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		<title>Am I Expressing Truth or Belief?</title>
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As we become                       more conscious we become active seekers of Truth. In the                     [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=godivabirth.wordpress.com&blog=4976118&post=112&subd=godivabirth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top">As we become                       more conscious we become active seekers of Truth. In the                       quest to know and understand                     Truth, interesting questions arise. And, many seekers come                     to this same enquiry: Am I expressing truth or belief? One                     enquirer recently asked:</p>
<p>“My                       partner and I have been discussing beliefs and thoughts&#8230;                       I was                       saying something that felt to be from my heart, to be a truth from                     somewhere higher than my belief system.</p>
<p>Could that be so, or is                 everything expressed a belief”?</td>
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This important enquiry                         points to the core and intention of enlightenment. The path                         to enlightenment involves the process of shedding our beliefs                         about the world and the identity we have constructed with thoughts                         and formed beliefs. Almost everything that everyone experiences                         in human consciousness is driven by the ganglia of our thoughts                         and beliefs.</p>
<p>Yet some people, instead                     of following the usual mode of behaviour, have committed                     to surrendering                       to the silence                     within — the pure realm of consciousness itself — the                     beingness that is simply witnessing. Like Buddha, each of                     these people have reflected a clear state of pure awareness:                     a way of experiencing the world that is free of our projected                     opinions and beliefs.</p>
<p>Such beings demonstrate that it is possible                       to become the living expression of ‘isness’.                       The more we release our attachment to thoughts and beliefs                       the more we become                     a witness to simply what IS.</p>
<p>Imagine two people walking through a                       forest. A, with an open heart, is deeply breathing in the                       now, all senses alert                     to the experience. While B is in the mind, occupied with                     the noise of mental assessment and sub-conscious thoughts: “trolls                     live in forests, I get cold in forests, these trees are bigger                     than the trees in my backyard…” blah blah blah – on                     and on.</p>
<p>Neither A nor B has to have thoughts or beliefs about the                     trees for the trees to exist. The trees simply are their                     own perfect moment and being. And both A and B have a level                     of their own being which is simply aware of the trees.</p>
<p>A can be so alive to this, so in contact with this, that                     in a moment, filled with the delight of pure witnessing,                     A may speak of the encounter. In this instance the mind is                     simply an instrument: a voice for pure witnessing. Awareness                     precedes the mind. The mind follows the state of simple awareness.</p>
<p>B can be so sure of what the trees mean to him that he generates                     within himself (from memory) the emotions that correspond                     with that meaning. He has lost touch in that moment with                     the state of direct awareness of the trees that always exists                     within him. Instead he is engaged with his ideas about the                     trees. Like A he may speak of this. Yet, for B, it is thought                     that precedes the statement. The statement is a product of                     the mind.</p>
<p>There is a great distinction between these two states and                     yet, for many seekers of Truth, this distinction seems blurry                     and the enquiry continues.</p>
<p>Even whilst the enquiry continues, we                       have been blessed with various individuals who are the                       living testament of                     our ability to live and breathe as heart awareness. This                     reminds us all that everyone has the capacity to experience                     and express a dimension of life that is free of our projected                     thoughts and beliefs. Such a life is innocent, alive, flowing                     and radiating with a delight that reaches out beyond any                     definition — yet still one which we can celebrate in                     the moment through the voice of our heart. As each individual                     surrenders deeper into the presence within and the ‘isness’ of                     the moment, the heart of Truth is encountered. It awakens                     a gift within – the ability to feel and express the                   love, lightness and joy of life’s Truth.</p>
<p>Blessings and Peace,</p>
<p>Isira.</p>
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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those persons who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=godivabirth.wordpress.com&blog=4976118&post=103&subd=godivabirth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those persons who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.<br />
Then why do they want to be together? It is no longer a need; it is a luxury. Try to understand it. Real persons love each other as a luxury; it is not a need. They enjoy sharing: they have so much joy; they would like to pour it into somebody. And they know how to play their life as a solo instrument. The solo flute player knows how to enjoy his flute alone. And if he comes and finds a tabla player, a solo tabla player, they will enjoy being together and creating a harmony between the flute and the tabla. Both will enjoy it: they will both pour their richness into each other.”</p>
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Yesterday I had another Doula training day and the curriculum of the day was intervention and unexpected outcomes.  Most of the day was spent on discussing the medicalisation of the labour and birth process, discussing things such as fetal monitoring, epidurals, caesarians etc. 
