A Birth To A New Perspective

I have never liked babies. I never wanted to be a mother, so much so, that I vividly remember telling my grandma when I was fifteen that I could have my uterus taken out right now, because that's how sure I was that I was never going to have kids. I remember everyone exclaiming that I would one day change my mind, once I was settled down and ready. I effortlessly leaned back in my chair and smiled, knowing that everyone in the room was completely wrong.

Life is incredibly funny, considering that nearly a year ago I had a baby. I was traveling in Peru with a one way ticket with my soul sister when the impossible happened. Unknowingly, I left my home pregnant and traveled to South America with an extra passenger. Life was flipped upside down the moment that I took a Spanish pregnancy test that I couldn't read, in a tiny Peruvian bathroom alone and sat there starring at the double lines for far too long.

Fast forward a year - I have a beautiful soul of a daughter named Indigo that changes everyone's perspective each time she smiles. (My whole pregnancy could be a blog post~ and this isn't it, maybe one day.) I am honestly the last person to ever have a child, especially at 22. But being stuck in this human body, it is easy to forget that we can't see the workings of the universe and the bigger picture, and my story supports this theory. I knew enough within myself to trust the process and that's exactly what I did, maybe not very gracefully, but I did it.

I have studied energy healing for 4 years, but a little over 6 months ago I started taking it seriously and certified as a BodyTalk practitioner and started taking clients. Since then, in true Mason fashion, I have dived head first into the energy healing world and have taken any class presented to me. And I absolutely love it. It is amazing what shifting the energetic body can do for the physical. I think my favorite part of being an energy healer is teaching. Majority of clients coming into my space are in some sort of pain and don't know what else to do. It is a beautiful thing to teach them to change their perspective and watch them bring in new learnings into their daily life. That's where the magic happens ~ I am not a healer, merely a facilitator. Here to help keep space for you on your healing journey and I can truly tell you it is an honor each and every time.

In true fashion of the Universe, as I was becoming comfortable as a mother (what the hell?) and a practitioner, things got a little shook up when I least expected it, and this is where the true story begins.

One of my oldest friends was pregnant with her second baby, and since having Indigo, I suddenly love all babies and want them all. (Just to hold, not to have.) I have always taken photos and she reached out about photographing her birth. I instantly said yes, and thought about it daily. This was such a different environment than I have ever photographed, and it was an one chance opportunity. The birth happened fast, and I was fully present and in awe of how much raw strength we, as women posses. It was the single most empowering sight I have seen, and it changed me as a person. I personally didn't have the birthing experience I had planned, I feel like I was supposed to experience hers to fully understand how amazing women are. It was such an intimate experience: how everyone gathered around her in support and her husband never taking his eyes off of her. It shifted my perspective of love, strength and will.

Leaving the hospital room, I walked to my car still in awe from the night. I had internal confusion and conflict as I suddenly wanted to be a birth photographer. I have spent years, time and a lot of money getting to this point of my practice, and suddenly I was driving home with my camera in my lap thinking about all my friends that were pregnant. The feeling only escalated when I pulled the pictures and began editing them, which has always been my favorite part. It was amazing to relive her birth days later, and I knew within my heart that this made me far happier than taking clients. Again I was thinking "what???" But as always, I trusted the process and moved forward with trust that everything was unfolding just the way it was supposed to.

A little over a month went by, I fell back into my routine of taking clients three days a week, and thinking about the birth every time I was out of session. I had been getting texts from the same friend about how the new (perfect) baby was having a hard time breastfeeding. With my knowledge, my brain started dissecting the cause and reasons through the perspective of Chinese Medicine. Knowing her experience with her first daughter, I knew that on an emotional and energetic level, she most likely was holding the trauma, guilt and sadness from not being able to breastfeed 2 years prior somewhere in her body, which was most likely effecting the present. So I asked if she wanted to come in for a session with me, and she agreed.To this day, I am internally grateful for her trust and willingness, because unknown to me, this was going to yet again change my life.

