Dear Friends:
I have been extraordinarily busy during these past six weeks. My wife and I participated in the birth of our daughter. Our daughter came along early, but I am happy to report that both mother and daughter are in great shape.
We had planned on having our child at home, but because of complications, we needed to go to the hospital. Both my wife and I have had very negative experiences in the past with doctors and hospitals, but that was before we had acquired the benefit of INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS training. We had previously been manipulated by fear, instead of being guided by reason. As you would intuitively suspect, decisions made out of fear or desperation tend to yield poor consequences.
IEP thinking helped me... It helped me to be aware of the mindset of the doctors and nurses, and the purpose of the hospital. It took me awhile to realize that the doctors were invested in purposefully telling me the worst case senario. They were telling me the most undesirable end point. Worst of all, they were telling us this within the first hour of our checking in and we were not even assigned to a bed! Every time a new doctor, intern or nurse came into see us, they would repeat the same morbid mantra...."we hope this doesn't happen, but it usually does."
This air of "preparatory negativity" caused us more stress than was needed, especially since one of our goals was to keep my wife's blood pressure down.
We used the Twelve Postural Intentions to work on our own goals. The hospital, to its credit, was concerned with healthy mom and healthy baby, but our partnership goals as a couple were to have the most relaxed, noninvasive, brief experience possible, leading to the most positive outcome possible...having a healthy child.
How were we able to achieve this? We would attach a goal to each posture and then perform that posture with the our positive intentions. We did not merely practice the postures! Each posture had our full intention and purpose each time. The results were that my wife's blood pressure actually went down and it worked to keep me calm, rational, and helpful.
It was crucial to preserve that calmness when even during every shift change a new doctor, intern, nurse, or nurse practitioner would come in with his or her version of what was causing my wife's high blood pressure and that it would continue to increase her blood pressure. These well-intended people were actually feeding a negative self-fulfilling prophesy! With the benefit of IEP discipline, we did not yield to this intense negativity. The outcome was that our daughter was born, we are back at home and our daughter is growing every day.
I learned so much from this experience, and I have so much more to share with you.
OUTSIDE OF THE [BOX]# 2 will follow next week. Please stay tuned!
In Kindness,
Tom
I have been extraordinarily busy during these past six weeks. My wife and I participated in the birth of our daughter. Our daughter came along early, but I am happy to report that both mother and daughter are in great shape.
We had planned on having our child at home, but because of complications, we needed to go to the hospital. Both my wife and I have had very negative experiences in the past with doctors and hospitals, but that was before we had acquired the benefit of INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS training. We had previously been manipulated by fear, instead of being guided by reason. As you would intuitively suspect, decisions made out of fear or desperation tend to yield poor consequences.
IEP thinking helped me... It helped me to be aware of the mindset of the doctors and nurses, and the purpose of the hospital. It took me awhile to realize that the doctors were invested in purposefully telling me the worst case senario. They were telling me the most undesirable end point. Worst of all, they were telling us this within the first hour of our checking in and we were not even assigned to a bed! Every time a new doctor, intern or nurse came into see us, they would repeat the same morbid mantra...."we hope this doesn't happen, but it usually does."
This air of "preparatory negativity" caused us more stress than was needed, especially since one of our goals was to keep my wife's blood pressure down.
We used the Twelve Postural Intentions to work on our own goals. The hospital, to its credit, was concerned with healthy mom and healthy baby, but our partnership goals as a couple were to have the most relaxed, noninvasive, brief experience possible, leading to the most positive outcome possible...having a healthy child.
How were we able to achieve this? We would attach a goal to each posture and then perform that posture with the our positive intentions. We did not merely practice the postures! Each posture had our full intention and purpose each time. The results were that my wife's blood pressure actually went down and it worked to keep me calm, rational, and helpful.
It was crucial to preserve that calmness when even during every shift change a new doctor, intern, nurse, or nurse practitioner would come in with his or her version of what was causing my wife's high blood pressure and that it would continue to increase her blood pressure. These well-intended people were actually feeding a negative self-fulfilling prophesy! With the benefit of IEP discipline, we did not yield to this intense negativity. The outcome was that our daughter was born, we are back at home and our daughter is growing every day.
I learned so much from this experience, and I have so much more to share with you.
OUTSIDE OF THE [BOX]# 2 will follow next week. Please stay tuned!
In Kindness,
Tom
