Memorize your own mantra. To keep you focused throughout your pregnancy and the actual birth, find a phrase, verse or quote that you believe in, one that brings you peace, strength and comfort. Memorize it and meditate on it. For me it was the Bible verse, “God has not given you a spirit of fear, but one of love, power and a sound mind/self-discipline.” It’s my own hybrid of 2 Timothy 1:7. It grounded me and reminded me that fear had no place in me, only love, power and my own ability to bring my baby into this world. I even wrote the verse out on a 3×5 card to have handy while I was in labor for my husband to repeat to me.

Along with this, remember to breathe deeply from your belly. Try to keep your shoulders still. This will ensure that all the breath fills your lungs. And while breathing, visualize calmess and peace filling you, swirling clean powerful air down through your feet. Then on the exhale, breathe out the blackness of tension, fear. Repeat as needed.

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Cheers and Blessings,
Jennifer

Here are some quotes that I like, too:

“Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.”
Peter McWilliams, American Writer

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.”
David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Leader

“For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Dale Carnegie

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