A letter to the mind:
“Hello there mind. Thank you for your endless stream of thoughts that circle around in my head and in my life. You bring me the ability to think intellectually and solve math problem and for that I am grateful. However, during my upcoming birth experience, I would like for you to become quiet so that I can hear the wisdom of my heart and allow it to guide me through this beautifully sacred process. Please take this time to have yourself a break, mind, and to give it a rest. I don’t need your analysis of what is going to be happening in the past or future and I know that is where you like to stay. I am working on becoming an observer of you so therefore you should know… I will be watching.”
The mind is a powerful tool that is an avenue to being a human being. As we are making great strides in our culture, we are also understanding the power of transcending the mind and observing the mind from another perspective. Some would call this perspective the soul or spirit. That’s what I like to say because it reminds me that I am three part being containing a body, a mind and a soul. Learning how to become comfortable and intimate with all aspects of my three part self, helps me feel more like my “self” and more whole. That is why some people use the term holistic or whole-listic to imply using the body, mind and soul.
These days it seems most people are most comfortable in their minds. A few people have ventured into understanding their bodies and even fewer have peered into the aspects of their soul. These other two parts of a human being that often remain quiet and untapped can become quiet powerful in the process of labor and birth. When preparing for the journey of birth, it serves a woman well for her to begin (or continue) the journey into the intimate understanding of her body and soul. Learning to hear the wisdom that is contained within each of these aspects will guide her along the way, giving her all of the in-formation (coming from within) that she needs during her labor process.
This is why Pure Birth was developed in a way to provide tools to access the body and the soul and to become the observer of the mind. Meditation and yoga are two of the more popular avenues to this but there are hundreds of ways to access the full self. Art, music, nature and many others often connect human beings to something other than their mind. In these brief seconds of a transcendence of their mind, they can often feel something that is unexplainable. It is unexplainable because in order to explain the experience, one would have to use their minds to think about the words to say and this is not possible since it happened outside of the mind.
