“How can I have a positive birth?”
A positive birth starts with a positive thought…
Our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes can positively or negatively affect how our body works and how well it does its job.
In other words, our 'minds' can affect how physically healthy our bodies are!
Your body responds to the way you think, feel, and act.
For example: When you are stressed, anxious, or upset, your body reacts physically.
You might develop high blood pressure or a stomach ulcer after a particularly stressful event, such as the death of a loved one.
This connection is something that is always with us.
Mouth-watering over your fave dessert
nervous “butterflies” in your stomach before making a presentation
doing a nervous poo before a job interview
These are all perfect examples of natural mind-body connections, which most of us have experienced at some point.
Sometimes, the mind-body connection can produce negative outcomes, like failing to meet athletic, academic, or professional goals due to fear created by the mind.
On the flip side, we can train our thoughts, feelings, beliefs to have a more positive influence on our bodies.
If we can keep stress levels low, and change how we respond to stressful events, we can change how our body physically responds to these events.
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Birth is a HUGE physical act with a huge physical demand on your body.
Remember that the more stressed, anxious, fearful we feel, the more stress and discomfort our body feels.
For birth to be easier, smoother, more comfortable, your body needs to be relaxed, loose and better able to do it's job of birthing your baby.
You can't have those things without a relaxed mind - your mind and body absolutely need to work together when you're giving birth!
So why can't you just tell yourself to stay calm? Sadly it's not that simple!
Learning to switch off stress mode and get in to the full, deep state of relaxation needed for the marathon of birth takes practice!
I teach a tonne of tools on my Hypnobirthing course that will help you do just that. Why not watch my FREE 30 minute introduction to Hypnobirthing video by clicking the image below!
WHAT IS HYPNOBIRTHING?!
There are a lot of misconceptions about what hypnobirthing is and isn't so lets clear up some of those first! You may be thinking this all sounds a bit weird, a bit too flowery and hippy - some hypnobirthing teachers are in to this and do teach hypnobirthing with floweryness and crystals included and if you want that sort of course then I’m not the person for you. I’m very analytical, sciency, I like to give the facts and prepare you for everything that could happen in birth, arming you with all of the practical tools you need to get in the right headspace for a positive birth, to cope with pain in labour and to make the best decisions for you and your baby….