Getting pregnant is one thing, but consciously preparing yourself to bring a child into the world is something that encompasses well-being on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Your journey into motherhood will look different than your mother’s, your sister’s and your friend’s did, but they share the same dream; to bring a healthy baby into the world to experience all that this life has to offer. Each journey to motherhood, no matter how different it looks, always begins at the same place, conception. The truth is being intentional and supported while preparing for pregnancy sets the tone for not only a healthy baby, but also influences your pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
At Living Lotus Birthkeepers we’re here to assist you through this sacred and important process. For now, let’s go over the major components of a conscious conception and pregnancy: sacred partnership, maintaining a non-toxic home, physical health, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Sacred Partnership
The first crucial component of a conscious pregnancy is to ensure you are in a healthy, fulfilling, and committed marriage or partnership. Your relationship is the foundation of your family and will energetically set the tone for your children starting in the womb. Cultivating respect in your relationship with open communication about your expectations and desires ensures you are working as a team. This also allows for a healthy sex life leaving both partners feeling fulfilled.
Having a sense of financial security is also important in the formation of a family, this includes open discussions about finances, debts, savings, income, and long-term goals. Without finanacial stability many women will not become pregnant in the first place because their stress levels will inhibit their proper hormone production.
Although there is a lot more that goes into forming a lasting partnership, these are some of the important things to consider.
Non-toxic Home
Creating a non-toxic, safe, and stable home is important not only for you but for your growing family. Although this includes your physical home, it also speaks to the energetics of your home. This is partly why having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your partner is so vital as it lays the groundwork for the energy you are creating within your home. Reducing the chemical toxins in your home will not only improve your ability to conceive, but also give you a heard start to provide a healthy environment for your baby.
Physical Health
It goes without saying that your physical health is absolutely vital as you prepare for conception and pregnancy. Establishing and maintaining regular menstrual cycles will set you in the right direction for a healthy conception. Eating a clean, whole food diet will limit the amount of toxins from the environment that make it into your body. Detoxifying your body is also important as you prepare for conception, but you must ensure that the detox you decide to do is relevant and tailored to your specific needs. Otherwise, you could end up doing more harm than good. Having a regular exercise routine is also important to maintain your strength and overall health as you prepare your body for pregnancy.
Mental & Emotional Well-being
Your mindset plays a huge factor in your experience of pregnancy and motherhood. Noticing your thoughts and questioning your beliefs will bring clarity and relief to areas you’re struggling with. Keeping your intentions and actions in alignment will help you see the results you want quicker and easier. Having a regular self care practices will help you to keep this alignment.
Understanding what your emotions really mean and how to navigate them will not only benefit you now but will also prove to be invaluable as you raise children. Babies and toddlers have lots of intense emotions and they need to lean on your calm presence until they are able to regulate their own energy.
Journaling about your experiences, thoughts, and feelings around motherhood can be a healthy outlet and space to uncover what might be going on in your subconscious mind. It’s also a great way to snapshot your insights or experiences and have them to look back on. Journaling will help to bring clarity to your reasoning for wanting children and work through any resistance or fears that come up along the way. The goal is for you to feel completely in alignment with motherhood emotionally and spiritually by the time your have your child. Giving yourself grace through out the process is essential to your peace of mind and sense of self love.
Spiritual Well-being
The key to ensuring your spiritual well-being as you prepare for a conscious pregnancy is in listening to and acting on your intuition. It will be your north star as you navigate conception, pregnancy, and motherhood. By doing this, you will be strengthening your connection with Source, God, the universe which will allow you to become even more present with the flow of life as it happens. Surrendering to the things that are beyond your control is also vital in this journey of trying to conceive.
We know that this can all feel overwhelming, and that’s why we created the Conscious Conception Course to dive deeper into these topics and more. It’s broken down for you in easy-to-implement steps so you can feel prepared to consciously bring your child into the world. Preparing for your baby doesn’t start when you get pregnant, it begins before you ever conceive, and we are here to guide you through the entire journey.
About Living Lotus Birthkeepers
Lauren Ashley is a Childbirth Consultant and Family Advocate trained in holistic healing modalities as well as both eastern and western health practices, including nursing, traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. She wholeheartedly believes that the crystal children being born today require a higher level of respect, love and awareness. She finds great joy in helping women improve their health and wellbeing for themselves and for their children. Lauren offers online education and services holding sacred space for women from pre-conception through postpartum.