Confronting fear

A woman on my hombirth board posted this:

Confronting fear
Birth is the strongest force a woman normally experiences. If there is harmony with this force, your body and mind will enter into a different state, one that surrenders totally to natural forces. The face loses self consciousness; it is a quiet state, gentle and profound. Sometimes I think the ease of a birth has to do with complete surrender to nature; an acceptance of being part of something greater than the individual self, like a beautiful spring, or the first heavy rains, or the sounds and rhythms of the sea.
Labour and birth are a matter of believing, trusting, and listening to your instincts - a matter of getting close enough to yourself and to the information you are receiving. I do not mean to de-emphasise the importance of coaches during labour. I simply do not think that they can do it for you because they can't. Their support and love vibrations are invaluable and make it possible for more than just yourself to share in this most beautiful act of love, the joyful bringing forth of new life! Tune into labour. Unfold your inherent birth knowledge. Use your own rhythm, get behind it and don't have your mind in any time dimension except the present. Don't slip into the past and don't rush into the future. Accept each contraction one at a time just as you accept the sun rising each morning, without a question, one day at a time.
A factor in labour is the intense sensation. It is beyond the expectations of anyone who has never given birth. This intense sensation is simply a part of the whole, and when theres no fear, it simply is. It is nothing to be afraid of, nothing to waste your energy fighting against.
By Raven Lang.