How is this course different from Hypnobirthing and other mind-body approaches?
There are many ways to use the mind in childbirth, and hypnosis is certainly one of them. Throughout the 1980’s I taught couples self-hypnosis for working with the pain of childbirth. Though the practices we learn in the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Education Course definitely teach us how to work with pain during birth, we can learn much more than that. Mindfulness is about learning how to live fully in each moment. Through mindfulness we wake up to our lives as we live them, becoming more aware of our automatic reactions to life around us. We learn how we might make different choices, responding to the moments of our lives with greater clarity, kindness, patience and wisdom. This is a life skill, one we can call on not only for birth but as we parent. So much of parenting requires us to work with our children in the present moment, just as they are. The course prepares us for parenting and for living our lives now in all its fullness.
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