Homeopathic Emergency Room
I'm sure many of you have seen this before. I actually saw it for the first time a few years ago. It is ONE of the FUNNIEST videos I've seen. I can watch it over and over and still laugh EVERY time. I hope this makes you laugh today as well. :)
I'm posting this right after my post yesterday just to show some of the reality of trying to treat acute cases with just alternative methods. Don't get me wrong, I most definitely think herbal remedies and nutrition can, at times, help heal acute conditions but in severe cases medical help is usually BEST!
I think the homeopathic lagar is HYSTERICAL! Hope you have a GOOD laugh today and it carries you throughout the rest of your day!
In Peace,
Rachel
Medical Therapy at its BEST!
Last night was VERY exciting at the Talley home. My mother in law (Louise) decided, yet again, that she needed to pull weeds and water our front garden area. In the process of doing so, she slipped on a step, fell backwards hard onto the cement below and proceeded to yell out in excruciating pain. We ran out to her only to find that her pain was severe enough that we couldn't move her.
I called 911 and requested an ambulance. They arrived shortly thereafter and took about a half an hour or more to reposition Louise, administer morphine, strap her down to the hard plastic board and then lift and get her in the ambulance. In the video below, you'll see Chris describing what happened and showing exactly where she fell.
Once at the hospital, they did x-rays only to find that she did, in fact, crack her hip bone. She is going in for surgery today and will, most likely, end up with a prosthetic hip. She's a trooper and it was OBVIOUS that she was in large amounts of pain which was alleviated with the help of the paramedics.
I only post this today to make a point. I am NOT a fan of medical practices in normal, healthy, low risk women when it comes to birth. Nor am I a fan of medical interventions when it comes to basic, overall health and well being of the human system as a whole. Because I feel so passionate about medical routines and protocols being questioned in regards to birth and because I use alternative therapies and methods for healing my family, I have found that others believe I am somehow against medical care in any format. This is ABSOLUTELY false.
The medical profession, along with very gifted doctors and nurses, have saved my life on more than one occasion. I would not be here without their help, assistance, care and compassion. I absolutely feel that the advances we have made in the realm of modern technology are PHENOMENAL! And truly a blessing for human kind.
What I am finding though is a polarity between the medical and alternative professions. In my opinion, alternative health care and medical health care truly are 2 separate entities. There are MANY aspects where medical care is out of control, controlling, extreme, unnecessary, and even sometimes....down right hurtful and abusive.
But on the other end of the spectrum is alternative methods of healing that are also extreme, and though I adore alternative methods for healing, that it is not always the answer. Alternative therapies can have their limitations even though, in the grand scheme, when it comes to the day in, day out illness, sickness and disease....alternative therapies greatly exceeds the medical advances for healing.
Now where the medical profession really makes HUGE differences and positive changes, as I see it, is in acute care. Like what happened to Louise last night. The ambulance showed up, completely took care of her, helped to stabilize and comfort her and now are helping to fix aspects of her physical self that might not ever heal on their own. Or if they do heal....they could potentially heal in a damaged state.
Because I see birth as a normal bodily, physiological function....along with the majority of births in our country, the medical profession really has no business messing with the process of birth like they do. When it comes to high risk women, who carry complications and problems during pregnancy and birth, THANK GOD for the medical advances that can save the life of Mom and baby.
For whatever reason, we have decided to hold onto the idea that if some Moms and babies need help, then we should go ahead and make that ALL women DO need medical help in their pregnancy and birth. I disagree with the notion. In fact, I'll go so far to say that many of the routine hospital protocols performed on Moms and babies are intrusive, ineffective, emotionally traumatic, and psychologically damaging.
My hope and prayer is that we can create a team between alternative therapies and medical therapies. That we can acknowledge each others strengths and weaknesses in our personal fields and be open and even accepting of each others ideas. If there is a better way for Moms, Dads, families and communities to gain greater health and well being, why aren't all of us looking into what modalities can put into full practice for that to take place?
I believe its time to move past the pride, past the ignorance of one another's beliefs and ideals, and open our hearts to each other. Its time to deeply listen to the insights of ANYONE working in the health care world, in any regard, and truly be receptive to what is being said....by BOTH sides. Its time that if there is a healthier, happier and more peaceful way to live....that we all...TOGETHER, work toward the creation of this by setting aside our prejudice, our labels, our diagnoses and our blames. Its time that we ALL join hands and strive to move forward with one goal in mind....a more PEACEFUL, LOVING, COMPASSIONATE world to live in.
How grateful I am for ALL the alternative therapies that have helped to heal me and my family. How grateful I am and forever will be for ALL the medical advances, along with the doctors, nurses and medical staff, that helped to save my life and care for me and my well being. How grateful I am that I get to intuitively decide which path is right for me at any given moment. How grateful I am that I get to respect and honor others choices for their own personal health care!
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| This is soon after the paramedics arrived. They are putting her on the stretcher. |
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| The ambulance with all the bells and whistles in our little tiny cul-de-sac. |
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| The HUMONGOUS fire truck! Oh and our dirty windows...LOL! |
TIPS FOR A HAPPY HOSPITAL BIRTH EXPERIENCE
A Gift From The Heart
How WONDERFUL to live in a world where women are striving to helpwomen around the world to have successful and safe birth experience. About a year ago, a local midwife passed away from a car accident. It was a very sad event for all us within the birth community.
But...for those who felt the loss of Briana Blackwelder can feel the HOPE and JOY of the gift she left behind that is now helping other women across the world. Thanks to her LOVING midwifery partner, Cathy, Briana will hold a space of healing and health for many women.
I'd make sure to pull out your kleenex before watching this video. Hopefully this gift will impact you all as powerfully as it impacted me. My prayer and hope is that ALL of us can find the space within ourselves to give to others a part of ourselves to make birth a BETTER and even BLISSFUL experience for all involved.
Hope everyone has a HAPPY weekend. I will have a FUN video on Monday about how to create a more PEACEFUL natural hospital birth experience, so check back! :)
In Peace,
Rachel
New Study: Circumsized Men Unable to Process Emotions
I'd like to start today by saying that in NO WAY do I mean offense or hurt to anyone by what I say below. Circumcision is a sensitive subject and myonly purpose in writing about it is my belief in its scarring and damaging effects on boys. I see circumcision as absolutely unnecessary and severely traumatic and hope those who read this will be open to my words without judgment or guile.
With the above being said, I've decided I'm gonna say it how I see it. Circumcisionis NOTHING LESS than sexual mutilation. Below is a link to a study done last year on the emotional effects of circumcision. I absolutely believe that every man who has been circumcised carries the same emotional energy of someonewho has been sexually abused.
