tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63366581429685517902024-03-13T05:36:03.308-07:00Lynne Thorsen - Inner Sense NewsCreating Awareness and Empowering a shift in Global ConsciousnessLynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-78754725275467512262020-03-30T06:54:00.001-07:002020-03-30T06:54:58.402-07:00FEAR creates Real Problems
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">“Fear is only caused to a very limited
extent by real problems, and it justifies itself by subsequently creating real
problems”</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The world is in the grip of fear about
Covid-19 (Coronavirus). The virus has now spread to over 170 countries and the
death toll is climbing every day. The majority of governments have chosen to
implement strict lockdown measures and social distancing to try and prevent the
spread of coronavirus. The consequences of these lockdowns are going to be
immense, and the shockwaves will be felt for many years to come. There is a
risk of global economic collapse, social chaos, and physical hardship for the
majority of the world’s population. When I examine the statistics, I find
myself asking why? Why do we risk creating even greater problems for a
relatively low number of deaths?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Just to get things in perspective, lets
look at some other statistics. The source of which is <a href="http://www.worldomoters.com/">www.worldomoters.com</a>. I cannot vouch for
the accuracy and I am assuming that the figures are created from algorithms,
however it is safe to assume that even if the figure is not 100% accurate, it
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<span lang="EN-GB">This year to date (March 30<sup>th</sup>
2020), global death rates for different causes are;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Covid-19 – 34 839</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Influenza – 119 234</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hunger – 2 742 965</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Contaminated Water – 206 536</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">HIV/AIDS related illnesses – 412 300</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Cancer – 2 014 323</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Malaria – 240 575</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Smoking related illnesses – 1 226 087</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Alcohol related – 613 433</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Suicide – 263 011</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Road traffic accidents – 331 086</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mothers during childbirth – 78 110</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I understand that the figures will keep
increasing for Covid-19, however it still remains a low number when put against
all these other causes of deaths. Many of these causes are preventable if we
took more care about what we put into our mouths ie smoking, alcohol, poor
quality food, contaminated water etc or took more care when driving, or were
given more emotional support, or we evened up wealth distribution throughout
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">So why all the panic about Covid-19? </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The only answer that makes sense is that
Covid-19 is indiscriminate in its victims. Wealthy people from first world
countries are at just as much risk as poor people from third world countries. Also,
the financial elite are not necessarily making money out of it like they do by
economic activities such as fossil fuels, sugars, pharmaceuticals, pesticides,
plastic production etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact the
largest group of deaths is well off, white males over a certain age. Many of
our world leaders are well off, white males over a certain age. We have already
seen that people in the upper echelons of society and wealth are not immune.
People such as Prince Albert of Monaco, Prince Charles, and Boris Johnson (UK
Prime Minister) have all contracted the virus.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">As a result, the panic button has been hit.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is not all doom and gloom though. It helps to look for the silver lining in this unprecedented situation. In
fact I am feeling extremely optimistic that Coronavirus is going to accelerate
the demise of the incumbent patriarchy. Many of those that have been
steadfastly holding onto patriarchal ideas and practices will be amongst the
victims of Coronavirus. Although this is not a happy situation and many people
are suffering either from illness or loss, the world before coronavirus was in
free-fall. We were heading for an environmental disaster of catastrophic
proportions. At the very least, the lockdown measures are allowing Mother Earth
to eliminate toxins, and clear her clogged lungs and breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly the nature of the virus mirrors
the environmental issues that the earth has been experiencing. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">In the aftermath, will there be increased empathy
for the earth, and people in general?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My biggest concern is that all this fear
will create a very real problem of social chaos and anarchy. The loss of social
structure, increased criminal activity and general lawlessness are all very
real threats. This is where we must all do our bit to help avoid this
undesirable outcome. We all need to focus our attention on love, compassion,
gratitude, and joy. We must find our happy place amongst the environment of
panic and pandemic. The more of us that can raise our energetic vibration, the
lower the risk is of chaos taking over. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Each and every one of us can be part of the
solution rather than contributing to the problem. </span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">If you are suffering from anxiety, stress,
depression, loneliness, or emotional distress as a result of the coronavirus
pandemic, please contact Lynne via her website <a href="http://www.lynnethorsen.com/">www.lynnethorsen.com</a> As a qualified
holistic therapist, she can help you alleviate these issues.</span></i></div>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-25912138449916666772020-03-20T04:51:00.000-07:002020-03-20T04:51:43.315-07:00Coranvirus and Birth
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<span lang="EN-GB">I am looking at this crazy situation the
world finds itself in with the arrival of Covid-19, and I see how our reaction
to this crisis reflects the consciousness that has surrounded birth for
centuries. Most people are born into a consciousness of fear and separation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fear arises out of our fear of death. Our
lack of spiritual understanding means that we think death is the end. We are so
afraid of death that we don’t live our lives to their fullest potential.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We are so afraid of death that we try to
save everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a bid to save every
baby and every mother, we have turned birth into a medical emergency; a
catastrophe waiting to happen. Healthy fit women are programmed to believe that
birth is dangerous, painful, and traumatic. They believe that their bodies are
unable to birth a baby without medical intervention. Many interventions and
protocols inflicted on birthing mothers make no sense. They are not based on
fact, and they do not take into account how the natural system of birth works.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The natural birth system is compromised
from the time the woman arrives at the hospital and her instinctual reptilian
brain kicks in and starts silently screaming, not safe, not safe, danger,
danger, danger, even though consciously she thinks that hospital is the safest
place to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hormones that are
required to augment labour, release the baby from the uterus, and instigate
breastfeeding are not released in sufficient quantities or in the right
sequence. Labour slows down or even stops and then the medical personnel swing
into action with intervention after intervention, including administering inducing
labour drugs, electronic foetal heart monitoring, epidural pain relief, and
surgical births. These interventions further inhibit the natural system. As a
result, medical intervention is required to save both mother and child. It is a
question of what comes first, the chicken or the egg?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The world’s reaction to Covid-19 is exactly
the same. It is based on fear and panic and not on fact or common sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statistics that are emerging from places
such as China and Italy are that 99% of Covid-19 deaths are people that already
had at least one or more underlying health problems regardless of age. Generally
older people have more health conditions due to the ageing process, which is
why they are more vulnerable to this virus. There is also an indication that,
especially for younger people, the use of pharmaceutical medications such as
anti inflammatories, increase the severity of Covid-19, and thus should be
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<span lang="EN-GB">World governments have bought into this
fear and in a bid to save everyone, they have confined and isolated healthy fit
people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are preventing healthy fit
people from working, traveling, and generally going about their daily lives.
