post about his journey on becoming a Vegan, after reading this great post and getting an insight into his life and beliefs, it inspired me to leave a comment. In a nutshell, the comment was about how so many people have a huge problem in identifying and seeing themselves as animals. That to even consider such a thing is seen as a huge insult.Because in their eyes, animals are beneath them and they were put on this planet for them to use as they see fit. Humans are clearly the more intelligent species, so of course they should be the ones at the top of the food chain, the ones who are in control. That would make the most sense to any logical thinking person. Right? I get to experience this way of thinking almost daily, I see in the way that some treat animals, in the way that they treat our natural environment. This way of thinking is a great excuse to abuse, torture and destroy nature and all her 'Animals' and not feel any remorse or guilt. Because hey, it's all here for us to use and abuse, isn't it?
But this ignorance that some live with, is so damaging. We can clearly see how damaging it is for nature and her inhabitants, but it is also really damaging for the people who believe this nonsense. There is a lot to gain in leading people away from their natural self, for one it is a great way to disempower and exhort control. One place where this has been really successful is during birth. This sacred act, which women can do, which their bodies were made for is now been controlled by the Obstetrics profession. How quickly we have forgotten that all women birthed outside of hospitals and all women birthed either while squatting or standing up, this only changed just so some King got see what the sex of his child was and having a women on her back on a bed was the easiest way for him to do so. This is carried forward into to hospitals, where women are placed on beds because this position makes it easier for the Doctor. Certainly not for the mother, who now will experience intense pain, intense contractions because she is forced to work against her body, forced to work against the natural shape of her body.
When a women is pregnant and especially towards the end of her pregnancy she goes through a nesting stage, this is seen as a desire to create a space in your home where your baby will be put to sleep, a nursery or the like, what it really is though, is a natural instinct to find somewhere safe and secure to bring your baby into the world. This is exactly what other animals do, they spend weeks prior to the birth finding a suitable space, but with us humans this is labelled as nesting, It is far removed from the natural instinct that drives us to find a safe birthing space. Instead it has been seen as an opportunity for marketing teams to throw out new ideas on items to sell parents, to sell the perfect gadget for your baby, the perfect crib.
So this natural mothering/birthing instinct has now been manipulated in such a huge way that instead of securing a safe birth space we are creating rooms to desert babies in once they are born. Where so many believe allowing that baby to cry themselves to sleep is healthy and character building. Ahhhhh.............Who is the more intelligent species now?
This is so wrong on so many levels, yet so many see no problem with it. Instead they like to talk about how the advances in medicine have saved lives and can now detect any complications and so on and so on. In one sense this is true, but on another these interventions are happening far too regularly and are actually quiet stressful and the last thing you need to do is stress mama's out. And then there are the long term affects of using scans. I will not go into that again as I have already written quite a lot on it, but when you are heating up your baby and projecting huge sound waves onto them just so you get to see them inutero you got the question the long term effects, especially since these scans have not been around long enough to really grasp the effects and especially since women are having them more frequently.
Ah but to give over to your natural animalistic side and embrace all that comes with it. To tune into your body, to tune into the baby within you, to be able to tell if something is wrong. To bond and feel connected to this little being with no intrusive interventions.
To actually shut off your neo cortex brain and allow your primal brain to birth your baby. To embrace the animal inside of you and trust that this is the self that brings more intuitive healing . We are rarely allowed to do this, because we are not given the opportunity to work with it, instead in hospitals women are birthing mostly in fight of flight mode and experience alot of pain, their neo cortex brain is in charge. However, If it was the primal brain we would be somewhere safe and secure, somewhere that we would feel nurtured, where that is, is up to the woman to decide, but then we would have a completely different birth experience. I say this because it is what I have experienced, I have had both types of births, but it was in embracing my animal, primal self that I birthed my daughter unassisted, it was that experience that empowered me and it is for that reason that we must never forget who we are and what we are capable of.