NowI know there are probably 100's of men who would disagree with my opinion. But I have now met enough men who are actually on the other end of this spectrum who wholeheartedly feel that their circumcision effected them above and beyond most any other traumatic event in their lives.
Since current clinical research is showing that newborns are truly feeling, sensational and understanding beings....how can we expect anything less than severe trauma to be experienced by the infant being circumcised? I have talked with many women who have expressed their own pain after watching their own son being circumcised. The screaming sounds that their child made during the circumcision process seems to be forever locked in the minds. In fact, I have family members who, without a full understanding of the effects of circumcision and because of the pain they saw in the son during the process, proceeded to circumcise their first son only to go on to leave their next sons intact.
Circumcision DOES have life long effects as shown in the study below. It FOREVER changes men and their perception of the world. Circumcision instils levels of anger and rage within that infant that is so unrelenting that, I believe, these same men go on to create wars and contentions within societies. We are one of the only mammals who will attack and actuallykill its own species.
I believe boys who are circumcised have a large volume of distrust of people around them. After being circumcised, these men struggle to trust the world and people around them. Circumcision imprints on the infant that the world is unsafe and even a fearful place. The results are a scarred psyches that feels it will be under attack at any moment.
Just because a man doesn't remember his circumcision or doesn't agree with anything I'm saying....doesn't mean its not happening or that its not reality. Just like a women who might have been horribly raped doesn't remember the experience, a man being circumcised can have equal amounts of trauma and not remember the inner pain he carries because of it.
Our systems are quite GIVING when it comes to how they deal with trauma. Nature does not want us to suffer so instead it gifts us with the ability to"check out" during a traumatic experience. We are able to disassociate ourselves from ourselves in order to survive the experience. At the moment, this disassociation helps the system to cope with the experience and come out on the other end able to still function in our world. But at what cost?
We do live in a world where the majority of us do not understand what a true, deep connection with those we love really feels like. We've lost the ability to even desire this connection and to how to even open ourselves up to it. As human beings, we all dearly LONG for connection and the ONLY reason we might not feel that this is our deepest desire is because we've decided to connect only means emotional, psychological or even physical pain.
I am writing this post with the hopes that we all can research circumcision BEFORE we deliver our boys. That we can all search deep inside ourselves to understand the effects this practice has on ourselves, our families and, most importantly, future generations. The effects of circumcision, I believe, have changed and will keep changing our planet as a whole if we don'tlook at the real reasons we're performing such a horrendous ritual. As long as circumcision is considered a normal, routine practice, we will have to deal with the life long, devastating effects of anger, rage and sadness that then spill out onto all human kind.
I believe that if a man is willing to face the pain he carries, in regards to his circumcision, he can move past the pain and truly relearn to trust humanityagain. He is able to release the anger and rage and find within himself a sense of peace and serenity that he has been missing his wholelife.
Aman who strives to heal his circumcision wounding will find he desires forconnection more and understands what that looks like. He is willing andwanting to find his own sensitive side and help to create peace within himself and the world around him. The man who finds the strength to face thispain will then open himself up to helping other men find answers for their healing. As each man helps to heal himself, these steps would then go onto change the whole of human kind.
I believe wars would end. Men would find ways and means of resolving conflicts tranquilly. They would strive to let themselves feel the fullrange of emotions inside of them instead of believing in a false sense safety through emotional suppression. How we treat each other, how we talk toeach other, how we care for each other.....would ALL find a new ground forhealing and wholeness. We would see the new world in a new light where peace, love and connection were imbedded in all of us and we felt free and safe to thoroughly share ourselves with our earthly brothers and sisters.
As mother, its VITALLY important that we take the opportunity to research and integrate within ourselves the life long ramifications of circumcision. We are the only mammalian species who hands their young over to others to behurt and defiled. Any other mammal would rip your eyes out if you handled, treated and physically scarred their infants like we do ours. Circumcision is NOT the only traumatic event that takes place at birth but it is DEFINITELY one with the biggest physical, psychological and emotional negative effects.
I have TONS more I could say on circumcision but I will stop here. I also have several videos I could post but I will save the rest for anothertime.
Below is a video from my FAVORITE birth movie..."Birth As We KnowIt." Here Elena is discussing the harsh effects ofcircumcision. If you find that you have a hard time watching this video, I would hope you would ask yourself why. I have grown men who will walkout of my childbirth classes when I show a video of circumcision. Why? I believe its because it stimulates their own circumcision trauma so fully that it is still to painful to let themselves be present in that pain....even though it is no longer happening to them.
Please watch in the video how they handle and touch the penis. You women out there....imagine if someone handled and cut our clitoris like this. Its abhorrent to think of someone cutting off our clitoris but that practice is still happening in our world today. There is NO difference between circumcision and clitoris removal.
Also, listen closely to the infant's cries. I have NEVER heard one of my children cryin this manner. Let yourself really FEEL how watching this video makesyou feel. You'll find its quite hard to stay present while even watching this video.
I hope you will check back soon. I will post more videos and discuss more aboutcircumcision.
In Peace,
Rachel
Researchers find circumcised men have higher alexithymia scores than intact men. Alexithymia is the inability to process emotions.
The International Journal of Men's Health has published the first study of its kind to look at the link between the early trauma of circumcision and the personality trait disorder alexithymia. The study, by Dan Bollinger and Robert S. Van Howe, M.D., M.S., FAAP, found that circumcised men are 60% more likely to suffer from alexithymia, the inability to process emotions.
People suffering from alexithymia have difficulty identifying and expressing their emotions. This translates into not being able to empathize with others. Sufferers of severe alexithymia are so removed from their feelings that they view themselves as being robots. If acquired at an early age, such as from infant circumcision, it might limit access to language and impede the socialization process that begins early in life. Moderate to high alexithymia can interfere with personal relationships and hinder psychotherapy. Impulsive behavior is a key symptom of alexithymia, and impulsivity is a precursor to violence.
The idea for the investigation came when the authors noticed that American men (for whom circumcision is likely) had higher alexithymia scores than European men (for whom circumcision is unlikely), and that European men had about the same scores as European and American women.
The study surveyed 300 circumcised and intact men using the standardized Toronto Twenty-Item Alexithymia Scale checklist. Circumcised men had higher scores across the board and a greater proportion of circumcised men had higher scores than intact men.
A common reason fathers give for deciding to circumcise their son is so they will "look alike," but these authors speculate that perhaps a subconscious motivation is so that they will "feel alike," in other words as equally distant and emotionally unavailable as themselves. It was beyond this study's design to test for this, and yet the comments received from circumcised participants speak to a vast psychic wounding, which, if unresolved, might lead to an unconscious desire to repeat the trauma upon others.
