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These are your tracks and tools that are part of your mindful hypnobirthing preparation. Please don’t feel you need to use them all, it’s important that you find what works for you. You do however, really need to make the time to learn these techniques, to condition your body to respond during labour and birth.
Enjoy your practise it will be of such benefit for you, your baby and your birth partner during pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond!!
Birth Preparation Tracks
These hypnosis tracks are your preparation which will help to process unconscious fears, allowing your body to relax and respond to labour in the way that it is designed to do, on the day.
The tracks are filled with suggestions that help form those strong roots in your tree and which help build your unconscious belief and trust in the process of birth.
These tracks are designed in a very specific way that allow you to unconsciously adopt and own these beliefs. At the end of the day, it’s you who has to allow those beliefs to take root, we are just helping you to sow the seeds!!
Listen to these tracks at least 3 times a week up to 32 weeks (or more if you have the time)
After 32 weeks as you move nearer to birth you may start to reflect more on the birth ahead and you should switch to using all 3 tracks every day if you can.
Please don’t listen to the long track while driving but you can listen to the affirmations anywhere!!
Affirmations
Changing a belief is about stopping the cycle of negative thinking that would allow fears to grow again. A way to help change beliefs is to change the messages you give yourself about birth using affirmations.
Getting to know your birthing zone
The birthing zone is where you need to be during your birth. If you are free of fear, calmly excited and trusting of your body and of birth, you automatically go to into your birthing zone
Mindful hypnobirthing works along with you helping you to stay in your birthing zone, or to get back if anything disturbs you or takes you out of it.
It’s a familiar state, like that moment of not quite being awake and not quite being asleep. Essentially, it’s the state where your neocortex (that thinking, calculating part of your brain) is quiet and your birth brain can take over!!
With your foundation tools, you are training your neo-cortex to quieten down, helping you to get into, or stay in your birthing zone.
Step 1 - Mindful Breathing
You breathe every day without thinking about it, but rarely do we sit quietly and pay attention to your breath! When you turn your attention to your breathing, in pregnancy or during birth, your focus turns inwards and shifts away from other things in your environment that might unsettle you or take you out of your birthing zone.
Focussing on the breath, means your brain is unable to focus on something else. Because your conscious brain is only able to hold a very small amount of information at any one time, using your breath to keep you in your birthing zone is a simple and effective technique.
Place one hand on your chest and one hand on your abdomen. Close your eyes and become aware of which hand is moving more. The aim is to ensure you are taking deep abdominal breaths.
Follow your breath, maybe using a lengthening breath, a frame breath or simply following your breath in and out.
What is important when practising your birth breath is that you get into a comfortable and familiar rhythm.
When you are learning to quieten your mind, following your breath, don’t worry if your mind wanders, that is normal when you start practising. Just bring yourself back to your breathing and say in your own mind, “Breathing in and breathing out”.
Breathing mindfully is called a practise because the more you do it the easier it becomes.
You may also want to use a mantra: I breath in I am strong, I breath out I let go. Think of your affirmations, is there one there that speaks to you?
Step 2 - 3 2 1, Relax, Relax, Relax
Once you have settled into your breathing, you can continue to allow the rest of your muscles to relax.
This light hypnosis exercise is a rapid relaxation. Listening to this track regularly you can condition your body to respond to this command so that your muscles let go and relax quickly and easily.
Step 3 - Hypnosis Deepener
This is a way of going into a deeper state of relaxed hypnosis. Settle into a comfortable breath, and move onto breathing in 3,2,1 and breathe out relax, relax, relax, then listen to the deepener.
TIP – This is a great track for birth partners to read out in a slow, soft voice
The Power of Visualisation & Hypnosis Tool
We delved into expectations & fear about labour and birth and how to change internal & external messaging. We can also use distraction & visualisation as tools for birth.
Visualisations are very powerful during pregnancy & birth, they are the connection with our unconscious mind.
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