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Conscious pro-creation as a pathway to freedom from addictions


SINCE 1982 ELENA TONETTI-VLADAMIROVA HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN TEACHING HER PROGRAM OF PREPARATION FOR NATURAL DELIVERY AND HEALING BIRTH TRAUMA. HERE SHE ADDRESSES THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE WAY WE ARE BORN AND OUR ADDICTIVE TENDENCIES.


BY ELENA TONETTI-VLADIMIROVA T


here is a correlation between the way we were born and the quality of our emotional life as adults. Limbic imprint is an


inborn capacity of the nervous system to absorb and memorise non-cognitively all of the information from the surrounding environment during the pre-verbal formative period from the moment of conception of the foetus, through nine months of gestation, birth, and the first few years of life. It means that if the baby was


predominantly saturated with mother’s ‘love hormones’, oxytocin and other dopamines, the baby grows well and feels safe about coming into this family. If, on the other hand, the baby was exposed to stressful experiences while in utero, then had a traumatic birth, and baby’s needs were not properly met afterwards, that would automatically mean adopting neglect and pain as the norm by the


baby’s limbic brain. Against any logic, the nervous system would register loneliness and suffering as ‘comfort zone’, as the cortex (logic) is not developed yet and cannot cognitively rationalise. Napoleon, for what he was, said in 1810:


“If France would have good mothers, it will have good sons” – he understood this dynamic clearly, way before the field of pre-natal psychology was developed and neuro-biologists published huge amounts of scientific research on that matter. Mr. Napoleon just used his commonsense and powers of observation. It is no coincidence that the drug culture of the 1960s exploded after medical drugs were introduced into the delivery rooms during the 1940s. Mothers were numbed and gassed. It set up the whole generation to depend on chemicals as a way of dealing with life. The experience of drugs on a newborn, and rough manipulations right after birth by masked strangers in the


hospital, and the deep loneliness that follows when the baby is taken away from the mother, have devastating effects. These procedures come as a complete shock to a baby – numbness, disoriented, disconnect from the Source from which the soul of this child has been so rudely yanked away… The biggest problem is that the nervous system registers this cocktail of sensations as the ‘life-giving’ potion. Violence also has the same source as


any form of addictive behaviours; in fact, violence is just another side of that coin. An unbearable emotional pain of lost identity and lost ‘tribe’ can become an urgent need to inflict pain onto others, onto oneself, or both. The greatest irony is that it is our inherent desire to feel good, about ourselves and the world around us, to find that ‘paradise lost’ – the sense of belonging to some omnipresent loving Source – it is exactly what drives the unskilled search towards


the quick fix. Needless to say that babies who were not traumatised during their formative period are not prone to become violent and addictive adults. Even if later in life they experiment with drugs, they have what it takes to recover and get on with their life. Ramana, one of the legendary yogis


of India, once said that when he finally experienced enlightenment, it lasted for 15 seconds, but it had enough of an impact on him to spend the rest of his life in devotion to this moment. For women, this kind of experience of enlightenment is biologically available every time they go into labour to deliver a baby. The amount of oxytocin, the ‘love’ hormone, that her brain is capable of releasing into her bloodstream, would be sufficient for her to enter that state of enlightenment that millions of people are striving to achieve through yoga and various other spiritual practices. It is the


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