Her session went beautifully and we worked on ancestral belief patterns and releasing past emotions around the idea of breastfeeding, which in a sense, were clogging her present belief systems, and not allowing her to nourish her baby. Also important to recognize here, that whatever her emotions were - doubt, stress, self-hate - her baby was ingesting them every few hours. So to change the mother, helps change the reality of the baby.

So, it was very surprising to me when I got a text a few days later from her. Things were still a struggle and she seemed defeated to say the least. Intuitively, I knew that I needed to see the baby next. So a few days later, I had a 5 week old baby in my healing space and I had no idea what I was going to do.

I had the knowing that working on babies was extremely easy, since they don't have any bias or filters that the balancing has to go through in order to be accepted. So, I set aside my ego, and everything that I thought was imbalanced, and just listened to her body. That's the amazing thing about our body's ~ they are extremely intelligent, they love us and they want us to feel better ~ but we are so often disconnected from them, that we don't know how to listen. And that's where I come in.

Tapping into her sweet baby, it was instantly clear that the imbalance was in the communication between her pineal and pituitary gland. They were both severely dehydrated, so with an easy energy balancing technique, I hydrated her brain and also balanced it to help her receive and accept. I did a few more balances to help calm her nervous system and energetic body, including her adrenals using a few acupuncture points. The whole session took about 5 minutes, and the entire time, this new baby was smiling and cooing. It was tangible how much more at ease she seemed and her mother even commented that she felt different - on an energetic level. She was fast asleep within 5 minutes, even though she had just woken up prior to her appointment. This made perfect sense to me, she just accomplished many shifts internally and was exhausted from it. I assured her that within 2 days, the process would be complete and so they went. And I waited, a bit anxiously if I were to be honest. 

The next morning, we both texted each other at the same time, and by the end of the conservation we were both in tears. I am sure to her, it seemed like a miracle. The baby was eating, not fussing, not spitting up her milk,  fell asleep on her own without having to be vigorously rocked, and was no longer screaming. I sat in awe yet again because of this mom and her baby. How open they were to help themselves, and how because of them, their lives were changed forever.

I asked to see her baby a total of 3 times and have seen her a few times since as well. Her baby has been breastfeeding with ease, and her milk has come in to the point the sometimes "there's too much". Which is the best problem to have as a breast feeding mom. After a few weeks, there seemed to be a set back, she was suddenly not eating the same out of the blue. I come over to their house where I found that the baby was reacting to an IUD she has gotten in the same day the problem arose. Babies are so deeply connected to their mothers, and she noticed something was different and started to resist. We balanced her to the birth control, and things are progressing back to normal.

This experience was the ultimate awakening for me. Nothing has filled my cup more than working alongside this baby to help her transition into this earthy existence. Then I finally understood everything, I wanted to work energetically on babies and their moms. I had just recently had been talking to my boss about what we could do as energy healers to help all the struggling kids and young adults that are so unbalanced that they feel like the only outlet they have to express themselves is to cause horrific violence on their peers. This was my answer. I could work on these kids at the very beginning so that they NEVER would be so incredibly unbalanced and uncomfortable. Helping more babies be able to receive love and nourishment from their mothers through breastfeeding could change so much on the physical level. Please understand that I am not anti-formula and I am so grateful that we have that option to supplement when we need. But what if, we didn't need to do that? Receiving the natural source of nutrition could help the new generations in ways that, I knowingly assume, I can't even fathom. 

This is my calling and I hope to change the world from behavioral imbalances that can be fixed right at birth or soon after, so our babies don't have to struggle through life. There is so many techniques I know that could ease this transition into the world ~ but furthermore into adulthood and one day the parents of their own children. I think this is an incredible gift that could sincerely help shift the societal paradigm. This is where I am currently at in my energy practice, and I can not express how truly grateful I am to walk this path with everyone. It was just a reminder to always trust the process and go with it ~ there are bigger forces than us ~ and for that I am even more grateful, because honestly I am confused about life majority of the time, and that's where the beauty lays.

Blessings!