Just as we use fear to prevent healthy, fit women from experiencing the
powerful, life-changing rite of passage that is natural birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having opted to birth my three children at
home without pain relief or any form of medical intervention, I know that birth
is so much more than what the majority of women experience.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">With the growth of surgical expertise, and
pharmaceutical medicine, we have forgotten that nature thrives on a system of
natural selection. If we look around us at the natural world, not every
organism survives. Plants die if planted in the wrong location. The runts of
cat or dog litters are destined to die as the mother instinctively knows this
and doesn’t look after them. A baby chick that can’t hatch itself properly from
its egg, dies with no intervention from the hen. I could go on, there are so
many examples of how natural selection favours the strong and discards the
weak.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We could look at coronavirus as a form of
natural selection. The toxic world of our own creation needs to cleanse itself
in order to have a chance of surviving. Our programing of preserve life at any
cost, put in place right at the beginning during our birth, means that
governments and society are desperate to limit the number of coronavirus deaths
at whatever cost.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When this is all over, history will tell us
that the social and economic cost of these measures have created far more
problems, and more deaths than the virus itself. Just as many fit, healthy
women are needlessly subjected to major abdominal surgery to birth their babies,
fit, healthy people are going to lose their livelihood, their sanity, and their
freedom.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The way we birth is the way we live. If we
want to significantly change the world, we need to start with how we birth our
babies.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lynne is a therapist and works in the pre
& peri natal psychology field, looking at how the circumstances of our
conception, gestation, birth and first year of life impact the choices we make
and the life we go on to lead. She helps people heal their early life
experiences so they can make a different choice.</span></div>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-35064809632890397582016-06-14T06:08:00.000-07:002016-06-14T06:08:20.019-07:00Embrace Change!Nature shows us that change is a constant in this process we call physical life. The seasons take us through the process of birth, life, death, and rebirth. Birth in the spring, life in the summer, the ageing process and harvest in the autumn and death in the winter to be reborn again the following spring.<br />
Our physical body also renews itself continuously with cells constantly being produced, and then replaced to ensure our body functions optimally.<br />
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Many of us fear change simply because our first experience of change at birth was traumatic and full of pain and struggle. Birth is the moment when we metamorphose from a water mammal to an air breathing mammal. It is when we first encounter the kingdom of opposites; light & dark, hot & cold, up & down, hungry & satisfied, safe & not safe. Our first breath initiates these monumental physiological changes. The in breath and the out breath, forever destined to be their opposite. Our emergence from the womb introduces variation, and the cutting of the cord is the instant we become an individual, no longer part of our mother's physiology. Forced methods of birth often mean that this phenomenal process of change happens in shock, with the baby experiencing physiological pain, under nourishment (if the cord is cut too early), an assault on the senses, and fear as they register 'unsafe'.<br />
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We are conscious at birth and we are registering the experience. Although our cognitive proceses are undeveloped, we respond to the primal instinct of survival that is triggered by fear for our physical safety. If we look at the way most babies are born, we are crazy to think that it does not cause an effect. The pre cognitive brain then associates change with 'not safe' and we develop a resistance to change. Once we understand that our resistance to change comes from an old subconscious thought pattern we then allow ourselves the choice of taking Socrate's advice and focussing our energy on building the new rather than fighting the old.<br />
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The more individuals that embrace change, the more we will be able to create the changes that need to occur on a global scale if we are to ensure the sustainablility of the human race. We have reached a place in our evolution that is no longer comfortable and we cannot continue to assault the earth, our bodies or each other. Greed and separatism need to be replaced by compassion and unity. If we fail to heed the need for consciously created change, we may find that 'life' knocks it down so we are forced to build something new.<br />
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Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-1257651491556357472016-04-22T04:32:00.000-07:002016-04-22T04:32:12.018-07:00The first book in the StackI posted this meme on facebook and received a lot of interest so I thought I would expand the concept to give greater insight into this simple and powerful wisdom.<br />
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Each negative experience, memory, emotion is another book on the stack of your negative beliefs about yourself, relationships, and life in general. I view the bottom book as your earliest life experiences, including gestation, birth, and immediately after birth. As these early life experiences occur in the pre verbal and pre
conscious memory stage, they are stored hidden in the subconsicous and
form our first impression of what it is to be human. The first book has
been created and forms the foundation for the eventual stack that goes
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<i>"Physical Birth matters! The shared experience mother and
baby have at birth creates a shared memory. We form our first impressions of
what it is to be human. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How
does a gestating or newborn baby make decisions? By confirming the impressions
it receives, on a pre-verbal level. Deeply imprinted in the subconscious, these
decisions become the premise upon which the child builds its subsequent logic
and early attitudes about self, others, and the environment. Since this primal
understanding influences the growing child’s every situational encounter</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, the quality of pregnancy and birth deeply impact the quality of
society. </span>For example, if the baby experiences a violent, difficult birth
that causes them to FEEL a lot of pain, they do not have the capacity to think
‘that is just the challenge of birth, everyone was doing their best and thank
god I am alive’. Instead, they record, ‘it hurts, I am not safe, no one is
helping me, it is too hard’, all negative archetypal thought forms that we will
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<i>(Excerpt from my soon to be published book, 'Unlock your Creative Potential' - Understanding the impact of our earliest life experiences by Binnie A Dansby & Lynne Thorsen) </i></div>
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You may seek therapy, personal development courses or other self-help
strategies and succed in removing some of the books from the stack.
However the stack is still there and still impacts your choices and life
experiences. While the stack exists, it can continue to be added to and
you eventually find yourself back at square one. You then feel confused
and disappointed that you couldn't sustain the healing and development
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Exploring your early life experiences and first traumas through
specifically designed inquiry processes and non ordinary states of
consciousness, creates awareness of how the negativity began. With this
awareness it is then possible to make a different choice and heal those
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<b>When you remove the first book in the stack, the rest come tumbling down and transformation is the result. </b></div>
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If you want to remove the bottom book contact me on lynne@lynnethorsen.com or visit my website www.lynnethorsen.com and book in for a 20 minute Free Introductory consultation.Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-82487911497476243652016-02-04T10:27:00.000-08:002016-02-04T10:27:39.462-08:00From Fear to Love - Part One What is Fear?<br />
What stops you realising your dreams, living the life you really want or sustaining great relationships? What causes debilitating illnesses and diseases? <br />
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The simple answer is the presence of FEAR, whether it is at your conscious level of awareness of not. Fear causes us to elicit the 'Fight or Flight' response and construct barriers to <b>PROTECT</b> ourselves, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. <br />
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I devised this blog series <b>'From Fear to Love'</b> so that we can explore together the impact <b>Fear</b> has on all our life systems. The goal is to help people move from an
unconscious operating system based in <b>Fear</b> to a conscious operating
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Fear is not a truth, fear is a PERCEPTION. What is fearful to one person
may not be to another. Therefore our mind has to perceive danger and recognise fear in
order to activate the emotional and physical responses that we
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Our perceived notion of danger comes from our thoughts and beliefs, both programmed and instinctual, conscious and unconscious. (A belief is a thought that we keep thinking.)<br />
Certain fears are hardwired and part of our instinctual brain such as
if we were confronted by a dangerous animal out in the wild. This is part of our
survival mechanism and is not advisable to deactivate.<br />
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Other fears come from our experiences and our interpretation of our experiences. Many fears are programmed from the beliefs of others ie parents, teachers, religious leaders, friends etc. Other fears are created before we have the ability to rationalise and we may not be aware they are even there. Some feaful beliefs are subliminally programmed through constant repetition. This is how propoganda and advertising work.<br />
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Some fears are in our conscious awareness, others hide in our subconscious and are subtly activated without us knowing that that is what is happening.<br />
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Most fears are irrational and not based on an absolute truth. All learned irrational fears can be unlearned and all barriers removed when we learn how to change our thoughts and beliefs!<br />
I used to be terrified of spiders due to a childhood experience. Although my fear response was real, I realised that it was not rational thinking. One day I decided I didn't want that fear anymore and I let it go during a meditation. Since that day I am no longer irrationally afraid of harmless spiders. However, if I was put in a room and told that I was sharing it with an aggressive man eating spider, I am sure that my fear response would be activated.<br />
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Next time we will look at the Anatomy of Fear, that is how fear affects our physical body both consciously and unconsciously and at the macro and micro levels.<br />
