Healing and Hypnotherapy Special Mega Annual Issue 21 June 2017 | Page 16

Everywhere in the world, the number of women who give birth to a
baby by themselves – which means by their own hormones (e.g.
oxytocin and endorphin) – is getting smaller and smaller. While the
conditioning of wo- men‘s minds plays a significant role, our society‘s
standardised, and by expectant parents mostly unquestioned,
“take over” by doctors/nurses/gadgets/medication is the other major
influence. Good news is, that a movement of natural birth (meaning
without any medical intervention) is gaining more and more
momentum, whereby women stop to accept limiting mainstream
conditions for their childbirth.
Giving birth can be easy and calm for women. It can even be a
pleasurable and highly erotic as well as a deeply spiritual experience.
And if a woman is well prepared (positive affirmations, visualisations,
hypnosis, relaxa- tion training and breathing techniques) she can give
birth without any synthetic hormones (epidural etc.) and without
getting her perineum cut.
„To those who say it is just not
possible to birth naturally
without pain, I say, “But what if
we’re right? Wouldn’t it be
wonderful?“
 Lorne R. Campbell,
M.D.
The key role for such an amazing experience plays oxytocin, the
„love hormone“ involved in bonding, sex, child- birth, breast-feeding
as well as feelings of peace and calm. Those who meditate regularly
might know that also meditation can increase oxytocin’s effect. The
deep state of rest produced during meditation triggers the brain to
release neurotransmitters, including dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin,
and endorphins. Ingredients that have vital roles for emotional
awareness, attention, perception, self-recognition, decision making
and stress regulati- on.
Dr. Michel Odent talks about the biochemical explanation for why
birth is and should be an erotic and so- metimes orgasmic event: the
main hormone in both sex and birth is the same (oxycontin). And we
need as good conditions for good labour as we need good conditions
for good lovemaking. Because if a woman produces ad- renaline