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More than just protect the fetus from harm, what can we do during the months of pregnancy in order to optimally influence the fetus’ development?
There is already familiar advice such as singing to the fetus, playing music, speaking, and relating to it as a feeling and understanding human being. In addition to such means, the integral approach to education emphasizes that as parents-to-be, it is worthwhile to together clarify how we define the goodness that we desire for our fetus and upcoming baby, and more generally, for all children who will soon be born.
What kind of world do we wish for them? Let us free ourselves from everything that exists today and think as openly as possible. What could be best for the next generation? What exact form of life? Presumably, these should be lives better than ours, more beautiful, comfortable, and harmonious.
The very thought about this, that is, the scrutiny of a more advanced form of life together with the expectation and hope that it will indeed become realized for our children, will already stream positive forces into the world and improve it.
In general, the integral approach to education teaches that the best life will be when we build an integral connection in human society, like the one that exists naturally in the system of nature. All of nature is connected. Its different parts complement one another and function as a single harmonious mechanism. Only with us there is disorder. The more we learn to adapt relations between people to the integral laws of nature, the more we will bring balance and calm into our lives.
During the months of pregnancy, in the finest details we should draw for ourselves the life we want for the baby who is about to be born. We should picture the baby growing up, imagining the kindergarten that they will attend, and especially the kinds of relationships they will have with other children.
We aspire to a state in which they and the other children will live in a positive connection, harmoniously. Most importantly, the child should grow up in a safe environment that complements and strengthens them, and guarantees them a good future.
If they were to end up in a negative environment, they would become corrupted in a very short period of time, and we would lose our influence over them. Therefore, we must carefully examine where they will integrate, because the influence of the environment is extremely strong on every person, and certainly on children.
Briefly speaking, what is a “good environment”? It is a place where there is mutual support, no violence, aggression, or rudeness. On the contrary, people behave in pleasant, warm, and supportive ways.
When our child grows up and sets out on their path as an adult, what do we dream for them? First of all, that neither they nor their future family will lack any of their life’s essentials, and beyond that, that they will enjoy safe and peaceful lives, with mental satisfaction and self-fulfillment.
For such a purpose, it is worthwhile for us to think that other people too will have all these same things. After all, if a person is very successful on his own, while everyone else suffers from some lack, it is very likely that at some point they will rise up against him and want to take by force what he has.
Truly calm lives can exist only when everyone is well off, when everyone has normal lives. There is no better formula for a feeling of security, joy, and health. Every good thing we might wish for is already a result of this.
Moreover, even if someone is very wealthy, but suddenly some global blow were to come that would damage the supply of basic necessities, in such a case all of their money would not help them. It would be impossible to eat it. Also, in situations of severe illness, or in disasters that befall a family, what helps more than anything is mutual guarantee, support, and an embrace from a warm community. Ultimately, our quality of life is determined by our state of mind and the quality of our connection with the environment, not by the number of zeros in the bank or a position of power and control.
From all of the above it follows that the peace of the individual and the peace of the world are one and the same. Whoever wishes to secure the future of their children would do well to begin thinking about an equal and balanced world.
We are living in a special period in which the world has become tightly interconnected, and mutual dependence among everyone is rising and rising. This is nature’s way of signaling to the human species that it sees us all as one, as sitting in the same boat. An integral form of life—that is, in complementary connection, in mutuality, up to the level of bonds of love—is the next evolutionary degree. Let us begin to draw it in our mind’s eye. Over time we will see how to advance in practice toward building it, and thus we will together ensure for our children the most beautiful lives possible, a world for which they will simply say “thank you.”
Based on “New Life 98 – Pregnancy and Birth From The Woman’s Perspective” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.