The Impact of Meditation on Positive Birth Experience
I ask every woman I work with to begin meditating for 3 minutes a day.
Cue the horror! :) Most women resist, which is completely normal, and kind of the point!
What they don't know is these three minutes can make all the difference between a painful, slow labor and a smooth feel-good birth.
Meditation forces us to slow everything down and focus within, a practice our monkey brain and every fiber of our over-worked, busy-busy-busy, people pleasing, productivity-identified self resists.Ā
When we begin to meditate several things often happen:
- we feel uncomfortable in our own skin, wanting to get up and get away
- we get lost in our thoughts and judgements and feel like we are failing
- we start wondering how much longer until the timer goes off
Whenever a mama shares the experience of any of the above, I say, that'sĀ GREAT! Keep going!Ā These are all normal experiences AND exactly the kind of internal struggles we encounter during labor and delivery, which is why meditation is a gre...
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Marin Phoenix
ICCE & Transformational Coach
Marin is an International Childbirth Education Association Certified Childbirth Educator (ICCE) and a Transformational Coach. Traumatized by her first birth experience, she determinedly sought a more connected, present, and less painful birthing experience. Through deep research, tapping into lost archetypal embodied wisdom, and with incredible coaching she delivered her second child through an empowered, comfortable, and calm labor. This birth was so profoundly different that she established a labor and delivery coaching practice, Beyond Birthing, in which she coaches women to have the powerful, healing, and joyful labor and delivery experience they desire.
