December
2006
On the depth of connection…(click here to comment)
I have always been "good with babies." I never knew why, really…what made it easier for me to soothe a baby when my coworkers at the daycare couldn't? How was it I seemed to "know" what a baby was saying?
Part of it was that I have always operated as if babies understood my heart and mind, and so interacted with them from that perspective.
But it wasn't until I was in school several years ago, taking a introduction to craniosacral therapy class on "the long tides" and the cycle of the autonomic nervous system that I had a more concrete idea of what it was I did.
In class, we were paired up and instructed to "hold each other's head." As my partner was lying comfortably, I cradled his head in my hands and got quiet inside myself, tuning in to the rhythms of his body. Our instructor asked us to notice what we felt. What the "felt sense" was of being with another person that way, and to notice cycles of energy and movement within the body.
I did, and at first it felt like I was on a quick, warm, pulsing highway. I was encourgaged to "drop down another level" and so I focused my attention, and with very little trouble I shifted and my experience became more like I was traveling through a futon, it was white and thick and sluggish. I was told I was in the "tissue bed" - a layer down from the veins and blood where I was before.
My instructor became very interested in what was happening with me, and kept encouraging me to "drop down" more levels with my intention. It was simple, and I felt very aware both of what was happening in my partners system as well as in myself and around me.
The final level I found myself in was what my instructor called "the potency level." I felt that my partner and I were one being. I was "in" him, and could feel his very essence.
My instructor said I had just done in ten minutes what it takes some people two years to learn how to do in a course in craniosacral instruction.
When he told me "this is where I go when I work with babies" I realized that was true for me too. I drop into a place of connection with babies that allows me to know at a very sacred level what is going on for them.
I think it's possible for anyone to learn how to do this.
Your heart and mind - your esssence - can become synchronized with your baby's essence and you'll find yourself truly with him, able to understand his perspective about the world he's in.
And I am happy to help you learn to do just that , as well as know your baby even more. How? Click here .