how each particle of growth is like the formation
of a world from fragments.”
There was a time - as a matter of fact, up until recently – when science believed in genetic
determinism: sperm met egg and afterwards
an intricate pre-programmed series of events
would take place following precise genetic
guidelines leading to the birth of a baby often considered a “blank slate,” unable to feel,
taste, smell, hear, see and communicate. Nothing can be further from the truth at the dawn of
the 21st Century equipped with new modalities
for assessing babies abilities, new findings in
neurophysiology and the advent epigenetics.
We know now that our way of being affects how
our genes express themselves – or don’t –, and
during pregnancy this is of utmost relevance: no
more Nature x Nurture. In fact, these two have
always gone hand in hand! No wonder so many
rulers throughout history have behaved in such
detrimental ways, seldom minding the greater
good… Marriages were arranged to serve political interests, plenitude during pregnancy was
never considered a must amid social elites, wetnurses and preceptors took care of royal offspring. Page after page, history books illustrate
despotism, massacre, pillage, ravage, greed,
indifference, treason and cruelty, all stemming
from a severely low self- esteem.
At New Earth Nation, we embrace the understanding that how a pregnant mother eats, how she
feels, how she sees herself and the universe, her
ideas, ideals and imagination become the very
matter from which, and with which babies are
formed.
“In our body we are poets, creators of a thousand
tissues,” sings Chilean poet Joakin Bello, inviting
us to be conscious of how we live and create ourselves. Cosmic Intelligence has entrusted pregnant
mothers with the power of conveying their most
inner being to the making of Earth’s new arrivals.
Thus what we live in the womb is forever present
in our body and psyche as a gossamer watermark, “a fundamental unifying principle underlying
everything else – including DNA,” explains early
human development expert Marcy Axness in her
seminal book Parenting for Peace.
WALK AMONG TREES
Walk among trees
and choose one to be your friend.
Touch it with joy and reverence:
it is made of energies from the sun, the air,
the earth and the rains.
Lean back on the tree
with your right hand on your pregnant belly.
Place you left hand at the back,
palm pressing the trunk.
Now ask the tree to share energies
with your baby and you.
Feel the intensity of the currents flowing.
Afterwards give your tree a big hug of thanks from
the two of you.
www.wondersofthewomb.com
For a baby-in-womb, every smile, every joy and
inspiration the mother feels, signal that the world
out here is worth engaging in, that it is safe to
choose growth, trust and expansion (versus fear,
tension and protection). In her book, The Oxytocin
Factor, researcher Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg explores
how calm, love, joy, growth and healing require
the workings of oxytocin, a hormone and neurotransmitter – and its related hormones – in our
organism. Adrenaline and oxytocin are antagonistic. Sadly, lack of joy, despondency and chronic
stress during pregnancy deprive mother and baby
of the life-dance they were made to dance.
Spiritual master Omraam insisted that even under
the best political/economic regimes, human societies will still not thrive if the major significance
of prenatal life is not addressed. For instance,
specific brain areas for compassion and empathy
demand harmonious conditions for their optimal
development, the same goes for resiliency, attention and self-mastery…
Is our race still on its way of becoming human?