hygiene awareness for young girls and women and has been coined as the 'Padgirl of Vadodara' for her efforts in spreading knowledge to over 300 females of the city. She has been recognised by various media channels, news outlets and celebrities for her work. Rhythm aims to dissipate the stigmas surrounding menstruation and propagate it as a healthy and normal process. The idea is to talk about menstruation as a normal process rather than burdening it with stigmas and taboos. I'd redefine the myths and source Indian beliefs and discuss solutions or common things young students don't know. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
im happy at the fact that my dad doesn't let me do those 'rituals' for periods which my mom says.
i can openly talk to him about periods and ask him to get me pads
Lucky
Buy biodegradable ones please .
You are so lucky i have to do all that rituals you are so lucky 💗
@@priyalkerai653 actually u are lucky..u don't know in so many ways this protecting u from uneasyness in stress in ur body. watch Sinu Joseph for more clarity. Even I follow all the rituals but didn't know y...until I listened her. Now I am happily doing it
What rituals?
Periods needs to be normalise as soon as possible, & no one to wait for, we are the one we have been waiting for
I agree
Wat can be done on my part
yo
@@banumathiparamahamsam8274 Be the change you want. Talk about period like its normal, dont purchase period products with shame, dont try to silence your wrappings and educate and help other girls :)
@@sanjanam520 yeah done
I am happy that u r speaking..so openly and..ashamed of those who are not able to even like...the great experience u shared
We don't need to feel shame for the people disliked, but we need to feel pity of ourselves for being carried away by the media's stats and brainwashed misconceptions and not actually thinking for ourselves.
Please watch the red talk by Sinu Joseph on Menstrual health in India. Also watch her Rtu vidya.
@@srivyshnavikorlakunta8532 please her theories are based on pseudoscience,its all bs
She is absolutely right. This has to change.
@Entertaining Boy😂😂
@Entertaining Boy comes from a male, good joke.
I wonder who disliked this awesome video😨😒
Disliked by the Taboos
Please watch the talk on menstruation by Sinu Joseph. Then you will understand why some people disliked.
by the men and the elderly women who enforce these crazy things
Main reason is that people don't want to know about any kind of misconception of any problem ...that I can say education is most important thing for any person male or female
Really, period blood is not impure..
It's absolutely pure blood 💯🩸🩸🩸🩸✅
blood is not pure.... coming to menses it's just blood with an egg.... but all the stigma around it is just horrendous.... or plain stupidity.
Blood blood hota hai pure impure nhi
Then why does body excrete it??
It's very difficult to make old people understand that period is normal.. educated people also follow superstition. I m a victim of such practice and can't do anything.. I can disobey my in laws n go to kitchen.. don't know how to deal with this.. I m totally depressed
@Sonal SHREE thanks for understanding n supporting me.. my whole family is very open about it.. all my in laws n my maternal family.. the only problem is my own mother in law.. she is very strict about periods rules. I have to follow , so she shouldn't feel insulted. But now I am not being frustrated
@vasudha kay Ma'am there is a reason for not allowing in the kitchen, just don't falsely think these are superstitions. During menstruation the heat in a women’s body increases than usual. ( You can check the temperature early in the morning as soon as you wake up. There would a degree increase in temperature during periods than other days). This happens as the egg breaks down the uterus destroying the wall and this is thrown out as blood. In order to build the uterus wall again, the body begins its work immediately. For this as we all know, the body needs energy. Heat is a form of energy. It is seen in many households till today that women are not allowed to touch pickle or cook during their periods. Have you ever kept food outside for long during summer months? What happens when it is kept out for long? It spoils. right? The reason is heat. The temperature during summer is more which leads to increase in the bacterial activities. When placed out for long time, this bacteria will eventually make your food stale.
The pickles used to contain a lot of salt, and too much intake of salt is known to cause water retention in the body. During periods most of the women experience uncomfortable bloating. If they ate these salty pickles during this time, it’ll just worsen their condition.This is not just conducive to menstruating women alone. One is told to enter the kitchen and touch food only after taking bath in the morning, after cooling the body.
