Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation which occurs a considerable length of time before the end of the lifespan.
The word was first applied to humans, and because of this it literally means the cessation of monthly cycles or menstrual cycles, from the Greek roots meno (month) and pausis (a halt).
However, menopause in women cannot satisfactorily be defined simply as the permanent "stopping of the monthly periods", because in reality what is happening to the uterus is quite secondary to the process; it is what is happening to the ovaries that is the crucial factor.
Menopause in the animal kingdom appears perhaps to be somewhat uncommon, although the incidence in different species has by no means been thoroughly researched. However, it is already quite apparent that humans are not the only species that experience it. Menopause has been observed in rhesus monkeys and all other primates, some cetaceans, as well as in a variety of other vertebrate species including the guppy, the platyfish, the budgerigar, the laboratory rat and mouse, and the opossum.
I think we like the option of being friends first. I see no harm in it if she is very attracted to him. Asking for a 'date' is maybe stating that you are willing to go the extra mile. Starting as 'friends' lets one give thought to some extra 'options'.
The thoughts we carry in our minds make our lives and brings equivalant results (karma). Entirely a condition of our 'free will'. I hope to choose good thoughts, now.
He gave us free will and that began the beginning of the Ego. A split in our minds. Ego and Spirit. We hear the Ego voice much louder than Spirit, now, and therein lies our problems. We just need to correct what we let dictate our minds.
When the Ego developed we forgot what it is that we really are. We really are the Mind of God. (our spirits)
Jesus, (God's Holy Spirit) is the same as we are but an appointed Teacher to help us all awaken from the illusions of the dream(s) we've made.
So, we make a choice. Do "I" want to listen to Ego or Spirit?
I think this is quite true. I was at the grocery store and there was very upbeat holiday music being played. A song that was known to most everyone was being sung out loud by almost everyone I was near. It was a great, wonderful feeling. Most everyone had a smile on their face. Was SO nice!
I remember these continuously naughty twin boys across the street from me who fed a little neighborhood boy whose nickname was "Bad Baskim", who was about five years old, a dog food sandwich. Seems they weren't allowed to play together for a while. hahaha
"The world we see merely reflect our own internal frame of reference--the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. "Projection makes perception". "
He (the Holy Spirit) can do this (mediate between two worlds) because, while on the one hand He knows the truth, on the other He also recognizes our illusions, but without believing in them. It is the Holy Spirit's goal to help us escape from the dream whorld by teaching us how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit's great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about.
The world we see merely reflect our own internal frame of reference--the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. "Projection makes perception". We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes--our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take--we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being "good" and "charitable," but because what we are seeing is not true.
From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share on Will. The world of perception, however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perceptual conflict with each other and with God. What perception sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely because it is not real.
When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream. You cannot escape without help, because everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream. God has provided the Answer, the only Way out, the true Helper. It is the function of His Voice, His Holy Spirit, to mediate betwseen the two worlds.
What I am learning makes a fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Knowledge is truth, under one law, the law of love or God. Truth is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. It can be unrecognized, but it cannot be changed. It applies to everything that God created, and only what He created is real. It is beyond learning because it is beyond time and process. It has no opposite; no beginning and no end. It merely is.
The world of perception, on the other hand, is the world of change, of beginnings and endings. It is based on interpretation, not on facts. It is the world of birth and death, founded on the belief in scarcity, loss, separation and death. It is learned rather than given, selective in its perceptual emphases, unstable in its functioning, and inaccurate in its interpretations.
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Male menopause?? Just a sidebarMenopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation which occurs a considerable length of time before the end of the lifespan.
The word was first applied to humans, and because of this it literally means the cessation of monthly cycles or menstrual cycles, from the Greek roots meno (month) and pausis (a halt).
However, menopause in women cannot satisfactorily be defined simply as the permanent "stopping of the monthly periods", because in reality what is happening to the uterus is quite secondary to the process; it is what is happening to the ovaries that is the crucial factor.
Menopause in the animal kingdom appears perhaps to be somewhat uncommon, although the incidence in different species has by no means been thoroughly researched. However, it is already quite apparent that humans are not the only species that experience it. Menopause has been observed in rhesus monkeys and all other primates, some cetaceans, as well as in a variety of other vertebrate species including the guppy, the platyfish, the budgerigar, the laboratory rat and mouse, and the opossum.
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