There is no doubt that change is in the air. Even in New Zealand I am able to watch Oprah when inclined ... although a bit delayed. Suzie Orman was on the show explaining to people the need to consolidate their finances, pay off debt and save for the long term. She mentioned that the years of over indulgence has gone.
Actually I was most influenced by Your Money Or Your Life which had the most profound change in how I viewed my finances. It was based on one's own ethics and desires, dreams and the meaning of your life rather than budgeting.
I've spread the word about this book for years to anyone who talks about money and the difficulties so many people have ... just because it flows through the fingers in such a subconscious manner. Your Money Or Your Life helped me (and my children) to value their life's energy and how that is spent over 'time' and how that converts into money and its use.
That system rang true to me because I've been so involved in bringing forth a consciousness about birth that is entirely different than the trend thinking that has been tied to childbirth for the past 40 years.
Recently on Oprah she was talking to a woman about being conscious about food and eating. Here is one simple word 'conscious' and yet this woman and Oprah use that word differently.
Her guest said that she ‘ate consciously’. Oprah asked her to define that term. For her guest it meant being aware of how her food was grown and what was in products. Oprah had an ‘Ah Ha’ moment. To her being ‘conscious’ about food was to make certain she chewed well and made choices about how much she ate. Same word but very different behaviors!
Childbirth is sort of like both the consciousness you'll discover in Your Money Or Your Life and the consciousness expressed by both Oprah and her guest. In the analogy of childbirth, her guest would be all about 'conscious choice' in regards to Birth Plans. Oprah would be using her consciousness to determine what her behavior was as she ate.
Both are good and go together. Mostly in childbirth the emphasis is on the first ... The Birth Plan and nothing on the second ... your behavior much less the behavior of your partner as a father-to-be.
Your Money Or Your Life incorporates both. While your Pink Kit Package focuses exclusively on how you use your life's energy (Time) during the activity of giving birth and to do that in a 'conscious' manner.
If you are pregnant now then you will give birth one day and you will have one of these three birth types:
• You will labour then have a vaginal delivery.
• You will labour and then have a surgical delivery.
• You will not labour and have a surgical delivery.
If you are planning a VBAC or vaginal birth after a Caesarean you will still end up with one of these three births.
They all share one fundamental similarity that can never be avoided. All three types of birth take time. Time has so many dimensions.
- Gosh, we just let Time pass us by.
- Golly, we fill Time by doing something.
We are living through a very exciting time of change. Change is not always pleasant. However, if we use every moment of that Time to consciously choose our behaviors, tone of voice, how we spend our hard earned money and how we prepare for and give birth then we will feel more empowered and in control over our own life.
