Use this short visualisation to practice riding the wave of a contraction
Take long deep breaths, filling your lungs and emptying them completely, almost like a sigh. Feel as if your whole body is heavy, sinking into thick warm sand at your favourite beach. Let any concerns or fears melt away, fade away into nothing. They have no place here.
Feel any tension you might be carrying in your body, and let it go, imagine it is being released as you breathe out.
Now imagine what your baby might look like on the inside, floating peacefully in the water, gently rocked by your breathing and soothed by the steady rhythm of your heartbeat.
Feeling the contraction build
As you feel a contraction growing, building, getting stronger, like the sound of a distant train approaching from far away or a wave building. Then slowly fades into the distance, you can rest between contractions as the natural process of childbirth continues, perfected by millions of women since time began. You know your body is perfectly designed to give birth to your child.
As the next contraction starts to build, you remember your baby is working with you to find the perfect pathway through the birth canal into your arms.
Visualising holding your baby
Imagine what it will be like, holding your new baby for the very first time. Feeling their weight in your arms, gazing into their eyes, lost in their depths. What that moment will be like for the two of you. You focus on that throughout labour, riding out the waves and focusing on this, like gazing out at a beautiful sunset over rough seas.
Take long deep breaths, filling your lungs and emptying them completely, almost like a sigh. Feel as if your whole body is heavy, sinking into thick warm sand at your favourite beach. Let any concerns or fears melt away, fade away into nothing. They have no place here.
Tracks with guided visualisation
All our Hypnobirthing tracks have visualisations similar to these to help you practice and train your brain on ways to cope during labour