Hypnobirth by Yulia Watters

Author:Yulia Watters
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Finding Your Element

One of my fondest memories from my pregnancy is going for a swim in the pool every morning. Each person has an element in which one feels the most comfortable. By element, I mean a tangible or intangible environment: a place, a memory, a sound, a smell, a touch, a shape, a color that brings the most comfort when we picture it or imagine ourselves in it. Stop for a moment to picture your element. I purposefully did not use the word “think,” because our element is part of our sensory experience, something that comes naturally to mind as the first option among many others. In fact, it does not have to be something unique or static; it might be a series of things, or something that differs for different activities. Our personal elements represent something we can access any time we need to concentrate or relax.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2005) speaks lovingly about her restorative element in her book Gift from the Sea, in which she describes her yearly trips to the beach. She writes:

Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines, the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the hectic rhythms of city and suburb, time tables, and schedules. One falls under their spell, relaxes, stretches out prone. One becomes, in fact, like the element on which one lies, flattened by the sea; bare, open, empty as the beach, erased by today’s tides of all yesterday’s scribblings. (10)

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