The Missing Piece: Consciousness and the MotherBaby Bond (Part 2)
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The Architect of Your Baby’s Future
Being aware of this motherbaby bond is critical if we wish to create a more peaceful society. Since mothers have an excellent opportunity to positively shape the personality and emotional intelligence of the next generation, mothers and fathers need to learn the tools necessary to enhance this connection. Prenatal education should focus less on the stages of labor and more on stress reduction, mindfulness techniques, and creating healthy and supportive relationships. Pregnancy is when conscious parenting begins.
When babies are conceived in a trusting, peaceful, loving state they are literally formed in love. Early pregnancy is an ideal time for mothers to contemplate their habits and environment. It is also a time to be grateful for our relationships with our partners, our families and our friends. Being in a state of appreciation, rather than conflict, has an enormous impact on the birthing experience.
Keys to the MotherBaby Bond
The motherbaby bond can be enhanced with a few key concepts that help a mother foster a deeper connection to herself, her baby and her world. These concepts are designed to create a BOND:
Being
Observing
Nourishing
Deciding
Being relates to a mother’s consciousness, having an awareness of our thoughts and feelings. Thoughts and feelings shape our daily lives, affecting our health, stress levels, fertility and the growth of our babies. Pregnancy is a great opportunity to begin making healthy changes in lifestyle. These changes should incorporate activities that enhance “being,” like mindfulness techniques, breath work, thought awareness, appreciation, and taking quiet time to bond deeply with the baby.
Observing means being in a state of mindfulness. Mindfulness encompasses being purposeful, conscious and non-judgmental in thought and action. What could be a better mindset for pregnancy? Observing provides mothers an opportunity to create change where it’s needed. To understand the world and the people in it, self-observation is the best place to start. Mothers who foster a healthy internal relationship tend to have nourishing relationships with the people in their lives. Loving, supportive relationships actually change a mother’s brain, heart patterns, and mental and physical health. The people in a woman’s life change her, for the better or worse. Emotions and attitudes are contagious. Choosing to be around people who contribute happiness and health has a profound effect on fertility and the growing baby.
Nourishing involves all of the generous and loving ways that a mother tends to her emotional and physical needs. Our physical health is more than what we eat, drink and do for exercise. It is about how we feel about our bodies and how we care for them. Pregnancy can be an opportunity to make a shift. It’s important for mothers to let go of attitudes that make healthy choices seem burdensome and embrace a new belief system where better choices are perceived as a loving gift to oneself and one’s baby. Remember, the body is always an expression of one’s internal emotional world. The keys to nourishing revolve around gratitude, body-mind awareness, making healthy decisions and practicing stress reduction.
Deciding is the experience of actively participating in creating your reality. What we think about, we bring about. Therefore, it makes sense to move through this world intentionally, especially when it’s known that our experiences as mothers impact the health and personalities of our babies. We can make decisions that are in our best interest by being in conscious agreement. What is conscious agreement? Conscious agreement is the act of making decisions based on deep inner listening and coming to an intuitive mind-body-spirit agreement. It is making decisions that feel good at a gut level. Conscious agreement occurs when you are in collaboration with your inner wisdom, when every part of you says “YES!” You are in harmony with your own feelings.
Before pregnancy, a woman’s consciousness appears to affect only her life. Once she conceives, she must acknowledge that her consciousness directly affects her baby’s development and emotional well-being. Therefore, all of her choices impact her baby—what she eats, who she allows in her life, what thoughts she chooses to have and what state of being she chooses to be in. These choices will attract her relationships and experiences. Every moment in life, we are choosing our emotional state of being, and thus affecting our baby’s experiences as well. Being in a state of conscious agreement during pregnancy (and even while trying to conceive) becomes crucial to the motherbaby connection.
Easy steps for conscious agreement are:
Separate from external influences. To make a decision based on conscious agreement, it is sometimes necessary to remove yourself from environments or people that may be distracting. This can be as simple as closing your eyes and taking a moment to connect to your inner wisdom.
Get quiet and pause. Take a few deep breaths, allow your thoughts to calm and connect to your source. Your source can be defined as that which guides you—God, the universe, your spirit, your intuition, etc.
Listen in. Think about the situation that has presented itself. What is your gut feeling? How is your body feeling? How is your body reacting? Do you feel drawn to the situation or person, or do you feel a sense of discomfort? How does this feeling affect your baby?
Decide and commit. Honor the feelings that are coming up for you and your baby. Make a decision that is in harmony with what your body, baby and intuition are telling you. This is truly honoring the motherbaby bond.
Today’s mother is bombarded by technology, an endless array of choices and a medical community that has yet to recognize and honor the motherbaby bond. However, it is possible for every mother to tune in to the miracle happening inside of her. She can minimize the influence of her external reality and focus in on the internal world of the motherbaby bond. By moving into the states of Being, Observing, Nourishing and Deciding, she has the opportunity to truly BOND.
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