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In the meantime, think about what <b>stops</b> you?<br />
What <b>barriers</b> exist in your life?<br />
How do you <b>protect </b>yourself?<br />
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<br />Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-76086590857840950682016-01-13T01:46:00.000-08:002016-01-13T01:46:17.393-08:00In-Tuition - What are you learning?<b>Intuition is something that we all possess, it might be that you just don't know how to use it!</b><br />
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I love words! When you look more closely at the etymology of words, you discover greater depth of meaning and an understanding that at the time that our languages were being developed there was a greater awareness of the connection between mind, body and spirit.<br />
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When we look at the word INTUITION we can see that what it really says is<span style="font-size: large;"><i> In - Tuition</i></span>, in other words <i><span style="font-size: large;">in the process of learning and gathering of knowledge</span>. </i>The more that we pay attention to the information that comes from within, the more we are able to use that knowledge to our own advantage. Another way we can look at the word is being <span style="font-size: large;"><i>In Tune</i></span> or <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Tuning in</i></span> to the vibrational energetic information all around us.<br />
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How we perceive the information we receive will also impact how effectively we can use it.<br />
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<b>The five essential capacities for clear perception of intuitive information are;</b><br />
<b>Presence</b> - To <i>Tune In</i> you must be present to yourself and your inner world (soul) <br />
<b>Attention</b> - Pay attention to the inner, listen in, observe sensations, develop awareness of communications<br />
<b>Trust</b> - believe in yourself and your ability to receive the information<br />
<b>Intimacy</b> - Become intimate with your own inner world<br />
<b>Courage</b> - Take the risk of diving into the unknown<br />
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Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-60135560770081987502015-10-15T04:46:00.001-07:002015-10-15T04:46:27.230-07:00Aligning with my purposeI have recently changed the name of this blog and my facebook page from 'The Goddess Gives Birth to Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense and I would like to explain why.<br />
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This blog was my first foray into putting my words out publicly in January 2012 and at the time I thought my 'raison d'etre' (purpose or reason to be) was about empowering the innate Goddess and changing birth practices so that women could give birth in ecstasy and joy rather than pain and struggle.<br />
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Since then my purpose has evolved and become broader and while it still encompasses the above, it includes much much more. I am so grateful for this blog giving me the confidence to write for a public audience. Since I began it, I have become a published author, appearing in three of the 'Adventures in Manifesting' series and I have now finished my first book and am in the process of getting it published. I have also created my own website www.lynnethorsen.com and a monthly newsletter called Inner Sense News, which is a play on our innate knowlede or our 'Inner Sense' and our true innate state of innocence. In addition and in collaboration with my esteemed teacher and mentor, Binnie A Dansby, I have created a series of online healing programs called 'Soul Birthing'. Creating awareness about both our Inner Sense and our Innocence and facilitating people to access it for themselves has become my mission and purpose.<br />
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I realised that my unique brand is me so I have now aligned all of my products to reflect my brand and my purpose. I firmly believe in the process of co-creation, which I have experienced first hand with Binnie in the writing of our book and the creation of the Soul Birthing healing programs and workshops.<br />
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<br />Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-56403717496540490482015-01-28T04:49:00.000-08:002015-01-28T04:49:30.032-08:00The 'Law of Attraction'<h2 class="null" style="text-align: left;">
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have probably heard by now of the 'Law of Attraction'. This is one of
the main teachings of Abraham who describes itself as being <b><i>"Blocks of
thoughts from the collective SOURCE consciousness that represent the
FULLNESS of who we really are"</i></b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">I first heard about Esther Hicks and the teachings of Abraham during a retreat I attended in 2009. I heard them talk about the Law of Attraction and I wanted to practice it, however I didn't really get it back then. I didn't understand what they meant by a 'vibrational match'. I had seen 'The Secret' and it seemed that all you had to do was ask for what you want and then the universe would deliver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">I haven't watched 'The Secret' since so I am not sure whether I just didn't hear the most important aspect of the Law of Attraction because I wasn't ready to hear it or that it wasn't properly emphasised during this film? In order for the universe to fulfill your desire you have to ALLOW it to. Asking is only the first step and if what you desire is not a match to how you FEEL, the universe can only respond to how you FEEL so you will keep attracting more of that into your life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">For example: You say you want lots of money and what you FEEL is that you don't deserve lots of money because of some self sabotaging judgement/belief then it is what you FEEL that will keep being attracted into your life and you will continue NOT to have lots of money!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The Law of Attraction is about momentum of energy. If you hold a
negative thought, another one will be attracted to it and then another
one until all the momentum is negative thoughts and feelings. It works
the opposite way too, if you have a positive thought then another
positive thought will be attracted to it and if you can sustain the
positive thoughts without resistance (fear, guilt, anger, despair,
judgement) then more and more will be attracted to it and you will be
aligned with the higher vibrations of positive, loving SOURCE energy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">This
means that your thoughts need to be in alignment with your feelings.
Your feelings come from all your experiences, beliefs and memories so if
you believe that you are worthless and then stand in the mirror and
tell yourself that you are worthy, your thought does not match how you
feel and the universe will respond to the deep feeling of unworthiness.
This is the main reason why people do not CREATE what they want and they
think that the 'Law of Attraction' has failed. The Law of Attraction
never fails because you always attract more of what you are thinking and feeling!</span></span></div>
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<b>You have the power!</b><br />
The moment you wake up is the most powerful time of your day. It is the time that you have the least resistance. The time that you are closer to Source Intelligence. Use this time wisely.<br />
Start every day with at least a minute of positive thinking about what you are creating!<br />
Try this for 30 days and see what happens!<br />
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<b>Have FUN!</b><br />
The most important message from Abraham is that life is supposed to be FUN. Joy is our Purpose!<br />
If it is not fun then stop doing it and find a way that is.<br />
Joy accompanies us every step of the way when we are in alignment with SOURCE!<br />
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I want to thank Abraham for providing the wisdom for our evolving world and Esther Hicks for being the conduit for this wisdom! I appreciate that I have had the good fortune to hear and now understand this amazingly simple wisdom.<br />
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Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-91715387779513236692014-12-11T06:54:00.000-08:002014-12-11T06:54:24.779-08:00Stepping outside the BOXOver the past three years in the course of researching the book I am writing, I have come to the realisatioin that we live in a world dominated by outdated dogma and belief systems. We have moved from a world dominated by Religious dogma to a world dominated by Science dogma. We are so convinced by this dogma that we believe it to be unequivocably true regardless of when there is evidence to the contrary. My research has led me on a journey of discovery both through books and the amazing world wide web. This journey has given me greater understanding of the paradigm of belief that we currently live under and access to new theories and ways of thinking that challenge our current worldview. I have found scientists who have stepped outside the box and who have been able to provide explanations for many of my own emerging thoughts and truths around the topics of consciousness, healing, nutrition, biology, physics and the meaning of life.<br />
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One of those illuminating voices that I have recently discovered is Dr Rupert Sheldrake, an eminent molecular biologist and free thinker. I would like to briefly share his views with you on the Dogmas inherent in our current Materialistic world view and then offer you a challenge.<br />
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Dr Sheldrake decided that there are 10 main dogmas that modern science accepts that when put to Scientific inquiry do not stand up as truths. These dogmas are so inherent in our collective worldview (belief system) that even when we are faced with contradictory evidence or personal experience, we maintain this worldview in order to appear rational and educated. Whereas what is happening in actual fact is that by maintaining a belief that has no basis in fact, we are in actual fact being illogical and stupid.<br />
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Here are his ten dogmas and what he likes to do is turn these statements into questions and then see if there is irrefutable scientific evidence to back them up. In his book, The Science Delusion, he demonstrates how each of these dogmas fail to stand up to inquiry.<br />
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The issue with these dogmas are that they are inhibiting science from being a method of inquiry based on hypothesis, reason, evidence and collective investigation. As science is based solely on the assumption that nature and the universe and everything in it are matter and matter is everything, they are struggling to maintain their dogmatic beliefs in the face of new lines of inquiry into consciousness, quantum theories and para-normal phenomena. Therefore instead of accepting that perhaps the dogmatic belief is incomplete, they fudge data, statistics, experiements, research and hypotheses to justify their beliefs. In this regard science is crippling and constricting itself to discover a more accurate portrayal of reality. A wonderful example of this that Dr Sheldrake shares in his controversial TEDx talk, which you can watch below, is the conversation he had with the head of Metrology in the UK on the subject of the speed of light. This refers to dogma 3 which states that the laws or constants of nature are fixed. Sheldrake discovered on examining raw data that the speed of light dropped significantly (20m/s) during the years 1928 - 1948. When asked how this could happen and if this meant that the constant could actually evolve or change according to variables, he received the answer that he had uncovered a rather emabarrassing event in this Science modality and that they had now fixed the problem by defining the speed of light by definition in 1972. This means that now if the speed of light does change, we will never know becasue the measurements are calibrated to the defined measurement of the speed of light rather than its actual measure. DOH! I find it incredulous that a highly educated and esteemed Science Professor can believe that this solves the problem. This is belief programming at its highest and most stupid!<br />
