Trusting your body
From about age 12 to 20 I took dance classes regularly. I had never really been into sports as a child and I was extremely shy. I fell in love with dance and dreamed about becoming a dancer. I used to spend hours putting together choreography in my room that I would later teach to my friends.
Dancing taught me to love and trust my body, and to push beyond its boundaries and feel empowered. It made me more confident in who I was and taught me many life lessons. Inside my heart I still feel like a dancer, it’s one of my greatest loves. When I dance I feel at home. When I watch dance I feel inspired.
When I became pregnant with my daughter at age 22 there was no doubt in my mind that my body could birth her. I had very little fear connected to birth, I only feared having a c-section. But I felt confident I could birth my baby and my affirmation (which at the time I didn’t even know what that was) was “My body knows what to do.” I trusted my body through birth and new motherhood as I had many times before birth.
When attending births and also postpartum I meet so many different people with different relationships to their bodies. Some know themselves in their bodies and fully trust their bodies ability. Others are detached from their bodies and don’t trust its ability. No one is exactly the same because we all have different lived experiences that we carry and that affect how we relate to ourselves and our bodies.
My favorite script in Hypnobirthing is the fear release script, it is a powerful script where the fears are destroyed and the power that has been given to others gets taken back. If we can remove fear from birth we can gain so much power. I imagine that every time I read this script I take back my power from someone or something that has taken my power in the past. And moving forward I am more powerful and confident. I wish I could share this experience with other people in a broader way, but especially people on the journey into parenthood. If more people connected to their body’s ability in general then they would see how amazing it is and what amazing things it can do. We all have amazing bodies that carry us through life, we never doubt their ability to breathe or keep our heart beating, but when it comes to birth so many don’t believe that their bodies can do it. But just like every breath, every heartbeat, every surge brings you forward one step of the time.
Trust it.
