Mindful Pregnancy & Birth: Nurturing Love and Awareness (Mindfulness series)

Focusing on the entire journey; from pregnancy through to early parenthood, this guide to living mindfully for expectant mothers helps prepare you for birth and improve your wellbeing with the ancient practice of mindfulness. When we talk about making something, it usually refers to creating, manipulating, or forming a material. In pregnancy, our bodies are wrapped up in doing all of these things at once, and on a grand scale. But in the act of making space in ourselves through mindfulness, none of these things apply. In Mindful Pregnancy & Birth we engage in an act of "not doing". Of not changing, but of simply "being" in the experience of ourselves. Pregnancy is a phase in which to reconcile what has been, with what will become. It is a process, a time of change, and even more so for a first-time mother. It is a recognition of our dreams for the future being in transit, in gestation, in the making. "When we speak of making something, it is usually entails creating, manipulating, forming or conducting of some kind. In pregnancy, our bodies are wrapped up in doing all of these things on a grand scale. But in the act of making space in ourselves through mindfulness, none of these things apply. Here we engage in an act of not doing, of not changing but of simply 'being' in the experience of ourselves. Pregnancy is a phase in which to reconcile what has been, with what will become. It is a process and a time of change, and even more so for a first-time mother. It is a recognition of our dreams for the future being in transit, in gestation, in the making."--Publisher description Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Making Space -- CHAPTER TWO The Pregnant Pause -- CHAPTER THREE Childbirth -- CHAPTER FOUR Beyond Birth -- Resources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- The Mindfulness Series Living mindfully is a simple practice that can have dramatic effects on your life and wellbeing.