This meditation is designed to help you feel more confident or easeful as you prepare for birth.
It's perfect to listen to whether you're close to birth or still have many months to go.
It's designed to help you move from anxiety or fear into ease or a sense of empowerment.
Feel free to listen to it as many times as you want.
In fact,
The more that you listen to this visualization and meditation,
The more you'll deepen these new neural pathways to help you move towards birth with ease.
You can start simply by making yourself comfortable.
Whether that's lying down or sitting up.
Maybe even dancing or swaying,
Depending on how your body's feeling today.
And if it's safe in your body,
Closing your eyes.
We'll start just with noticing your breath,
Not needing to fix or change it,
Just finding your breath in your body.
The body breathing itself.
You might take this moment to connect to your baby in some small way even just acknowledging their presence in your body and we'll start to move deeper and deeper into rest.
By beginning to lengthen out each of your exhalations.
This is easiest done by adding a count,
So you might inhale to a count of one,
Two,
Three,
And then exhale for a count of 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Or whatever version of these numbers work for you.
Just watching your breath.
Steady breath in through the nose,
Long smooth exhalation.
You can exhale through the mouth or the nose,
Whatever feels better today.
Just with each long exhalation,
Allowing the body to soften more and more.
Allowing yourself to feel grounded and still.
And then we'll begin to bring our awareness onto our heart center and shift the breath so that we watch ourselves breathe in and out from our heart.
Letting go of counting,
Just watching the breath in and out from heart center in whatever way that makes sense to you.
You can't get this wrong.
Just taking three.
To five rounds of full breath in and out from your heart.
And then bring into your mind's eye.
The image of you just after giving birth.
The first moments that you hold your baby in your arms.
Their body warm and soft.
Gazing down at this baby for the first time.
In this imagined future,
Your birth went as well as possible.
Everything you hoped for happened just as it was meant to.
You're healthy.
Your baby's healthy.
Turn up the volume on this image for yourself.
Who else is in the room?
Where are you?
Are there other sounds or images or smells or tastes that are present in the room or in your experience?
Feel what it feels like to hold this healthy,
Happy baby in your arms for the first time.
Welcoming them to Earth.
And begin to notice for yourself what it feels like.
In this imagined future,
How do you feel?
What's present in your body?
And are there words or labels for the emotions that you're feeling?
May be proud.
Powerful.
Prong.
Amazing.
Graceful.
The vine.
Confident.
Relieved.
Blissful.
Taking any of these words that landed for you and holding on to them,
Or any words that came on your own,
Letting it all be perfect.
How do you feel in this moment?
After a positive and successful birth in your mind.
You might repeat those words to yourself.
And then notice how that feeling shows up in your body.
Where does it live?
What are the sensations that you experience as you sit in that feeling?
Strength,
Confidence,
Joy,
Peace.
Really feel into the sensations in your body as if you're trying to memorize it for yourself now.
And then take that feeling or feelings if there's more than one.
And imagine them as a glowing light right at your heart center.
So placing those feelings right at your heart.
This light could be any color.
And it starts to glow in and out from heart center as you feel these feelings,
Feel these sensations.
Allow this light to glow and pulse with your breath.
As you breathe,
It begins to expand.
It fills your heart with that feeling.
And then slowly begins to open up,
Expanding through your torso.
Up into your faith.
Out into your arms,
Down into your lower body.
This feeling joy,
Relief,
Strength.
Confident.
Wrapping you up expanding into your whole body filling your whole body with that sensation that glowing light Let it wrap up your baby.
Let it expand beyond the edges of your body until you're all surrounded in this glowing,
Warm sensation.
A glowing warm feeling I want you to spend these last few moments And whatever part of this visualization resonated for you.
So maybe it's here in this glowing light just staying with this feeling.
Or maybe you want to go back.
Imagining the room,
Imagining the baby in your arms,
Allowing yourself to sit in feelings there.
Wherever you feel the most confident.
And in tune with your truth.
Take these last few moments to stay present to your experience here.
You allowing your body and mind to hold on to these sensations You can stay with this as long as you like.
And when you feel ready to move on,
Let the image fade away.
Start to come back into your body here,
Wiggling fingers or making small movements.
When you're ready,
Slowly open your eyes.
Come back into the room.
Ready to move forward with your day.
