Posted by: Dominique Koubovec
in MyBlog on Aug 29, 2010
Did you know that how your baby is born can have a significant effect on her emotional and psychological makeup as an adult? Everything she registers and feels during her initial entry into the world will be memorised and can influence the rest of her life. Elena Tonetti, an advocate of conscious birth, refers to this as “limbic imprint”. Leslie Temple-Thurston, a teacher of enlightenment, refers to this as “negative or positive imprinting”. The greater the birth trauma, especially through unnecessary or even necessary intervention, the greater the negative birth imprint.
Babies are extremely sensitive, and those born to intervention and rough handling can find the experience extremely shocking and abusive, even if birth attendees consider the handling normal (Leslie Temple-Thurston). While babies may forget their ordeal in the hours and days that follow, the memory of the experience is held deep within them and doesn’t spontaneously go away (Leslie Temple-Thurston). Unless babies are helped to release the stress of this imprinting (Aletha Solter, The Aware Baby), it (stress and imprinting) stays with them for the rest of their lives whether they are conscious of it or not. This is because during birth the limbic system registers all of the sensations and emotions around the experience of birth, and the memory of it lives in the body for the rest of our lives whether we are conscious of this or not.
Posted by: Praline
in MyBlog on Jun 06, 2010
Thanks to ANGELA PHILLIPS for collaborating and sending in this piece of work.
Posted by: Dominique Koubovec
in MyBlog on Feb 25, 2010
I have been thinking about the nature of sexual abuse the last day or so. It’s in part a follow up to the blog piece that I posted a few weeks ago on Sexual Shadow. The discussion that follows was triggered by the recent conviction of a paedophile paediatrician in the US who sexually abused his young patients. I felt quite disturbed by this and realised that I needed to look into the “paedophile condition” a bit more deeply. It occurred to me that sexual abuse is a “dominator” energy, and that in order for it to exist it needs the presence of “victims of abuse”. We live in a patriarchal era rife with dominance and its polar opposite submission and I have become interested in delving deeper into why anyone would choose on some level to take on any of the two positions. I decided to use a processing technique called a square (for more info on squares see http://2ndmiracle.co.za/web/innerwork/process) to help balance and clear this programming on behalf of the collective. The polarities I chose are “being a perpetrator of sexual abuse vs being a victim of sexual abuse” and have posted it below.
