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• W7843618 abstract "ABSTRACT: There is a growing awareness of value of irrational or psychospiritual aspects of childbirth. Western psychotherapists and midwives are learning to take advantage of an openness to these aspects. These aspects are essential to shamanic healing worldwide. Shamanic tradition is explored and its advantages for pregnancy and childbirth are discussed. Healing practices among Navajo, especially Monsterway, are described. Today in Western culture I note a growing awareness of value of irrational or psycho-spiritual aspects of childbirth. When this awareness is respected and honored, birth can become an experience of deepest transformative meaning. The physiological experience of pregnancy generates a state of psychological flux, as woman's selfimage and perceptions of reality constantly shift to keep up with changes occurring inside her. Such shifting often dismantles entrenched defense mechanisms, allowing deeply buried memories and fears to surface. Western psychotherapists who work with pregnant women are learning to take advantage of this new openness to help woman achieve long-term psychological healing more rapidly than she could at almost any other time (Peterson 1981; Peterson and Mehl 1984; Parvati-Baker 1986 a, b, 1988). In this article, I seek to share some of what I have learned about shamanic dimension of childbirth, with hope of encouraging other practitioners to expand their awareness of power and beauty of Mystery and Its ability to heal. In traditional cultures, shaman was often one charged with responsibility for placating, aligning and integrating unconscious material that pregnancy and birth evoke. Such traditional healers practiced their skills in a supportive, homogenous cultural context. But today's practitioners often cultivate ancient shamanic practices in piecemeal fashion, without benefits of a shared consensual framework for interpreting reality. Some of shamanic practices available to modern perinatal professionals include, as discussed further below, ritual, word medicine, chanting and song, creative visualization, touch, accessing dreamtime, tapping symbolic power of animal totems, and enlisting aid of plant allies. As a shamanic midwife, I have utilized all these practices in my work with pregnant, birthing, and post-partal women. Modern perinatal professionals have much to gain from developing and contextualizing shamanic skills (or skills, as I often call them). Such skills are software for consciousness. They can broaden professional's ability to inspire freebirth-spontaneous, unassisted delivery. Meanwhile, Information Age is enabling shaman-midwives to deepen their inward skills through providing unprecedented opportunity to learn from many cultures still practicing ancient healings in context of birthing. Whatever a practitioner's worldview or theoretical orientation toward birth may be, shamanic techniques applied to birth can expand her or his knowledge base, hone intuition, and enhance effectiveness. BIRTH AS MYSTERY Why is shamanism a viable context for understanding of birth in modern times? And why is the Mysteries an appropriate metaphor for thinking about birth? Shamanism is world's oldest healing art, and modern childbirth is in great need of healing. To heal is to make whole. But modern woman's experience of birth in hospital ordinarily is one of fear, pain, severance, and separation. The potential exists to make whole this fragmented experience. However, our fragmented society bears scars of our failure, so far, to achieve this potential. Mother and baby are One until birth appears to separate them. From wholistic perspective of shamanism, even after birth invisible connections between two join them in Oneness. Adopting such a perspective not only facilitates bonding and breastfeeding, but also potentiates a deeply felt experience of wholeness, unity, and at-oneness for mother, father, and child. …" @default.
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• W7843618 title "The Shamanic Dimensions of Childbirth" @default.
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