Affirmations

Found some wonderful Birth Affirmations in my webtravels today...

I love a lot of them, but this one stood out because it fits in with something I was thinking about yesterday...

"I now completely forgive the hospital staff and my parents for any mistakes they made at my own birth. It is now safe for me to let go completely."

One of my friends, Wendy, was telling me about a 'regression' session she had done for her, where someone traced her life from its first moments of conception onwards. She told me how she had discovered she hadn't actually been 'wanted' at the time her mum fell pregnant with her, and it made me remember my own mum telling me how she hadn't planned for me either... that i'd come before she'd planned to have children.

It hit home for me just how much this type of beginning can set a stage for the relationship between a child and parent, and how it affects every minute step of our lives. I can't believe i haven't recognised its relevance in my life before.

Like all lightbulb moments, it gave me a new understanding of why my relationship with my mum took the shape it did... from those very first moments.. and reading that affirmation gives me inspiration to let go of anything i've held onto consciously or subconsciously related to my own birth and my mum's pregnancy with me.

It is so powerful for children who feel disenfranchised from their parents to recognise the tiny and seemingly insignificant things that may piece together to contribute to 'the way things are' in their relationships, because it allows resentment, resistance and confusion (conscious or not), to be neutralised and cleared, and in that clearing a beautiful space for peace and understanding is revealed. :D