Our ancestors were too smart and generous. Every custom made, had a reason tagged to it which worked well according to the time and place. But eventually things took a turn for bad and people merely started following the rituals blindly, without trying to comprehend the reason or modifying the ritual as per the time. This basically happened with the fall of Vedic era.
And I don't know why we all try to see our religion, culture and tradition from a western point of view, our Vedic knowledge was much more advance and scientific than theirs.
Hope u understood the reason, not trying to teach you anything but just wanting to make people aware that our culture NEVER said a woman in her periods is impure.
@@madye_tejas7488 what about not been allowed to touch the tap.. or your kids are not allowed to touch u.. plz explain the reason
@@vasudhakay5483 that's what I said the rituals being followed blindly .... our pervious 1-2 generations just followed the instructions just for sake of following without knowing the reason..... But I would be happy if u took the information in a right way ... Because there are a lot of people in today's world who are unaware of the reasons
@@madye_tejas7488 how do u know about these
I'll never let my daughter(if I ever had one 😅) feel guilt about being a girl as I feel feel being 14
It used to be celebrated back then for the first period,but throughout cultural invasions ,the old culture changed and became like this.The reason is the Ayurvedic knowledges not being passed over generations.We should all get back to the Ayurvedic ways of life.Soon as we promote old Ayurvedic knowledges to every people of country,the changes are inevitable.🙏🙏🙏
Agreed. I would really like to know what Indian practices during menstruation were. I refuse to believe that a civilization of people who can calculate cosmic distances could be complete idiots about a phenomenon that is so integral for life. There has to be some conventional scientific reason for traditional practices which were corrupted and got associated with taboo.
Big round of applauses.
This is very much needed.
Do you conduct workshops or school visits regarding this?.
Like minded should get together to make this change on a large scale.
Women have pain, but are strong.
Menstrual Cup us really good for environment , hygiene as well as it's very convenient and Cheap
Clap for her
As much as I agree with u, even if u improve the level of awareness , people with low income have hard time providing 2 meals a day to their family let alone buying a sanitary pad packet. Sanitary napkins are not affordable to all economic strata in India which is a shame. The problem mainly lies in the cost of these products. If these were cheaply available, lot more women would be willing to buy disposable sanitary products.
I go to a girls school and we have pads vending mechines and desposals so why can't we have such things in mix schools
Really??
Ur school is great..
In our university we have
Very good speaking skills thank you main bhi yahi topic apne skl mein utha rhi hu
You spoke so well! Amazing! The examples which you gave were so heart wrenching💔..more power to you♥️....This topic needs to be discussed much more!! Pads or tampons needs to be made tax free... menstruation isn't a choice!
Gr8... please also watch sinu joseph talks ...she explains with great clarity
When i was in 4th class one of my friend told me that if a women puts her leg on sanitary pad ,she will become infertile 😑
Why we can't go to temples during this days even today's generation is following the rules why is this so can l get to know spread the knowledge about periods isn't it bad thing why the people treat like this why why this needs to be stop everything is equal if u agree with this give a thumbs up
I can suggest you watching sinu joseph videos on why these practices were made etc.
If the topic 'period ' is not so open to all then I don't know how people will react to those girls who don't have period bags. 1 girl in lakh don't have a period bag & it's normal but the girl doesn't feel like normal because no one talks about how girl feels without periods.
It's alright if girl doesn't have a period bag from birth. No one covers this kind of topics. Soon I'll start talking about this topics with 6th standard girls by visiting schools to aware them at early age.
My school uniform had stained about many times during school time , and I know how it was hard for me to hide those stains from others
I can remember , my classmates (friends) used to surround me, till I reach school bus and when the time came to leave the bus then my other friends, who used to go by bus same as me ..they used to surround me ,,,,,
Yup , Donno know why @@@it is something which is called as taboo
Fantastic
BELATED WELL EDUCATED FATHER CEO IRRIGATION AND POWER DEPT HE WAS GREAT
THIS IS TRUE I BELIEVE IT
Thanks mam for your contribution 🎉🎉👍👍
Some stereotyped lame people disliked the video. Probably some fathers and brothers and mother's. Shame on society....
