No Epidural Necessary



Under The Sun

No Epidural Necessary

through Quandi Jackson

Disclaimer: I do not write these passages to make you think the way I think or know in my truth. I write to encourage you to think and to help you develop a truth that influences you to live your best life.

“You’re either going to be pulled by a vision or pushed by pain.” –Rev. Michael Beckwith

Hours, maybe days, of contractions. A prick in the back to numb the pain. Temporarily, the pain is soothed. Many attempts to push the baby out but it’s not quite time. Patience definitely awaits. A few more hours pass by. The uterus dilates a few more centimeters. More hours pass by. And then! Finally! It’s time to push again, and this time, the arrival of your little one appears. You smile, The baby cries. You cry. The baby just stares. Everyone is full of excitement, and you’re just glad that the something-pound bundle of joy is not inside of you anymore.

Like the birthing process, life’s challenges come with some temporary pain. The pain, however, is the body’s natural wake-up call to what is presently happening in your life. This pain is a messenger, giving you current updates on how you’ve been responding to life. In the midst of the wake-up call, you can allow yourself to see that everything is bridging together for the next sequences in your life or you can allow yourself to drown in the pain, missing the call for you to emerge as your true self.

Move with your pain. Listen to your pain. Breathe into your pain. Be gentle with your pain. And finally, let it subside. It will tell you everything you need to know. It will guide you to the solutions.

When the pain process of birthing is over, life still continues; life never ends. Birthing with pain happens in order to give shape and form to our awareness. As our awareness sharpens, so does our ability to deepen our connection to the Life Force within us. Birth with pain – going through the obstacles of life – tends to lessen. We learn to let go of our problems and hand them over to the Universe. We not only learn to let go but we do let go of our problems and completely trust and surrender to the Universe. The opportunity to in-joy peace, joy, and abundance becomes more evident in the way Life shows up in our experiences.

Every life challenge brings with it opportunity. But, opportunity can only be seen through eyes of joy. The same eyes that see no way out of a challenge are the same eyes that miss the opportunity to grow wiser.

Nothing is ever written by me. Eye am only a vessel in which things are expressed through me. As you are, eye am only a reminder. You’ve been under the sun with Quandi.  Balance in the celestial realm!

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