How to get rid of body-identification as a woman?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: A woman seen just as a body, it hurts a lot. I am saying this from my own experience. How can this stop? When will it stop? How can a person be seen just as a ‘body’?

What is the root cause? Where does it start?

Acharya Prashant (AP): You answer it. You know already. You have attended enough sessions, and you have lived through enough life to know the answer.

Questioner (Q): What is the starting point?

AP: The beginning point is the birth of the being, driven by prakriti (nature). So it might begin with the birth of the body, but then it is exacerbated by social conditioning.

And when there is nothing beyond the body in your life,

you have no option but to consider yourself, as the body.

The ego needs something to identify with. And if the Great, the Tremendous is not available, then what else is there to be identified with? The body. And there is an incentive in getting identified with the body — the body offers a lot of pleasures.

What is the solution?

You know the solution. Just as a lot of conditioning brings a man or a woman to be…