The authors recommend that more research be conducted on this topic, but in the meantime, parents considering circumcising their infant son should be informed that circumcision might put their son at risk for alexithymia, including difficulty identifying and expressing his feelings, and for impulsive behavior. Psychologists counseling alexithymic patients should investigate the patient's childhood and neonatal history for possible traumatic events, including circumcision.
If this pattern of men suffering from circumcision-related trauma holds true for the general populace, this would constitute a significant mental health problem and, considering that three-fourths of the U.S. male population is circumcised, a public health problem, too.
Alexithymia is from ancient Greek meaning, "having no words for feelings." It was coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973 to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions. Alexithymia tends to be persistent and chronic; it doesn't diminish with time. This is unlike other trauma-based reactions, like post-traumatic stress disorder, which typically dissipate soon after the trauma.
Source: Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation
Local Farm Sharing The Wealth
I thought this was an AMAZING video and SUPER exciting for those of us who live here in Utah County. I'm planning on going and visiting the farm sometime soon. I have a friend who has already been involved in their shares and is really LOVING it!
If you live close by and want to stop in, I say DO IT! Or if you aren't able to grow your own garden at your house, go help plant at their location. I'm a HUGE proponent of all thing sustainable and growing your food has HUGE benefits for you and your family. Also, your helping to grow a community effort for healthier living for all involved. Its most DEFINITELY what we need.
Oh, and for your pregnant mama's out there....eating locally grown food from remineralized soil boosts the health of your little one as well. When eating for two, highly nutritive foods are a MUST! Your infant in utero will take what it needs and leave you depleted, if you are not making sure to eat ORGANIC and local produce.
Like I've said in other posts, indigenous women would prepare for pregnancy by building their immunity and health by eating restoring, rejuvenating foods. These foods would be EXTREMELY high in viable nutrients so that, once she's pregnant, they help to feed the baby with health for LIFE!
Once a fruit or vegetable is harvested, it IMMEDIATELY starts losing vital vitamins and minerals. You can imagine when our food is being shipped to us from somewhere across the nation, it can takes days...even weeks sometimes...before its on your table.
To prevent spoilage they add pesticides, fungicides, herbicide etc. and all kinds of chemicals to halt the degradation process. They will radiate your food as well to slow the decay. All of these unnatural processes kill many needed vitamins and minerals. Once that denatured, adulterated food is eaten it actually mutates and KILLS healthy cells within YOUR body causing all kinds of sickness and disease.
When purchasing something local or even better growing it yourself, the nutrient content....the vitamins and minerals in your food are FRESH, VIBRANT and FULLY AVAILABLE for your system to assimilate and absorb. Utilizing local farmers and companies that offer sustainable and life giving products supports YOU and your local community as a whole. The TRUTH is where your money goes is what then grows in your community. Notice all the McDonald's and WalMarts around here. Imagine if we all STOPPED shopping there and only bought what was produced locally. I believe these kinds of shifts say what is important to us and will help to build communities who support our ideologies and desires for ourselves and our families.
Below is a video describing what a CSA is, how to find local organic farmers and where to find them. Its important to add that what you eat has a HUGE impact on your health. Make no mistake..... You are either fully LIVING or slowly dying just by what you put in your mouth each and everyday. Truthfully, I am a walking miracle because of how many times my healthy diet has saved my life. You can see this man is as well.
Raw, fresh organic, LOCAL foods heals not only you and your body but heals the community and our nation. It brings people together and promotes the local economy, along with helping to stimulate people to make healthy lifestyle choices. Choices that truly effect each other in the grand scheme of it all.
Changing your diet, growing your own food, spending your money at local markets, being conscious of Mother Earth and taking proper care of her makes a HUGE difference for all of us. Healthy living is truly right at your door. Ecstatic states of LIVING and feeling HAPPY can happen for you too! Don't be AFRAID to make the change NOW! You won't regret it. Even more importantly....you future children will THANK YOU for providing greater health for them and a more peaceful, giving world that they can enjoy being a part of.
In Peace,
Rachel
Juicing For Health & Fertility
I believe what we put in our mouths BEFORE pregnancy is VITAL to the health and nutrition of our future children. If you saw my post "Conscious Conception to Birth-Visualized & Realized", you would have watched the "Cellular Echoes" video where Bruce Lipton discusses how the DNA of the cell structures for the egg and the sperm is IMPRINTING and SET two months PRIOR to conception. This means that how well your taking care of yourself months BEFORE conception defines the health of your future baby. Not what you were eating just the month before.
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| Our GROOVY green 1970's Champions Juicer-Still runs like a CHAMP! |
Below are 3 videos of our morning juice here in our house. Please forgive us for the blurriness of some of the videos. We just recently bought this camera and are still learning how to use it. We're hoping our WONDERFUL audience (you guys) will be patient with us as we learn the camera. :)
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| Apples, celery, carrots, beets, lemons and ginger= DELICIOUS! |
As I state in the video below, one of the ingredients we normally put into our morning juice is beets. Beets are GREAT before conception because they help to increase fertility by increasing good estrogen and removing bad estrogen. Here is David Wolfe describing it quite well. There is a part 2 to this video you can find on You Tube....if your interested.
Getting our hormones in proper balance is good for us and GREAT to promote conception. The majority of us eat VERY poor diets. Poor in nutrients, poor in enzymes, poor in pretty much everything. Aside from the fact that our food carries poor nutrient content, on top of it we are putting all kinds of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc....and spraying these products on our foods. You can read about what I consider the HEALTHIEST diet on my Raw Foods page.
Once we denature something SO much from its natural form, it becomes almost impossible for our bodies to assimilate and absorb our food properly. This might be beneficial for the case of so many poisons being on our foods but when it comes to our health, without proper nutrient absorption and consistent waste excretion we are in a WORLD of HURT. Juicing creates EXTREMELY nutrient dense food matter AND help to expel and eliminate unwanted toxins within our bodies.
How well your digestive system works SETS the stage for your overall physical health and well being. Dr. Christopher teaches their truly is ONLY one disease. Its CONSTIPATION! I completely agree. Without our digestive system being truly clean and fine tuned, we will NEVER have the physical vitality we are looking for.
I absolutely ADORE my morning/afternoon juice. I feel GREAT after drinking it. Its FULL of nutrient, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants....etc. Juicing is an EXCELLENT way to get loads of nutrients in without having to utilize much of the bodies needed energy. With the extra energy, you can take care of needed tasks throughout the day without feeling tired or weighed down in anyway.
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| Mabel and Pratt getting in on the Juicing Action! |
So I hope you enjoy our little videos about juicing. This is just one way I'm preparing to get pregnant here in the next few months. I will be posting LOTS more on how to increase fertility and really get your body ready to create and care for another human life. Juicing is just ONE of many ways to help feed your body with nutrient rich foods that aid in cleansing, rejuvenation and rebuilding of the body.
