Prenatal Meditation for Energetic Communication with Baby

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This meditation-based approach to childbirth and parenting doesn't

deny pain, but it does help you acknowledge and manage it.

During pregnancy your body goes through many changes, which creates
stress on you mentally and physically. A way to maintain a healthy mind
and body is Conscious Meditation.

In order to still your mind start focusing on your in and out breath and
feel the difference in sensation between in and out breathe cold vs
warm, moist vs dry, expansion vs constriction

Start at the nostrils, breathe 5-10 breaths

Follow your breath into your body, focusing on sensation around sinuses
for 5-10 breaths

Follow your breath into your body even further, to the back of the throat
for 5-10 breaths

Follow your breath into your lungs and feel the lungs expanding from the
very top to the sides, the back the bottom the whole lungs 5-10
breaths

Then you might like to balance your chakra system if you are adapt with
some chakra meditations a simple one would be starting at the base
chakra and breathing red through it and then through the body, followed
by sacral chakra breathing orange through chakra then through body,
and so forth

After you have balanced and empowered your chakra system start
breathing just through your heart space. Breathe in through the front
and out through the back of your heart space. Just really connect with
your heart space and call out loudly or silently to ask to connect with
your spirit child and make your intentions clear.
Then just listen. Sometimes you can maybe sing a lullaby

Try and connect through your heart every day, and sing a lullaby to make
the baby feel welcome and called in
You can also do some chanting.

Meditation during pregnancy enriches the health of mama and baby

during the prenatal period, helps to relax and ease the intensity of
sensation in childbirth, and also assists in postpartum healing. In
addition, women can pass the benefits of meditation to the baby through
the pregnant womans bloodstream. Regular practice of meditation and
yoga during pregnancy reduces premature birth and lessens
complications for the newborn.

Meditation has vital benefits, such as a more complete kind of breathing:

breathing both oxygen and vital energy. Meditation strengthens the
immune system and enhances nervous system and neural functioning.
Meditation improves the ability to work through challenges. It builds
compassion and confidence.

The pregnant woman practicing vase breathing for childbirth benefits

her child in several ways:

This deep breathing practice first assures maximum oxygenation for the
child. This is vital. Womb breathing prevents inadequate oxygen supply
resulting from anxiety and stress.

The woman practicing womb breathing indicates a total use of her

breathing potential, complete breathing, also breathing vital energy into
the vase in her navel center, breathing right where the womb is in her
physical body. [Quantum physics would say that the vase and the womb
can exist in the same space in hyperspace, which is our real body
space.] The womb child experiences the womans intention to give it vital
substance. The infant feels the energy of its mothers intention and her
expression of complete breathing.

Vital energy breathed into the womans life vase naturally feeds up her
central energy channel, slowly bringing higher systems to life. This will
enrich many nutritional substances which feed into the child through the
umbilical cord. The child is energized directly from the womans life vase
through sympathetic resonance.

Thus: The womb child receives the oxygen benefits of the deep energy
breathing via the womans blood coming in through the umbilical cord,
with the blood also carrying energy nutrition. Through sympathetic
resonance with the womans life vase the womb child has energy
benefits.

This is energy nutrition. It includes physical nutrition. These are

evolutionary benefits.

These benefits are passed on to the child within.

Have you ever watched a baby or child breathe? Look closely: you will
see the belly rise on the inhale and fall on the exhale. Intuitively, we are
born knowing how to breathe completely. As we grow older, our breath
rises up into our lungs, until we are breathing quick, shallow breaths as a
regular practice. This is traditionally how humans breathe when
panicked, and in doing so we activate the stress-response system,
releasing adrenaline cortisol, ready to fight or fly. If we breathe this way
all the time, our body's sympathetic nervous system responds in kind,
and we are perpetually in a state of stress, while not receiving full
oxygenation.

Calm Birth introduces the practice of complete breathing: intending the

air and the energy within it down and into the energy center. This
center resides about three finger-widths above and below the navel. It
has been called the naval chakra, hara, and other names in many
traditions. Here, it is referred to as the Vase of Life: a luminous, soft vase
that can be filled with life-giving energy for the meditator and the child
growing within.

Breathing vital energy from the air into the Vase helps shift from mind to
awareness, bringing two remarkable assets to childbirth: a method to
see and release any anxiety and fear may arise, and increased ability to
cope with the sensations of labor from a place of calm and
empowerment. Womb Breathing strengthens the womans immune
system and strengthens her ability to distinguish between mind and
awareness, and between pain and suffering. This practice can be carried
forth into any type of birth, from homebirth to cesarean, so that the
mother and partner may feel a sense of inner peace and empowerment,
and a connection to the child being born.

Prenatal maternal depression and stress has been associated with

negative impacts on the embryo, ranging from greater fear reactivity as
infants to increased disposition toward depression and anxiety disorders
as adults. Exposure to heightened levels of stress hormones in utero
prepares the offspring to survive in a stressful extrauterine environment.
This means that the child will be born with more cortisol in his or her
system and less receptors to process it and return the body to a neutral,
relaxed state of being.

Not all stress during pregnancy is negative: in fact, some cortisol

exposure is necessary for the formation of the lungs and central nervous
system (this is a good thing, as parts of the transition into parenthood
are intrinsically stressful!). However, excessive anxiety is to be avoided,
for the sake of the parents and the child.

Researchers examined the impact of prenatal meditation on the

offspring, and found that infants whose mothers meditated had healthier
cortisol levels at birth, five weeks of age, and five months of age, and
they consistently scored higher on behavioral assessments. If prenatal
stress exposure impacts the development of the fetus negatively, it
stands to reason that the positive impacts of meditation are passed on in
the same vein: babies who are exposed to elevated levels of DHEA,
melatonin, oxytocin, and other beneficial hormones may be born more
predisposed to the compassion, empathy, and feelings of connectedness
and empowerment experienced by many meditators.

EMPOWERING MEDITATION FOR PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND BEYOND

Dr Unnati Chavda
Rajkot

Cell: +919825463394