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I have found the same problem when I talk to people about current issues such as cancer treatments, the birth paradigm and the food industry and I find people trotting out programmed beliefs of which there is actually no basis in fact. The most common one that I get about cancer treatments is that there isn't any alternative to Chemo, Radio or Surgery when in fact there are a mulittude of highly effective alternative cancer treatments. I asked one highly educated, highly successful female friend who had breast cancer 5 years ago, whether she changed her diet and her response was "oh no I am not one of those", what does that mean, I am not one of those hippie looney's who thinks that diet has something to do with the health of my body??????? Currently she still takes a highly toxic, highly controversial drug everyday to keep the cancer at bay! Birth is another classic example and when I talk to people about the brilliance of natural home birth, I regularly hear back oh that is ok for you, but hospitals have made birth much safer! Really? My research shows otherwise as maternal and infant mortality rates are on the rise! If I had listened to the birth professionals I would have had three hospital surgical births rather than three natural homebirths! I know that I am grateful everyday that I listened to myself! Most of us know that drugs have many side effects AND we still willingly take them rather than a homeopathic treatment which has no side effects! Why? We have been programmed to believe that mechanistic, chemical medicine is the only one that works, see Dogma 10. The food industry, don't get me started! We see that obesity levels and chronic diseases have risen to epidemic proportions in the last 30 years and we still accept the food industry's disclaimer that it is because we don't do enough exercise rather than all the hidden sugars, chemical additives and unnatural processes that change the quality of the food we eat.<br />
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As we say goodbye to another year, I challenge you to examine the boxes that define your beliefs? Do you follow without questions the predominant worldview dominated by unsubstantiated dogmas or do you step outside the box and empower yourself with alternative knowledge?<br />
Go on! You can do it!<br />
STEP OUTSIDE THE BOX<br />
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<br />Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-37179139264894363612014-11-27T01:54:00.003-08:002014-11-27T01:54:35.803-08:00The Heart<span style="color: magenta;"><b>The Heart</b></span> is one of the most important organs in our body. If it stops beating then our physical body ceases to live. Physiologically the heart contributes more than just pumping blood throughout our body, it also controls the rate, flow and pressure. Our heart is the first organ developed in the womb and it appears that if fulfills the function of the brain, co-ordinating and co-creating our physical development while the brain is still developing. Science is now proving that the heart has its own intelligence and works cooperatively with the brain. Quantum physics tells us that the construct of both the human body and the physical universe is, at the subatomic level, pure energy! The heart has its own electro-magnetic field which is identical to the electro-magnetic field of the earth. Is this a coincidence or rather part of a grand design which connects us to each other and the universe energetically?<br />
The Heart is the bridge between the phyiscal and the spiritual and is where we process our deepest emotions. The Heart is a giver and receiver of love and this process is inhibited when we build barriers to love and close off our heart through fear based emotions. Living with fear means that love can't get through and our whole being is affected both physiologically and spiritually. Unseen we transmit our emotions and feelings energetically to all those around us. If we transmit love based energy then we positively impact our environment including people and everything grows. If we transmit fear based energy then we are sending negative vibes out and we attract negativity into our environment. Learning to live in harmony improves our quality of life. Each person that learns heart based living impacts the society they live in and then that impacts the global environment. Loving and healing yourself is not selfish! It is the most selfless act you can do. The world needs us all to heal our pain, release our fears and start living from LOVE!<br />
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<li>Learn to RECOGNISE the difference between a fear based REACTION and a love based RESPONSE!</li>
<li>MEDITATE DAILY bringing your focus of attention to your HEART SPACE</li>
<li>Give your HEART intelligence a name and practice asking this 'intelligence' for their solution</li>
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INTENTIONAL POSITIVE THINKING by filling your thoughts with positive
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Watch this 7 minute video from Heart Math to understand how this process works! <br />
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<br />Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-77759389134082755652014-11-05T08:52:00.002-08:002014-11-05T08:52:20.082-08:00E-MotionFor the past 15 years I have subscribed to the belief that all forms of disease, illness and discomfort are the product of underlying negative belief systems and negative thought forms. These are expressed in our physical and energetic bodies as emotions. It is the reason why I have trained in Holistic Therapies including breathwork and guided visualisations.<br />
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There is a new movie that can be purchased online which explains clearly and succinctly this process. You can watch the first 25 minutes for free. This information has the potential to improve our health, happiness and longevity. It has the potential to put the power of health back into the hands of the indivdual rather than in the hands of the Medical profession and Pharmaceutical industry. </div>
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I have now received and watched the entire movie and I loved it. It explained clearly and in layman's terms what I have been passionately involved with for the past 15 years. Many times I have been stuck trying to explain these simple yet deeply rejected concepts to friends and family. I urge you all to watch this movie, it is a game changer!</div>
Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-16166853684061735332014-09-11T05:25:00.002-07:002014-09-11T05:25:46.315-07:00"Microbirth" The MovieSome time ago I invested in a film project by Alto Films called 'Microbirth'. This film explores the microscopic world of birth and early development. It researches how vaginal birth, skin on skin contact and breastfeeding all contribute to kick starting our intricately complex immune system through the exposure to a variety of microbes which then create our microbiome. I am hosting a screening of this fascinating new film in London on World Premiere Day, Saturday September 20th. This film is about raising awareness of the hidden consequences of our modern birth and child rearing practices. It is a must see for everyone not just pregnant women! Visit <a href="http://www.microbirth.com/">www.microbirth.com</a> to find a screening near you!<br />
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that if normal vaginal birth is interfered with or bypassed completely because
of Caesarean birth, this could alter the “seeding of the baby's microbiome”,
the critical transfer of bacteria from mother to baby at birth. Scientists
suggest this could lead to the baby's immune system not developing to its full
potential. Another hypothesis is the actual process of vaginal birth, including
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public health time-bomb waiting to go off. And the research we are doing
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generation really is on the edge of the precipice unless we can begin to do
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film's co-director Toni Harman says, <i>“Caesarean Sections are essential and
often are life-saving. However, up until now, no-one has really looked into the
long-term impact. This emerging research is painting an alarming picture in
terms of future health across populations. There may even be repercussions for
the future of humanity. And yet, up until now, I don't hear any alarm bells
ringing.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">For many, the first breath is taken in shock and pain, the harsh air burning delicate throats and lungs and immediate cord clamping cutting off the flow of oxygen and nutrient rich cord blood. This shocking memory sits in every cell and causes fear to accompany our thoughts about the breath. In response we choose not to breathe deeply, not to take in this full life giving and purifying substance. We resist, we hold back, we breathe shallowly not willing to return to those sensations.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">Breathing consciously and deeply is one of the most therapeutic, healing acts we can do. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px;">When you are angry - BREATHE<br />When you are sad - BREATHE<br />When you are excited - BREATHE<br />When you are afraid - BREATHE<br />When you are ill - BREATHE<br />When you don't know what to do - BREATHE</span></div>
Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-72635412289074595272014-04-02T06:18:00.000-07:002014-04-02T06:18:12.025-07:00Asbestos Awareness WeekThis is an email that I received from someone that reads my blog. Her story and her quest are worth a few minutes of your time.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Hi Lynne!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for responding to my comment! I’m reaching out to you today in hopes that you will help me with a cause that is very near and dear to my heart. At age 36, I was diagnosed with mesothelioma just 3 ½ months after my first and only child, Lily, was born. I was given just 15 months to live unless I underwent a drastic surgery to remove my left lung. Miraculously, I beat the odds and I’m still here eight years later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Asbestos is not banned in the US, yet it’s the only known cause of mesothelioma. I was exposed to asbestos through my fathers work jacket when I was just a little girl; my diagnosis came about 30 years later. Once diagnosed, most patients die within 2 years. I am one of few survivors who openly share their story and work to spread awareness regarding the dangers of asbestos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">In honor of upcoming Asbestos Awareness Week (April 1-7), I have created a webpage dedicated to raising awareness. I would love it if you would be willing to share it on your blog to help educate and protect your readers from this preventable disease!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Here’s the link to my awareness page: <a href="http://mesothelioma.com/heather/awareness">mesothelioma.com/heather/awareness</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Please let me know what you think :-)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">All my best,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">Heather</span></div>
Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-44795770012787902622014-03-27T09:59:00.000-07:002014-03-27T09:59:35.964-07:00Monty Python -On Hospital birth<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/arCITMfxvEc" width="459"></iframe><br />
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In 1983 Monty Python included this 'hospital birth' sketch in their hilariously funny satirical film "The Meaning of Life"! In this short three minute clip they sum up everything that is wrong with high tech medicalised birth. In the thirty years since this film was made, this situation has only become more exaggerated so that the 1983 parody looks more like real life in a modern birthing suite!<br />
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In this wonderfully predictive sketch, the mother, father and baby are shown as the least important elements of the birthing process. The most important elements being the doctors, the machinery and the money making potential of each procedure!<br />
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In their eminently funny way, the Monty Python team demonstrate how modern birthing methods frighten babies, depress mothers and marginalise fathers. They highlight the insanity of many routine hospital birth procedures and emphasise the inhumanity of 'isolating' babies from mothers!<br />
I find it astonishing that over 30 years ago, they had so accurately observed the growing trend of over medicalising birth in such fine detail, highlighting in case you missed it;<br />
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<li>the accepted superiority of the doctor</li>
<li>the notion that women are not qualified to birth their own baby</li>
<li>the inutility of high tech machines</li>
<li>the power of the hospital administrator</li>
<li>the administration's concern for profit over quality of care</li>
<li>the lack of knowledge by all concerned</li>
<li>the insensitivity of the hospital environment</li>
<li>the unnecessary number of birth attendants</li>
<li>the bright lights and loud noises of a birthing suite</li>
<li>the frightening environment the baby is first born into</li>
<li>early cord clamping</li>
<li>rough towel treatment of the baby</li>
<li>clinical post birth medical checks</li>
<li>isolating babies</li>
<li>keeping the mother helpless and powerless</li>
<li>separating babies from their mothers</li>
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This short video perfectly demonstrates what I have been researching and writing about for the last two years in regards to "The Hidden Dictatorship" and Birth!<br />
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I urge you to watch and share so that more people can see through the art of comedy, the tragedy that is unfolding everyday in delivery suites around the world!Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-15907983754775564532013-08-28T03:38:00.000-07:002013-08-28T03:38:19.307-07:00The Hidden Dictatorship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am sharing with you today an excerpt from the new book that I am writing with Binnie A Dansby. In Chapter Five we look at 'The Hidden Dictatorship" that is currently influencing the choices we make!<br />
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direction of medical knowledge towards a pharmaceutical application and away
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decisions in the 1970’s have directly contributed to the global obesity epidemic
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<strong>What does Surrender mean?</strong></h1>
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Surrender is the process of letting go of that which we no longer need! Letting go of our RESISTANCE. Letting go of FEARS. Letting go of PAINFUL emotions. Letting go of thoughts or actions that cause negativity in our lives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Resistance is our response to deeply held FEARS. What we most resist is what we most need to heal or change. I am sure you have all had the experience of wanting to do something new to create change in your life, only to find excuses, blocks, obstacles and ways to avoid the task or issue completely? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">To surrender your old thoughts, beliefs, habits, friends, job, and lifestyle that no longer serves you does NOT mean that you are weak or giving up! It is actually the opposite!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">It takes great COURAGE to face up to our FEARS, fight our resistance and create something new.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><strong>Why Surrender???</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Surrender is a </span><strong style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">CATALYST</strong><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> for personal </span><strong style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">CHANGE</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Surrender allows us to to be </span><strong style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">REBORN </strong><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">into a new consciousness, a new way of being!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Surrender brings a great sense of </span><strong style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">FREEDOM</strong><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> to your life.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Surrender brings you into </span><strong style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">CONNECTION </strong><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">with the universe, other people and most of all yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Surrender is an ESSENTIAL part of achieving a natural birth!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">When a woman trusts her body, releases her fears and allows her body to do what it has been created to do, then natural birth is the usual result. You can also take it one step further and fully surrender yourself to the physiological process that is birth. It is in this state that ECSTATIC Birth becomes possible! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I experienced fear and resistance to the innate power in my body during my first child's birth. I had never experienced anything like it and the intensity brought up very deeply held fears about life and death. It wasn't until I surrendered to this power that my baby was able to be born, breech and beautiful!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Most women experience fear in childbirth at some stage of the process and enlightened support understands how to allay those fears and encourage the woman to fully surrender herself to the birth. In most cases, the medical model of birth only serves to create more fears and resistance with all of its protocols and high tech management of the process. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It is time the Medical System surrendered its control over a process that is at its heart natural and one of life's miracles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: 700;">ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW about ecstatic birth </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">by </span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Lynne Thorsen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-style: italic;">“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that
childbirth is painful, it’s that women are strong.”
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">When most people think of the words
ecstatic and birth in the same sentence they
think that it is some trumped up myth by a
bunch of hippies on drugs!
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">It’s not the reality of birth!
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Currently, birth is surrounded by<br />
an aura of FEAR, propagated by media
portrayals, reinforced by the authoritarian
medical system and cultivated by global
corporations profiting from current birthing
practices.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Most adults alive today have been born
through pain and struggle. The majority<br />
of modern women are rendered helpless,
hopeless and powerless as the obstetrical
machine assumes control over their births
and triumphantly hands them their baby.
Most people believe that they have no
choice! We have been programmed to
distrust our own anatomy and fear the
innate power that resides in every cell.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Increasingly, many women report being
left with physical and emotional scars after
highly interventionist medical births. The
result is women who feel disempowered,
manipulated and abused by insensitive<br />
and authoritarian medical professionals.
They express feelings of loss, failure and<br />
a deep desire for more. The incidence of
post-natal depression is increasing, as are
behavioural conditions in children such as
autism, ADHD and excessive violence in our
society. There are a number of scientists and
psychologists who are suggesting that there
is a link between traumatic birth experiences
and these conditions.</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 3pt;">1
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">WHAT IS ‘ECSTATIC BIRTH’ THEN?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Ecstasy or ecstatic is defined as an
overwhelming feeling of happiness or joyful
excitement and can involve an experience of
mystic self-transcendence.</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 3pt;">2
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Therefore it is an experience of birth that
transcends a normal state; a physical and
spiritual transformation, producing lasting
sensations of joy, excitement and happiness.
This indicates something more than just
being relieved or happy to receive a living
baby at the end of a traumatic medical birth.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">There is a growing number of women
and couples who choose to be the authority
in the birth process. They avoid or adapt
the medical model to birth naturally and
ecstatically.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">My first baby was breech. The system
recommended a caesarean. I did my research
and decided that I could birth her at home
with an experienced midwife.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">I will never forget the euphoria I felt at
the moment of her birth, triumphing over
the system and discovering my inner source
of feminine power. It was transformational
on every level. It was so incredible that I
vowed that I wanted to help other women
experience that ecstasy too!
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">WHY ARE NATURAL BIRTHS
‘ECSTATIC’ AND MEDICAL BIRTHS
NOT?<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The physiological system of natural birth
(no medical intervention) is exquisitely
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">designed and balanced. There is a gradual
development and intensification during
labour that allows the mother to expand and
open her body and for the baby to adapt and
participate in the process.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Natural labour is divided into three stages:
1. Expansion and dilation of the pelvis
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">and cervix,<br />
2. Pushing and birthing<br />
3. Placenta delivery, uterus returning to
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">size, blood loss stemmed
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Each stage is augmented by the ‘cocktail’ of
birth hormones that is gradually released
into the mother’s bloodstream to produce
the muscular contractions required, regulate
blood flow and activate emotional responses
in the mother’s brain. They also cross the
placental membrane to benefit the baby.
