A Visualization for the Overdue Pregnant Woman

A friend of mine sounds like she has been in transition for more than 24 hours. That is very, very strange, but the female body can do many stranger things, many more wonderful things.
I am thinking about everything I have ever read about birth and pregnancy and the only thing I can suggest is visualization. I wrote her this message and thought, “somewhere, there is another woman who needs this too.”

Sit down, rest and picture your cervix. It is like a spiral that twists from both ends to keep it closed. Lie down and picture it slackening. It is being unwound from both ends, slackening and opening like the aperture on a camera, it lets in light. Slowly and with careful control, it opens.

Opening is not easy. The coil is wound and held together with all the protection to let a baby grow. It needs to pull itself apart. I realize that, for the moment, it need hold nothing in.

Letting go, fighting the urge to bear down, letting the pain put the closure apart, goes against your instinct, but it is what your body needs to do. It is work. It is difficult to bear, but your body has a wisdom that your mind does not and you must try to shut off your mind for a moment. You must let it pull apart the threads that bind it.

<> Go deeply into your heart and listen there. Can you hear this dial opening the hands of time. It is a new start that has been waiting to happen since time began.  It is hard to be patient. It is hard to let your will go and give control to something else. It is hard, but you can let it go and it will open. It will open.