KINDREDSPIRIT Therapy Review
                                               Matrix birth 
                                               reimprinting
                         How we come into the world really matters. Yet in the west we have 
                       lost touch with one of our most important rituals – the ritual of birth, 
                                                      according to practitioner, Sharon King 
                                                                                                                               
                     When I talk to you about                                                                                 you will probably be aware that it 
                             holistic birthing, you may                                                                       can still ricochet into all corners of 
                     be picturing candles and soft                                                                            our life long after the event is over. 
                     music, perhaps even a birthing                                                                           Similarly, babies who experience 
                     pool. But the new paradigm in                                                                            trauma through their mother in the 
                     birthing involves far more than                                                                          womb can be deeply impacted by 
                     just creating the ideal                                                                                  what they went through, long into 
                     circumstances for birth, although                                                                        their adult life. It shapes their brain, 
                     these too are important.                                                                                 which in turn affects how they show 
                         The new paradigm in birthing                                                                         up in the world as adults. 
                     starts with one very vital                                                                                   When I talk about trauma, I’m 
                     understanding that has been                                                                              not simply referring to what are 
                     overlooked in our western birthing                                                                       classically considered the ‘Big-T’ 
                     paradigm. Babies are conscious                                                                           traumas, such as car crashes or 
                     beings. In fact, their consciousness                                                                     disasters. I am also referring to the 
                     begins in the womb, even at the                                                                          family and life traumas that occur 
                     time of conception. If this is the                                                                       as part of our day-to-day living. 
                     first time you have heard this                                                                           Even the sense that a baby is not 
                     information you may want to take                                                                         wanted can be experienced as a 
                     a moment to digest what it actually                                                                      trauma, shaping the identity of the 
                     means, because mostly we have                                                                            child so that s/he believes that it 
                     been taught that babies are                                                                              doesn’t belong and is not wanted in 
                     unconscious and unfeeling and we                                                                         this world. 
                     have built our western maternity 
                     concept on this false belief.                                                                            The Birth
                                                                                                                              Perhaps one of the most impacting 
                     Pre-birth Information                                                                                    traumas that a baby can experience 
                     Even before they are born, babies                                                                        is birth. It’s not that birth itself has 
                     are receiving information about                                                                          to be a traumatic experience. It’s 
                     the world around them and                                                                                that our western birthing process 
                     forming beliefs based on what they                                                                       has become highly mechanical. This 
                     receive. Every stress, every trauma                                                                      is largely because it has not been 
                     that the mother experiences, is                                                                          understood that babies are 
                     perceived and understood by the                                                                          conscious beings. With the 
                     unborn baby. The baby is recording                                                                       misunderstanding that babies can’t 
                     this information and using it to gather data     What I have come to understand is that the       feel or remember anything, they are often 
                     about whether the world that it comes into       implications are far reaching into our adult     brought into the world in barbaric ways 
                     is safe or dangerous, loving or hostile.         lives. If our mother is traumatised while we     with forceps, needles and rough handling, 
                         For the past decade I have been              are in the womb, we don’t just experience        as well as overlooking the vital opportunity 
                     exploring the impact that this new               that trauma at the time. If you think about      they need to bond with their mother as 
                     understanding has on us as individuals.          the impact that trauma has on us as adults       nature intended. The minute a baby 
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                       experiences this kind of treatment it                     This has a profound effect on how we             births of literally thousands of people 
                       makes a decision about the world it lives            show up in the present day. We hold our               around the world. Sometimes, core-
                       in. A decision that it often carries for the         memories from the past on an                          beliefs that have been held for six decades 
                       rest of its life.                                    unconscious level, and tune into them,                dissolve during one session. In the case of 
                           Although I may have painted a bleak              particularly when something in our                    someone who isn’t wanted in the womb, 
                       picture of our current situation, there is           external environment reminds us of what               for example, they may enter the world 
                       also hope. Because it is actually possible           went before. We often experience this as              with the core belief that they don’t want to 
                       to rewrite our experiences from the womb             triggers, and end up riding an emotional              be here. When we go back to the root of 
                       and birth, which changes how we                      rollercoaster, that is our life. If we go in and      where that belief was formed, and heal it, 
                       experience and perceive life as an adult.            change the memories they no longer have               a new perception of the world is formed. 
