Menopause – The Mother of All Upgrades?

Recently I got sick. I’d had the usual symptomatic hints that I was ‘coming down’ with something for a few days… sore throat, tired, a bit ‘off’… and then it finally got me. That night I lay in bed aching, wiped out and generally feeling like shit. But something else too, something like I’d never experienced before was going on in my body. The only way I can describe it is that it felt like every cell in the whole of my torso was vibrating at a really really high level. Like someone had turned the dial up to FULL and, at the same time, released a swarm of bees into my blood stream. It was pretty freaky. And as I lay there, trying to focus on my breath whilst simultaneously wondering what the hell was wrong, I tried in vain to sleep.

At some point I must have dozed into some kind of delirium for a few minutes and when I came to, a word very clearly dropped into my mind from some other realm. Some might call it a download, others might say it was my higher self or higher consciousness, all I know is, it came from somewhere outside of me. And that word? That one, single word that imprinted itself very clearly in my awareness?...UPGRADE.

Oh right! Upgrade! Of course! Really? Is this really a thing? I mean I’ve heard of it, but…really?? But in that moment, I knew I was OK, I intuitively KNEW that whatever was going on in my body was happening for my higher good and this knowing immediately changed the way I was relating to it. The worry was replaced by…well, appreciation. And with that, the intense buzzing and vibrating dissipated, the dial had been turned down. I still felt like shit, but it seemed my upgrade was complete.

It also seemed that an upgrade doesn’t make for a good nights sleep. So as I lay awake (ALL night!) I decided to search on-line about frequency upgrades. I straight away found an article by the brilliant Joe Dispenza in which every word resonated perfectly with the experience I was having. These ‘biological upgrades’ (often mistaken for flu) he says, are commonplace after intense healing retreats; the body is literally raising its’ frequency as enormous psychological changes take place on a cellular level. Well, I had just returned from a weekend retreat where I experienced a very powerful kinesiology session followed by a full sweat lodge ceremony. So, yeah, that fitted.

Then I came across another article describing the symptoms of energy upgrades. Along with the usual flu like symptoms they listed depression, tearfulness and emotional vulnerability, hot flushes and night and day sweats, extreme tiredness, excessive energy, weight gain, losing your memory or feeling spacey, extreme sensitivity….hang on a minute - that sounds like the menopause to me!

So, that got me thinking…that rather than the menopause having connotations of degradation, being on our way out, it’s all down hill from now, a sense of downgrading… what if we believed this was the time where a woman is just beginning the most uplifting exciting, energising, creative, expressive phase of her life?

Imagine if we lived in a world where the menopause was considered the ultimate female upgrade! How different all our lives would be.