"Magic in Practice" is pure Magic in Birth!
Magic in Practice, the book by Garner Thomson and Dr. Khan is a gift! I was astounded that birthing "professionals" had no idea about rapport building, or suggestibility in a birthing mother. They had no knowledge of Fractionation and that the labouring mother has indeed established herself in a very deep self induced hypnotic trance through the labouring process. That bright lights, constant interruptions of the mother interrupt this delicate chemical balance in her.
From Dave Elman's text on Hypnosis, his incredible chapter on preparing for Labour & Birth is really all any mother needs to her from her care provider and she'll have a great birth! In fact, Elman quotes his stats from the 1960's as being 90% of cases using hypnosis and trance were experiencing little to no discomfort during birth!
I go a little further, my line up is:
Healthy Baby, Mom labouring for an average of 7 hours, baby and mom bonding during the entire labour and birth, easily attaching and breast feeding, and the finale: In tack Perineum!
Based on the work of Richard Bandler & John Grinder who asked a simple question that pointed us all in a different direction:
Instead of "what's going terribly wrong here" they asked "how can we achieve excellence?"
That's what I did within the Birthing Model. I stopped asking what was going terribly wrong and started looking for Magic in Birth!
Very soon thereafter it showed up! Magical Birth! Can you believe it? In 2008 and we have the skills, the inner neurology and the DNA within women to achieve magical birth!
I asked my mothers to stop looking at the "fear packets" out there. I taught them how to move themselves out of rapport with anything that would offer this kind of negative priming during the pregnancy or birth. I asked them to practice relaxation and breathing, and taught both parents about Mirror Neurons and then we had fun with connecting to baby prior to the birth to ensure perfect positioning during labour and birth. ..every time!
I started them thinking and looking at what it might be like if they breathed through the birth, visioning their infant gently making its way into the world. If they held a constant inner dialog of "this is working perfectly" and smiling through each long deep breath focusing on becoming a .....
MOTHER!!!! ????
Wait a minute, maybe that's what's really causing the stress loads here! And sure enough it was, when birthing the woman cannot see herself as the mother of the infant that is about to enter her world!
The Maiden enters her metaphorical birthing pool never to be the same again! Her psyche recognizes the time as initiation, and her dreams show her a landscape of imagery that can be both vivid and real. She is about to change ...forever, as is her own mother and her own grandmother and the line shifts as far back as we can see.
Joseph Campbell (The power of Myth) suggested "Wherever something is coming in, look at what is GOING OUT"
We know the infant is soon to arrive, and is coming in and often that is enough to distract the medical teams from the real work....because this is not what's really going on... this is not the question we apply to the mother....what's going out in her? The maiden is going out, motherhood is coming in....she is about to give birth to herself as a mother.
She is no longer, never again, not this lifetime, the maiden...oh she could be married, but she now has a different role in this world, and no matter how many babies she has, every time she enters the birthing pool, she faces herself again. Often second time moms are struggling with the new infant coming in, and the time lost for the older child. It's underlying theme is still the woman is again about to give birth to herself as the mother of this new child.
“However it remains a choice point and when the brain bi-passes the prefrontal cortex, the reasoning part, and shoots directly to the ancient brain, the flight or flight hormones often take over our choices for us. Then it needs more than reason, and it takes about 1 hour to reabsorb the catecholamine through the system. That’s a long time during labour, often too long and our choices are removed for us.
Michel Odent, the famous French
“Pay attention to the injustices and cruelties done to an infant at birth by society and you are witness the values of the society itself.”
We are now entering a new phase in humanity. At a very deep core level we all get this….be kinder to each other. Death is an illusion, so is separation and abandonment, however, we continue to feed ourselves regular installments that reinforce our addictions to negative priming
Kathy Welter-Nichols,
Author: MY BIRTH My Way NLP: As a birth model for change....releasing 2009
Labels: NLP: A Birth model for change

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