As we have seen, there is potential for stress, trauma, and injury to our yet-to-be-born selves. But we can use powerful techniques to reveal and heal the traumatic aspects of that experience. Healing is available to every parent and every child. We do not need to carry pain, guilt, shame, loneliness, or any other negative residue (the list is long) … Read More
Born Whole post #13: Chapter 7: Beyond Healing: Welcoming the Anticipated Child
What if we know that a child is on the way? Can we escort that child through conception and growth within the womb? This chapter discusses how we can accompany, guide, welcome, and love babies into our families at any point in their existence. We can be with the baby from the time of conception, or even before, from the … Read More
A poem about healing
This poem took sixty-five years to ripen and about an hour to put on paper. The healing of my prenatal traumas and environment were an essential part of that lifelong process. FORGIVEN Would now that I could take in mine the hands that left their marks on me or, quiet, hear anew the words that cut my heart and left … Read More
Cellar
“Make the most of this one life” they say. “You only live once” they parrot, unthinkingly. Do not despair. Do not believe this will be only once, a single time. You are in a cellar in this life. The bulbs are few and forty watts at most. You move about in semi-dark; you do your best. From time to time, … Read More
Worthiness and Love
Recognize the sacredness in yourself. You have within you a beautiful soul. The essence of that soul is love. I invite you to have an experience of the unconditional love of souls for one another and all of Creation. It’s a simple exercise: just read the next three paragraphs, then stop — don’t read farther — and take time to … Read More
Born Whole post #12: Chapter 6 – Energetic and Spiritual Healing
Chapter 6: A Method for Energetic and Spiritual Healing This chapter describes the concept of meridian therapies, particularly EFT, for healing emotional and physical issues, including ones form before we were born. It discusses factors that can complicate the process. _____ The healing techniques known as meridian therapies have their origins in traditional Chinese medicine. As most people are now … Read More
Now What
Since I’ve seen that All is One I’ve been trying also to discern how to function in one-way time three dimensions five senses. Dissolution of self into perfect knowing of beauty that dazes any impulse of description; ineffable permeating Love – when these are all present, now what? I s’pose I could take the garbage out or wash the dishes … Read More
Born Whole post #11: Chapter 5 – Compassion, Forgiveness, and the Journey of the Soul
Chapter 5: Compassion, Forgiveness, and the Journey of the Soul The concepts in this chapter may contradict much of what you have understood to be true about life and death as it discusses reincarnation. If you find yourself resisting, I invite you to ask “What if it’s true?” rather than dismissing what you read. If you suspend disbelief for a … Read More
Born Whole post #10: Chapter 4 – Healing For and Healing From the Pain of Our Mother
PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE WOMB Part 2 discussed three significant developmental events of the time before birth. Part 3 is about a different aspect of that time: the overall physical and emotional environment of the womb. Chapter 4: Healing For and Healing From the Pain of Our Mother In previous chapters I discussed developmental events that occur for … Read More
Pass It On
What bit of real-life competency have you passed on lately? Whatever you know, give it back. If you know how to check the air pressure in a tire, show someone how to do that. If you know how to make an antivirus medicine from Oregon Grape root, take someone with you next time you go to collect the root. If … Read More