Serene Wave Spinal Flow

05/24/2026

Excerpt from Dr. Carla Hannaford, Biologist (2002)

*Parenting the Unborn & Newly Born*

The strength and quality of the fundamental cord of love spun between mother and child determines the whole tapestry of human relationships: person-to-person, person to society, person to the environment, and ultimately our global connection.

It stems from the early, in utero, and birth bonding.

Here are some ideas on how to assure the health of that bonding:

**During Pregnancy:**

1. Experience as much pleasure, tranquility, heart patterned music, laughter and physical activity as possible. Women that burn 1,000 to 2,000 calories/week in pleasant recreational activities deliver babies weighing 5% to 10% more than inactive women, and the babies are able to weather physical adversity better.

2. Practice good stress management skills that ensure mental and emotional freedom from fear. Doctors should be very careful not to use intimidating medical terms that might frighten the expectant mother or language that anticipates problems.

3. Welcome the developing embryo and fetus into your thoughts, sharing heart to heart talks, stories, music and laughter.

4. Eat good wholesome balanced food, rich in essential amino and fatty acids, breathe fresh air, and drink lots of water.

**To facilitate a gentle birth:**

1. Hospital delivery should be the exception, not the norm. Be properly prepared for a natural childbirth with good professional backup and a supportive birthing coach. Remain as calm and relaxed as possible. A pleasant home environment helps.

2. Natural birth without drugs or anesthesia allows both the mother and baby to be fully present for maximum bonding. Odors produced by the fetus actually alter the odor of the mother, allowing the mother to identify her child at birth and vice-versa-an important factor in parent-infant bonding. Drugs could inhibit that process.

3. During delivery, the mother secretes large quantities of oxytocin that assists the birth process as well as maternal bonding behavior. Both mom and baby will have produced endorphins, which reduce pain, and intensify a state of dependency.

The first hour after birth is critical for bonding. The mother and baby will be attracted to each others dilated pupils and should be together, uninterrupted as the oxytocin levels rise and the bonding process occurs. The father then holds the baby and his oxytocin rises, assuring bonding. (This can be repaired later but only with great effort and determination).

4. The new baby needs as much cuddling as possible to stimulate all the senses and establish a sense of safety. Touch is essential, immediately assisting the newborn to organize sensory input into coherent information and respond with action.

Without touch, the child may survive but will be seriously dysfunctional. If nerve endings aren't activated, the reticular information in the brain will not be fully operative, leading to impaired movements, curtailed sensory intake, and a variety of emotional disturbances and learning problems.

5. Breastfeeding releases endorphins in both the mother and baby, blocking the pain of delivery and relaxing them both. The high tryptophan content of mothers milk produces serotonin in the baby, which helps to regulate a calm mood, induce a calm sleep, and assist in the newborn optimally taking in sensory information for learning. Mothers milk also enhances antibodies and many infection fighting agents in the baby.

6. It is optimal for the baby to stay with the mother and for the parents/caregivers to immediately answer cries from the baby with secure close touch and a reassuring voice.

There is one constant thing in raising children: they will do what we do, not necessarily what we say.

If we are stressed, they will also be stressed.

By maintaining ourselves in a more coherent way, we give our children clear models to access their own natural coherence.

Our children with their great sensitivity are like canaries in the mines, when it comes to reflecting our stress.

Every individual, particularly those who have or will have children of their own, is responsible for co-creating the society of the future.

That special period between gestation and early infancy determines the direction our society will take as well as the health of its members.

05/24/2026

Sunday morning thoughts.
In womb.
I, personally, don't believe we realize how much is formed before our children even enter the world.
Can you "be" with your reality?
Can you approach different aspects of your life with new awareness and skills?

I tell my kids often, should you ever get to the point of wanting to acquire the skills to gain capacity and regulate your nervous system, you know to come to mom. 💝
Coherence vs Incoherence.
We are constantly adapting.
At one point, we couldn't choose our states, but, as adults, we can now.

05/20/2026

Lived experience, practise and commitment to things---in my perspective---hold far more weight than something you study, read about, or watch on that 30second reel.

