Methods —
Practice of Opening
This audio guide is a progressive relaxation method for conception and pregnancy. The Practice of Opening is a reclining meditation with numerous benefits for parents and child. It offers a way to progressively relax the entire body and gain important energy. The child’s development in the womb is enriched with awareness. The child is aware and responsive to the calm practiced by the mother and father.
Resting in this way will bring you and your child the energy and bonding needed for optimal childbirth. The Practice of Opening encourages paranormal pre-birth and near-birth experiences for the pregnant woman, her partner, and the unborn child. (26 minutes)
Womb Breathing
The Womb Breathing audio guide is a sitting meditation with a deep breathing basis. It may be the most advanced and complete childbirth method available. Womb Breathing offers optimal breathing because it provides full oxygenation and the absorption of vital energies. This practice increases the women’s capabilities and functions during childbirth. Womb Breathing enables the woman and child to embody deep calm. (21 minutes)
Giving and Receiving
This audio guide is a sitting meditation that comes from ancient wisdom and brings the experience of healing into childbirth. This is a method of compassionate breathing. It is valuable for prenatal and postnatal care. Giving and Receiving develops innate healing capabilities that the woman can use for the rest of her life. The birthing woman’s partner, family, mid-wife, doula, nurse, and doctor can all do this practice to benefit the childbirth. (13 minutes) See Application below.
Applications —
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
One of the world's great medical problems has been the overuse of medical interventions in the childbirth process. The World Health Organization (WHO) has done extensive research in the area of health problems that have resulted from the overuse of drugs, anesthesia, and surgery during childbirth over the past 50 years. At this time, more than 95% of births take place in hospitals, and in the large majority of those births, unnecessary and risky medical interventions are used.
The WHO advises that no more than one in ten births are problematical. The large majority of childbirths require no medical interventions. Medical interventions bring significant risks. The overuse of drugs, anesthesia and surgery has added to excessive medical costs and the increase of health problems. As a result, the United States has had the highest infant mortality rate of all industrialized nations.
Especially because of the above, natural childbirth with medical services available as needed is a primary woman’s right and infant’s right.
CALM BIRTH offers pregnant women advanced natural childbirth with all medical services as needed. The CALM BIRTH methods raise the level of health in childbirth while avoiding the use of unnecessary and risky interventions. These methods blend perennial wisdom and proven mind/body science.
Advantages of CALM BIRTH Childbirth Methods:
- Enchances the immune system -
Enhanced immune system is the basis of vital health.
- Full oxygenation plus vital energies -
Optimal breathing during childbirth provides full function of the body systems.
- Heightened intelligence potential -
With increased communication and activation the child is provided an inner calm and awareness.
- Reduces the use of medical interventions -
Medical interventions often have side effects that may adversely impact the birth.
The following applications will be described on the CALM BIRTH web site, expected to be online Summer 2004.
Conscious Conception
Pregnancy Enrichment
Realization in Labor
Paranormal Developmental Experiences
Postnatal Care (CALM HEALING)