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Yesterday I had another Doula training day and the curriculum of the day was intervention and unexpected outcomes.  Most of the day was spent on discussing the medicalisation of the labour and birth process, discussing things such as fetal monitoring, epidurals, caesarians etc. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">My body felt extremely exhausted when I left at 5:30pm, the kind of tiredness I have now come to recognise as emotional tiredness and some kind of emotional shutdown.  I went to bed at 9:30pm (very early for me) and this morning woke up feeling very fragile. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#008080;">What came up for me was feeling like a very little helpless schoolgirl &#8211; in the world of adults/teachers/authority.  There was also a deep questioning in my mind &#8211; &#8220;How do I correlate what I feel is such a wrong system of birth with my spiritual values of unconditional acceptance and love?&#8221;.  I could see the mind wanted to land somewhere in the feelings that were coming through me &#8211; one second feeling helpless in the face of the medical insitution and supposed authority, the next second wanting to fight the establishment (and feeling very &#8216;David and Goliath&#8217;, a moving towards/aggression), the next moment a mental supposition of spirituality &#8211; telling myself to accept what is.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">At my very core though was a purely physical response by my body of how wrong it is to electively cut a woman open.  I felt like a bewildered child who is surrounded by adults saying this is &#8216;how it is/should be&#8217; and the innocence in me is screaming &#8220;But this is intrinsically wrong!&#8221;.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Emergency Caesar&#8217;s &#8211; I only feel full acceptance for what &#8216;is&#8217; in my being and an immense gratitude for that life saving skill. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Beyond that, today my body is hurting at all the unecessary interventions, there is vulnerability in my body - it feels weak, there is a pain and sadness in my heart.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I am amazed at the level of reponse in my body given my two daughter&#8217;s births were absent of any of this (besides a couple of vaginal exams to check dilation).  Especially Ceasar&#8217;s &#8211; I am surprised at how much of a response that is bringing up in me, and I cannot even trace it to my own birth &#8211; I would have thought the forceps one would have affected me more.  Seeing the video of a forceps delivery was disturbing.  Still, considering I am a forceps baby, that part I just felt uncomfortable as I watched, the caesarian part has stayed and stayed with me.  I realised this morning that out of all aspects of medicalised birth, it is this cutting of a woman open that feels the most violating to me.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">So today I have been questioning why it is that Caesar&#8217;s bother me so much, why my body has such a strong abhorrence for this part of birth above all others?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">What I have arrived at is that caesarians (please know that I am referring to avoidable or elective caesarians here, not life-saving necessary caesarians) are the symptom, the last unhealthy manifestation of a system that has gone very very wrong.  Just like cancer in the body.  In the end it is not the cancer which kills someone, it is what caused the cancer in the first place (the overload of toxic food, toxic environment, toxic emotions, toxic relationships etc) that is the problem. The body has been slowly &#8216;dying&#8217; for a long time and the cancer is the recognisable manifestation, the nail in the coffin.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For me there is a horror of caesarians because it is the penultimate symptom of birth gone wrong, of humanity gone wrong &#8211; of being so out of touch with the spirit of humanity, the sacredness of life, the preciousness of divine human creation.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">In my mind I decided to trace back to where this downward slide began, because the subject of pregnancy, labour and birth is so complex and detailed &#8211; the whole &#8216;cascade of interventions&#8217; and ignorance which lead to our high caesarian rate.  I sit and listen to all the doulas, midwives, women, mothers, doctors talk about birth, I read articles and my mind is boggled with information overload.  When doulas/midwives speak so confidently and knowingly, medical terms and acronyms flowing freely off their tongues, I sit there feeling inadequate, because I am so not the type of person who retains facts.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Then I remembered the one thing that comes up strongly for me all the time.  Like a child who sees things so easily as one simple equation, for me it always comes back to sexuality and birth.  All I ever see is the huge issues we have around sexuality in our societies and how women have been so disempowered in their sexuality (despite the feminist movement and the &#8216;pill&#8217;) &#8211; that it is no wonder women have trouble giving birth through their vaginas!  If one is not comfortable in her sexual expression (or her partner comfortable in her expression of sexuality because he is not comfortable with his own) then we have real problems.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Interestingly, even though progress has apparently been made for women to be allowed more sexual freedom, as women&#8217;s sexual freedom began to be realised, this correlates with the large spike towards the medicalisation of birth.  Birth &#8211; the ultimate sexual expression of a woman &#8211; was slowly being repressed as women focussed all their attention on sex <span style="text-decoration:underline;">with a man</span>.  The disempowerment of women to stand in her own right, her own power of birthing, was eroded as the illusion of freedom was used to distract women by giving her more rights in other areas of life (work, sex, politics etc).  Women missed the whole point of what they were trying to gain through sexual freedom &#8211; reconnection with the divine feminine.<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Please do not mistake me &#8211; I see clearly the pendulum swing.  I understand the need to bring balance into all aspect of life, including the dance of sexuality between the masculine and feminine.  I am immensely grateful for the liberties and freedom I have sexually that wasn&#8217;t enjoyed by my mother, aunts and grandmothers.   However, in all of that, I think women literally threw out the baby with the bathwater and forgot one of our essential expressions of feminity and sexuality.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">At this point in time I see all my paths of learning, all my inquiries into life, converging as I realise what it is I am meant to bring as my gift in serving humanity.  