From Jeru Kabbal’s Finding Clarity
I would like to tell you a story. It is the story of your life, the story of everyone’s life.
After you were conceived, you lived for nine months in the womb, though you weren’t aware that nine months were passing. As far as you were concerned, you had always been there. Always, since your very beginning, forever and ever, you had been there. It was eternity for you. It was paradise. If in natural circumstances everything you could possibly want or need was provided before you actually needed it, you never had to feel that something was missing. Everything was exactly as it should have been.
And then one day, it was time for you to be born. Within a matter of minutes, everything changed for you. You were thrown out of paradise into what we call life. There was no warning; no one prepared you for this major change. It was a huge shock.
After spending an eternity in darkness, suddenly bright light was everywhere.
After spending an eternity where the temperature was always exactly right, suddenly it was extremely cold. After spending an eternity where all sounds were soft, muffled, and familiar, suddenly every sound seemed unnaturally loud and harsh, unpleasant and threatening. After spending an eternity surrounded and supported on all sides by something soft and warm, suddenly nothing was there, you were free-floating in wide-open space. You were being wrapped in a sheet or cloth, which the adults around you thought was very soft, but it felt like sandpaper to you.
As if all this shock were not enough, if your umbilical cord was cut too soon, you began to suffocate. You felt as if you were going to die. To save your own life you had to start breathing on your own. But this first breath was not a pleasant breath; the air felt harsh and hot.
You went from paradise to shock in just a few minutes. You moved from comfort, security, safety, and perfection - from the paradise of the womb to the experience of almost dying. The first thing you consciously did was to try to save your life. You were in a state of pure panic.
When you’re in danger, you have a natural tendency to pull your energy in. Look at most babies who have just been born. They are still clenching their hands; their eyes are tightly shut. We think it’s natural, but the baby is saying, “I have to defend myself in order to save my life. I’m afraid to let go.” When you were born, in a state of panic, the only thing you could do to protect yourself was to contract. Not only your physical body contracted, but something at a very deep level contracted as well. And it hasn’t relaxed since.
All babies - even those born in more natural ways - realize something very quickly: “I can’t do anything for myself. I depend on others. I’m in trouble now.”
But you had the instinct to survive. You also had the intelligence to know that you were helpless. When you were in the womb, your mother took care of you, but after you were born, you felt that you were in danger, and your own defense mechanisms began to function. Your first thoughts were based on fear:
“I’m weak. I’m helpless. I’m in danger.”
“I’m defenseless. I’m vulnerable. I’m inadequate.”
“I can’t take care of myself.”
“I’m somehow separate from everything else.”
“I won’t survive unless someone or something takes care of me.” Although you aren’t thinking these exact words, nevertheless, the feeling was there.
It is extremely important for you to grasp that your first self-image, your first ideas about yourself, came at these early moments in life. And these ideas were: “I’m weak. I’m helpless. I won’t survive unless someone takes care of me.”
This is the first programming that went into your mental computer, and after all this time it’s still there. None of the programming that came after this is new; it’s an extension, another layer, of the original program. At your core, you still feel about yourself the way you felt then: “I’m weak, helpless, defenseless, vulnerable, inadequate, and I can’t take care of myself. I need someone else to guarantee my survival.”
Although it may be difficult to accept this, nevertheless it’s important to see that it formed the beginning of your ego. It was the beginning of your defense system. It was the beginning of your mind. It’s just as fresh now as it was the day you were born, though it’s been covered up and disguised.
Probably Trauma release and other newer fields in time would heal even this?
A field specific for this would be fine though
EDIT: Was just posting this in the request field section, then I realizaed maybe this field would be enough to adress this?