How should a being come into the world from the comforts of a womb? French Buddhist obstetrician Frederick Leboyer has written in his book, Birth Without Violence, (1974) how coming into our world is not one of love and peace, but one of deep trauma.
The experience around how we each take our first breath once out of the womb he explains has a direct impact on how we proceed through life. It has a lifetime effect; either one of deep trauma full of panic and fear or one of peace, security and love. It just depends what we each experience. This applies to all life on this planet.
The first option is how most life is being born under human direction and care.
February 2024, I am removing panic, fear, and hatred of the experience which is directed towards the mother for not protecting the being when I work on each being, whether they are human or animal, where the animal born has had human intervention. This is deep, it is not on the surface. One may think the being is okay, they have “moved on” but this again, is just not so. It is all registered in the depth of the being causing immense imbalance and uncertainty in life. This is massive. And I feel it is playing out in our energy fields for our lifetime, as Frederick Leboyer states.
When I go into hospitals, my entire system cringes, retracts, I cannot get out of these facilities fast enough. On the occasion, when I have seen a new baby born, I see equipment everywhere, strong lights, smell terrible smells, the energy is horrible. Why are we still settling for this as a species? So many mothers have terrible birth stories, from the way they were treated, to the way their baby was handled with forceps and force, and what they were exposed to.
Frederick Leboyer explains, Crying does not mean “I am alive”. A crying baby means “I am afraid.” “I do not know what is going on”. “I am in panic” and “I am in fear for my life”. We have been programmed into a fear paradigm without truly understanding the consequences on all life especially the newborn. This is lifetime damage, which must be addressed, cleared, and healed.
We each must drive change here. It would be interesting to dig back into time to investigate how these protocols were established, and became mainstream for our species especially here in the West. We cannot as a species continue to do this and expect a world with no negative consequences. We are consistently birthing fear and panic onto the planet exponentially daily. This is a complete disconnection from who we are and what we are supposed to be about. Light. Massive light, creation, and peace.
Based on what I am clearing and healing, and based on Frederick Leboyer’s work, what I wish to create for all life forms coming onto the planet is the following, with the focus being on the animals here:
Before babies are born:
During the birth process:
Ideal Birth Environment:
For larger animals:
For some reading this, perhaps you may find this a little “out there” but something to consider, if we all came onto the planet protected, loved, with our energy systems clear of all trauma etc., imagine the world we would create with all this sense of love and security. From my perspective we are not treating our species or any other species on a grand scale we engage with in this way. Some clients will tell me – well the baby did not want to come out. When I learn more about the birth I am – “well, no wonder, I would not want to come out either!”.
I feel we are thinking that because life is small and new it does not know. But it does. This new life knows and has recorded everything since inception. It is how we as a species look after this new life, honor this new life that creates the world we wish to live in. One of trauma or one of love and peace and security.
The Importance of the Umbilical CordFrederick Leboyer explains how important this is to not cut immediately, how it is the new born’s best intertest to have this attached while the lungs begin to expand and take in their first breath. To cut prior, is to create panic and fear, while the new born is trying to naturally adjust to the outside world, we must support the process, not “do and be done”. We are damaging the very life form we wish to protect. Once the lungs can be seen working, and oxygen flowing, and no pulse is in the cord ONLY THEN is the cord cut as the new born has calibrated without fear, naturally on his/her own terms.
The Sacred Space of the HeadThe head, Frederick Leboyer explains, is sacred space and should not be touched, ever during this process.
I know a lot of cultures have some beautiful practises, where the mother and baby are very much supported and loved, and nurtured. I wish this for all the animals in our care.
I received a call one night regarding a year and half old female horse, colicing. She was lying down. I worked on her gut and intestinal tract first, removing all entities and toxins. The entity was very focused on one of her back legs. I asked why? As usually these energies will always draw on the weakest part of the body. And the answer shared was there was negative imprinting on the stall floor when she was born, and this attached to her when she came out of her mom’s womb.
This was confirmed.
A male horse had been in the stall prior and was not well, and it did not sound like he was being treated like he would like to be treated, and therefore all this trauma was left in the stall from what he had to process. This then transferred onto new life, making the young new born foul’s back leg vibrationally lower and susceptible to imbalance, where then negative energies were able to tap in due to the frequency.
Once I worked on her, and cleared and put everything back together, she was back on her feet, passed gas, and was eating. Very happy! I was so happy to hear.
Do you see how this works? We are so focused on the physical but our world is literally energy. We are all electrical beings, expressing energy in an energetic world, the physical is a by-product of our energy and should not be our focus but used for direction to change our energy to create the world we wish to live in.
To summarize, how are we currently, as a species, embracing new life when it comes on to the planet? We are now forty years later after this wonderful book was written, yet not a whole lot has changed I feel.
This is an example of the horse who communicated that she needed help with trauma experienced with the birth of her second foal. Humans were present, and she does not trust humans. She does not like humans touching her at all.
This is what was registered in her and her foal’s physical body, energetic bodies and soul:
Mother
Her Foal
This was a tough session, to see what we as a species are doing, have done. I apologized from the bottom of my heart for all she had experienced as a result of our species lack of consciousness, and awareness.
When I test these numbers in humans, most are around the 200-300% for a comparative. This was deep, deep trauma. As a result of the above, both animals will most likely not cooperate, be unreliable maybe? as there is so much shock and trauma in them that their entire systems will always be on alert. They will never feel safe on the planet much less in their own bodies.
This experience will, and has impacted the trajectory of their lives, and all those around them as their energy will be unstable and again, affecting ALL life around them.
Please help make conscious change in this area of life on this planet. We have become so disconnected from the very essence of what is sacred to all of us, safety and love.
A Leboyer birth means a full deep relaxed, breath as soon as out of the womb which expands skull structure opening up whole body. The skull is compressed when travelling through the birth canal as intended for natural delivery, is the first breath for expansion, this process is crucial, literally pivotal to the life one leads.
This is a summary of what I learned in Frederick Leboyer, MD’s book, Birth Without Violence. I always reread books, as there is always more information to absorb a second or third time around, I find, but at least this first run through helps others become aware of this subject, on his amazing work I am hoping.
We Have Been Programmed into Thinking & Doing
Any repressed anger or nervousness in the delivery room the baby will pick this up. The baby knows everything. Whenever a baby cries, we MUST ask why?
Mother
Contrast
Breath is Life
Laying
Hands
Water Offers Connection to the Womb & Weightlessness
Movement
Mother
Eyes | Sight
Ears | Hearing
Skin | Touch
Nose | Smell
Birth Without Violencemeans free of conflict, free, and fully awake. So, the question becomes, how do we each change this process and make birth more sacred, lovely, peaceful, and free of panic and fear? This was written in 1974, again, how much has changed in fifty years?
This is a very important video as it explains how trauma is instilled, and plays out our lifetime.
Resources
Birth Without Violence by Frederick Leboyer
How The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk
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