From Your Fertility Signals by Merrill
Winstein (buy the book)
Some women experiment with using light to help the pineal gland regulate their cycles and
boost recovery (from the pill - birth control). The woman simply sleeps in absolute
darkness except on the 14th, 15th and 16th days after menstruation begins. On those
nights, she leaves a small light bulb on in the room. After two or three cycles, many
women find that their mucus pattern is more distinct, menstruation is shorter and heavier
and cycles become 29-31 days in length. (my note: As suggested in other
sources, one should actually "go with the moon" for natural patterns.
This would mean on the days of the full moon one would sleep with out blinders and
therefore the cycle would take on natural patterns.)
From Fertility Cycles and Nutrition: (buy the book)
Sensitivity to Night Lighting
Unlikely as it sounds, sensitivity to night lighting may cause scant or patchy mucus,
prolonged more fertile mucus, short luteal phases, other cycle irregularities, and
infertility even with regular cycles.
As anyone who has ever suffered jet lag can attest to, the body has a definite bioligical
clock that resists resetting. This rhythm is entrained by the natural day-night cycle, and
nerve impulses that originate from the light receptors of the eyes ultimately affect many
of the body's hormones, including the reproductive hormones.
It goes on to say that Africans are taught to "be in the moon".
Their's is a very prochild culture, and the wife told us that her mother advised her to
have intercourse during the dark phase of the moon. - it explains but i cannot type it
all.......Lest you wonder how small amounts of light can affect a sleeping woman, realize
that light rays are capable of penetrating the eyelids and the dark-adapted retina is
expuisitely sensitive even to very low level of illumination. A specific neural
route from the eyes sends information about lighting to the pineal gland; this gland
responds to light-related neural stimuli by secreting or failing to secrete several
hormones which in animals, at least, markedly affect reproduction.
My note: Buy a sleep mask and "stay with the moon" and put them
back on after the full moon.
Remember that the Lord made two lights; one to govern the day and the
other LESSER light to govern the night.
