This is it! This is the time to be alive. To REALLY be alive. We are potentials of unlimited powers, capacities to love, serve and support ourselves and each other during this new and revolutionary time in our history.
As the world becomes awakened, a new paradigms in childbirth are emerging: Awakened Birth, Dreambirth Imagery, Calm Birth, Birthing From Within, Birth As We Know It, all reflect these new body/mind paradigms. New words such as, sustained energy, green, recycle have become common phrases in our every day lives and media. There are breakthroughs in science, ecology, and technology. What we think, feel, and consume affects the whole, individually and globally. (www.bethelightbetheone.com)
People ARE becoming more awake and aware. In the past two years, the films; “Orgasmic Birth,” “The Business of Being Born,” or “Pregnant In America” have flooded the market, waking people up to choice and knowledge.
“The Secret-Law of Attraction,” or “What the Bleep,” have opened the doors encouraging awareness as to how we live our lives today. Dr. Oz, Oprah’s physician to Oprah, is broadcasting a daily show on health and medicine. Oz educates and inspires people to become more aware of their bodies as their own best healers. (Preventative medicine is the ticket to a healthier you.)
In 2008, Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey shared the largest internet class to date, covering 10 chapters in Tolle’s book: “A New Earth-Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose.” The enrollment for the first week was so large, the systems crashed. By the end of the 10th week numbers reached as high as 8 million people!
“Consciousness” raising websites, inspirational films, and YouTube presentations are popping up all over. Even reality shows are presenting people processing their lives right in front of millions. It’s not going to stop. It’s just going to become more.
To become a twenty-first century teacher to yourself, your baby, in and out of your womb, and to those around you, Awakened Birth, guides you how to be an inspirational role model, by living a life of purpose, clarity, joy, integrity, trust, fulfillment, aliveness and connection.
What got me started on my ‘awakened’ path was an editorial, by Peggy O’Mara, in Mothering Magazine. The words at the top of the page screamed out, “WAKE UP! Women in birth WAKE UP! I didn’t initially understand what she meant by the words but my body felt a sense of urgency and truth with them.
The synchronicity of the editorial and my life took on a new meaning. I noticed the women I was working with at the time seemed to have ‘fallen asleep.’ The emails on my yahoo groups commented about the same observations I was having. Women were giving their power over to medical caregivers, birth caregivers, machines, and drugs. I wondered where their sense of connection and communication with their bodies and babies went? When I would talk about the ‘biology of birth,’ eyes would glass over in classes. Women WANTED to drop down into biology and attempt a natural childbirth and/or breastfeed, but when push came to shove, literally, something happened. They went ‘asleep’. They shut down. Exhaustion and fear became the dominant emotions and mindset. I began to realize we were in the middle of a tipping point in childbirth.
When I first started in 1987, vaginal breech births were being done routinely in hospitals. Labor doulas were not a common addition in the room, yet there was an interest and welcome by the medical staff for the ‘extra help’ for the mother and her partner. A woman was only given an IV if she medically needed one. Women were allowed to walk around much more during labor. Group b strep testing and early admissions were not routinely administered. Caesareans and episiotomies were used only when medically necessary. Women were not induced regularly for low amniotic fluids and or big babies. I attended the first ‘walking epidural’ at Roosevelt Hospital. The Doctor who invented the procedure administered it and the woman actually walked through most of her labor, with the epidural in place. It was amazing. Times have changed.
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