We don't need to feel shame for the people disliked, but we need to feel pity of ourselves for being carried away by the media's stats and brainwashed misconceptions and not actually thinking for ourselves.
Please watch the red talk by Sinu Joseph on Menstrual health in India. Also watch her Rtu vidya.
No offense
@@srivyshnavikorlakunta8532 its a baseless talk there have been countless studies which prove her wrong , cause please tell me , how temples give out energy
@@comicsandanimation5531 u r ryt....this thing have no logic
See how open minded people all are !!! This video was posted a year ago , 2k views but only 2 comments!!!!! Ashamed on those viewers.....
We don't need to feel shame for the people disliked, but we need to feel pity of ourselves for being carried away by the media's stats and brainwashed misconceptions and not actually thinking for ourselves.
Please watch the red talk by Sinu Joseph on Menstrual health in India. Also watch her Rtu vidya.
@@srivyshnavikorlakunta8532 Yes Vyshnavi. I have read it. We must understand it practically every month to spread the knowledge to the masses more effectively and with more clarity. Have you read it completely?
@@vaishnaviradhakishan8686 I didn't finish the book yet. But have followed all the talks of Sinu ji. Stopped using any kind of sanitary products and started observing my own self during the past 4 months. Now I love my period and I am feeling more relaxed, stress and cramp free. I feel it's all in the mind. How you look at it :)
@@srivyshnavikorlakunta8532 I have also been observing my period and stopped using sanitary pads and now iam using clothes. I have also been following Sinu Joseph jis videos. Iam also asking my friends about the Menstrual practices they follow in their families. We must understand this subject deeper and deeper to make our people realise how healthy practices we have in our culture. I feel happy for what you are doing.
So Nice ❤❤
If that blood is impure.. our birth is impure.
I want to become free from blind faith of periods. Old people use too say don't touch any where . Then I say I touched the ground then y are u standing. They say shut up
Yes then why are you touching the ground you should fly😐🤨.i am one of those people my mom says don't touch this i can't eat in the kitchen don't go to the kitchen. I agree with you Baban Raut
same here, i would also tell them: dont breathe the air we breath, get out of earth we live in
@@priyalkerai653 thanks
Killin it👌
bruh i was abt to go to the mandir and my moms like "you can't talk to any men and touch anyone or go in front of the male god's statue" and thats what made me search up and lead me to this video.
Hii
My in-laws believe in this that don't entering in kitchen and all. Can any one please help. And get out to me from this thinking. Gunj can you help me and explain this to them.
Jo eisa bol rahi h. .. use samjhao ki ye ek biological process h.
Isme puja karshakte h , temple v jaa shakte h or kitchen v ...isme koi paap nh h..u should be educated and do others ...
Very nice ...
The fact that I am having periods, and so my mom is asking me to not go to the kitchen, not eat here, there and a few more. Also, she said that if I don't believe in these shits, then the society might not accept me. When I grow up, my husband wouldn't let me in, cuz I dont believe or follow these rules. But can I just ask why? Periods are normal. Even if you ppl are educated it doesn't actually means that you're educated until you take these things normal, and make others understand that it's normal. But I truly say that if it's like that, then I aint ever gonna understand or trust in these shits cuz its useless and also I am gonna oppose it. I literally don't care what the society says, even if they boycott me, I will be happy cuz I wouldn't like to live in a society where things are being complicated and still the ppl having such thinking. Tbh I am losing trust over my own country now, cuz of these things happening.
I don't understand why girl aren't allow to kitchen when they are in menstruation can somebody give me a sciencetific answer
If you are comfortable to do kitchen work,to worship ,go to temple etc.. ...then u can do it... But scientific reason is that time girls feel tired so difficult work should be not allowed but easy work like worship etc.. can do...
Wow! Keep it up!
Ima send this to my mom Right Now!
