Labor Pain Relief: Healing Meditation

Video Transcript

"Another pain coping technique, with meditation, is to practice actual mediation that's kind of guided. This one is going to promote relaxation and healing. What you want to do is get yourself in a really comfortable position, whatever position works for you, is fine. I'm choosing to sitting down but if you want to you can lie on your side, however works for you. So, you're going to sit in a very comfortable position and I want you to do deep breathing for two minutes, that's the first thing you're going to do. You're going to close your eyes, completely relaxed, you're going to do deep breathing so you're going to breathe in and out and you're going to do that for two minutes. You're going to let your body completely relax into that. If you find yourself getting distracted or thinking about other things, just focus in on your breathing. After you've done that for about two minutes and you've kind of gotten yourself cleared out, I want you to picture healing energy around your body. Do that for a few minutes, just to picture healingness. Now then, what I want you to do, is to picture that as a color. I want you to picture a beautiful deep pink, maybe the color of a rose from someone's garden. So, you're going to continue breathing in and out and you're going to imagine that around, surrounding your body, is pink light. Every time you breathe in, that pink light is coming through your skin, traveling in through your body, to your baby. Every time you breathe out, that light is coming back out through your skin. I want you to do that for about five minutes. All you're going to do is breathe in, imagine that pink light flowing through your body to your baby and then breathe out and imagine that pink light is coming out through the baby and out through your skin. After you've done that for about five minutes, I want you to, again, picture that beautiful light surrounding you. Picture that nice pink light. It's totally engulfed you, it's all in your body and it's in your baby. Then, just imagine that light for two more minutes so you're going to breathe in and breathe out. You can think about that you're in a bubble and in that bubble, is surrounded with the pink light. Do that for a couple more minutes or as long as you feel comfortable and that is the meditation exercise. You don't need to practice this with ice. If you can do this everyday, you will find that your body gets used to learning how to relax completely and that will also make you feel calm and able to deal with pain better. So, a pain coping technique, a really good one, is the meditation exercise of visualizing pink light."