Learning in The Womb...

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Learning in The Womb...

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LEARNING IN THE WOMB…
Life Before Birth: How Experience in the Womb
Can Affect Our Lives Forever
Arthur Janov, Ph.D.

the importance of healing prenatal imprints to more clearly see their
widespread cumulative and enduring effects. “It means that how the birth trauma is
played out, and reacted to, depends on earlier life circumstances—womb-life.”

“New Agey.” Now, there are literally hundreds of studies verifying this
proposition. There seems to be little question now that a pregnant
woman’s mood and physiology can produce long-term effects on the
offspring.

Epigenetics: The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
There is something we must add to the theoretical mix: epigenetics,
or said other way, how very early events in the womb and at birth can
alter the genetic unfolding. One genotype, a single genetic
predisposition, can give rise to many phenotypes depending on what
happens to those genes during gestation. So what we might imagine is
genetic, is genetic-plus what happens to us in the womb.
What Lamarck said was that individuals acquire
characteristics as a result of their environment, and now, these
characteristics can be passed on to the offspring.
Much of the research work in epigenetics has to do with diet; a
mother’s diet influences the offspring’s physiology. Epigenetics has to
do with how genes are regulated and influenced by the experience of
the baby. I believe it has more to do with the fetus who resides in the
womb; that his experience is influenced forevermore by the mother’s
diet but also by her moods, her anxiety and depression.
What we are discussing is how a mother’s interaction with her environment can
pass this on to her offspring. I think we need to understand that a
fetus in the womb is always trying to adapt to his environment and
that his genes will evolve and be expressed depending on that
adaptation. For example, a mother who is anxious and who has
depleted much of her serotonin supplies cannot fulfill the young fetal
need for his own serotonin supplies (fully discussed in a moment). He
may well grow up deficient in inhibitory or repressive capacities and
be an anxiety/impulsive case forevermore; this can evolve into
attention deficit in his youth. There may be a continued inability to
have a cohesive cognitive ability. I think it is important that all this
occurs while the fetal brain is rapidly developing and needs proper
input to evolve normally.
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Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
To get an idea of how early all this may begin, there is a study by
the University of Miami School of Medicine that states that: “A review
on (maternal) prenatal depression effects on the fetus and newborn
suggests that fetal activity is elevated, growth is delayed, low birth
weight common.” (Diego, et al., 2009, p. 70)
Newborns of a depressed mother show a profile that mimics the
mother’s prenatal state, including her physiologic state. This includes
higher stress hormone levels, lower levels of dopamine and serotonin,
and greater right frontal brain activity.
I have discussed the notion of the “critical window” in my other
works; it simply refers to a time in life when needs must be fulfilled,
and at no other time. We can hug a child all day at age ten but it will
not erase the lack of touch for the first 4 months of life which seriously
deregulated the whole system and left a legacy of internally imprinted
pain, a pain for which one must constantly take pain-killers. And it
remains a mystery to the loving adoptive parents who took the child
from an orphanage at the age of twelve weeks.
There is no way to make up for that kind of early loss except by
going back to relive the original trauma. There is no way to “make up
for” this deficit, as much as we might want to. It is set in altered
biologic set points.
National Academy of Sciences, Jan. 26, 2009) that demonstrates how
early stress impacts the immune system. Children who had an abusive
early life or had spent time in an orphanage showed a compromised
immune system. Even after they were taken out of an adverse
environment there was still this damage apparent. The scientists point
out that though the immune cells are ready at birth, how they develop
and become a dependable cohesive system depends on experience.
So much happens to us in the womb; so much as been ignored in
terms of their long-term effects that many diseases remain a mystery
because we are looking at the wrong place at the wrong time with the
wrong tools. What I am learning is that events in the womb explain so
much about later life. As already noted, if you bend an emerging twig
you are bound to get a distorted tree.
The question has always been, “How early is early?” This is where
epigenetics is relevant. A group at Washington State University (led by
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Arthur Janov

Matthew Amway) found that gestational experience in animals that
sways the genetic unfolding can show effects for three generations.
They found that exposing pregnant adult rats with defective sperm
could engender many diseases including cancer in adult animals.

What conventional
therapy does with medication is use it to block and suppress feelings,
a very different approach.
Let us not abandon the past in an effort to modernize current
practice. Memory is medicine. Let us not eschew critical medicine in
order to cure our afflictions.
In sum, there is a qualitative difference between events that
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Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
happened to us while being carried in mother’s womb, and those
events that happened after birth. It is a matter of irreversibility. What
happens to us during gestation imprints a now-print memory that
endures as if that were our genetic legacy. The physiology and later
psychology revolve around this imprint. There are little or no
compensating mechanisms that will right the ship. It adjusts to the
imbalance and goes on from there. If the imprint includes a general
passivity then the vital signs, temperature and blood pressure will
accommodate themselves to this new state. After birth there is often
the possibility to correct the imbalance. So, accommodations, which the
body makes while we are in the womb, take on a genetic focus because
it seems to occur so early in life and remains such a force.
Thus far we have been talking to the non-verbal brain! This brain
is one that contains our history, our pain and our feelings, and
ultimately, the one that can finally liberate us. We need to speak that
language—one without words. We have to convince the brain that
spouts words and ideas that it is necessary to go back to early life and
relive—that lack of love—feelings that were too much to feel at the
time. We have to convince that thinking brain to let go, let the lower
brain systems emerge and breathe the air of freedom. It can be done.
A cure is possible.

I have been interested in this subject for a good while now and have wrote about it on here in the past. I copied some parts from a long article...


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