My parents are very nice I talk to them frankly and with the close members in my family I love them they di a lot of pampers
I faces so many rituals untill today ..my mom fully isolate me during periods its really frustating time for me ..... I faces lots of problem during periods like nausia vomating mood swings but no one can understand what i face
MENSES ARE NOT BAD SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN SERIOUSLY
Please also watch Sinu Joseph talk on menstruation
ya, sinu👌
Ossom
If you (Boys and Girls both) want to fully understand Indian perspective and scientific truths about Mensuration and Indian practices should read Ms Sinu Joseph's Ritu Vidya or her youtube speeches and interviews. She fully researched with the help our own ancient Indian texts, collected rural Indian women practices and her own experience and gave excellent and elaborate speeches - please try and listen her speeches and videos!
Some people will be of the opion that this is not the realities of every women in India and how most people now don't follow these traditions.
Notice how i used the words "most people do not follow these traditions" that means we live in 21st century and yet the normal biological process of approximately 50% of the world is considered unholy.
Its a myth that these traditions are only followed by illiterate and low income people. I am from kerala and everyone in my family are educated and are working, including my grandparents and my neighbors. Yet still when a girl or women get her period they are subjected to complete isolation.
Some ppl pointed out that these pratices began as a boon for girls. As in older times these islotions gave the women a chance to rest and take of themselves. For them please do answer my question, how is shutting someone in one room and not allowing them to dine with you is a boon?
Its not an unknown fact that during menstruation all girls and women have to deal with alot of hormonal changes and so they are mentally and emotionally vulnerable, so please imagine a situation when a 11 years old is kept in isolation and continusly tell her touch is impure, so she can't touch anything, have you got any idea how that will effect her emotionally... it could cause her to more depression and even trigger suicidal thought.... fun fact a huge proportion of women who commit suicide are when they r on their periods.
Please dont think i am insulting or targeting anyone or anything... this is the stuff i have to go through dispite being from a privileged section of the society. I am just showing you that this is not right, just because something was followed in our past doesn't mean its right.
In my home periods is considered more dangerous and contagious than covid 19.. because they use more precautions on me than when they go out these days... these days for ppl who have beaten covid 19 they give counseling sessions to get rid the trauma, but what do an average women get after she is subjected 5 years of isolation from her family because a women on an average spends 5 years of her life mensurating.
im tired of talking to my mom she always says that this is our sanskar culture blah blah blah i am high schooler nd im really busy in my studies nd when my mom gets periods i have to do all kitchen works instead i should be studying nd doing my homeworks
I USED TO GOP TO MALE SHOPKEEPER ALONG WITH MY BELATED FATHER HIMSELF HE WAS PAYER ALWAYS
Plz donot lookdown on our country ,watch sinu Josep speech ,
HE WAS CIVIL ENGINEER
Grt
Who r the dislikers🤔😡😠
People with taboos
Aunties and relatives
People need to know that it's natural to have periods for healthy female reproduction further down the lane and also the scientific facts that it is associated periods like energy radiating while having periods is a negative one and shouldn't be spread to living beings since it affects them or if a person during periods should not take a shower cuz that blood that is meant to be excreted out should not be circulated which happens while taking a shower....
And those who think shower does not induces blood circulation.... Hot temperatures increases kinetic energy of the molecules of the blood and that's why you bleed more in a hot sunny day or when you're exercising and a shower does exactly this and it also circulates this blood evenly throughout the body which makes you feel fresh and rejuvenated but what is meant to be excreted out is circulated instead....
Proper fact check needs to be inculcated when spreading awareness about topics like these.
MENOPAUSE MEANS IVF THERAPY
Proud to be a Muslim ... in our cultural it is consider a blessing
From Wikipedia - "Scholars say that it is not permitted for menstruating women to touch the Quaran"
”Women are required to perform ritual cleansing (ghusl) before resuming religious duties... upon completion of menstruation"
Yeah, sounds like it's treated like a real blessing alright!
don’t be so proud of ur religion alone. Most Hindus in south Indian states celebrate openly.
@@lvshwl even if her religion does not follow it, you should appreciate that her family does. Why are you bringing up your religion?!