For me it is to open up women and men to their sacred sexuality and marry this with birth.  After all, we are conceived in a moment of sex and our birth is just a continuation of that first blissful moment.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I let go of any need to be a walking library of facts.  I highly appreciate the other women, doulas and midwives that are like that &#8211; I love having them as references.  For me though it is literally about holding sacred space, of being an embodiment of the sacredness of life.  It is enough just to be that, because when I rest purely as this presence &#8211; then something comes to rest in the other person and they remember their own divinity.  In each moment, that is enough.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I love sex &#8211; I know that sounds funny &#8211; most people do.   I mean I am literally &#8216;in love&#8217; with sex, that I find no separation within me between spirituality and sexuality, between sacredness of sex and sacredness of life, between orgasmic and non-orgasmic.  I love talking about sex, about sensuality, sacredness, energy, union, almost more than anything.  I always have (and found that very hard to be with as a young child). </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I have begun to notice that this ease I have is not something everyone else has and it is something they are grateful to find with me.  That people open up and tell me their most deepest, darkest, shameful secrets around sexuality &#8211; because for me they are none of those things.  And in them opening up, they find liberation &#8211; they literally open up and more sexual energy (life force) is available.  Our sexual energy is our most primal energy and it flows into everything we do.  Yet we have shut down so much of it through conditioning (no matter how sexually liberated or &#8216;experienced&#8217; we think we have been).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Then along comes birth, the most forceful and full-on expression of sexuality and no wonder so many women (and men) find it hard to open up to that much life-force when they have so many blocks in place around it!</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">So this is my starting point &#8211; sexuality.  I choose to do my doula service at this point and not try and tackle the symptoms.  And I will continue to allow my sensitivity to the unhealthy manifestation &#8211; caesarians and all other invasive interventions &#8211; because I trust my body&#8217;s response.  I trust this spirit, this mysterious life force as it flows through my body.  If something is out of integrity and resonance with this divine force, then I <strong>want </strong>to be able to register that in my being.  I bow to this greater wisdom and allow it to guide me into the unknown.</span></span></span></p>
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An interview with Shantam Nityama by Rebecca Walker
www.nityama.com


RW: Tell me a little bit about what you do and how you came into this work.
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<p><span style="color:#003366;">An interview with Shantam Nityama by <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnJlYmVjY2F3YWxrZXIuY29tLw==">Rebecca Walker</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;">www.nityama.com</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> Tell me a little bit about what you do and how you came into this work.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> I started out twenty years ago doing bodywork as a component of spiritual mentoring. Basically, I wanted to help people integrate what they knew spiritually into their everyday life. To have knowledge of a spiritual perspective and to implement that knowledge into your daily living are two completely different things. As people came to me for spiritual instruction, I began to realize most of them had deep repression that was not allowing them to accumulate the energy needed to develop spiritually. Each time I investigated the source of this stagnation, most of my discoveries revolved around the person’s sexuality and/or sexual energy channels. How the person is handled as a child or as a young adult around sex or sexuality related issues impacts them in their adulthood. As a young person the amount of shame, guilt, confusion, ignorance, and fear tied to the sexual energy was overwhelming.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">It is sex that brings us onto the planet. We must realize that if we have difficulty with the primal energy that brought us here, then we are going to be mired in self-hatred and be confused about the very thing that has brought us into being.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The next revelation I had was the relationship between spirituality and sex is like the relationship between a butterfly and a caterpillar: If the caterpillar is not in good health and not strong, then you’re not going to have a butterfly, or you are going to get a very weak and scrawny butterfly. So I started to realize that in order for people to open up spiritually, they had to come back and totally embrace their sexual energy and be clear about it in order for them to take that same energy and transform themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> How did you make that connection?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Well, the link was already there in the sense that the same energy that comes up through the tailbone of the person in order to animate their whole body and their whole existence is the same sexual energy that is needed in order to develop spiritually. So once it works its’ way up the spine to the crown of the head and other adjoining head centers, it is the flowering of the very same energy. As an experienced teacher of bodywork, I could sense and feel and really connect with these energies in the body through my intuition, my sense of feel and touch.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The other thing that I started to see was how the use of sex or the sexual act itself was a way of eliminating psychic toxicity– or I’m going to even call it neuroses — out of a person’s field. And the more an individual has confusion around sex, while having no proper outlet for that energy, the more neurotic they become. I also came to realize how the sexual act itself was a way of catalyzing and balancing the creative energy inside a human being.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The more these similar findings showed up in the people that came to see me, the more I started to understand that many of the difficulties people were having, such as a lack of creativity and struggling to find purpose and so forth, came from their energy being shut down. They had no outlet for their creativity and purpose to flow through. In listening to various recounts of people’s childhoods, I’ve become aware of how as a society, we systematically shut the child down early on in life. We make the child stop following and being true to their own energy exactly the way it is. The moment the child is running for a mud puddle and we yell stop, the child has to do something to suppress their internal energy in order to follow that order. So immediately the child has to create a tension in the body and clamp down around this powerful energy that’s moving through him or her in order to be able to conform to what is being asked of them.