It might be hard to believe, but if you want to control pain, it is a matter of mind over matter.  If your mind does not feel any pain, it doesn’t matter.  By taking hypno birthing classes, it teaches the women to stay sufficiently relaxed so they do not feel any pain during labor.  Skeptics would deny its worth, but it is totally possible.  Hypno birthing teaches the mind that it is only painful when you allow yourself and your body to be afraid of something totally natural.  Hypnobirthing specialists believe that it is only through years of conditioning that society has let taking pain medication to be the norm when giving birth.  The expectations of a traumatic childbirth leads to fear which causes the woman to tense up which then leads to pain.  The pain causes more fear and the cycle begins again.  However in the past, women did not have these drugs to take and they were able to find ways to get through childbirth so why not today?  Hypno birthing is based on old principles brought back into light presently as a new technique.  70% of women who study self hypnosis for childbirth report a pain-free labor.  There are also many benefits of natural child birth including being empowered to making your own choices, you are better informed about your pregnancy and perhaps most important of all, you are a more comfortable and relaxed individual.  This not only transforms you but many mothers who go through the hypno birthing process also report that their babies are much calm and relaxed as well.

Childbirth is such a natural part of life and it is an aspect that woman should not fear at all.  They should look for it to the childbirth process and in the prospect of meeting their offspring.  Hypnobirthing allows mothers to him look forward to the labor process in a calm and relaxed manner.

Nowadays, you mention the word childbirth and labor and most women would cringe.  Why is that?  Why do we associate the labor delivery process as something to be feared and painful?  A woman’s body was designed for giving birth and it is a natural process for life.  Since women in the past did not have the benefit of painkillers, how were they able to cope?  Even now, how are the women of societies less well developed coping with childbirth?

In the Western world, we  have been conditioned to think that childbirth is something negative.  We use words in our vocabulary that have negative connotations in association with childbirth.  Therefore, in hypno birthing, we reframe the context altogether.  Babies as not delivered the same way as pizza.  Babies are birthed through the birthing process and not labor.  Labor is too work intensive.  Moms don’t push out their babies, they breathe them down.  Instead of contractions, moms have surges.

Hypno birthing is all about reaching a calm happy state of self-hypnosis.  In this state, the childbirth process can proceed naturally without the intervention of pain medication as the body naturally releases all the endorphins and chemicals it needs for pain relief.  A relaxed body does not fight the birthing process as one does when the body is fearful and tense.  When one is fearful, the muscles in the uterus constrict and tense up which leads to pain.  With hypno birthing mothers, they learn techniques to relax which will lead to the muscles of the uterus opening naturally as it prepares for birthing.  It is with this type of calmness and relaxation we should adopt when giving birth.  In order to do so, we need to deprogram what we’ve been told about the childbirth labor process that we’ve heard through our lives.  The birth process is a beautiful natural process to be welcomed with joy.  It is with these affirmations, visualization and breathing techniques that will help guide your hypno birthing process into a positive experience.