The Subconscious mind, Birth and PSYCH-K®
It is your subconscious mind the one that is running your life; not your conscious mind as many would like to think. As Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate”. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, your electromagnetic energy and subconscious mind have more influence on your biology than anything else. “The emerging sciences of quantum biophysics, epigenetics, and fractal geometry have illuminated the mechanics of the mind-body-spirit connection. This new science reveals that consciousness is responsible for our life experiences, including our biological functioning.
So how exactly does this affect you and me?
Ultimately, this means that by changing our thoughts we can change our reality. Once we accept that WE are responsible for everything that happens to us, we become empowered to take back control of our lives”.
Since the subconscious mind is so much more powerful than our conscious mind, all the negative stories and experiences we have heard throughout our lives regarding pregnancy and birth have been internalized and stored in our subconscious mind. By definition, the subconscious mind is below our conscious mind. Which means we are not aware of the information that has been stored there and yet; all that information and programming is in charge of 95% of our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
It is highly difficult to outrun our subconscious beliefs and programming using just our willpower and conscious mind. It has been proven that 95% of our thoughts/brain activity is governed by the subconscious mind and 5% by the conscious mind. This is why in many cases women including me, despite having a deep desire to trust in our innate ability to give birth, end up giving our power away to the doctors, nurses and midwives during birth. This happens because we have so many negative beliefs and anecdotes about birth in the storage of our subconscious mind that they end up finding their way up to the surface. This also happens because we have conflicting programming running at the same time. On one hand we have the conscious program that says “birth is a natural, joyful and beautiful process. I have watched so many amazing videos of births on Instagram and I took a birth course that showed me how birth works and what to do” and on the other hand we have the subconscious program saying “birth is dangerous and very painful; remember the birth of your aunt how terrifying it was. There is no way you can enjoy giving birth!”. On top of that, the negative belief in this example is supported by the mind that controls 95% of your life; the odds are not in our favor here. I don't mean to say that you cannot have a joyful birth experience unless you reprogram your subconscious beliefs. I know of many women that have had their dream birth without reprogramming their beliefs. Something I have noticed they share in common is a good support system and a genuine trust in their innate ability to give birth. When I say “genuine trust” I mean that their subconscious mind agrees with their conscious mind; this is normally the case for someone that grew up in a culture where birth was seen as something natural, safe and sacred. What I am trying to say is that when you reprogram your negative beliefs about birth you will have all the help you need from your 3 minds (conscious, subconscious and superconscious) to help you have the birth of your dreams. Chances are that even if things don’t go as planned during your birth, you will still be able to be in tune with your whole being and things will go smoother for you and your baby. Miracles happen when you align your conscious goals with your subconscious beliefs. Birth is something so sacred and magical, its mechanism it’s perfect and flawless. However, the moment that external influences start to interfere, then you have the so-called “complications”. Most of the time, the “complications” during birth are the result of unnecessary interventions done by doctors, nurses and even midwives when they feel the unnecessary urge to take control of the situation. That is why it is so important that you have deep rooted beliefs in your subconscious mind that supports your birth plan. Using the process of PSYCH-K® for your pregnancy and birthing experience can give you the opportunity to install beliefs/programs in your subconscious mind such as “My body knows how to birth”. “I birth my baby with ease and joy”. “I surrender easily to each wave/contraction”. “I trust in my body's ability to birth my baby”. “The more intense the birth gets the more relaxed I get” and so on. These are just a few examples of the wonderful programs/beliefs you can incorporate in your subconscious mind to have your whole being on your side during the most powerful and vulnerable moment of your life.
During the process of PSYCH-K® you also get to use a protocol called Transforming the Perception of Stress into a State of Peace (TPS) to be able to transform (literally) within a few minutes the perception of stressful past events, current events, and or/ feared future events/experiences surrounding giving birth in general. What happens after you do a TPS protocol is that you will approach the stressful memory or feared future from a place of peace and non-attachment and you will have access to your whole brain to better respond to this situation whether real or imaginary. This protocol is very powerful and most people are able to feel a relief and peace about a particular stressor immediately after completing it.
Remember, we don’t experience things as they are, we experience things as we are. The way we are is based on our perception of reality. Once you transform your perception of reality, you will automatically transform your experiences. Like Wayne Dyer said “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”