                       The technique that I created to rewrite              the same power over us. But more                          Perhaps one of the most surprising 
                       birth trauma is called Matrix Birth                  importantly, when we change what we                   revelations for me has come from the fact 
                       Reimprinting. You may already be familiar            learned about life the day that they                  that rewriting a birth of a child who is still 
                       with the technique that it evolved from,             happened and install new and supportive               an infant can have an effect on their own 
                       called Matrix Reimprinting.                          beliefs, the way that we see the world                health and well being. 
                           It’s what is known as a ‘tapping                 changes on a core level.                                  I worked with Jake’s mum when he 
                       technique’, and a whole plethora of these                 Matrix Reimprinting is now an                    was still a small child. He had experienced 
                       techniques have emerged over the last few            internationally recognised healing tool               a highly traumatic time in the womb and 
                       decades. They involve tapping on                     with two books published by Hay House,                at birth and has had epilepsy since birth. I 
                       meridian points on the body whilst                   and in ten languages around the world. I              worked with his mother over three 
                       simultaneously engaging the mind on a                was connected with Karl Dawson before                 sessions, and remarkably, Jake’s fits went 
                       particular issue or problem that you are             Matrix Reimprinting even had a name and               from occurring daily to something like 
                       experiencing. The problem can be from                have been part of its growth and                      once every three or four months after we 
                       the present or the past. When you tap on             development from the very beginning.                  had cleared his prenatal and birth trauma. 
                       these points in this way (which are similar               It was combining this work with my               And the important thing to note in Jake’s 
                       to the points used in acupuncture) and               own study in what was happening at the                case is that I didn’t work with him directly. 
                       focus on a particular issue that you have            leading edge of the new paradigm in                   I only worked with his mother. When we 
                       experienced, you can release the problem             birthing that led me to create Matrix Birth           understand that we are all connected by a 
                       from your mind and body simultaneously.              Reimprinting.                                         unified energy field, then this kind of 
                                                                                 The truth was, I didn’t set out to create        surrogate work seems less remarkable. Yet 
                       What it is                                           it, but rather I started to work with                 it still has far reaching implications for the 
                       One of the original tapping techniques was           expectant mothers who had had                         health and well being of our children, 
                       emotional freedom techniques (EFT). With             previously traumatic births (either when              particularly if their birth or time in the 
                       EFT you can literally go to any memory               they were born themselves or when they                womb was traumatic. 
                       that is problematic and take the emotional           had given birth previously) and                           The one key thing that I can say about 
                       charge out of it by focusing on it while you         experienced profound results. The first               my work is that we have all been born. And 
                       tap on the points. It’s grown in popularity          was Caroline, who was pregnant with her               most of us experienced some kind of 
                       over the past few decades, and is currently          third child when we worked together. Her              trauma, either when we were in the womb 
                       being integrated into the NHS.                       first two children had been born under                or during the birthing process. It is my 
                           Matrix Reimprinting takes EFT to a new           highly traumatic circumstances and when               understanding that we can all benefit 
                       level. This tapping technique, created by            I came to work with her, it turned out that           from Reimprinting our birth. We don’t 
                       Karl Dawson, enables us to rewrite our               her own birth had been traumatic too. We              even need to know the circumstances of 
                       memories. With EFT, we take the                      rewrote all these experiences and created             our birth to do so, because once we start 
                       emotional charge out of traumatic life               a future imprint of the birth of her unborn           the process, the tapping brings memories 
                       events but the memory stays the same.                child. Her third child was born exactly as            to the surface, so that we can understand 
                       With Matrix Reimprinting we actually go              we had imprinted. In addition, there were             why we see life a certain way and install a 
                       back into the memory, not only clearing              many positive side effects for her existing           belief that is more supportive.  KS
                       the charge of what happened, but also                children once the trauma of the birth had 
                       finding out what we learned about life on            been cleared. 
                       that day, and imprinting new beliefs.                     Since then I have reimprinted the 
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                           Sharon King is the creator of Matrix Birth Reimprinting and the author of the 
                         forthcoming book, Heal Your Birth, Heal Your Life: Tools to Transform Your 
                                                                                             . She trains practitioners 
                         Birth Experience and Create a Magical New Beginning
                         worldwide in her process, and is available for private consultation and 
                         speaking engagements globally. 
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                           www.magicalnewbeginnings.com     www.healyourbirthbook.com                                                                          .
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