I read the book, “Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy”. The author describes a state of being known as tapas. Tapas is allowing yourself to feel and embrace pain. This acceptance of pain can cause feelings of ecstasy, when we do not try to avoid or escape it. The author, Georg Fueurstein, also relates tapas to some women in childbirth.

 

I have read a few books and frowned when I came across women who said they had orgasmic births. Thinking, “What kind of freak mess is this, childbirth hurts”. But, after thinking more about the subject I realized the sensations we feel are simply energy. Women have the power to transform the energy of pain during childbirth into something blissful. Instead of fighting this pain we have the ability to welcome and embrace it. When we feel these contractions we can own it, instead of running from it. Women can move with the sensations and send it to different places in their mind, body, and spirit. We can use this energy to actually make childbirth easier and faster. I realize now that if we can manipulate this energy using our minds and spiritual tools, such as crystals, which we know can transform energy, women can make childbirth an empowering experience filled with ecstasy.

 

Embracing pain alone could help families to avoid fear which leads to epidurals and pitocin. Which sometimes leads to heart rate issues and Caesarean sections. The fear of childbirth and pain causes so many women to feel that the should not be in control and leave their destiny in someone else’s hands. Many doctors and some midwives in hospital settings will prey on the mother’s fear of pain.

 

 

“Lack of Fear is the Lack of Opposition”

 

Iya Raet

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