-A conscious approach to inviting, incubating, birthing and stewarding our children-
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-Sacred Parenting-
As you contemplate the possibility of stepping into the world of being a parent, I ask you to pause long enough to scan your own life journey first. In entering this earth realm, have you always felt deeply loved and accepted by your family of origin? Do you know how your parents felt when they learned you had entered your mother’s womb? What did your mother feel through her pregnancy? How did her mother feel about pregnancy and birth? Were you separated from your mother at birth? Did she have postpartum depression? The questions can go on indefinitely, but you get my drift.
For many of us whose consciousness was dulled during our childbearing years, we can look back with some remorse. Yes, we did the best we could, as did our own parents. And yes, many of us were able to sprinkle some conscious choices in with the denials. And it is a relief to know that tools are now available for us and for our own now-grown children to do the inner work that will free all of us of our unconscious mistakes during their process of growing into this life. But what this article is about is informing the younger child-bearing members of today’s world; you have the capability now, yes only now, of choosing to bring in your children consciously and lovingly.
It is a process. One needs to be willing to invite and engage in that process. And not only those conceiving and bearing the child but also whoever is living in the home, will benefit the new life by stepping in to such a process. Why? Because it is now scientifically acknowledged that the fetus FEELS its environment. If someone in the home is angry and shouting, the developing embryo FEELS it. If someone in the home is terrified, again the child in the womb cannot escape that energy. Consequently, whenever there is love and joy exchanged, that energy is felt too by the fetus.
One might read the previous paragraph and decide the responsibility is too much. How can a household maintain such positive energy 24/7? “Come on. You are asking for the impossible. I just feel that new life energy asking to come through, and I’ll do the best I can, just like everyone else does,” you are thinking.
A “perfect environment” is not the goal of the Prenatal Process. Rather,
by engaging prospective parents in a process of awakening consciousness, we will be upgrading human development from conception on. We will begin and/or deepen a process of self examination; we will teach belief-clearing techniques and emotional trigger diffusion techniques that offer each and every willing participant a way to release themselves of personal, genetic and cultural limitations in order to enhance their own lives and the lives of the children who will be coming into their hearts and homes. Once learned, these techniques are yours to use and perfect your entire life.
Each and every one of us can look at our own psyches and understand that being conceived, carried, birthed and reared in modern Western societies has wounded us each in our own unique way.
When my own daughter was about 2 years old, I found myself easily triggered to a state of anger, frequently, by her two-year-old behaviors. I can still remember how devastated I felt, overwhelmed by my own inability to control my negative emotions. In order to protect her from the brunt of what I felt, I would give myself a “time out”; reassuring her that my intense emotion was not a result of her behavior nor how I felt towards her. Yet, as a young mother, I was devastated by these waves of negative emotion. My father had been a “rageaholic” and I vowed to myself to end the cycle there and then. At the time, I was led to the practice of meditation to begin to work with my triggers. And as I matured and as my three other children entered my life, I did find the triggers to that kind of anger subside and become more manageable. I do wish that the tools I now use and offer to my clients were available to me then. Had I had them, I know I could have prevented myself from passing on “the sins of my fathers”.
The purpose of this article is to let you know that we have as a species come a long way in a short time. We no longer need to feel helpless in the face of our emotional triggers. We no longer need to feel that releasing ourselves from our personal demons is a long and arduous task. The new tools are here and available to all of us. And they are incredibly efficient and effective. These new tools can allow us to steward our children from conception on, relieved of more and more of our personal negative baggage.
A bonus to beginning this work as a prelude to parenting: not only your children, but you yourself will enjoy a journey which for me has felt like my own rebirthing and reparenting process. (without the “scream”). I knew at 18 that whatever my parents had been unable to provide for me, it was my job to discover how to provide it for myself. Finally I am confident that I have found how to do that. And all I want to do is share the process with any and all who are ready.
Look through the tools section of my website. Visit these links :
The phrase “The world is your oyster” arises as I close this article. I welcome you to TAKE A BITE and see how you like it. See whether one or several of these
tools might be worth using BEFORE you conceive that child who is knocking at your
door. Consider it a prenatal purification, to enhance the road ahead.
I am here and at your service.
Karen