Question: Dear ascended masters, what is the psychological background of hot flashes that women experience during the perimenopause phase? Some women have it in an extreme way and do not know how to deal with it. They tried everything in the material and of course this does not solve the problem they experience. I know there are certain selves involved, but what are these selves based on and what kind of beliefs do they have?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during a 2024 Deep Healing Retreat Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
Well, part of the explanation for the hot flashes is actually physical. As Raphael explained, in the current conditions on earth, there is a certain density of matter, a certain density of the physical body, so there is a certain mechanism that happens that is purely physical and there really is not anything you can do about it at the present situation. There will be more options available in the future, but that does not help you now.
There are, of course, certain selves and if you look at what happens to many women, you will see that while they are younger, they are not so concerned about their physical bodies. If they are reasonably healthy, reasonably good looking, reasonably thin as they see it, whatever that may be individually, they are not worried about the body. But then comes the point of perimenopause where now they realize that their body is changing, it is aging, and what that brings out is something they had either suppressed or ignored before, namely their relationship to being in a physical body, to the physical material universe.
You think about the hot flashes, what produces heat? Well, as they try to make all boy and girl scouts believe, if you rub two sticks of wood together long enough, you can create fire. Heat can be created by friction. And with friction, I do not mean physical friction, because as we have explained to you, the physical body is just the densest part of your total energy field. And we have talked about the four lower bodies, and so there can be a certain friction in the sense that in your emotional, mental, and identity bodies, you have these subconscious selves that are resisting being in the physical body, resenting being in the physical body, because the physical body can cause you pain, or it can cause you a sense of embarrassment if you gain weight, or if you are not as beautiful as you used to be.
Basically, the best advice I can give to people in this stage, and it applies to some degree also to men, even though they may not have the same symptoms as women, there is still a certain aging process, and there is a certain realization that: “I am losing my hair”, for example. What you can do is look at your attitude, your approach to the physical body. Try to uncover these selves that you have that resent the body, that do not want to be in the body, that think that the physical body should not have such severe and unpleasant consequences, should not cause you pain, or embarrassment, or whatever. It will be individual for many of you.
There are, of course, general tendencies, but you need to discover what is your individual approach to the body. Many of you, for example, have this sense that the body should not cause you pain. Here you have a situation where you have certain pain in the physical body, but the body is not actually feeling the pain. The body is not saying, “Oh, this hurts.” The body is just registering that there is an imbalance in a certain part of the body, and it is not feeling that it is unpleasant or not unpleasant. The body does not evaluate this. This evaluation takes place in the mind, in the emotional, mental, and identity levels, where you have these selves that say, “Oh, this should not be happening.” And now you resist what is happening. And many people then go into, they just want the pain to go away, so they take painkillers, because they do not want to think about what could be the underlying symptom. Many people try to suppress the pain instead of looking for the cause of the pain, which of course can make the disease even worse, before they cannot ignore it.
What I am saying is that the mind is what experiences pain. The body just experiences energy. But the mind is what turns this into a negative, and this makes the pain worse. If you can actually discover the self that resents the pain and let go of that self, in some cases the pain goes away. In other cases, it becomes much more manageable. But of course, you also need to look at that the pain is always a warning signal from the body that there is a problem.
If you are willing to look at that, then you can achieve much more than if you just resent the pain or try to suppress it. There are actually yogis who have learned to live with pain, because they realize that everything has an energetic component. Even a physical disease, and to give you an example, there are documented cases from Eastern medicine where when somebody had burned, had a burn, they would cover the burn with tinfoil, have a copper wire to an acupuncture needle that would be placed in another part of the body so that the energy that caused the heat was diverted instead of being concentrated in the one place. Because when there is pain in a particular place in the body, your attention goes there. And that means that your energies are now flowing there, and the concentration of energies makes the pain worse, it accelerates the energetic imbalance.
If you can learn mentally to divert the pain and spread the pain over your entire body or a larger part of the body, you can actually diffuse the energies. And in some cases, this can cause the pain to go away, because the pain was caused by an imbalance of energy. In essence, all disease is an imbalance of energy, a concentration of energy. And if you can diffuse it, this can be enough to heal certain conditions. But this of course requires you to overcome these selves that resent the pain, because when you go into this reaction of resenting the pain, you are focusing on the pain, and therefore, concentrating more energy there.
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