These hormones include oxytocin, beta-
endorphins, catecholamines and prolactin.
The production of all four types of hormones
builds gradually in both the mother and
baby during labour, peaking at the moment
of birth.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The most significant of these hormones
is oxytocin, which is vital during every<br />
stage for optimal functioning of all the
components necessary for a successful
natural, ecstatic birth. According to
Professor Sue Carter, oxytocin is the
hormone of love and is connected to the
sensations of euphoria, ecstasy, well-being
and security. Oxytocin levels are highest in
humans during social contact, sex, orgasm,
pregnancy, natural birth and breastfeeding.</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 3pt;">3
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The beta-endorphins are the body’s natural
pain regulators, providing relief for both
mother and baby as the intensification<br />
of energy and sensations progressively
increase. The catecholamines, adrenalin and
noradrenalin, are there to increase levels of
excitement and muscular effort required to
stimulate the foetal ejection reflex at birth.
Prolactin, in combination with oxytocin
produces the feelings of love, tenderness<br />
and protection associated with motherhood
and is present in breast milk. According to
Michel Odent, prolactin ensures that the
mother will direct these feelings towards her
baby. The levels of oxytocin and prolactin
remain high after birth in order to eject<br />
the placenta, contract the uterus, initiate
breastfeeding and promote attachment and
bonding between mother and baby.</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 3pt;">4
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The key to the optimal functioning of
this cocktail of hormones is the balance,
regulation and perfectly timed release
during natural labour. Unfortunately the
medical model of birth interferes with this
synchronicity. It is unable to replicate this
naturally occurring phenomenon.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Synthetic oxytocin, commonly known
as Pitocin or Syntocinon, used to induce
labour and to expel the placenta, does<br />
not produce the same effects as natural
oxytocin. It does not cross over to the brain
to produce sensations of ecstasy and love. It
is continually administered by IV drip and
cannot be regulated like natural oxytocin.
It suppresses natural oxytocin production
and increases the length and intensity of
contractions, causing both maternal and
foetal distress.
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">If the mother is feeling unsafe or
unsupported her fear and anxiety levels
increase, which creates tension in her body.
This tension opposes the releasing action of
labour, and pain is the result. This is known
as the ‘fear-tension-pain’ syndrome</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 3pt;">5</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">. It can
be triggered by fear of birth, moving from
the security of the home environment to<br />
the hospital, encountering insensitive or too
many medical personnel or being subjected
to invasive or restrictive medical procedures.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">In response the body will produce too
much adrenalin/noradrenalin in the early
stages of labour. This increases muscular
tension and reduces oxytocin and beta-
endorphin production resulting in even
higher levels of pain. Administering
synthetic pain relieving drugs through IV<br />
or epidurals further inhibits the natural
production of oxytocin, beta-endorphins
and prolactin. It also restricts freedom of
movement, causing discomfort and the
inability to use gravity and movement to
assist in the progression of the baby through
the birth canal.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The natural system of birth is rendered
useless by medical interventions resulting in
the cascade of further interventions and the
possibility of a caesarean section.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">WHY CHOOSE AN ECSTATIC BIRTH?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The benefits are numerous and long lasting.
1. Your baby is welcomed in love, joy and
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">excitement.<br />
2. Post birth recovery is faster,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">breastfeeding easier and there are lower
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">rates of post-natal depression.<br />
3. You experience the emotional and
spiritual transcendence of a truly
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">co-creative experience.<br />
4. The transformational experience of self-
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">empowerment.<br />
5. The long-term emotional and physical
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">health and well-being of both mother
and child!
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">MY 5 TOP TIPS TO CREATING AN
ECSTATIC BIRTH<br />
1. Knowledge is power
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The key is understanding and developing
trust in the natural birth process and your
own body.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Research everything you can on ‘ecstatic
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">birth’ or ‘natural empowered birth’<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Read natural birth guide books. Check
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">out these authors:<br />
o Dr Sarah Buckley, Ina May Gaskin,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Michel Odent, Sheila Kitzinger,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Frederic Leboyer<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Read Childbirth Without Fear by Dr
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Grantly Dick-Read<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Read or listen to other ecstatic birth
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">stories<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Attend informative seminars or retreats
• Watch empowered birth films
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">2. Release your fears
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Attend workshops or have individual
therapy sessions that are designed to
release your fears about birth. Consider:
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Hypnobirthing
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Breathwork<br />
• Guided visualisations<br />
• Independent birth preparation classes
• Natural therapies; acupuncture,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">kinesiology, reflexology or NLP.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">3. Prepare your body, mind and spirit
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Preparation is the key to success. I
recommend:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Researching<br />
• Workshops and classes
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Breathing and visualisation techniques
• Pre-natal yoga and exercise<br />
• Maintaining a healthy diet<br />
• Herbal supplements or homeopathic
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">remedies<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Perineal massage<br />
• Acupuncture, reflexology and cranial
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">sacral osteopathy<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Rest and adequate sleep
• Sexual stimulation<br />
• Meditation<br />
• Affirmations and prayer
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">4. Surround yourself with enlightened
support
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Everyone who is present during the<br />
birth will cause an effect and positive,
strong, enlightened support is essential. It
is important to realise that it is
challenging, although not impossible,<br />
to find the support you need within the
traditional medical system.<br />
I strongly recommend:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Hire a doula or independent midwife.<br />
• Choose supporters, including partner,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">who fully understand, trust and respect
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">your wishes.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Choose medical personnel carefully;
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">ensure they support your choices! Know
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">your rights!<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Choose the most supportive
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">environment for you to achieve an
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">ecstatic birth.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Use physical support such as birth
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">balls, birthing pools, conscious
breathing, hypnosis techniques or
massage during the birth,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; font-weight: 700;">5. Consciously co-create with your baby
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Acknowledge that your baby is conscious
and communicating:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Communicate non-verbally with your
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">baby during pregnancy<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Listen in and communicate with your
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">baby during labour<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Welcome your baby and treat them to
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">skin on skin contact in their first
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">moments<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">• Delay cord-clamping to allow the
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">maximum cord blood transfusion for the
baby’s well-being
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">My experience and research has shown me
that ‘ecstatic birth’ is not an aberration – it
is the genetic blueprint and birth right of
every woman. It is time to change the story!
Lets take the opportunity to create a new
paradigm; ecstatic birth – a new future for
birth and society!
