Rewire For Birth Podcast

Training Your Mindset for a Positive Birth Experience

Dr. Cindy Tahhan, B.S.C., ND Season 1 Episode 13

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Introduction:

  • Emphasis on the importance of mindset in shaping the birth experience.
  • The role of physical and mental preparation in creating new neural pathways.


Key Points Discussed:

  1. Mindset's Impact: How your approach can dramatically alter your childbirth experience.
  2. Witness Transformation: Personal anecdotes about how witnessing birth can be transformative, even for conventional thinkers like the host’s mother.
  3. Hypno-Birthing Tools: An introduction to using hypnotherapy and subconscious reprogramming as tools to prepare mentally for childbirth.
  4. Designing Your Birth Experience: Conceptualizing birth as an event you have creative control over through dedicated effort and belief systems alignment.
  5. Generational Programming: Tackling inherited negative beliefs around childbirth and aiming to shift from survival to thriving outcomes in birthing experiences.
  6. Training Analogies: Comparisons between preparing for childbirth and an athlete training with a set date, highlighting motivation and dedication required.
  7. The Mind-Body Connection: Discussion on how reprogramming the mind affects bodily responses during labor, transforming pain into a different sensation or reflex response.


Takeaways:

  • Childbirth is not just a medical event but also one that holds deep emotional significance; it's both intense and transformational by nature.
  • Preparation should begin months ahead of time due to generational trauma surrounding childbirth that needs unlearning.


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Conclusion:

Encouragement towards embracing training methods that lead not only to avoid negative outcomes but also create empowering experiences filled with love, safety, trust - ultimately imprinting these positive beginnings onto newborns.

Join us next time when we continue exploring ways to empower your journey into parenthood!

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