Calving Prayer: Round 2

My body knows this process. I trust my body to guide me through pregnancy and childbirth.

Consciousness, come through me. Move this cluster of matter that is called by my name. Allow me to be a vessel for your message in this moment, dear Life Force; move me in such a way that I gently help the life inside of me to make his way earthside with ease and grace.

I breathe out, I let go, I relax.

I breathe in calmly, deeply, taking in all the oxygen we need, deep into our bellies.

I breathe out, I open up more, I let you flow through.

Dear Life Force, our relationship is perfect. We are one and the same. I tune into you now for comfort and relaxation, and I submit to your will as I do every day. I align with your purpose and accept all of this form flowing through me, without expectation. My work in childbirth is greater than the self.

Strengthen my body, lift my energy, open my cervix and deepen my labour. I breathe out, I let go, I relax. Open, open, open.

Consciousness, flow through us, baby and me. Fill us with fire and move us like water. Help us work as a team and meet earthside with ease and contentment.

Consciousness, you are not separate from me. I am only drawing on the power that created me and lives inside me. Whether I am conscious or unconscious, you are here without judgement, and I strive to be grateful always.

You are my ancestors; I am my ancestors. I call on you all now to be here with us two. I draw on the strength that has been building us up and passing down through our ancestral lines since time began.

Consciousness, I submit to you in childbirth as I submit to you every morning and every night. May today be just another happening - neither good nor bad, and help me stay with you on the higher side to let things move as they will, my ego melting and your will guiding us both. Because you are powerful, so I am powerful. So baby is powerful. I relax into the flow of power moving through my body and I smile as these surges work through me to carry your will.

Like every day, dear Life Force, I thank you. And like every day, dear Life Force, I know that today is what matters most.

Thank you for being with me; thank you for giving me strength. Thank you, thank you, thank you.