“Our first life experience was purposely a struggle so we would be aligned with the consciousness of the planet to learn 
life’s lessons through struggle and pain. We knew we had to know struggle to know what joy is.
We live in a dimension of contrast. In order to know love, we had to create hate; in order to know good, we had to create evil; in order to know joy, we had to create pain.
It is only through experiencing these contrasts that we can fully realize who we are. In order to experience who we are, we had to experience who we are not. We are all pieces of God, just waiting to be awakened and fully realized.
By now in your life, you are aware of how some of your thought and behavior patterns developed due to the family culture you were raised in and experiences you had in your childhood.
You may have put some effort into clearing limiting beliefs and patterns that no longer serve you, but are you aware of the impact that your personal birth experience still has on your life?
I have become fascinated with the influence of the birth process through my study of Energy Psychology. Energy Psychology is one of the newest, most effective, natural methods that make it possible to easily and effortlessly clear away old beliefs, emotional energy, and resulting behavior patterns.
Through this process we can experience more of who we really are.
When you stop to really think about and identify with your own birth process you can imagine what it was like for you. You were conceived and grew rapidly in a very small space that restricted your movement.
You moved from that space into another space where you were scrunched, pushed, and pulled through a tremendous amount of pain and effort.
Then from the birth canal, you came into an alien planet where the temperature dropped by 30 degrees. You were poked, prodded, slapped, and cut with no control over anything and no ability to speak. If you are now an older adult, your father was probably not present and you were taken away from your mother for several hours at least. And that is a normal birth!
Add to that any experience of being premature, a cesarean birth, your mother anesthetized, other drugs, induced labor, wrong sex, late birth, forceps, unplanned or illegitimate conception and you have some heavy-duty energy patterns influencing your life.
Early in my coaching programs, I take people through a birth clearing. Most people are trying to cope with issues that relate directly to their birth. Just the transition from the womb to the birth canal leaves energy imprints. This may leave you feeling stuck, unable to move back or move forward, and with a fear or dread of the future.
“These old energies still vibrate in us and set us up to create life experiences that honor these beliefs”
If you were overdue, you may be struggling with time and may find it difficult to be on time for things. A cesarean birth may have set you up with tendencies to believe you always need help or you won’t get out; you may be angry at being interrupted, and you may feel you can’t do things for yourself.
If you were premature, you may find that you are always waiting for others, wanting things in a hurry, or feeling rushed or nervous.
A forceps delivery can leave you with a feeling of wanting to do things yourself but needing to be bailed out at the last minute. ”It’s difficult to finish. People force me. Support equals manipulation.”
If your mom was under anesthesia you may have issues with abandonment and people supporting you. “My mom is never there when I need her. No one is there for me. I have to do everything on my own.”
These are just a few of the challenges we take on at birth. A wounded and dysfunctional life may feel very normal because it is so familiar. It may be all you know in certain areas of your life.
Knowing and expressing your magnificence and your true essence is natural but it may not feel familiar.
We usually discover what we want by experiencing what we don’t want. By focusing on these old patterns we have the wonderful opportunity to experience the joy of purposeful change while we move toward leading the life we want. Thankfully, God hard-wired us for healing and for positive change.
In my two-hour seminar on Audio CD titled Clearing the Programs We Take on at Birth you will learn how birth is our original event that sets us up for a life of struggle. In this seminar I explain the energy dynamics we take on at birth and teach you tools to clear this energy. Birth sets into motion patterns that can become life-long struggles. I share specific birth situations and the patterns they create.
By assisting two individuals in this seminar, I teach and demonstrate how to assist yourself or others in clearing birth energy. Many patterns can be released just by clearing the birth.
Everyone can benefit from clearing their birth energy.
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September 4th, 2010 at 2:52 am
When my mother told me my birth story, it was like I remembered! Everything sounded familiar, and like her, I was really angry about it. We both have a lot of resentment towards the doctor! My mother was told she was too young to have a baby (she was 21, but looked younger), too little, they delayed the birth so they could xray her pelvis, then they induced and used forceps when the drugs delayed my birth for over a day. I still distrust doctors and their judgment to this day and I’m 37!
September 4th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Dear @Sonya, what a great opportunity to clear your anger and claim you power back so you don’t have to carry this! I encourage you to read Remembering Wholeness to learn more about how we are creating our lives and how birth was just our first experience in creating the illusion of powerlessness and struggle! Carol
September 4th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Thanks, Carol. I am reading Remembering Wholeness and right before reading this post I was reading the chapter on birth! I guess it’s time to deal with it.
September 7th, 2010 at 8:44 am
I actually have two questions about energy healing, and I don’t know where to ask them:
1. How many clearing/releasing/reframing sessions does it take to be released of an issue. I realize it probably is different for everyone, but I would be interested in a ballpark.
2. Is a tingling sensation during/after EFT indicative of anything? Last night at the end of my session (about the 6th time on one issue) when I was tapping all over my body, I felt a definite tingling sensation all over. It was amazing!
September 7th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Dear @Trudy,
1. As many times as it takes is my guideline to how long does it take to clear something!
2. Tingling would represent a connection with your core true self, your state of expansion and knowing pure joy and all is well!
September 7th, 2010 at 8:56 am
Hi Carol,
As a natural birth professional, all I can say is that this is so true. Another fascinating aspect to birth now a days is the use of synthetic oxytocin (pit.) to induce, stimulate, or help the uterus clamp down after birth. Pit. is used in nearly all hospital births during labor. Natural oxytocin is called the love hormone. When it is produced naturally by the body in labor, nursing, and other intimate situations, we feel a surge of love, sense of calm, and a sense that all is right in the world. When mothers are given pit. During labor, there is mounting evidence that this blocks our natural hormone response, and we do not feel these happy love feelings. Babies are robbed at such a crucial time in their lives of loving hormones, and can often go through life struggling with feeling loved and accepted, and never really understand why. I personally believe that pit. Also aggravates attachment disorders, and disorders found on the autism spectrum. Pit. started being used routinely around the mid to late 70s, and as I mentioned before, it is now used in almost all hospital births. It does have it’s place in the maternity world, but the routine use of it has done much more harm than good, in my humble opinion.
I personally am a pit. baby, being induced early, and I am grateful to have discovered that my life long struggle of feeling loved, truly has a cause, which helps me overcome, and move on. How birth affects us throughout our lives is indeed a fascinating study. Keep spreading the word!
September 7th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Wonderful, insightful post, thanks @Erin.
September 7th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Thanks for this, Carol. I’m a craniosacral therapist, and you’re so right that so much stems from our birth experience. I just ordered the CD set. Look forward to doing EFT on birth patterns. Blessings, Carol H.
September 30th, 2010 at 8:37 am
This struck a chord with me. I read Julie Motz’ Healing Hands earlier this year & she confirms this as well. As another poster says, I know it’s time to clear this… I’ve been wondering about what I’ve been feeling lately that doesn’t feel like mine but seems familiar. Carol, you’re spot on. Thanks.
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
I was a forcep delivery the dr let my mother be in labour far too long.I was born with cuts on me and my mother didn;t see me for three days due to the nurses not letting her hold me..she was very ill with a loose kidney of which she had operated on when I was 4..I was lucky I didn;t lose my mother…3 days labour and I was 9lb 4 ozs she should have had a caeser..