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">In my field I frequently encounter spiritual teachers who firmly believe that enlightenment is the ultimate orgasm, and basically orgasmic bliss is your natural state. So I started to work with people, not to remove their tension, but to get them to re-embrace orgasmic bliss and to allow themselves to let the orgasmic bliss move through them again. As a result, the tension falls away effortlessly. The tension is just there to keep the orgasmic bliss at bay, because in our society nothing supports your walking around in orgasmic bliss. So much of the work consists of assisting people in becoming courageous enough to be orgasmic in a non-orgasmic world.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong> </span>This became the intention behind your work, to bring people to this state of constant orgasmic bliss?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span><strong>SN:</strong></span> Yes. I started to utilize different ways of working with couples, mainly focusing on bringing the feminine energy back to its rightful place. That was crucial because at one point, I became aware of the fact that women represent the parasympathetic nervous system of our planet as far as the human species is concerned. Men represent the sympathetic nervous system, and when I looked and allowed myself to assess the situation, the parasympathetic nervous system was in dire straits. It was not healthy at all. And not only was it unhealthy, but it was as if the parasympathetic nervous system woke up one day and said, “It’s not comfortable, it’s not desirable, I don’t like being the parasympathetic nervous system. I want to be a sympathetic nervous system.” As a result, we’re on the verge of both the parasympathetic and the sympathetic systems perishing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> Can you explain these different systems for non bio-enlightened readers?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong> </span>The parasympathetic nervous system regulates all of your organs, hormones, enzymes, and all of the involuntary functions within the body &#8211; the things that keep the body alive. The sympathetic nervous system controls the larger muscle systems, the ones you use for hiking, running, and doing all the outer activities. In the medical profession, we already know the parasympathetic nervous system is essential. The sympathetic nervous system could actually collapse –totally collapse — and the person would still be alive because the heart would be beating, the organs would still be functioning, the brain would still be functional even in a dormant state.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Now if the parasympathetic nervous system goes, it actually doesn’t matter how strong the sympathetic nervous system is, the body immediately falls to the ground &#8211; done, finished. So in light of that, I realized in order for us to come back to a place of balance, and for humanity to actually start to move on as far as evolution is concerned, we need to focus on the parasympathetic nervous system, to start to take a different type of care of the feminine, and to support women in realizing and understanding the beauty, joy and the exquisiteness of being a woman. Most women end up totally abandoning the feminine before they even see it, during puberty. Our attitude on the planet presently is, just forget the feminine. Go straight for the masculine. Basically, the men are men and the women are too. And as a result, we’re losing something of major importance to our survival.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Another thing I’ve noticed is that many men of power, including myself, have a tremendous amount of respect for “woman”, as far as their spiritual development and capacity &#8211; all men of power use the way of “woman” whenever possible, because any man that understands knows that the way of the woman is a thousand times more powerful than the way of the man. So as a result, he uses the way of the woman. And when he needs to use the way of the man, he uses it with precision. And the moment it’s no longer necessary, he falls back into the way of the woman. Conscious men do this willingly with great ease and finesse. Other men who cling to machismo and deny the way of the woman have no idea how much they hold back their own spiritual development via their denial.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> So it isn’t just about supporting the feminine in the female, it is also about supporting the feminine within the male. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> You could say that.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> And for all of us who have deconstructed the way of the woman and need a refresher course, the way of the woman is what, exactly?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> The way of the woman is the allowing of light. Her way is transparency, receptivity, tenderness, yieldingness, availability, and she neither uses her sex nor neglects it. The way of the woman is the utilizing of pure intuition as a way of knowing. It is a knowing without knowing how you know and trusting that. Whereas the way of the man is that if he can’t show on paper how he got from point A to point B, then maybe point B doesn’t exist.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The woman’s way of perception is totally different from the way a man perceives. Her way of perceiving is greatly dispersed. It includes all of the senses simultaneously without focusing on any one of them in particular. So when a woman walks into a room she picks up on the smell of the room, the color of the room, the feel of the room, the taste of the room, the visual impact of the room. She takes in all of this in one fell swoop. She doesn’t have to go through each one of them. She just comes in, and practically imbibes the room on all these different levels simultaneously. And if you ask her about her experience of the room, she would reply, “Oh it was exquisite, it was this, and it had that feel to it, and you could just smell this, and everything just fit together so well.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">And in turn, she is also able to register disharmony and discord, which equips her to be a reliable barometer to let the community know when things are not as harmonious as they could be.