Ask and you shall receive Debbie and whoever else is wanting Abe's take on
hot flashes! I went to the Portland seminar July10-11, and a woman slipped
in her question about hot flashes in the middle of Abe going strong on dream
stuff. They didn't want to answer her at that point, and later on Jerry in
his very own funny way got them to answer her question.......... I'll
transcribe it for you here -- it's great stuff that applies to much more than
just hot flashes -- as always!
love to all.....
Paula R.
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Hot Flashes question.
Abe: The big question is, when for whatever reason I'm living something that
is different from what I want, do I have control? How much am I limited or
hindered or controlled by body rhythms or by vibrational earth rhythms or
rivers? How much control do I have about my experience? And we say,
absolute control. Give us the specifics of your question.
Q: I've been having hot flashes and I finally gave up on treating them and
things got better, and I would ignore them and every now and then they would
still happen even though I'm not focusing on them. But yesterday (the first
day of the workshop) -- all day -- I was in like one continual hot flash. I
felt like there was something else besides the hormone thing that medical
science tells me.
Abe: Let's talk about what's happening in your cellular body. Do you
acknowledge that your body is made up of millions of cells that are
transmitting and receiving mechanisms? Is it logical to you that when you
are in an environment like this where you are stimulated to great mental
activity and where you are surrounded by an energy that is in vibrational
harmony with your core energy, that your body would be responding differently
under these conditions than maybe other conditions?
One of the things that we are wanting you to hear is that sometimes we think
that what you are associating as hot flashes is not the hormonal thing that
so many are giving credit to, but it is an energy alignment. Think about it
-- if your body is in the process of change, isn't it logical that the cells
of your body would be reaching for and asking for different things? Think
about your body and think about the man on the high wire at the circus. Does
he gain his balance and then just rigidly hold it, or is he constantly
reaching for his balance?
In the same way that he is constantly reaching for his balance, every cell of
your body is constantly reaching for balance, so there are all kinds of
energies that are being asked for or are being summoned for by your cells.
So if you would begin now to think of this phenomenon that you call menopause
as energy alignment -- leave the word "hormonal" out of it and replace it
with "energy alignment" -- then you would understand.
Think about the teenagers when they are coming into that. Do they not have
similar symptoms? Not much is talked about that. You talk about it as you
are on your way out of that cycling, but you don't talk about it so much as
you are on your way into that cycling. And yet men *and* women, people of
all ages, are continually being realigned from within. As you understand
that it is about energy in motion, and then you think about what is happening
in a gathering like this, which above all things is energy in motion, then
you might understand a little bit more clearly what is going on with your
physical body.
We see many of you "flashing" when you are under duress. Have you ever been
driving along feeling rather comfortable in your car and all of a sudden
realize that you're absolutely lost and you start tugging at your clothes and
trying to get the air conditioner to work a little better. And we say, oh
well menopause has set in in your car in the middle of your traffic jam!!
But under those conditions you do not acknowledge that it is about that.
Something happened in your now which caused you to abruptly disallow energy.
We see women right in the throes of these hot flashes where they are feeling
great physical discomfort and we've noticed that the more they tense about it
and the more they complain about it and the more they are unhappy about it,
the longer they hold themselves in that vibration. Part of it is because it
represents so many things that they've been pushing against: it represents
getting older, which they don't want; it represents being less youthful or
less fertile, which they don't want. There are all kinds of things that
they've been carrying around that it represents that they are pushing against
-- it's no wonder that there's an energy blockage or misalignment in all of
that. Where someone who is not particularly worried about getting older, who
accepts that all things are transitioning, who is not unhappy about moving
through that time where they are no longer in a position to conceive or give
birth, they're easy about all of it. Their experience with that is entirely
different.
We can put it in this very simple thing: next time you are having what you
think is one of your "flashes," if you will consciously relax with the intent
of enjoying whatever your body is doing to bring itself into alignment and
you will feel exhilaration that your body knows what to do and it's not
something for you to worry about, so that there's no pushing-against but
actual appreciation for it, you will actually take pleasure in the moment and
the discomfort will not be something that will hinder you anymore.
Everything that is uncomfortable is about pushing against something, without
exception.
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Enjoy!!
--Paula R.