Its very important that your body is in IDEAL health so no nutrient depletion happens for you while your pregnant. Pregnancy and breastfeeding can take a toll on your health. When feeding another life, its whats inside YOU that is being withdrawn from your system for you little one. The healthier you are and the better care your taking of yourself will make a HUGE difference with how you feel before, during and after your pregnancy and truthfully, can effect your life long health.
In Peace,
Rachel
P.S. As I state in the video below, I'm a HUGE proponent of organic food. I am MUCH more afraid of chemicals than I am germs. I believe all the chemicals on our foods can actually work AGAINST fertility. Miscarriages seem to be at an all time high and I believe all the unnatural, synthetic byproducts being placed on and inside our foods are most DEFINITELY part of the problem. I will post more on that later. I just wanted to emphasize the need for organic, HIGHLY nutritive foods to help increase fertility. Non organic foods could potentially only do the opposite.
Hemp: The Cure for all Ills
So because I truly LOVE all things healing, especially when it comes to healing through the gifts from Mother Earth, I had to post this today. A friend of mine sent it my way knowing I'm always in AWE at the way foods can truly cure most any physical or even emotional ailment.
Its unfortunate that hemp gets a bad wrap when spoken of as a "drug" in our society. Over the past few years, I have read more and more articles on the POSITIVE benefits of hemp and its PHENOMENAL healing qualities. The information below is just one of many articles I've read about how hemp is curing all KINDS of things. From cancer to ulcers to open wounds!
I'm still at a complete loss as to why, if we are finding so many WONDERFUL results with this plant, that its use isn't being promoted and spread nationwide. I'm not sure as to why we feel the need to remain in such FEAR about this plant. It truly EXCITES me to think that people are striving to spread the word about its use for rebuilding, rejuvenating and restoring the body back to homeostasis.
Its fascinating to realize that the bulk of healing benefits that the plant provides come through maintaining its raw, fresh state instead of heating it. When heated, as stated below, you get far less of the medicinal gifts the plants gives than when ingested in its unheated state. This, of course, makes TOTAL sense to me since I believe all things left in their raw, fresh, organic state are ALWAYS a healthier way rather than heating it.
Read the article below for more details on the subject. Also, I have posted 2 videos on the healing benefits of hemp both in juicing the plant and creating "hemp oil." AMAZING results are being seen with both forms of usage. Let's all do what we can to move past our own fears and beliefs and really open our HEARTS to the results and reality of things. Hemp is TRULY a gift from Mother Earth to aid our human race in many ways. Not only in physical healing but in helping to keep Mother Earth healthy by its use in sustainability products as well. It can be used for MANY, MANY beautiful things and ask that all of us educate ourselves more on the matter and then do what we can to make its use legal for all who may need it for their overall health and well being.
In Peace,
Rachel
P.S. At the end of the article are 2 other links that all of you should read! One article on the life saving benefits of hemp and the other on how the chemical structure of hemp mimic our own chemical brain structures. VERY fascinating stuff if you ask me!
Juicing cannabis miraculously saves lives after physicians declare the battle lost
Meet Amber
At two years old, she was diagnosed with terminal brain tumours. Her mother was told that with treatment, Amber had a 10 percentchance of survival. After surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the tumours were still spreading. Her parents were advised to take their child home, make her comfortable, and prepare for the inevitable. A month later, her parents reported a startling change. The tumours had decreased in size and number. The family had been juicing cannabis leaves and feeding their baby a few ounces of the juice each day.
Up in smoke
A typical first reaction is to associate marijuana consumption with its psychoactive effects. However, THC only becomes psychoactive when heated, like when traditionally smoked or cooked. When used raw, cannabis isn't psychoactive. The marijuana's abilities as a painkiller are generally perceived to be the result of its psychoactivity - so much so that the intensity of a plant's psychoactive effects is often used as a gauge of its medical potency. Contrary to intuition, this isn't true! The medical properties of marijuana are actually destroyed when heated or aged, as it becomes psychoactive. Heating converts 600mg of non-psychoactive THC acid into 10mg of psychoactive THC. Here's where the exchange for medical effects occurs. While the 10mg retain some medicinal effects, there is only a fraction of the THC left. In simplified terms, in the raw plant, THC acid isn't psychoactive, but acts as a very powerful medicine, up to 400 times more powerful than when smoked.
Healthful communication
Scientific American, in 2004, published an article called "The Brain's Own Marijuana", in which they asserted that the brain releases chemicals that are structurally and functionally similar to cannabinoids - the reactive property in marijuana. THC is the cannabinoid that people are most familiar with, but this is only one of 80. In normal synaptic nerve function, the signals are uni-directional, and the receiver forwards the signal, but never notifies the sender that the message has been received. Cannabinoids maintain communication with the original transmitter so that it is aware that the message has been received and is being worked on. For example, if a neuron sends a pain signal, normally it would just keep sending the message until the message becomes false. The cannabinoids turn every cell into a manager with increased oversight.
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Raw Michelle is a natural health blogger and researcher, sharing her passions with others, using the Internet as her medium. She discusses topics in a straight forward way in hopes to help people from all walks of life achieve optimal health and well-being. She has authored and published hundreds of articles on topics such as the raw food diet and green living in general. In 2010, Michelle created RawFoodHealthWatch.com, to share with people her approach to the raw food diet and detoxification.
Mom Catches Her Own Baby During Cesarean Delivery
Cesarean sections are the MOST common surgery performed in the world. There does seem to be quite a bit happening in the world of cesarean sections right now. I'm not saying that because I'm excited in any way about their overuse. But it seems that some doctors and hospitals are making more of an effort to create an environment where Moms, Dads and babies can bond immediately after birth. This is an effort I am ECSTATIC about and hope others will get on board as well and pass all this wonderful information along.
I'm not a fan, in the least, where our c-section rate is in America. 33% is WAY to high a number. After we reach about 15% in c-sections rates, we stop seeing mortality rates change which means just because we're doing more of them doesn't mean we're saving more lives. I do recognize though that there is a time and a place for them. Absolutely! How WONDERFUL it is that c-sections CAN and DO save lives.
On top of that, c-sections are safer than they've ever been. Now, there is a down side to that. That being that women are feeling more comfortable requesting a c-section (because of fear of birth really) believing that because its safer many of the risks won't happen to them. But, unfortunately they still do.
Below is an EXCELLENT video I show in my childbirth classes. Of course, the changes that are taking place to help bonding with families during a c-section are happening in the UK but my hope is that this can also happen in the United States. I even thought about downloading this video and passing it along to our local doctors here with the hopes they might investigate a more natural approach to c-sections.