Some people financially committ to daily coffee stops, eating out a few times a week, Amazon shopping, getting their nails done, buying the next supplement --- I commit financially, to myself, to weekly nervous system care. Things naturally transpire from there.

Everyone's outcome is unique and different, but we all share one thing --- we constantly adapt to the input we receive and choose. 24/7/365, from the moment of conception to the moment of death.
That's one thing we are all gifted with.
Be aware of this.
Learn this.
Work with it, not against it.
Life will gift you back. 💝

Long video! There was just no way to shorten it! 🙏😉😊

05/19/2026

If you don't believe that you can heal, or you don't take personal responsibility-----you limit your own process and progress.

05/17/2026

It truly is an honor to work with those that I do, and hear of amazing outcomes that a human body is capable of, when it's safe and supported. 💝🙏

05/13/2026

COHERENCE - an ordered, consistent, harmonious functioning within any system as with the physical and biochemical systems of our bodies, which influence our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual state each moment.

April 1994 - The International Consciousness Conference, Tucson Arizona.

Coherence was being used in reference to an electromagnetic field reading of the heart called a heart rate variability (HRV) pattern. Researchers observed a coherent HRV when a person experienced feelings of appreciation or a playful harmonious environment, was engrossed in joyful work or learning or meditated. These findings further showed that a coherent heart pattern determined the brain's ability to optimally receive sensory information from the environment. This coherent pattern affected the brain's ability to assimilate and construct understandable patterns from that sensory information, remember them, learn from them and act on them in appropriate, effective and creative ways.

When stressed or frustrated, the heart rate variability pattern was shown to become incoherent, causing incoherent patterns in the brain. These incoherent patterns decreased the brain's ability to take in sensory information, make an understandable pattern of it, and act on it appropriately.

The ability to learn is greatly reduced during an incoherent state.

05/12/2026

A message to my clients 👇 🙏💝☺️👏
I praise you.
I understand you.
I notice you.
I applaud you!

05/10/2026

While sitting in the sun and soaking in its warmth, my mind drifted toward Mother’s Day—and unexpectedly, toward mitochondria.

It felt fitting.

As I continue to educate myself and lean more deeply into a way of living that honours our biology and our relationship with the natural world, I am learning something profound: light is not just something we see—it is information, energy, and life. Our bodies are designed to receive it, respond to it, and use it to support healing at the deepest cellular levels.

And at the center of that conversation are our mitochondria—the “cellular engines” of our body—creating the energy that allows us to live, adapt, repair, and thrive.

These remarkable little organelles, with their own unique DNA, are passed only to us from our mothers.

What an extraordinary thought.

Every heartbeat, every breath, every act of healing your body performs is supported by this inherited gift—passed from mother to child, generation after generation.

And these mitochondria are always listening—responding to the environment we create for them through light, sleep, nourishment, movement, the electromagnetic environment around us—including EMFs—and the ever-changing state of our nervous system.

When we live in chronic stress, the body prioritizes survival. But when we create more safety, regulation, and ease, our biology shifts. The body can restore. Repair. Heal. Our mitochondria can do what they were beautifully designed to do.

On this beautiful sunny day, I understanding more deeply what that sunlight is actually doing for me on a cellular level—and I feel an even greater sense of gratitude: for our mothers, for the wisdom of our bodies, and for the quiet truth that some of life’s greatest gifts have been within us all along.

To all mothers—by birth, by bond, by love, by nurture, and by spirit—Happy Mother’s Day. 💐☀️💝
Thank you for the seen and unseen ways you bring life, energy, and love into this world—today and every day.

video of Mitochondria under microscope

05/08/2026

This older article from The Chicago School really got me thinking about how deeply the digital world is shaping perception.

Not just what we see —
but how we think,
how we compare,
how we relate,
how we interpret reality itself.

When we spend hours consuming curated lives, filtered emotions, outrage cycles, algorithms, and constant stimulation, the nervous system adapts to that environment. Over time, it can begin to distort what feels normal, meaningful, safe, or even true.

A virtual world can slowly pull us away from our body, intuition, real connection, and present-moment awareness without us even realizing it.

Not anti-technology.
Just something worth becoming conscious of.

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