As any other victim of today’s beauty ideals, I can only say:
- Buuh for hormones that land on my hips!
- Yay for the hormones that land on my breasts!
One very effective way of surpassing that active mind that keeps worrying about different things is to come into a very deep relaxation. It is hard to reach such a state unless guided by someone.
One version of deep relaxation is labelled hypnosis. I carry with me a very positive experience of hypnosis from my first pregnancy and birth.
I was getting impatient as I passed my due date, and literally right after a hypnotherapy session the water broke and the birthing process started.
I was also fortunate enough to have hypnobirthing doula Denise Love by my side during the birth. I have never been in such a deep state of relaxation/meditation/trance –whatever you want to call it. With her help I could keep my focus within and let my body take care of the rest.
Now, I am so lucky that my dear husband is a hypnotherapist himself. He has already done a few sessions with me to promote a healthy pregnancy and to help me relax. I have also sent a few of my prenatal students his way.
We recorded the sessions so that I can listen to them as often as I like. There are many relaxation/meditation CDs out there. I would of course recommend my husband’s voice, but maybe you have a CD you like?
Dear child,
I hope you can hear your dad’s soothing voice as he encourages me to let myself to relax deeper and deeper and deeper. Doesn’t it make you want to relax too?
Most women think that something on their body is either too large or too small. A pregnancy will put such issues in an extreme perspective.
An ex girlfriend of someone close even doubted that she would ever want to become pregnant, as she didn’t want to ‘get fat’. Please let her get over that fear some day.
My waist is expanding, and my thighs. I am impatiently awaiting the arrival of the round, symmetric, balloon-like Wonder globe that will not evolve until the mid- later state of my pregnancy. Until then I will work on finding piece and space in my mind to accept the changes my body goes through.
Dear child,
Help yourself to as much space in my body as you like. It is all yours. We share my body now for a while and no matter what shape or form it takes, I know that you are worth every millimetre and gram of it.