What happened so long ago, how did we forget it all???
You guys may start getting tired of hearing me talk about Daniel Vitalis... and his podcast, but I promise this one was really eye opening to some of the origins of our problems as a civilized society... Since we've become our domesticated selves, a certain unbalance seems to have taken place, both in our psyche and physical forms.
This last episode I listened to, entitled ReWilding Our Birth Experience - Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova had an enormous effect on me. It really made me think about how we have been stuck in some kind of downward spiral, feedback loop that keeps on growing as long as we don't wake up and smell the roses! I'll explain a little further what I mean, in a bit.
In this episode Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova the founder of Birth Into Being explains her view of birthing a child in today's society. She goes into depth on the subject (contrary to modern medicine beliefs) that babies do feel pain and are actually more sensitive than we are. She has been on a mission to educate the importance of the environment where the birth of a new human takes place and relationship both parents have towards each-other. Our mental and physical health have a tremendous effect on our new comers' behaviors through life.
Traumatic experiences during the formative period (which is from conception through early childhood) leave a negative imprint in the nervous system. When this Imprint involves harsh and painful experiences, it is responsible for maintaining fear-based emotional and behavioral patterns for the rest of the adult life.There is an overwhelming evidence that the cumulative volume of individual imprinting was responsible for the violent history of humankind for thousands of years of recorded history. sourced from her home page
When did we start to fear this hostile environment that we live in?
At some point in history we must have been told that birthing a child is one of the most dangerous thing a woman can do. Was it a religious agenda? Did it have something to do with the enslavement of the human race? Or did it have something to do with the start of the agriculture revolution?
I know that last one is a little far fetched, but it could make sense to some of you who listen to that podcast.
Whatever the reason is for our place in time, our situation, we need to change the fear mindset. We're told birthing in the wild (or at home), outside of the sterilized hospital setting is not safe, not for the mother and not for the babies. Listening to Elena, she explains why the hospital setting isn't needed especially if we know what not to do when it comes to hygiene. And the trauma a child can go through with all these doctors and beeping sounds and wires everywhere is far more dangerous.
A baby absorbs information about the outside world from the moment of conception, including the moment of conception. - Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova
Imagine now, we all feel and are ten times more sensitive than any adult. The panic and the fear that is present is complete chaos for someone that is just coming out into the world. The bright lights, the un-natural environment, the sounds... everything is just wrong!
There is so much information to digest in this interview, that it is kind of difficult to write about. But I guess this post is my way of ingesting what I hear today.
When I said that thing about feeling trapped in a perpetual downward spiral, it was in reference to the trauma we carry with us after our own births. If we carry this knowledge and fear in our DNA, we must pass it on, and we grow up thinking this is how it's supposed to be, then we have little ones on the way and they will repeat the same patterns. As Elena says, we do remember our birth, we remember in our emotions and those emotions come from perhaps many generation passed.
With this I hope some of you have been inspired to look a little deeper into our way of doing the things we do in the so called Civilized Society. Please have a listen to this one, it is a long interview but it is well worth it and keep an open mind when you do.
It's time to remember so we can start living properly and like the kind human beings we're supposed to be...