My hope is that an awareness of how we're treating Moms and babies during c-sections will open for those performing the c-sections. My hope is doctors/nurses/hospital staff will recognize and apply in action the importance of emotional stability and clarity ESPECIALLY for the woman being given the c-section.
I remember when I spent a month in the ICU, I was IMMENSELY grateful for the doctors/nurses who compassionately explained to me what test they were doing BEFORE they did. I think its easy to forget, in our society, that our babies are living, feeling, sensational beings who are entering this world hoping and expecting to be LOVED in a gentle way. To treat them otherwise is nothing less than abuse. And this abuse imprints on their brains and their systems as LOVE. They then spend the rest of their lives believing that abuse equates to love.
All of the withdrawing our babies from their mothers and then returning them only after tormenting them is TRAUMATIC for both Mom and baby! It instills LIFE LONG pain and wounding that can take YEARS to work through.
I understand that there are times when a c-section is very needed but I believe it doesn't have to be so harsh and cruel. That we can be tender, gentle and kind. Its IMPORTANT that we all REMEMBER that ANY test on baby can be done RIGHT in the mother's arms. There is NO need to take babies away from Mama's.
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| Chris skin to skin RIGHT after birth with Mabel |
Even when resuscitating a baby, you can leave baby right next to Mom. In fact, keeping Mom close by with the umbilical cord intact can stimulate a quicker response from baby to breathe. Babies actually regulate themselves when they are skin to skin with their mothers.
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| Mabel resting skin to skin with Daddy |
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| Dean holding Mabel skin to skin |
This is the information as stated in the Natural Cesarean video below. I appreciate how well he/she states the importance of creating immediate bonding between Mom and baby.
"Although much effort has gone into promoting early skin-to-skin contact and parental involvement at vaginal birth, caesarean birth remains entrenched in surgical and resuscitative rituals, which delay parental contact, impair maternal satisfaction and reduce breastfeeding. We describe a 'natural' approach that mimics the situation at vaginal birth by allowing (i) the parents to watch the birth of their child as active participants (ii) slow delivery with physiological autoresuscitation and (iii) the baby to be transferred directly onto the mother's chest for early skin-to-skin. Studies are required into methods of reforming caesarean section, the most common operation worldwide."
HERE is a link to a very informative transcript where a doctor named James Prescott, Ph.D. called "The Origins of Love and Violence and the Developing Human Brain." James is discussing the effects of withdrawing an infant monkey from its mother immediately after birth. It does have LONG term effects. I recommend you go and read the whole transcript.
"We often miss the impact fear and anxiety have on human development. Fear has been used by our religious systems for centuries to control pleasure. Today the medical and scientific community use fear very effectively to keep woman, her pregnancy and birth under their control. We force them to do all sorts of unnatural things.
Having her lay flat on her back during delivery, for example. No other mammal gives birth on its back. We know that premature cutting of the umbilical cord is damaging and the benefits of placing the infant to the breast of the mother right away, and of maintaining close physical body contact.
But the medical profession routinely intervenes and takes the baby away from the mother. Deny direct contact with the mother and we set the stage for fear, anger and rage right at the start. No other mammal separates the newborn from its mother at birth."
Isn’t this what Harlow did back in the 50’s - he separated mothers and infant monkeys at birth with devastating consequences?
"We need to begin before Harlow. Rene Spitz, John Bowlby, and Wayne Dennis noticed that many children reared in orphanages or institutions had arrested emotional, social and intellectual development. Bowlby found a link between these early separation experiences and later delinquency—findings that my cross-cultural studies, which we will go into later, supported.
Spitz noticed that these many of these institutionalized infants, who had the best medical and physical care but no “mother love”— nobody touched, held or hugged them, had depressive and autistic-like behaviors. Spitz called this Marasmus—sickness and death due to depression associated with loss of mother love. With deprivation of physical affection and body contact, which is the biology of love, these infants and children withdrew into their own world and in extreme cases, they gave up and died."
HERE is a link to an article called "10 Tips for Avoiding a First Time Cesarean." Her tips are right on and very helpful to avoid a c-section. You should find it very helpful to aid you on your journey of creating a BLISSFUL birth experience.
Just as we strive to make birth, in and of itself, more compassionate for all involved....I believe c-sections should be no different. Even in the rush and anxiety with a baby in distress, we can open ourselves to a tenderness that is VERY needed for the survival of the life that is striving to be saved.
My prayer is that we not forget who we REALLY are as human beings. That we are truly deeply feeling and connected people who LONG for soft touch, warm skin and arms ready to envelope and LOVE us at any moment. As we remember this, I believe we can change ourselves to help create a more peaceful, giving, loving world.
In Peace,
Rachel
Delivered safely by caesarean with his mother's hands
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Assisted caesarean: Naomi Chapman just seconds after using her own hands to give birth to her son, Thomas.
Photo: Eamonn Mcnulty
April 15, 2007
How I helped deliver my baby boy
Fat is NOT Where Its At-Medicating Our Unborn Babies for Obesity
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| 25 weeks pregnant with Mabel, our 5th child |
I recently purchased and watched a movie called..."Simply Raw-Reversing Diabetes in 30 days." They took 7 people, who has moderate to severe diabetes and had been on insulin for years, to a raw food retreat in Arizona where each person ate only a 100% raw foods diet for 30 days. Within 2 weeks, all but 1 person is COMPLETELY off their insulin. Within a month, the 1 person that never fully got off his insulin, had lowered the amount he was using by more than half. This really is a MUST SEE movie.
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| I'm in the brown jacket with the short hair. I'm about 15 lbs. overweight here. |
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| This is after I had 2 kids. Notice I've put on more weight |
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| The day before I delivered out 1st son, Dean |
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| Chris and I on our wedding day |
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| Just barely pregnant with our 2nd. The edema isn't so severe yet. |
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| Notice the swollen ankles and feet. Ouch! |
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| Just a month or so before delivery. Notice the swollen neck and face |
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| Not sure why I had such a BAD haircut! |
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| A few month before getting pregnant with our 3rd daughter, Millie |
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| Millie's Blessing Day-a month after delivery |
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| My 2 youngest, Pratt and Mabel, helping to make our morning juice |
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| 2 weeks before delivery with our 5th child, Mabel |
I still got my usual morning sickness but it wasn't near as bad as it had been with my other kids. It was over sooner than with my other children. Plus, I was able to still exercise some during that time where in my last pregnancy, I usually took the first 3 months off from exercising because I feel so gross.