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">But in order for her way to be of value, the men in the community need to be able to hear the woman’s perception without taking it and twisting it to make it palatable to the male mind. Because in the process of doing that, he distorts what the woman has communicated to such a degree that it renders it impotent. It diminishes the power of her communication. For men to stand differently with women in this new place they need to cultivate the ability to listen to a woman’s communication while respecting her framework of perceiving, so he understands what she’s saying, rather than attempting to run it through his mind to determine whether or not it makes sense to his style of conceptualizing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">So the work I do, the body work techniques, the processes, and the workshops have all been geared to looking at how to authentically restore the feminine energy back to the feminine and how to educate men to be adept enough to assist women in eliminating some of the pain, confusion, fear, and mishandling that almost every woman, I believe, has encountered one way or another on our planet. How can we reverse this and work with her to the point that she can return to herself and fully embody the experience of her energy?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Much of what a woman encounters in her life actually diminishes the power of her womb, or steals from it. Part of healing is restoring the womb’s ability to manifest not only children, but also things of a higher nature that you want to bring into life: more abundance, more love, greater sense of community, and so on. All these things can actually be born through the womb the same as a child, but only when the woman’s energy in her womb is innocent again. And by innocent I mean that the fear, the shame, the guilt, the rage, the anger, the lack of self worth, the jealousy, the repression — all of these energies need to be removed from woman’s womb through “conscious lovemaking” in order for the woman to return her womb to innocence. With a womb that’s in the innocent state, which I just described, you could actually drop a seed of intention into it and it would practically sprouts upon entry, this is the power of “the woman and her womb.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">I have been dedicated to finding new ways to work with men, to teach them how to make love to women as a means of returning the womb back to this innocence, how to help a woman process the pain, the fear, the shame, the guilt, and all the other emotional qualifications that she superimposed on her energy. These negating emotions need to be removed in order for the energy to be totally free, pure, creative energy again. This will allow it to manifest whatever it chooses at a higher octave.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> How do you work with men to cultivate this apprehension of and ability to heal the feminine? This seems like a radically transformative process, how do you approach it?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong> </span>There are a number of things that I communicate to men when I begin to work with them. The first thing is to encourage them to drop all fantasies. I help them to see that they need to be authentic when they are communing with a woman, and that they need to cultivate the ability in themselves to stalk and feel her energy. Meaning anytime a man needs to have a fantasy about some naked woman, a fantasy about some movie star, or a fantasy about some other woman that he would like to be with, in order to be with the current woman, he has totally separated himself from this woman. Whatever he does with this particular woman will actually be injurious to her. It will not be helpful to her as far as her restoring herself back to wholeness.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The other thing that is very important is bringing men to understand that when they are touching a woman they are touching her either as a way of promoting her well being or they are adding insult to previous injury. And the way for them to be clear that they are adding something through their touch that is helpful to her is to make sure that whenever they touch a woman with any part of themselves, whether it be their hand, their arm, or whatever, that they become a part of what they are touching and all of their consciousness is in the slightest of touches. For example when touching with the hand, the man must be conscious to use this experience as a means of making sure that he is totally piercing her with his consciousness through the hand, and being totally present in the hand. He wants to feel, sense and intuit the woman’s communication back to the hand so that they know there is a resonance taking place that is moving equally between the two of them. Through these types of conscious interactions the man has the ability to start to follow the woman’s internal energy and be able to register, in his consciousness, the most minute movements and shifts within that woman’s body, within her field, within her consciousness, within her emotions, within all different aspects of her.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Once a man has developed this capacity, then he also has the ability when he’s making love to her to know how to detect the slightest tension, a tightening inside of her womb, or whatever. He can detect whenever he touches on a place that is the least bit painful or that she’s apprehensive about opening, and then through that registry, he can in turn communicate with the woman and ask her to breathe her way into these places, see what they are about, and then jointly the two of them, once she has named it, can actively transmute whatever it is in order to start to restore her womb back to innocence.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">As well another significant part to notice is that men need to be aware of their need to take responsibility for the quality of energy that they bring to a woman when they come to her. Say for instance, a man has a really rough day with his boss. He’s totally angry, totally pissed off. He comes home. He never says anything about it, or maybe he says something about it, but he doesn’t totally own responsibility for it. He makes love to the woman. He actually downloads his negative energy into her as he’s making love.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Three or so days later, the woman will actually give birth to this energy. So all of a sudden she’s angry, and doesn’t understand why. Out of nowhere, she’s totally angry, when in actuality the energy that he has deposited in her has now had enough time to integrate itself into her and come out as a manifestation. So in light of that process, it is very important for a man even if he brings anger home, that he says, “Baby, you know what, I’m carrying so much anger right now from work today, and I would love if we could come together and consciously transmute it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">So in this process, he still downloads the negative feelings into the woman, but after he downloads it and he’s free of it, then he consciously engages with her so that she can in turn, turn right around and bring that energy back to the head of his penis in order for it to be transmuted. She is assisting him in processing what he’s feeling, but instead of him just dumping it and walking off, he turns around and helps her transmute it so that it is no longer there to disturb either one of them. Most men have not been aware of the second half of the process.