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By Stephen Proskauer MD | January 27, 2008
The embryo and fetus are like little sponges, recording each of mother’s experiences without processing it. Throughout the pregnancy the fetus absorbs everything that she thinks and feels. With exquisite sensitivity the unborn child picks up signals from the mother that even she may be unaware of. How do we know this? During karmic therapy detailed replays of prenatal episodes routinely occur, often accompanied by moving expressions of mother’s intense emotion. Two problems may arise from this automatic recording process.The first problem results from misunderstanding a maternal rejection of the pregnancy. If circumstances are unfavorable and unsupportive to become a mother, a woman may quite naturally feel reluctant to bear a child. She may hope for a miscarriage or consider an abortion. Also, a mother may not have received the maternal nurturing she needed as a child and may have conscious or unconscious misgivings about trying to give what she never got. This ambivalence may show up as regret or resentment about becoming pregnant. Unfortunately, this maternal negativity toward her pregnancy gets translated by the child into a personal rejection, even though mother hasn’t met the child yet and would react the same way to any pregnancy under those circumstances. This false conclusion probably arises later on, in childhood after a sense of a separate self has developed, and is experienced as a pervasive feeling of being unwanted by mother. Because mother is the world to an unborn baby, the child may also feel like a reject in the world at large. Without Karmic Therapy, this deeply rooted confusion about being wanted and loved leads to major self esteem problems, even to pervasive and lifelong self rejection. Secondly, the child in the womb, unable to discern a difference between self and mother, takes on all of mother’s beliefs and feelings as if they were originating in the self. If mother is depressed, the fetus will have lingering depressive attitudes and feelings that may last a lifetime. Thus, spending nine months in the womb of a depressed mother may lead to chronic depression that is resistant to treatment because we are working with the wrong patient, and much too late. It was really mother that needed care long ago. After years of conventional therapy we might well wonder why we are still trapped in limiting beliefs. If these scripts originated prior to birth, it is one function of Karmic Therapy to open our awareness to this repository of prenatal conditioning and allow us to release the charge of negative emotion that has prevented us from living a free and empowered life.
Topics: Karmic Therapy, Prenatal Memory |
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