Baby Steps: 30 Days to my Dream Birth
A dream is a wish your heart makes… when you are wide awake.
We have been conditioned to think that we shouldn’t really expect too much. We should just be grateful for what we have. That dreaming is folly. We might even look at other people’s success or achievements and wonder how they did that, because we would never be able to. We mentally list the reasons why. We stay safely inside our box, resigned to our fate, based on whatever our beliefs are about the way things work.
Except it is all illusion. Beliefs are made up of our experiences and conditioning, but different experiences and different conditioning provides a different set of beliefs.
Well known midwife, Ina May Gaskin said;
“ What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.”
When we are inspired by other people’s stories, it can change our perceptions about what we are able to achieve. When I first speak to someone during their pregnancy, more often than not they find it difficult to imagine what they really want their birth to look like, because their perception is so clouded by what they believe is possible. When their confidence increases, when they hear what other people did, and they start to ask, why not me? Then they begin to come into their power to create the thing they want most.
So, here is my gift to you. A step by step guide for how to visualise your empowering birth. The visualisation is just the beginning, you still have work to do beyond this, but for many this first step is the toughest to take.
Remember, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
Day 1 Just Breathe
We are starting gently and reminding ourselves that although breathing happens without us thinking, we can mindfully take deeper, slower, longer breaths, that help to get oxygen to all parts of our body and calm our nervous system.
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Stay safe and dream big
Love from
Sheryl @simplynatal xx