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 2pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Dr Roy Dittman - Brighton Baby, David B
Chamberlain- Windows to the womb, birth and
the origins of violence<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 2pt;">2 </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/
ecstatic<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 2pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">The healing power of love – Oxytocin, Professor
Sue Carter, www.stephenporges.com<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 2pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Gentle birth, Gentle Mothering – Dr Sarah J
Buckley, Ch 2 ecstatic birth, One Moon Press,
Australia, 2005.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype; vertical-align: 2pt;">5 </span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype;">Dr Grantly Dick Read, Childbirth without Fear
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When I was pregnant with my first child, I learnt about the benefits of delaying clamping of the umbilical cord until it had stopped pulsating. My understanding at the time was that it was beneficial to the baby to transiton to being born and for their immediate health and well being. My husband and I chose to delay clamping until some 5-10 minutes after birth for all three of our children. It is only recently that I have learnt and begun to appreciate the HUGE impact that allowing the transfusion of all the cord blood into the baby, has on the physical and mental potential of an individual. <br />
This is not just about the first minutes or months of life, this has an impact for the rest of their lives!<br />
Why?<br />
A baby's blood before birth is constantly being pumped through the mother via the cord and placenta. At the time of birth, 30% of the baby's blood is outside of its body. The cord then pulses to return all of that vital blood containing Oxygen, red blood cells, white blood cells, iron & other nutrients and stem cells back to the baby, nourishing them abundantly and providing them with all they need for their first minutes, days, hours, months and even years when it comes to optimal brain development and health.<br />
It seems incredulous to me that our revered medical system has remained so ignorant to the effect a simple act like immediate cord clamping has on limiting our human potential.<br />
This is definitely a case of nature knows best as you can find no other mammallian species that will sever their young's cord until after it has ceased pulsating. Why then do human's, supposedly sitting at the top of the food chain, perform this devasting act on its most vulnerable?<br />
The scientific and social evidence is now coming to light about this issue, however people are notoriously slow to change habits, therefore if want to create global change quickly, we all need to participate in the change.<br />
How?<br />
A pediatrician called Alan Greene, has in conjunction with other groups, started a campaign called Tick Tock. He believes that we can significantly change the world in regards to human intelligence and physical health by allowing each baby that is born to enjoy the benefits of receiving its birthright, cord blood. Waiting a mere 90 seconds after birth before clamping the cord will allow the baby to recieve a significant percentage of this nutrient rich blood. Waiting even longer will allow them to receive all of it. Optimal cord clamping can be achieved for all types of births, vaginal, caesarean, home, hospital, water etc.<br />
There are two calls to action which are highlighted in the below video of a TED talk that he gave.<br />
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1/ Request optimal cord clamping (cord has stopped pulsating) for all your loved ones<br />
2/ Share this information with everyone you know and are on your social and business networks<br />
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This is the power of the people! Please Share this with your world!<br />
WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD<br />
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Birth impacts the life you go on to lead and therefore impacts society because society is the sum total of all the individuals in it!</div>
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Babies born into fear and struggle become people who live in fear and struggle.</div>
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Babies separated from their source (mother) in their first moments on earth become people who think they are alone and have to do it all on their own. Instantly they have lost connection to the concept that WE ARE ALL ONE!</div>
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When I started writing this blog over a year ago, I was convinced that I wanted to change the consciousness around birth so that babies can come into the world in joy and ecstasy and mothers can harness the power of the divine feminine to enhance their lives. NOW I realise that it is much more than that. <div>
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I have a vision of a world where people live in harmony, corporations only produce and promote products and services that are for the good of all and nature is respected and sustained!</div>
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I realise now that my mission is to EMPOWER CHANGE!</div>
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Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-14553137843594195902013-03-05T09:45:00.000-08:002013-03-05T09:45:06.992-08:00DECIDE to be your own Birth LeaderI recently read a post by Deepak Chopra on the subject of how to be a good leader and I decided that it was perfect advice in how to manifest the birth you want!<br />
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<b>Step One - Assess the risk to reward ratio & gather evidence. </b><br />
This is the stage where you find out as much about the birth you want as you can. Assess if there are risks and also what are the rewards. Determine if the rewards outweigh the risks and gather as much evidence as you can to support your decision. You may need this to argue your case with your health professional. For example if you are someone who wants to have a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean) you would be well served to find out all the facts about uterine rupture as research that I have conducted shows that the risk is far less than many health professionals will tell you. The more knowledge you have the more power you have! You will have far more success in having your decision supported.<br />
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<b>Step Two - Judge the opposition and gather a team that supports your values and goals</b><br />
It is important to understand the opposition that you may meet in your quest and have answers at the ready. Be prepared to shop around if you cannot get the support you need. Start gathering a team that will support your goal. There are many professionals that will support goals like natural unmedicated birth, VBAC, Vaginal Breech Birth etc. Also educate the people closest to you such as your partner, mother, friends and other children.<br />
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<b>Step Three - Think outside the box to avoid rigid, fear based thinking. Learn to trust the wisdom of your instincts.</b><br />
Currently birth is surrounded by conservative, fear based thinking. If you desire a more natural birth, it is necessary to think outside the square, be creative and trust the wisdom that your body has innately. Female bodies know how to birth, this is the great gift of your own internal wisdom. TRUST, TRUST, TRUST!<br />
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<b>Step Four - Generate enthusiasm, loyalty and esprit de corps among your followers.</b><br />
Your belief, trust and enthusiasm will spread to your supporters. You may even find that it spreads to others and inspires others to follow in your footsteps. Your positive energy will create positive energy around you. I have read many inspiring birth stories where the positive energy and strength of conviction of the birthing mama has influenced and enlightened the birth professionals working with her. In some cases it has changed the way they practice forever!<br />
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Thankyou Deepak Chopra for these wise words, which fit so perfectly to the Birth ProcessLynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-30052072940770664242013-02-26T09:49:00.001-08:002013-02-26T09:49:26.622-08:00NATURAL BIRTH REQUIRES SAFETY & PRIVACY
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<span lang="EN-US">NATURAL BIRTH REQUIRES THE
MOTHER TO FEEL SAFE AND UNOBSERVED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“Anything that disturbs a labouring woman’s sense of
safety and privacy will disrupt the birth process. This definition covers most of modern
obstetrics, which has created an entire industry around the observation and
monitoring of pregnant and birthing women.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6336658142968551790#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Dr Sarah J Buckley<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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In order for the natural system of birth to begin functioning optimally with a gradual release and build up of the birthing hormones, the mother needs to feel safe and unobserved!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Safety is a deep instinctual primal need for a woman to feel comfortable enough to relax into the physical state of vulnerability required for birthing. We can observe how animals instinctually seek out a secluded, hidden safe place in which to birth their young.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During the preparatory
phase before the onset of labour, women will instinctively want to find this
private, safe place. This is the time
that many women start ‘nesting’ activities; renovating, cleaning and preparing
for the birth. As the majority of women
in the developed world birth in hospital, packing the hospital bag has replaced
preparing the home as the most common ‘nesting’ activity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our culture has been programmed to believe that hospital is the “safe” place for birth and many women want to race off there at the first signs of labour. Often, once they arrive, their bodies instinctively do not feel safe or unobserved and for many women, labour slows down or stops altogether. This then validates the belief that women’s bodies are not to be trusted to birth by themselves and that they require all the intervention that the medical model offers. It is in this situation of arrested labour that the 'cascade of intervention' begins with labour inducing drugs, electronic foetal monitors, restricted movement, large technological machines, epidurals and finally the caesarean section. From the moment she arrives, fear is building in the mother. Fear is contraindicated to natural birth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Privacy is essential for a woman to feel safe and comfortable to surrender and let go; to allow the body to find its own wisdom in how to birth the baby. Sadly, there is little if any privacy in the hospital setting. </span><span lang="EN-US">Strangers, bright lights, machines, people coming in and out of the room at will, loud noises. Labouring women are often subjected to invasive procedures such as internal examinations, catheter insertion, IV insertion, attachment of the EFM to the babies head and their genitals on show with little respect for </span>the sanctity of birth and the need for privacy. Giving Birth is a truly intimate act, not unlike the act of lovemaking which put the baby there in the first place. Making love in full view of a room of strangers is not conducive to a relaxing and ecstatic experience, the same applies to birth. Even some homebirth midwives do not create enough privacy for the labouring woman and her partner.</div>
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If you want this situation to change then you, the consumer needs to start demanding increased safety and privacy in the birth setting. If you don't get the answers you want, then change doctors, change hospitals and spend your money where you can get what you want! This is the power of the people! We have a choice as to how and to whom we spend our money!</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6336658142968551790#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Dr Sarah J Buckley, Gentle
Birth, Gentle Mothering, One Moon Press, 2005, P110.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-60291479843972699532013-02-20T03:23:00.002-08:002013-02-20T03:23:52.149-08:00BIRTH: Nature Knows Best
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We are living in a world that has decided that technology and machines can replace the natural physiology of the human body. One of the reasons is that there is a lot of money to be made out of all things man-made. In this series of posts I am going to examine the requirements of the ‘birth system’ so that it can function optimally, the natural physiological responses of the ‘birth system’ and the consequences of inhibiting and trying to control nature.</div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Obstetricians, as members of society, tend to blind
faith in technology and the mantra: technology = progress = modern. The other
side of the coin is the lack of faith in nature, best expressed by a Canadian
obstetrician: 'Nature is a bad obstetrician.' So the idea is to conquer nature
and results in the widespread application of attempts to improve on nature
before scientific evaluation. This has led to a series of failed attempts in
the twentieth century to improve on biological and social evolution. Doctors
replaced midwives for low risk births, then science proved midwives safer.