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> I think that is an understatement! Well, how is this psychic matter transmuted from the head of the penis?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong> </span>The head of the man’s penis is electrical. So when the women brings anything that has a less than positive charge on it, the penis energy immediately transmutes it and changes it into a positive form. At that point, the anger or the emotion is transformed. And now the energy is just pure energy again. It comes back into the woman as a wave of bliss, and it runs into the man as an orgasmic wave.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> So if he brings it into her, she brings it back to him, puts it on the penis. It’s then transformed into bliss. Sounds like a good system.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Exactly. Bliss for her and orgasmic bliss for him. So it’s almost like a field in which you make higher ecstatic energy. You create this field that can be used to transform negativity that you encounter in your life on a daily basis.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> If you can bring that level of consciousness to the process.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Yes, if you can bring that level of consciousness to the process. So the woman becomes able to assist that man without becoming a dump site that is just dumped in continuously.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">The same thing is going on with the earth. We have just been dumping in the earth, but we have not used our intelligence to see how you transform whatever you put into the dump, how to make it recyclable, so that it actually becomes a functional working part of the earth again. Women, the earth, it is the same, and we have not taken care of either. We’ve dumped, but we have not taken care to work with them and be present for them in order for them to take whatever is involved and recycle it so that it is no longer poisoning them.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong> </span>So these tools, and of course we are just barely touching upon the depth of the work that you do, how open do you find that men are to them? Can they easily make this shift? What are some of the obstacles they face in this work?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong> </span>Pride is one of the major obstacles. A lot of men do not want to even begin to sit still to expose themselves to concepts that they don’t already know. I have had to design ways to offset that by demonstrating the concepts to men with a woman in order for them to actually see and visualize where a woman is capable of going. Once they see this demonstration, and once they see how far they are from even beginning to do what they’ve witnessed, only then do they open themselves for some kind of communication around these new concepts. But if I just talk to them, I find that it has absolutely no bearing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> They need the experiential. They need to have it imprinted on their body. They need to touch it and see it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> What I’ve noticed when talking to men is that they assume they already know women. So they can’t even visualize anything different from what they know. I may say something to them. They go, “Oh yeah, yeah. I know that.” But if they see a woman move and respond through the process that I’m taking her through and then they see that there are things going on that they’ve never witnessed before in their life, then all of a sudden their whole attitude changes. They’re more humble. They’re more willing to say, “Well, I don’t even understand how what I just saw could happen.” And then that opens a door for me to be able to have a much deeper communication with them. I then get the chance to start communicating with them about the energy world, how the energy world works. If I tell a man that I can bring a woman to orgasm from across the room, he won’t believe me. If he sees me bring a woman to orgasm from across the room, I’ve got his attention.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> Is there a way you are being that is an alternative masculine that they are also witnessing that they can now aspire to, that they did not see before?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Totally. In many ways what I am doing is demonstrating a totally new way of being on the planet as a man. I am introducing the option of a man being present and really starting to learn and function with total awareness from the energy level rather than walking around thinking that everything is solid. The moment that a man sees some of these demonstrations, his mind opens to realize, wait a minute: If you did that from that distance, then that means there is a possibility of some energy that’s here that I have not really given any validity to. There’s something here bigger than my mind can even wrap around.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">I’m opening a door for a man to start to be present with a woman and know what it feels like to be making love to her twenty four hours a day seven days a week, just in how he moves through the room, how he utilizes his energy, how he walks, everything that he’s doing in light of how the woman’s perception is so dispersed. Everything that he does in a room is impacting on her and having some influence and impact on her energetically. So the more that he becomes aware of the energy world, the more that he moves through the world and moves in and around women as though his very movement is making love to them. Given this awareness, the woman feels more loved, nurtured and safe. They start to really enjoy and appreciate being a woman because of the way the men around them are moving– it is bringing up some of the most exquisite textures and feelings and sensibilities in them that have not been a part of our society.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> Is there a bridge practice that you teach, to help people to get to this information?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Yes, I teach a type of energetic hugging. Most people feel that a hug is just a gesture, but what I teach is that hugging can be quite healing. Hugging can restore balance. Hugging can be orgasmic. Hugging has many different aspects to it; once they are learned, then the hug can become a very powerful tool within our communities that can help everyone to stay balanced. So one of the first things I do is demonstrate a hug, then I show people how to hug, and form hugging circles so that they get to hug all of the people that are present in the room, and feel the healing power of that.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Most of the difficulty that the populace has in accepting these ideas is that they need to have an experience that allows them, on an individual basis, to feel the impact and feel the importance of what is being introduced. The importance of it is that they need to feel it and actually have it as a visceral experience within their own bodies. The moment that a person has a visceral experience at that level, you are no longer talking to them about something that they have to believe. You are now communicating with them about something they have actually experienced, and they know it to be real.