RESOURCING

Resourcing is the invitation to tune into yourself, asking yourself “How am I feeling and what will make me feel good or better right now?” It ensures you feel good, safe within your body, present and intimate with the direct experience you are having, with all the sensations and emotions that arise and fall at any given moment.

Ask yourself any one of the following questions:

• What type of pleasure can I bring into my experience right now?

• What can I do right now to feel good?

• What can I do to help support myself to feel safe and within capacity?

By being able to resource and create pleasure and comfort for yourself throughout labor and birth, you are also more likely to stimulate relaxation, increase the release of oxytocin levels and create less tension within your body. Relaxed muscles and oxytocin allows your contractions to progress and therefore allows your baby to come into earthside more easily with less interventions and as natural as possible. When the body is feeling safe, more resourced, and the birthing process is undisturbed, the body’s intelligence system is able do what it does best.

Resourcing can be used anytime and in any situation. Stretching, going for a walk in nature, dancing, savoring a cup of tea/coffee/cocoa are some examples. I will share with you other ways to resource yourselves throughout your pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum period in the next few blog posts.