Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 1 (1 July 2016) | Page 3

Conscious Birthing
Re-introducing the birth process through HypnoBirthing®
Image: Birth as potentially festive, cosmically joyful event and the child as a divine manifestation
Trained as HypnoBirthing® practitioner to offer childbirth preparation to expectant
parents, I’d like to share the most important facts about HypnoBirthing® as it reveals a
whole new perspective on birthing (including a new, much gentler language for the
process), which every woman – and man – should be introduced to. Hypno-
natural instincts and in the harmonious
orchestration of the mother’s and baby’s bodies at birth.
“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.”
Marie Mongan, Founder of HypnoBirthing®
The answer to the initial questions is actually rather simple: Fear. For most of their
lives, women have been inundated with the negative stories of other women’s birth
experiences. Everyone, from their mothers, sis- ters, aunts, cousins, friends, and even
strangers, wants to tell them the horrors of giving birth. They have been conditioned to
believe that excruciating pain is associated with the delivery. And because of this,
women today hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth. Where there is fear, there is
tension, where there is tension, there is contraction, and with it come limited
perception and limited physiological functions.