Hospital replaced home for low risk birth, then science proved home as safe
with far less unnecessary intervention. Hospital staff replaced family as birth
support, then science proved birth safer if family present. Lithotomy replaced
vertical birth positions, then science proved vertical positions safer. Newborn
examinations away from mothers in the first 20 minutes replaced leaving babies
with mothers, then science proved the necessity for maternal attachment during
this time. Man-made milk replaced woman-made milk, then science proved breast
milk superior. The central nursery replaced the mother, then science proved
rooming-in superior. The incubator replaced the mother's body for care of
low-weight newborns, then science proved the kangaroo method better in many
cases. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If more doctors
experienced an earthquake or volcano, they would realize their ideas of
controlling nature are nothing more than stories to rewrite insignificance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr Marcus Wagner<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6336658142968551790#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The human body is an amazing piece of structural,
chemical and electrical engineering.
There are a myriad of systems that integrate and work together to
establish and maintain internal equilibrium or balance. At university I studied Anatomy, physiology,
exercise physiology and biomechanics and was constantly in awe as I learnt the
intricacies and machinations of the human body.
What makes humans so interesting is the role that consciousness plays in
physical responses to internal and external environments. Whereas most other mammals respond to bodily
requirements such as eating, drinking and birth with instinctual actions, we
humans influence and control these actions with conscious thoughts and
emotions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A human body consists of its anatomy and physiological
systems. Examples of these are the respiratory, digestive and circulatory
systems, to name a few, which contribute to the optimal functioning of the body
during its everyday activities. I now
understand that Birth too, is another perfectly designed physiological system. It is activated when the innate consciousness
of both the baby and mother release the trigger, suggested to be the hormone, oxytocin. As in all the other physiological systems, to
function optimally, birth requires healthy nutrition, a relaxed emotional state
and no interference from external stimulants.
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It is interesting to note that the obstetrical industry only began in the sixteenth century and it was not until the twentieth century that it really began to take over birth. In 1972 the caesarean rate in the US was only 3% and that has now risen to 33% in 2011. Humans have been birthing and evolving for 2 millioin years, mostly without obstetrical intervention. Therfore the notion that we NEED obstetrical assistance is a mere blip, not even worth
registering on the continuum of human existence. Although we are several generations into this
model of care, now is the time to re examine the facts and remember that nature
knows best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6336658142968551790#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Marsden Wagner, MD, MSPH, <a href="https://www.birthinternational.com/articles/birth/18-fish-cant-see-water"><i><span style="color: #4697a4; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fish Can't See
Water: The Need to Humanize Birth in Australia</span></i></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-65219465485311470052013-02-04T02:49:00.001-08:002013-02-04T02:49:19.818-08:00The Goddess Gives BirthTo follow up from last week's posting about the role of 'The Goddess', here is the story of my encounter with my inner Goddess! I know there are many women out there who have experienced this too!<br />
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I first met my inner Goddess during the birth of my first child. At the time I was unaware that it was she that I was communing with. When I first encountered her, I was simultaneously awestruck and deeply afraid. I wasn’t afraid of the discomfort or hard work that I was experiencing during labour, I was afraid of her power! I tried to hold her power back. I tried to control her. I thought if I unleashed her power, I would tear in two and be destroyed. I resisted her with every cell of my being, keeping at bay the primal scream that threatened to be released.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My body was no longer in control; a force that shook me to the very core had seized it. This was happening during the second, pushing stage of labour and with each contraction, this force threatened to consume me so I held it back as best as I could. For over two hours, I resisted until my conscious, earthly fear of being transferred to hospital to have my baby surgically removed overtook my other fears. I knew then that I had to harness this energy and power within me. I had to surrender my need for control and release my fear to fully embrace this source of power. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With great trepidation, on the next contraction, I answered the call. I finally surrendered my resistance and said YES to this hidden force. I felt my connection to my inner power. I realised that I could do it; I could handle all this energy and still survive. Within minutes, my baby started to be released from my body and less than twenty minutes later she was born safely into my eager hands. My euphoria soared as I experienced the ecstasy of achievement. I had accessed my hidden power to birth my baby fully naturally with no pain relief or medical procedures. Even though it was my first child, my perineum had stretched beautifully, accommodating her passage without tearing. Ten minutes later, my body once again responded with its natural physiology to spontaneously eject the placenta with minimal bleeding.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The context of this birth was that my baby was breech and I was having a home birth against all medical and social advice. Contrary to most other people, I did not trust hospitals and doctors due to past negative experiences and I wanted to avoid a surgical birth at all costs. Additionally I had learnt during my holistic therapy training of the connection between the mind and body and the art of manifestation. I had read many books that taught the importance of natural birth to the baby and I truly believed that birth was a natural not a medical event.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Additionally during my daughter’s birth, I had learned something about the process of birth and myself. I had learned that hidden deep in my female physiology lay a fierce and immense power and if I had it then other women had it too. I felt like I had uncovered a secret, a secret that I knew many other women had not yet learned. I knew something that no man could ever know or experience and I knew that is why the male dominated medical model of birth is so unsuccessful. I was passionate in a way that I had never experienced before. Just slightly below my level of conscious awareness, I knew that I had stumbled on my very reason for being.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I immediately wanted to shout it to the world. I wanted to reveal its mysteries to all the women in my life because I wanted them to share in the euphoria and transformation that I had experienced. When I tried to impart this knowledge, I found that no one was listening. I found that the conditioning and programming around birth was so deeply ingrained that most women could not even fathom what I was talking about. I saw that a deep fear and resistance stopped them from even trying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It seemed incredulous that strong, successful women believed they <i>couldn’t do it</i> when it came to birth. I struggled to understand why so many gave up the opportunity to experience their inner strength and access their sacred inner wisdom. I felt frustrated by a society and culture that actively encouraged this disempowerment and felt angry with those who chose to profit financially from the <i>business</i> of birth.</div>
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The Goddess exists for us all, it is time to reclaim her in the process of birth!</div>
Lynne Thorsen- Inner Sense Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16870202755861662395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336658142968551790.post-3649242078056281482013-01-27T03:27:00.000-08:002013-01-27T03:27:23.613-08:00The Goddess Some of you who visit this site, may wonder about the title and what it means. I came up with it a year ago when I created this blog and it is only now that I truly understand what it means. I have recently spent some time researching the ancient Goddess Cultures and I have gained a much deeper understanding of who and what The Goddess is.<br />
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The true power of the
Goddess lies in the fierce, aggressive, wild and uncontrollable aspects of her
nature as is experienced in the extremes of Mother Nature herself.<br />
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The Goddess is inherently feminine and the source of
feminine power. She is the connection
between the cosmos and the earth, symbolised and incarnate by the female
physiology through menstruation, pregnancy and birth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goddess power is transformative power. She allows the ordinary person to perform
extra-ordinary physical and metaphysical feats.
She lies dormant in every bodily cell, both male and female, until
called upon instinctually or intentionally. She is not just available to a
select few; her power is universal and part of us all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our current consciousness has a deep and morbid fear of her
power and she has been suppressed, repressed and oppressed over the millennia
since the Patriarchy established itself as the authority in our lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Childbirth is one of those times when the pathway to Goddess
power is open to women, as long as the natural process of birth is honoured and
allowed to function without intervention.
The current Patriarchal medical model of birth inhibits and interferes
with the sacred physiological and spiritual transformation of labour and birth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The time has come to Wake UP and rediscover our Goddess
birthing power. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The time has come to say NO to the misogynistic,
disempowering practices of medicalised birth before it is too late.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The power of the feminine resides in the cohesion of the
female group. Females represent slightly
more than 50% of the global population. If
we do this together, we will be a force to be reckoned with. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The SHIFT in consciousness is stirring and the voices are
getting louder. Make a stand and answer
the call of the Goddess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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