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">Introducing people to an awareness of the energetic world immediately changes them. Immediately they become hungry to know more about what they’ve just experienced. This opens the doorway for you to be able to communicate and share with them more and more complex ways of moving and being in the world from an energetic standpoint.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">My experience is that consciousness is always reaching to expand itself. But we have been living in a world that has minimized the opportunity for an individual to come in contact with anything that is expanding. My work is to come in, introduce something that creates a level of expansion, which then immediately triggers the consciousness to want more of itself.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong> </span>What is it about the culture as it is now that cultivates men who lack the sensitivity and attention you are teaching?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> There are a number of conditions, and some of them are far beyond the awareness and consciousness of the mind at this point to even be able to let in. Part of it has to do with the fact that there are actually energies and beings present on the planet that thrive in a state of fear and confusion.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">So much of the tone has been set on the planet, if you pay attention to your news, everything basically coming through mass communication is fear based. This fear is from and for those beings that are here and thrive on fear. But as a result of this, it is turning the planet– as far as the people that thrive on love– making it more and more difficult for them to be able to survive here in any kind of balanced and healthy way.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">So it is very important for men to start to really utilize various aspects of their spiritual nature to be able to discern the quality of the different ideas and the different concepts that they allow themselves to take into their being and give a home to. Like now, they are basically out there, and they have been very heavily indoctrinated away from what is natural by the media. If you look at the movies, there are movies that basically show a man just violently taking a woman. They show a man making love and it’s something that lasts about two, three minutes. So, if you ask women, this is how long the sexual act lasts now or is expected to last. I hear this all over the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">If you couple that with a total media bombardment that makes men more and more insensitive, he ends up not knowing which way is home. So he ends up trying to take all this insanity and construct a map for how he’s going to live. The reality is that he is totally confused.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">In my workshops I talk a lot about men needing to refrain from being duped into sitting before TV’s and newspapers and being told what is real in the world. He needs to make sure that he doesn’t lose touch with the streets, with what he can touch and feel himself. He needs to go out and through his own experience come to know what is real and not real. Otherwise, he’s just like a leaf blowing in the wind with absolutely no direction. And this does not serve him. It does not serve any woman he would be around. It does not serve society. It does not serve the planet for a man to be here with no direction and no purpose. No understanding of how the energy coming through him is to be used as a gift to the community he is in. If he does not have a connection with that aspect of his depth, he is dangerous to whatever degree he is lacking.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> How do you see this moving within the next several years? What is your vision for it?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>SN:</strong></span> Well, some of it will be dictated by what happens on our planet. This planet is going through a major transition right now. It’s pretty much up for grabs in that anytime there is a potential for enlightenment, there’s an equally intense potential for regression, for endarkenment. So it’s really going to be sort of nip and tuck as far as how quickly consciousness is going to be raised on the planet to offset things going toward endarkenment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;">But I also feel that in this process or in that transition, the work that I’m doing and the work that others are doing is actually being dictated by this need for a shift. So my work is accelerating. I’m doing more workshops and mentoring more men as fast as I can, duplicating myself. And as fast as I can, I am helping to bring more and more health and wholeness to more women on the planet.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#003366;"><span style="color:#330000;"><strong>RW:</strong></span> And I thank you for that.</span></div>
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When a woman gives birth, she can have the best support people around her: a loving devoted partner, a friend, a sister, a mother, a midwife and doula, beautiful ambience, best medical support. All of these things are nurturing and supportive and definitely create the most optimal conditions for bringing life into the world. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=godivabirth.wordpress.com&blog=4976118&post=1&subd=godivabirth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;" lang="en-AU"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://godivabirth.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/hello-world/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/zG_6IVmXvr0/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;" lang="en-AU"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">When a w</span></span></span><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">oman gives birth, she can have the best support people around her: a loving devoted partner, a friend, a sister, a mother, a midwife and doula, beautiful ambience, best medical support. All of these things are nurturing and supportive and definitely create the most optimal conditions for bringing life into the world. It is certainly my passion to help women attain the highest ideal birth environment, creating these conditions by education and example. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;" lang="en-AU"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Beyond all those things being in place, whether they are in existence or not (and having them is definitely better than not), in the end, it is only the woman alone who can deliver the baby.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Once a baby knows to be born, there is nothing you can do to stop the progression of birth.