Just as we might stand for our young child who is being picked on in the playground, as mother, as father… stand for who this child is, their truth, their vulnerability, their core integrity, we can also stand in known of our incoming soul… the one who will be this child, who already reveals their essence and unique beauty. The soul qualities that will be developed throughout a lifetime, the core of who this baby will one day become. This detail is all inherent within the embodiment story of the incoming child and is as tangible to feel before conception as is it during pregnancy and into childhood – the soul of the child becoming form, the spirit of the matter… this incoming soul, this incredible being… this is their story.
My introduction to this work came 25 years ago with the presence of my son. He was clear and directive from the get go… a tangible ‘this is who I am, and this is what I need’ kind of guy. I saw him at the time as a blonde 3-year-old, curls, cheeky smile and holding my hand in a ‘here look at this, see me, see the world through my eyes’ manner. He had a definitive body response to things in my daily life – my body experiencing his body, or more accurately his consciousness as it would become embodied, informing my cells. Our touch to the incoming soul is timeless, beyond the space time we exist in. It has its own cellular language and articulation. All of this becomes tangible as we listen… the intricate and intimate details… the physics of the conception point… and if we are fully listening, the moment of the conception itself can be experienced like a hand-held, ‘Hey Mama, this is my moment, are you ready?’. Cheeky smile and conception point bio-physics all lined up… soul ready… here we go!!! To be present to this moment, to this child, to this conception, we are fully listening in integrity to this being, receiving them into our body… knowing the core of this child-to-be… holding, nurturing and carrying this precise soul through to birth. In meeting our incoming soul in this way, we are building a deep and powerful connection with this child whom we will be birthing… any and all challenges, emotions, and experiences during pregnancy have a held understanding within the vastness of this soul enfolding us, informing us every step of the way.
I have now been working with the incoming souls for over 2 decades, and learning from each and every one – seeing through their eyes, understanding the unique and universal piece each soul brings, the gift to the family, and the gift to the world. Each incoming soul has a wider story to share, one that will develop and grow with them throughout their lifetime. As the consciousness of the world changes, so too does the consciousness arriving to birth, so each new baby has a gorgeous and fundamental part of our shared story, the bigger story of humanity and our evolution through these wild and crazy times. Each incoming soul is a unique and individual newborn baby, and each is not ‘separate’ and so gives us access to the wider universal consciousness… the heart beat of the universe, that is at the core of the conception point of this new incoming soul. And my work has been one of purely listening… many many incoming souls sharing their embodiment story, personal, global, universal. It is a constantly evolving story, that we can all own as our own, beyond any personal. Who we are as a body of humanity in evolution. There is a certain privilege in seeing through many eyes, listening to many incoming souls over many years. It’s kind of like watching the artistry… the tapestry… the masterpiece of creation in action.
The greatest fulfilment in this work has been teaching the listening to mamas-to-be and witnessing the ‘drop’ into the vast informing and enfolding of the incoming soul. In the body, there is an exquisite cellular language that is ever-present and engageable, filled with a depth of information to give voice and articulation to, and in doing so, a deep rest into knowing, into being held and enfolded by the incoming soul, who is heard and received. Listening and walking hand-in-hand towards the fulfilment of family, making birth choices and decisions through the intimate knowing of the incoming child felt, seen, heard… it is a conversation taking place cellularly throughout every moment of pregnancy. And after months or years in which we, as mamas, have got to know this incredible soul, we meet them face-to-face, and it all lands… a stunning ever-met, heart-to-heart known… a new arrival and a home-coming. It was the most profound moment in my life, and now my work, to meet my son in those precious moments after giving birth, and to know him so fully, through all the doubts and fears and all the challenges, through all that tears us apart and prepares us to birth this child, this incredible soul, knowing us beyond anything we have every known. This soul who has held us, as we have carried them in our wombs, this relationship we have built, our communication, and rest into each other… to be mother and child in this life. Our family body held and holding this beauty and joy, this rewriting and rebuilding of our fundamental selves, this wholeness and beyond our personal joy, this access to our universal wholeness, our own soul embodying into our body as mother, unified through our core heart, this mother, this child, forever.
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