Celebration of Life

A wonderful day organised by Chennai Birth Network on 21st November 2009. This was a day spent in the company of Penny Simkin and a lot many more wonderful women bringing their own brand of energy and passion for birth.

There is reason to celebrate each day of our lives …not just the good parts but just being alive and this fantastic ability to feel. Even when that feeling is PAIN.

Penny taught me something rather significant

We can feel pain without suffering and suffering without pain. Its something to reflect on as we move through life predefining how we will or are supposed to feel without actually pausing and clearing out this rubbish to make room for real real feelings.

and here is an interesting concept

To quote Frederick Wirth in his book Prenatal Parenting;

In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell states, “The one thing that is constant in all myths of the world is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation.” At our darkest moments of despair comes the light of understanding. The same thought is expressed in the poem The Prophet, where Kahlil Gibran states, “Pain is the bitter pill of the inner physician that cracks the shell of our understanding.” How can a seed grow into a flower unless the seed swells and dies? Learning new ways to live and love is associated with crises and pain that force us to let go of old behaviours and beliefs in order to pass over a threshold to new understanding. This is the quest story’s inner passage of growth that transcends all societies.

In Western society we seem to have lost our appreciation of darkness as a process for finding light, . . .

The word pregnant means having possibilities. . .

It is a significant period, rich in momentous possibilities for psychological and spiritual development. you must be willing to forgo old concepts to learn new. This can be painful, but like your unborn child you have the capacity to endure it.

So with nothing else to say for now except thinking Deepa Santosh, my birth friend from Chennai for inviting me to this day and sending me the lovely pictures … YAY!