While you should not engage in high-impact, strenuous exercise regimens during severe menstrual cramps, gentle exercise can relieve symptoms by stimulating blood flow and releasing endorphins.  Effective exercises during cramping are aerobic exercises such as walking, biking, or swimming.  Yoga poses that stretch the back, groin, chest, and abdominal muscles might also help stimulate blood flow to the uterus and relieve pain.  Make sure that you are exercising gently, while wearing loose and non-restrictive clothing. Overdoing it or wearing constrictive clothing might aggravate symptoms. An added benefit of exercise is potential weight loss, which can also reduce the frequency of menstrual cramps. While it might seem counterintuitive to engage in sexual activity during menstrual cramping, sexual activity can be a great way to relieve symptoms. Orgasms help to relieve cramping by stimulating blood flow, releasing endorphins, and killing pain. Plus they might serve as a welcome distraction from your pain. Rubbing the affected area can help stimulate blood flow to the uterus, which can ameliorate that cramping feeling. Massage your lower belly gently with your fingertips and use a circular motion. You can massage your abdomen for as long as you need to, as often as you need to, in order to reduce your symptoms. Acupuncture and acupressure might have positive effects similar to massage. Some women have reported pain relief through these services. Acupuncture and acupressure work by stimulating the central nervous system in order to heal injuries and relieve pain. If you take this route, be sure that you talk to your doctor first and that you do your research: you only want to see a licensed professional, not an amateur. Heat helps to increase blood flow, which helps minimize cramping pains. Run yourself a hot bath whenever you feel the worst cramps coming on. Repeat once or twice a day as needed.  If you cannot take a hot bath, you can get similar benefits by applying a hot water bottle or heating pad to your abdomen for 20 minutes at a time. Be sure that you are not overdoing the heat: you do not want to scald or burn yourself. A comfortable warmth is just as effective and much safer than a scalding heat. Heat can be equally as effective as pain medication for reducing menstrual cramps, and has fewer side effects.

Summary: Exercise gently when you experience cramping. Have an orgasm. Massage your abdomen. Take a hot shower or bath.


You will never know if you like or don’t like certain types of art if you don’t try to enjoy them. You can think of going to see new kinds of art as exposing yourself to new experiences, rather than just seeing art. Be in touch with your own emotions as you view art. Do you feel excited? Calm? Anxious? Confused? Art can evoke a wide range of emotional responses, so do your best to be conscious of yours. Part of the fun of viewing art is that you get to come up with your own story about it! Art is very subjective, so even if your interpretation of a piece isn’t exactly what the artist intended, it’s okay! There is often not just one right answer. What’s important is that you make a genuine effort to extract meaning from their work.  Because every person has a different set of unique experiences, it’s valid for every person who views a piece of art to walk away with a different understanding of it. This can lead to interesting discussions! Ask the person next to you what they think.  It’s also completely fine to offer no interpretation at all, and instead just enjoy the art for its physical properties. Abstract art — art that doesn’t look like anything in the real world — can be a little harder to appreciate because the message or emotion that the artist is trying to convey is not always immediately clear. To enjoy abstract art, think about what grabs your eye first in the piece, and why the artist might have wanted your attention to go there. Abstract art can be fun because it’s like a puzzle. You really have to give it some thought to come up with a potential meaning for it. Remember, your meaning doesn’t have to be necessarily correct! As you view more and more art, you will start to develop an understanding of what you like and dislike in a piece of art. This can help you seek out similar artists. You don’t have to love everything that you see! Artist statements or descriptive brochures can sometimes be misleading, so if you unexpectedly don’t like a certain type of art, that’s fine.

Summary: Keep an open mind. Evaluate how a work of art makes you feel. Offer your own interpretation of what the art means. Applaud the ambiguity of abstraction. Learn what you like and don’t like.


Do this by double-clicking the browser’s icon on your desktop or completing the next step if you have a default browser. If it shows a white and gray checker-board before you click on an image, then it's not an actual PNG file and on other platforms will show up as the image with white and gray squares behind it, which is not what you want. Instead, look for PNGs with a solid white background. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/5\/52\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-9.59.07-PM.png","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/5\/52\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-9.59.07-PM.png\/325px-Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-9.59.07-PM.png","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":340,"bigWidth":"325","bigHeight":"240","licensing":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><p>License: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">Fair Use<\/a> (screenshot)<br>\n<\/p><\/div>"} You'll be able to see the size of the image by hovering over it with your mouse cursor on Google. When you first click the PNG you want, you'll have to wait about 5 seconds for it to remove the solid white background. Note that it's okay for there to be a white and gray background when you actually click on the PNG. This has to happen for it to show it's a transparent background and not just an image with a solid white background.  The image will be in the lowest quality possible when processing. Once it's finished loading, it'll be in the highest quality your search engine can do. The "Save Image As..." button will turn blue when you click it. This helps to find the file later. This is optional, though, as you can keep the image name it gives you.   Choose reasonable image names, of course. If the PNG you're downloading is of a red tree in fall, don't name it "Winter tree". This will only confuse you more. Sometimes, less is more. You may just want to name your PNG file "PNG1", if that helps you. This adds an extra layer of descriptiveness to easily find your PNG. Choose tags related to the color of the image, the size of the image, the importance of the image, and where to find it on your computer. This is one of the most important steps, as names and tags won't help if you're searching the wrong folder! Desktop, documents, and downloads are where you should keep the file you're downloading, unless it's for a project you have a specific folder for. No, you don't need to select if you want a PNG or JPG, etc; You just need to select if it's for all of your files or a specific file. This way, it won't be saved as a .exe or .pdf file. It simply helps to be able to open the PNG! If it saves as anything other than [your image name].png, then find another PNG or try to find out what went wrong.
Summary: Launch your favorite search engine. Look for and click on the PNG you want. Wait for the image to process. Right-click the PNG and select "Save Image As". Rename the image file. Add image tags to the file. Select a folder to put your image in. Choose the image type. Click the "Save" button and wait for the PNG to download.