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:#008080;">During birth, there will always be a time when the mother reaches her <em>absolute</em> limits, of feeling that she just cannot take anymore, where all the support around her means absolutely nil in her mind. It is in that place, in that moment, that a mother must dig deeper than she has ever known in her life. So she digs. She goes even more inwardly focused than she thought possible, she searches and reaches into herself and finds strengths she didn&#8217;t know she had.  In doing so she reaches a place of knowing and this knowing can be terrifying: &#8220;I am beyond the point of no return, I cannot deep any digger, there is nothing else to give, nothing else I can do&#8221;.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">So she does the only thing she can &#8230; she surrenders. Because that is all she can do &#8211; all knowing, all formulas, all options, all thought, all plans &#8211; all of it disappears.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Then life, life that knows it&#8217;s own timing, it&#8217;s own pace, it&#8217;s own magical mystery, takes over. And life births the baby through that transition. Then once again, life gives control back to the mother and says &#8216;Push!&#8217; &#8211; but the mother knows now it is just an illusion. She has no control over pushing, she can only follow the urge and ride the wave, maximising it&#8217;s potential.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">&#8220;Aaah&#8221;, but you say, &#8220;you are wrong, a mother doesn&#8217;t need to do it all alone, she can choose to have someone else deliver her baby, she can have a medicalised, scientific approach to life and have the baby excised from her&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Why would I, as woman, choose that? When life gives me the opportunity to embrace all that it is to be feminine, all that it is to feel the absolute power of life course through my body, to feel it in it&#8217;s rawest, most magnificent, most divine and scary form, why would I allow myself to be deprived of that by choosing something cold, harsh and clinical? Why choose man-made instruments over the natural wonder of our bodies?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Giving birth is not just a physical act. Being present to the symbology of birth, to have the opportunity to dig deeper into yourself than you ever have before, to feel at one with the very creative force of life, to work with nature, prepares us for <em>everything </em>in life &#8211; not just birth.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">I find it in myself to get up in the middle of the night, when I am so tired I feel disoriented and distraught, because I have already learnt from the experience of giving birth the amazing capabilities of my human body and spirit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">I find it possible to keep my heart open, to embrace all of life, even the painful harshness of the door to love sometimes being slammed shut in my face, because I have learnt through birth that pain and fear often walks hand-in-hand with magnificent triumph.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">I have no problem with science and the marvellous creations of man, of the fantastic ability to problem solve and find helpful solutions to the misfortunes of life.  A caesarian has it&#8217;s place if it saves lives &#8211; but too many people choose it over the naturalness of birth, of being this beautiful flesh and body machine we already perfectly are.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">I am grateful for what science has given us &#8211; it expands our thinking, our way of being, it enables us to know ourselves as creators and masters &#8211; but it should never be mistaken for reality, for life itself. Science may help a woman and baby from potential death, but it should never be used to clinically remove us from what it means to be human, to deprive a mother from the initiation into that which will sustain her as she raises a child. When a woman gives birth naturally, with the support of loved and trusted family, friends and mentors surrounding her &#8211; we all become aware of the fact it takes a village to raise a child, that everyone has a purpose and investment in the sacred life of that child. When a woman gives birth in a cold, sterile environment, willingly handing over all responsibility of welcoming her child into the world to a stranger, a dangerous detachment happens across all levels of consciousness and physical reality.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Medicalised science has done much, well intentionally, to ease mankind of pain. Yet time and time again I observe how science has taken what should be used as a <strong><em>tool </em></strong>to assist &#8211; and made it an across the board &#8216;one size fits all&#8217; solution. In this regard, science has been no better or worse than religion. People speak of religious horrors and atrocities, of countless deaths and injustices. Yet the same people will forget the millions of deaths that still happen every day across the world from mistakes and mis-managment by science. Hospitals have become a very stark reality of this.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">There is no &#8216;one size fits all&#8217; approach to anything, even the Journey process is only one of many tools that can help people to freedom. Yet if one knows the Journey as a way of life, then it becomes, just like birth, a pattern for being present to the flow of life.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">There is always a better way. Giving birth can be orgasmic, can be ecstatic and intoxicating. Living life is orgasmic, ecstatic and intoxicating. Not by trying to avoid pain, but by embracing pain and going so deep within pain, so deep into the inner landscape of our human body and psyche, that pain is transcended and liberated.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:small;color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span>Women in birth are at their most vulnerable &#8230; and most powerful.  A woman in birth cannot run away from danger and all her senses are heightened to everything around her and within her.  Simultaneously, woman in birth knows herself as part of the most powerful expression of life force, the energy coursing through her body to deliver this new life into the world.  Women know how to embrace both the spiritual and our humanness, to embody the dichotomy of what it is to be human, through their experience – not through concept.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">Science has it&#8217;s place.  Just like having all the best support people around a woman at birth, like having the most beautiful music and soft environment &#8211; having medical support nearby is prudent.  But to think that science could replace all of that is to take away a basic human right, <strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span>that of the women&#8217;s ability to do it alone</span></span></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:small;color:#008080;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span>.</span></span></span></p>
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