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| 1 week before delivery of our 5th child, Mabel |
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| Beginnings of Active Labor with Mabel |
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| An hour before delivery of Mabel |
There are dozens of free health related movies on Netflix, along with the 100's of blog posts and studies online about health, nutrition, diet and exercise. There really are NO excuses as to why women aren't taking the necessary steps FOR THEIR BABIES to take care of themselves.
Please know, I don't mean to sound harsh here. I just have a POWERFUL belief that women are STRONG! That women are able to make any changes that will benefit them and their babies life long health and well being. That when women choose to find the JOY and BLISS that pregnancy offers, they will do ANYTHING to get it.
We've come to terms with what we think pregnancy is. We share our stories about how awful our pregnancies and birth was and then we BELIEVE these stories enough to create the same in our own lives. We've become complacent in it by not moving forward through exercise and diet to be healthy and happy. I say its time to change that! Its time to let ourselves feel our own POWER to make change. I promise you, you won't regret it! And neither will your baby!
Unborn Babies Treated for Obesity in Womb
Apr 02, 2012
While the researchers argue that they’re trying to protect the future health of children, the trial—the first of its kind in the world—has sparked unease about resorting to drugs during pregnancy for a problem that could be safely treated with diet and exercise. What’s more, if this strategy succeeds, detractors worry the treatment could become widespread within five years and cause tens of thousands of overweight, but otherwise healthy, moms-to-be around the world to want the treatment.
Soaring Rates of “Sumo Babies”
The trial is part of a hotly debated National Health Service trial, launched in an attempt to curb the obesity epidemic, after a 50 percent rise in births of so-called “sumo babies” (newborns weighing more than 11 pounds) during the past four years in the UK. These large babies have double the risk of becoming overweight as adults.
There’s also a growing trend of big babies in the U.S., with a spate of such births recently making headlines. A California newborn tipped the scales at nearly 14 pounds last month and a Texas woman delivered a 16-pound boy in July, CBS News reports. While those babies entered the world by C-section, an astonishingly stoic Iowa woman gave birth to 13-pound, 13-ounce boy in January without surgery or painkillers.
Preventing Large Babies by Reducing Blood Sugar
In the trial, researchers from the University of Edinburgh will give 400 obese expectant moms the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage). The idea is to cut blood sugar levels because obese women are often insulin-resistant, a prediabetic condition in which the body becomes insensitive to the insulin produced by the pancreas. If untreated, this may lead to a rise in blood sugar and ultimately to type 2 diabetes.
Overweight and obese women are at higher risk for developing gestational diabetes, which can result in jumbo babies because the main nutrient that fuels a baby’s growth in the womb is sugar. If untreated, this temporary form of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy can have lasting effects on the baby, as kids born to women with the blood disorder have double the risk for obesity.
Read about the history of type 2 diabetes.
The #1 Pregnancy Danger
As I reported last year, a recent study shows that obesity—not the mom’s age—is the leading threat to a healthy pregnancy. A British study recently reported that maternal obesity has doubled during the past 20 years, with one in six pregnant women in the UK facing extra health hazards, including heart disease and increased risk for birth defects and stillbirths.
In the U.S., where one in three women is obese, there are now medical centers specializing in caring for morbidly obese pregnant women, with such equipment as larger, sturdier operating tables. These patients are more likely to require a C-section, often due to large babies, who can face a wide range of health risks, including nerve damage, broken bones, or even brain damage during a difficult vaginal birth.
Is Diabetes Medication Risky for Obese Moms-to-Be?
"Metformin is a drug already taken by women during pregnancy if they have diabetes, so we know that it is safe," said Dr. Fiona Denison, of the Queen's Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh. One of the most commonly prescribed diabetes drugs in the world, it’s approved in both the U.S. and U.K., and falls into the FDA’s pregnancy category B (not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby).
However, in rare cases, the drug can cause a serious or even fatal condition called lactic acidosis, in which lactic acid builds up in the bloodstream. It is more likely to strike people who have liver or kidney disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration or a severe infection. Less serious metformin side effects include headache, muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, and belly pain.
What’s the Safest Way to Prevent Obesity in Babies?
While it may be tempting for women who are already overweight to turn couch potato as their baby bump starts expanding, a recent study shows that regular, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise during pregnancy can modestly reduce the birth weight of a baby—without medication.
In the study, researches randomly placed 84 first-time expectant mothers in one of two groups. One group worked out five times a week in 40-minute sessions on a stationary bike; the other group did not exercise at all. The babies of the women who exercised were on average 5 ounces lighter. "Given that large birth size is associated with an increased risk of obesity, a modest reduction in birth weight may have long-term health benefits for offspring by lowering this risk in later life," said the study's authors.
Pumping up fiber intake also helps reduce risk for gestational diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care. This pregnancy complication was rarest among women who ate an average of 26 grams of fiber daily. That’s because high-fiber foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are absorbed slowly, helping keep blood sugar on an even keel during pregnancy.
Link to the article above is...HERE!
What Easter is REALLY All About-Candy, Toys & MONEY
So we had a SUPER time this weekend visiting our good friends in California. The weather was 90 degrees. The sun was SHINING! And our friends have an AWESOME swimming pool. Since we recently bought a new camera, Chris has been trying it out. He's been filming minute segments at a time...not sure why. But here's some of the FUN stuff we did for Easter!
Below is the video where I'm actually walking to the restroom and Chris asks me what I'm doing. A little awkward but I thought I'd post it anyway.
In this next video, we have the kids describing what they plan on doing for their Easter egg hunt. The night before I was SO tired (yes, from doing absolutely NOTHING) that I couldn't get up the strength to go place the Easter eggs out. Luckily, Lupita and Joanne LOVE me enough that they did it. Thanks GUYS!
Now the hunt is ON! Remember only 14 eggs per child. I noticed in some of the other videos that the kids are shaking the eggs to see if they have money in them or not. If they don't, they just throw them back down. Listen for little Shane announce that she found an egg with money inside it. I'm now wracking my brain as to why we didn't think of this money idea LONG ago! Obviously its a HIT!
Here we have Mabel counting her money (which you see her do again in the video underneath this one) to see if she's rich or not. In the next 2 videos, she's either so ENTHRALLED with her loads of money that she can't even answer a question OR she snarling at the people coming to talk to her about her money. So the question still remains....should we be afraid of the ugly faces in regards to the money?
Here we have ALL the kids counting their money and their eggs. Sophia comments that she has 16 eggs but remember the rule...only 14 eggs so her brother, Gabriel, quickly chastens her demanding she give him an egg. So FUNNY!
Lastly, we have Mabel and I discussing, yet for the 1000th time, her nail painting. Mabel LOVES to paint her nails and will do it, at least, 5-6 times a day. No joke! I had just gotten done painting her nails and she was waiting for them to dry before she jumped into the pool. It was a LONG wait for both of us!