@@briancassidy104 never heard that
@@jannat3109 I am not even a Muslim but I live in a Muslim society and my Muslims friends have to do this.... They can't even touch the cloth on which they do namaaz(sorry if I spelled wrong)
This girl is far far thousands times better than the so called sinu Joseph
MENSES HAPPEN TO FERTILE CHILD BEARING AGE GROUP IN ANIMAL KINGDOM AS WELL MENSES OCCUR NATURALLY
Baroda🥀❤️🩹👀
'Double minded behaviour' this itself says that it's a contrast. This contrast itself is a clue that it was not like that earlier. Please listen to the talks by Sinu Joseph. So pathetic that our generation just sweeps out all orthodox practices as myths just because they are not accepted or proven by today's western science.
I request everyone here to please watch the Rtu vidya talk by Sinu Joseph.
Not Indian myth only Indian hindus myth
😊😊😊🙏🙏👏👏👏
Exxtrooordinaryyyy...
I honsetly appreciate your open talk on this,but i am not able understand what you talk in Hindi in between.
First see sinu jospeh talk about menstrual after see this.
@Sarvi Srivastava ???
Me wondering whether i am a girl or not during the introduction
MENSES ARE ESSETIAL AFTER MARRIAGE TO BECOME PREGANAT AND BEAR A CHILD
Also watch The videos of Sinu Joseph ji after this . You will better understand what the cultural practices about menstruation really mean. Do not dismiss them as superstitions without understanding the indigenous sciences of Bharat.
Blerk
?
A few people I know have multiple uteruses ECT..
oh damn, poor people, with one we are so frustrated, what about them then
the girl is not redefining any Indian Myths and beliefs, she is talking with half-knowledge. Years back, Girls are left isolated during menstruation so that they need not to do household chores, they can get enough rest. These days most of the people are not following any traditions. But this girl is not telling the reasons behind the traditions.Last 3 min is all good to listen
Leaving someone isolated is emotionally traumatic. Making a young girl getting her first period get left away from her family is traumatic. If a girl or woman is suffering from cramps and exhaustion, yes, she should rest. But forced isolation? Forbidding her from entering the kitchen? Or the temple? Making her feel unclean? What's good or right about that?
@@mitalichinmulgund8679 Ma'am first you need to understand that these not superstitions or restrictions for woman in her periods. When a girl is in her periods, the heat in her body increases. This happens as the egg breaks down the uterus destroying the wall and this is thrown out as blood. In order to build the uterus wall again, the body begins its work immediately. For this as we all know, the body needs energy. Heat is a form of energy.
During menstruation the heat in a women’s body increases than usual. ( You can check the temperature early in the morning as soon as you wake up. There would a degree increase in temperature during periods than other days).
Our body is governed by three main doshas which include
Vata - regulating movement (air)
Pitta - transferring of elements (bile)
Kapha - providing strength, regulating heat and energy in the body (fire)
A slight deviation or fluctuation in any of these can cause major changes. These changes are too subtle to identify but take up major portions of our system.
During menstruation the amount of kapha increases in body leading to excess of energy. This turns the form into a energy ball which is later on used during ovulation.
The pushing out of blood is characterized by vata and any fluctuation in vata can lead to menstrual disorders too. This flow of vata or energy is downward during menstruation. Whereas in temples while circumbulating the garbha gruha energy flows upward in the body. This can gradually turn the flow of energy from downward to upward thereby blocking the free flow of pitta. These can lead to cramps and hormonal fluctuations in body.
Talking about the temples, most religious chants(prarthana, bhajan, aarti)are meant to balance out the energies in our body. However, this would interfere with the natural losing of energy that must happen in menstruating women to prevent excessive energy build-up. Hence, menstruating women are told to keep away during such occasions, so that their natural processes are not tampered with.
And in our Hindu culture and tradition WE NEVER CONSIDER A WOMEN IN HER PERIODS AS IMPURE, its the anti-Hindu people who just wanna satisfy their ego by defaming the Hindu culture.
Our Vedic knowledge was much more advanced and scientific than the westerners. Our ancestors were too smart and generous. Every custom made, had a reason tagged to it which worked well according to the time and place. But eventually things took a turn for bad and people merely started following the rituals blindly, without trying to comprehend the reason or modifying the ritual as per the time. This basically happened with the fall of Vedic era.
