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    Birth Mandala: The Power of Visioning for Childbirth
    Birth Mandala: The Power of Visioning for Childbirth
    Birth Mandala: The Power of Visioning for Childbirth
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    Birth Mandala: The Power of Visioning for Childbirth

    By Nancy Burns

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    The Birth Mandalas book includes mandala art, a guided visualization and thought provoking exercises for an empowering childbirth experience. A birth mandala is sacred art for childbirth. The mandala appears from a dark background, like the baby emerging from the darkness of the womb into the light.
    Enjoy creative processes that access the subconscious. The way childbirth is perceived influences labor and birth. Subconscious beliefs, formed from what youve seen, heard or experienced, can either sabotage or affirm your conscious intentions. Learn how to effortlessly re-write limiting beliefs with ones that assist you during childbirth. Your birth mandala embodies your new beliefs and vision for labor and birth with symbols, images, designs and words.
    You will find womens mandalas, journals and their after-birth reflections. From Shannons healing of past sexual abuse, Amys strength and courage, to Stacys power of intention, the themes and revelations are as unique as their mandalas.
    Creating a birth mandala is an invaluable gift you give yourself for childbirth. It is the gift that keeps on giving, exclaims Stacy, a workshop participant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 10, 2011
    ISBN9781481712309
    Birth Mandala: The Power of Visioning for Childbirth
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    Nancy Burns

    Nancy began her career working with pregnant women teaching prenatal yoga and using hypnotherapy to support women in natural childbirth. Her interest and work with childbirth spiraled from there to study midwifery and to become a doula. She has been a presenter at two of the annual C.A.M. (California Association of Midwives) conferences in Northern California. In 1987 she embarked on her path as a marriage and family therapist. Over the past two decades Nancy has counseled pregnant and postpartum women and couples in her private practice as a licensed psychotherapist. She includes the use of Hypnosis, E.M.D.R. and PSYCH-K® to address the subconscious. Nancy was introduced to the sacred art of mandalas during several pilgrimages to a Huichol Indian village in the Sierra Madres of Mexico and many years of participating in yoga ceremonies that included the use of yantras (mandalas). Nancy says that the greatest influence on her path has been the birth of her three children and being at the birth of her grandchildren. Nancy resides in Northern California with her husband and family.

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      Birth Mandala - Nancy Burns

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2011 Nancy Burns. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 3/8/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-2116-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-1230-9 (ebk)

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Preface

      Introduction

      A Poem for my daughter

      Part One: Ancient Wisdom For Modern Women

      What Is A Mandala?

      What Is A Birth Mandala?

      The Science Behind The Scene: Mirror Neurons

      10 Centimeters and Sacred Geometry

      Part Two: Applying the Power of the Subconscious

      I’ll Believe It When I See It I’ll See It When I Believe It

      Chakras and Beliefs: Reclaiming Feminine Power

      Your Birth Mandala Is The Canvas

      Part Three: Birth Mandalas And Women’s Reflections

      Tera’s Mandala

      Shannon’s Mandala

      Stacy’s Mandala

      Amy’s Mandala

      Laine’s Mandala

      Part Four: Getting Ready

      10 Steps To Create Your Birth Mandala

      Meditative Mandala Nature Walk

      Introduction To The Guided Journey

      Birth Mandala Guided Journey

      Part 5: Making Your Mandala

      Birth Mandala Template

      Reflections After Making Your Mandala

      Meditating With Your Mandala

      Part Six

      Afterward

      Birth Mandala Workshops

      Acknowledgements

      Notes

      Illustrations

      Resources

      About the Author

      Dedication

      As I recall the saying, what the child forgets, the grandchild remembers, I think of my paternal grandmother, who I only knew as Bubby. She was a midwife (traditional birth attendant) in Kiev, Russia and in the United States. She died when I was only 5 years old, however, I have serendipitously followed in her footsteps. This book reflects her faith and confidence in the natural process of childbirth and is dedicated to all the babies making their entrance earthside.

      Creating the Mother Nature Mandala collage allowed me the opportunity to honor the process of writing the Birth Mandala book. Surrounded with pictures and magazines and a blank canvas, the images naturally revealed themselves. The female figure represents Mother Nature. She is giving birth to life, to ideas, and the birth of this book. There are many hands helping the birth. They represent all the people involved in writing this book. Like birth and mothering, writing pushed on my edges to be patient, to persevere and to trust. Most of all, it continuously reminded me to let it unfold organically, rather than trying to force it to happen.

      - Nancy Burns

      Image1jpgmothernaturemandala).jpg

      Preface

      With my first baby, I was unprepared and without adequate skills to integrate labor. Hospital technology and medication took control of my labor and birth. My first baby was literally delivered by my doctor by suction and forceps. When I became pregnant with my second child, I found a midwife who attended births at home. One of the most memorable things she said to me was prepare as if you were having the baby alone in the wilderness. I gathered everything I had learned to prepare for a natural childbirth at home. My second and third babies were birthed without intervention or interference. I labored walking in the woods. The trees were my midwives and my intuition was my guide. I was ecstatic to experience my strength as a woman in this way. I wanted every pregnant woman to know that they could claim their power giving birth.

      As a professional, it was exciting for me to be involved in the birthing community. I was acutely aware of the need for women to be as prepared as possible, wherever they chose to have their baby.

      What else can I do to help women prepare for childbirth? I thought. I began to offer support groups for pregnant women with my friend Constance Miles, a licensed midwife. During a meditation, the idea to have the women in the pregnancy support groups create a mandala for birth presented itself. I was introduced to mandalas as an art form during several pilgrimages to a Huichol Indian Village in the Sierra Madres of Mexico, and many years of participating in yoga ceremonies that have included the use of yantras, a form of sacred mandalas. Making my own mandalas and vision boards have been significant in my life. The psychological implications were huge.

      The process of making a birth mandala revealed itself to have a deeper significance than I imagined. The positive feedback I was hearing from the women while they made their mandalas, and the feedback of how it affected their labor and births provoked me to want to share the birth mandala information with more women than the small workshops I was offering.

      As a psychotherapist, my work with the subconscious began to enhance the development of the mandala. The therapeutic use of Hypnotherapy, E.M.D.R. and PSYCH-K®, revealed that the wisdom my clients were seeking was already within them. However, fears and beliefs about childbirth can obscure their most precious wisdom. Over the past three decades I have observed how essential it is that the information stored in the subconscious match the conscious goals of the individual. Hence, I have included exercises to assist the reader to both identify and re-script limiting beliefs about childbirth. Since art is simply another way to tap the subconscious, preferred beliefs can easily be internalized through this creative process. Making their mandalas became a special time of both introspection and connection with their baby within.

      HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!

      The importance of connecting with the baby within during childbirth was acutely brought to my awareness during a rebirthing session. Under the guidance of Graham Farrant, M.D., a renowned psychiatrist from Australia, I relived coming into this world. Lying on the floor in a fetal position, combining focused breathing and relaxation, I was guided into a deep trance. Two therapists simulated the closeness of my mother’s womb by tightly enveloping me. I regressed to fetal time and felt myself descending through the birth passage. It seemed very fast. However, just as I was about to make my grand entrance into the light of the world, everything came to a stop, including my breath. At that moment, I experienced an overwhelming sense of abandonment and hopelessness. In my mind, I was calling for my mother, ‘Mom, where are you, where did you go?" Despite my mother’s body continuing to labor, I was unable to feel her presence. I gave up. Dr. Farrant noticed I was stuck and he encouraged me to push through. I did and started breathing once again.

      A few days later, I phoned my mother and asked her to tell me

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