So this is what the Talley's did for our 2012 Easter. It really was such a WONDERFUL mini vacation! Chris and I pretty much did nothing but sit around, chat with our friends, and completely RELAX. I must give a huge THANK YOU to Joanne and Lupita for putting up with us for 2 days. I sure hope we can come again VERY soon!
In Peace,
Rachel
National Rally for Change in Birth
This looks WONDERFUL! You can read more about what is happening to create this rally at Improving Birth.org
I have signed up to be a rally coordinator. If you live here in Utah and would like to help join as well, SIGN UP! We will need ALL the help we can get to make the needed changes in the world of birth.
Above is a sign that is on the wall in front of one of the busiest local OB/GYN offices. You might even have seen it. It was circulating the internet awhile back. Many, many families were in an UPROAR about it. They felt this doctor was striving to control birthing women and he even had the arrogance to post a sign to show it.
I must be honest, I have absolutely NO problem with this sign. In fact, I'm quite grateful for it. Why do I feel that way, you might ask? Because I believe that there are many doctors who feel the same way as the doctor above but do not put signs in front of their offices warning women of the personal beliefs on birth. Now the doctors who aren't doing that....are the ones to be even more concerned about...in my opinion. They can then say one thing but when they enter the space of birth....actually do another.
No, I'm not worried about the doctor above, in the least! Now I am very concerned about his sign. But my concern is about something else entirely. My concern is that we live in a world where, even when a doctor makes it VERY clear how he sees birth and what he expects from his patients, women are STILL entering his office in the droves asking for his services.
I'm not only concerned by that fact, I'm very disheartened and disappointed that FEAR has pervaded the birth scene to the extend that, as POWERFUL women, we will hand over our births to someone we barely know and who has very blatantly shared with you HIS expectations of your birth experience. That if you want HIM as your provider, you must be willing to hand over all your rights as a birthing women, all in the name of being afraid of birth and/or struggling to believe in yourself and your baby.
Please feel free to let me know if there is some other reason I am missing here, If FEAR really isn't the prevailing factor in our decision making as birthing women. So, if your not afraid of anything going wrong with your birth, then your MOST definitely afraid of the pain. Either way your afraid of something and making choices based upon that fear.
I've said it before and I will say it again OVER and OVER until everyone is so sick of hearing me say it, that just maybe they'll sit down and REALLY think about it. Making ANY choice based on FEAR is most likely NOT the best choice to be making. The reason I say that is because ANY time we make choices based on FEAR, we inevitebly make concessions with what we really want only to feel dissatisfied when all is said and done.
The video above gives me HOPE! It give me hope in women. It gives me hope in babies. It gives me hope in fathers and most importantly, it gives me hope for BIRTH! I hope ALL of you will ACT NOW!
YOU are the ones who create the change! I can sit here all day long rambling about how I think birth should and needs to change. I will even show up for the rally and do my part in whatever regard I can.... But its YOUR voice that makes that difference. Doctors are a business! Yes, I believe doctors care and want to do what's best but they are also a business, striving to make money just like the rest of us.
Any good business will strive to MEET the NEEDS of their customers. I'm still racking my brain trying to figure out what went awry that in the world of birth, it seems to be the opposite. We actually PAY our doctors/midwives to do things we didn't appreciate or like. Even worse, they might have done things that looking back were down right abusive or mutilating. But we still PAY them for it.
If we want our cars fixed, then we take them in with the hopes they will get fixed the way we need them too. If that doesn't happen then we...A. take our car someone where else to get fixed the way we need. B. DON'T pay the person who didn't fix it properly. I'm at a complete loss as to how we got here in the world of birth. How we still pay someone for services that were potentially hurtful for the Mom or the baby.
When we want change to take place, especially when we are currently where we are at in the world of birth, then WE as women and families need to be willing to PEACEFULLY stand up for what are our human rights. Our health care rights! YOU make the change by saying you will have NOTHING LESS than EVERYTHING YOU want in your birth experience.
If you want to have your baby in a hospital but want it the way you want it....then EDUCATE yourself. Take classes. Find out what hospital protocols and routines are. Create a DETAILED birth plan. Talk with your doctor about what your options are and what you are wanting and MAKE SURE they support it. You can change health care providers at ANY TIME in your pregnancy. You are NEVER stuck with the one you have. PLEASE remember that!
If you have a midwife or even having a home birth, again...make sure she provides EVERYTHING you are wanting for your birth. You don't have to make concessions with what you want in ANY setting. Your birth is UP to YOU! No one else. To believe someone else is making decisions for you IS nothing less than giving over your power to someone else. And when we do that....we are NEVER happy! Believe me...I've tried it OVER and OVER again in my life. The only results I've found are where I feel discontent and even frustration over letting someone else dictate what I felt passionate about in the first place.
Lastly, Go and sign up for the national rally above. Do your part to help change birth. To help change mamas, babies and families experiences so that EVERY person giving birth has MANY options laid before her and she CHOOSES what she wants and how she wants it.
Don't forget...in order to STAND UP for birth...first you need to TRUST birth. You need to have FAITH in you, your body and your baby! You need to believe in the inherent safety of birth and start moving forward from that place!
I believe ALL women should desire for change in birth. If they are NOT desiring for change, they have yet to feel the GLORIOUS empowerment, bliss, joy, ecstasy, and LOVE that are present when a women takes FULL responsibility of her pregnancy/birth experience. I'm not saying they weren't satisfied with it. I'm talking about feelings ABOVE and BEYOND satisfaction.
My prayer and hope is that all WOMEN long for a level of connection, understanding and charity that they are currently not be given by their care providers. That they recognize their own strengths, gifts and clarity to educate themselves about birth and make conscious choices based only out of faith and peace.
But I'm not telling you all anything you don't already know I wish for. :)
In Peace,
Rachel
Orgasmic Waterbirth-BE THE CHANGE!
Just another small example of how simple birth TRULY is! Notice the husband gently massaging her back. I think what I LOVE most about this video is how UNAFRAID he seems to be. He seems to be completely at PEACE! There is no tension in his voice. No stress shown in his body language. In fact, it feels as if it is quite the opposite. He's telling her to relax with a very gentle and serene voice.
This is birth! Birth is a normal, natural bodily function that women's bodies are performing EVERY DAY around the world. As I stated in my post...Fear-The Thief of Birth....the stories that we tell and what we believe about birth FULLY integrate itself in our psyche. Our own birth experience tells the FULL picture of how we will feel about birth. How open, receptive and responsive we are to our own intuition and knowing. Or the opposite....how afraid, tense, and contracted we feel about pregnancy and birth.
