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The Impact of Mother’s Feelings while Giving Birth
By Stephen Proskauer MD | September 29, 2009
If the mother is emotionally upset during birth, the infant can be deeply affected even if the physical process of birth is natural and uncomplicated. Jack, a young man who volunteered for a demonstration session during a workshop, held his face and body habitually rigid and tense. In the first part of the session, Jack relived a medically easy delivery. But when Jack reviewed the birth as his mother had experienced it, he thrashed and groaned agonizingly through the labor, his body knotting and contorting with terrible tension.
Jack’s birth pangs were so realistic that many women at this demonstration who had given birth themselves were in tears. The words Jack uttered as he writhed were his mother’s fearful thoughts that he would come out stillborn like her last baby or that she herself would die in childbirth as her sister had, just a month before. Once Jack had expressed and released his mother’s terror, the rigidity in his face and body spontaneously relaxed and had not returned at follow-up six months later.
This post is from the book
Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche
Chapter 2 The Wheel of Birth and Death
Topics: Birth, Consciousness, Karmic Therapy, Pain Body, Physical Body, Prenatal Memory |