Hope u understood the reason, I am not trying to teach you anything but just want to make people aware that our culture NEVER said a woman in her periods is impure.
@@madye_tejas7488 @Tejas Madye unless you have been a woman who had been told that she can't have prasad, that she mustn't attend her own daughter's wedding, that she mustn't go close to the idol, you don't know what women go through. And thses are the milder examples. There are many who are made to stay in outhouses regardless of the weather and their health when they have their periods. If the heat in my body rises, as you say, it is still my choice to decide. Not someone else's right to dictate what I can or cannot do. The uterine wall is intact, the endometrium which has been built up is discarded. Not going to a temple doesn't prevent cramps, so that's a ridiculous thing to say. Yes, the tiredness increases because we are losing a lot of blood. But again, it is for every individual woman to decided what is best for her. Not for society to dictate. The women are still doing all the chores and office work or physical labour. Loads of energy is being lost. Going to a temple may infact provide a chance to rest. Again, it is her choice.
@@mitalichinmulgund8679 idk what to say to u .... the generation is just brainwashed by the westerners. No one is putting restrictions on the activities which a woman shouldn’t do in her periods.... these are prescriptions only. You may enter temples, cook food, eat or whatever u want to do. These are not superstitions, these are just prescriptions and not restrictions. There are many temples in India where men are not allowed to enter... those temples are completely taken care of by women. Our temples are not built anywhere and anyhow. The architectural design of temples are such that they are located as per the moon cycles, geometric energy source , where we experience a positive energy.... positive energy here means the energy which flows upwards... and not that women are impure or anything.
So a woman in her periods may absorb more energy which is not good for her health.
Every time just don’t use the women card everywhere, understand the reason behind it. Had these reasons been stated by the westerners, people like you would have followed them without even questioning.
No one considers woman as impure in her periods. Had this been the case, then there would have been no Godess’ temples. Always using the woman card is not the solution
@@madye_tejas7488 first of all, I'm not using the woman card, but menstruation doesn't happen to men, so I really can't about them. But I am talking of my experience where I've been asked if I am on my periods when being given prasad, and friend's experiences where they haven't been allowed. I am not saying anything against temple architecture, that's another topic. But priests do object to women entering if they have their periods. I have seen it. It is also common knowledge that in some hindu communities she is made to stay alone in an outhouse, not supposed to cook for her husband during her periods (didn't what's his name politician make that stateme t that women who cook during their periods for their husbands will be reborn as dogs. This was less than a year ago. You may not say it, your family/neighbours may be better people, that doesn't mean it is not an issue.
Somebody pls educate this girl and ppl like her who got this so called modern education...pls check video of Sinu Joseph!!...these ppl will know what Indian women have traditionally been following correct ways and have scientific reasons as per our shastras...
Areyy tere sinu Joseph hoti kaun hai iss ladki ke samne... Usko jake kaho ki vo kahi chup jaaye periods me...
Yes Karishma ji. Women must see sinu Joseph's videos and refer Ritu vIdya to understand what Menstruation actually is. Modern women emotionally (because of their suffering) dismiss the cultural practices as myths and taboos without even understanding them practically. Let's hope that people will understand them one day or the other day....
How many hours can you stay in uncleaned toilet.if, you can't
then how can you say that periods are normal.ofcourse normal but not a perfume..
Half knowledge she had not research about these beliefs with authentic sources 🤦🤦
Naari narq ka dwar hai
Aap ye baat isliye bol re h na kuki apko ek naari ne hi janam diya h mtlb ab bhi us narq se ae h ...😕😕
Shame on you ,, men like you
@@saishachopra1341 great scholars and legends also say same thing, like Gautam Buddha, saankracahrya,Jesus Christ, paigamber Muhammad, confusious,and many more.
Kumar Sonu I don’t think so
@@saishachopra1341 may be you don't due to lack of good knowledge,but it's absolutely true.
You should not talk about things u know a thing about.
FROM SAME UTERUS BABIES COME IN DELIVERY ,SVD.C SECTION AFTER ENDOMETRIUM LAYER SHED IN MULTIPLE LAYERS UTERUS IS DIVIDED INTO