HERE is a link to an EXCELLENT video where Joseph Chilton Pearce (whom I adore ALL of his work) is discussing fetal life and evolutionary effects that have shifted pregnancy and birth to where we are today. Joseph believes the vast majority of babies being born today are born in a constricted manner. The actual brain structure is smaller which means these babies are being born with brain structures set in survival mode instead of expansion, enlightenment and open hearts and minds!
The FEAR that is present in the mother's psyche and in her system can potentially forever effect the later life choices her infant will make. How he feels about himself, how he see others around him...can he trust them, what food choices he will make (yes, what we eat also has a HUGE effect on the dietary choices of your child later in life), his ability or inability to let love in and give love freely.
All because his limbic imprint is one where the "fight or flight" hormones present throughout pregnancy/birth define how this infant will see his world. His DNA decides what mechanisms in his system are MOST important solely for his survival instead of his setting the stage where his reality is one of serenity, tranquility and unconditional LOVE!
The baby in the video above was born into a space of calm and serenity. This DOES effect how he views his world. What his perceptions are of the people around him. His birth imprints in him his beliefs about the world and how to view it.
Imagine if all of us were born into a space where we heard and felt our father caressing and holding our mothers in a sacred space during labor. If our mothers were instinctively listening to us and their own bodies to understand how to birth us and how we wanted to be born.
Imagine if the first hands to touch us were those of our mother and father. If the first voice we heard was theirs with comforting and soothing words to welcome us into this new dimension. Imagine if no one withdrew us from our parents immediately after birth. If we got to feel only warm, soft skin and suckle to our hearts delight. Imagine if that was the view we had of the world. That we would be cared for, unconditionally loved, if all our needs and wants were met immediately.
Being born bathed in OXYTOCIN...the hormone of love and having its presence STRONGLY imbedded in our systems and that of our parents can make ALL the difference in our birth experience. Oxytocin bonds and CONNECTS us to each other and is at its HIGHEST levels right AFTER the birth of a baby.
A baby born in the description above would only feel his world is full of support, giving, caring, kindness, ecstasy, and PEACE! His held beliefs of the world would then extend OUTWARD in his actions toward himself and others. His self esteem would be high and his love for human kind would be shown as he grows in the choices he makes and the way he chooses to treat others. Imagine a world FULL of people who hold these ideals, beliefs and thinking patterns! Our world would be a VERY different place indeed.
Babies being born now are connected deeply with the ideals, beliefs and thought patterns of their parents. The majority of people I know carry the reality of a dog eat dog world where there are many, many things to fear and even more people not to trust.
We carry these beliefs because it is the way our parents believed. Or at our birth, the trauma we felt, instilled itself into our limbic brain only to rear its ugly head throughout the rest of our lives merely striving to get released and healed. Only after to understand what true LOVE is and reestablish the new reality of a world where people can be trusted and each and everyone of us is doing our BEST and longs for WORLD PEACE!
Even though the video with Joseph Chilton Pearce is 2 hours long, I recommend you take the time to watch it. What he teaches, I believe, can truly change human kind. What he teaches, if we all learn how to apply, can potentially shift the ways our infant/babies learn, grow and succeed with love in this world. I deeply believe that only by our releasing our own negative thought patterns about the world we live in and our reality can we then see the shift in our children.
Children disorders of ALL kinds are at the HIGHEST they ever been. Suicide is at the highest between the ages of 7-19. Why in the world would our children be killing themselves? What pain, heartache, and wounding are they carrying that creates the self loathing and low self esteem issues are children are having today?
It is our obligation to look only at OURSELVES to find the answers. It is our obligation to make the needed changes to stimulate DNA shift and change in our unborn children. Our children are carrying our pain with the hopes they can help heal it. In the end, it is only causing suffering and more pain for humanity as a whole to deal with. Until we take responsibility, it will become difficult to create the JOY and PEACE in the world around us. But especially within the hearts and souls of the future of humanity!
Gandhi sure said it right...."Be the change you want to see in the world." Let us all strive to BE THE CHANGE we strive to see in our children.... with the hopes our changes only make a better world for the next generations to come!
In Peace,
Rachel
Giving Birth by Suzanne Arms
The video below goes RIGHT along with my last post. I LOVE how Suzanne says that birth is THE most SACRED experience a family can have. It is, other than death, the ONLY time where the physical and the spiritual worlds collide for ALL to see. It isn't just one persons experience of the uniting of both worlds, its a COLLECTIVE observation and sensation for ALL who are present.
This is what makes birth what it is! That this level of BLISS can be felt by ALL present, not just the mother, or just the father....but everyone who is asked to share the birth space with the couple or family. I have seen and felt over and over the engagement, shift and even healing that takes place when others are able be part of a new life entering our earthly realm. It does FOREVER change us and in many ways!
You can see in the video...almost feel...the surprise that the woman has who is birthing her baby. She's shocked at her own ability and has to repeat to herself that she has actually DONE IT! She went further inside of herself then she might ever go and then produced an experience that went above and beyond what she thought she was capable of.
One of the most BEAUTIFUL moments in the birth process is when I see THE SHIFT! Now what is...the shift...you ask? The shift is when a women goes from believing she is nothing more than a bystander in the birth experience to realizing she is IT in the birth experience. She is the ONE who has to find IT somewhere deep inside of herself to give birth to this new life.
I tend to see this more with the 1st time Moms I work with. Its almost as if they believe that someone might just reach in and pull their baby out for them. Its tends to happen right about the time transition is ending and pushing is beginning, sometimes I've seen it a bit earlier in labor as well. Its when the light bulb turns on and then you see THE SHIFT all over their faces. The moment the energy of both the Mom and baby work this harmonious dance of bringing this life here. Its MAGNIFICENT! Truly GLORIOUS to behold.
You see the POWER within women. You feel the LOVE they have for their unborn child. Most importantly, you see a BRAVERY and DETERMINATION you really don't see at many other times in life. Its RARE! But when you are blessed with the opportunity to watch THE SHIFT, you feel for that definite moment the world is a GRAND place to be because we have women and families like THIS! Couples who are consciously choosing to parent in such a way that the new life coming feels only acceptance, trust, love, joy, peace and comfort!
I wish I was better with words and could really express what I'm saying in a more eloquent way. For those of you who have seen the shift, you know what I'm talking about. For those who have yet to experience it, you will know what I'm talking about immediately when it happens.
I can't imagine living in a world where I would never be able to see the power of the human spirit in birth. That power is changing the WORLD! That power is nothing but PURE, unadulterated LOVE! If we can harness that more each and every day, if we can recognize it for what it is and then help to feed it into the psyches of all women and families, then the world will begin its transition (like so many families are already doing) into a place where only PEACE resides.
In Peace,
Rachel
Conscious Conception to Birth-- Visualized & Realized
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