Trusting My Body, my baby and nature

On the way into work, while riding the train, I was reading an amazing book by Ina May Gaskin called Spiritual Midwifery.  I have come to believe that scraping out all this logic that we have come to embrace in modern society will allow me to be better attuned to my needs as a pregnant woman.  I trust that my body knows best.  I trust that my baby knows A LOT, as well.  The baby's intuition hasn't been flushed away as "superfluous".

I also know that nature, not man-made products hold the key to our well being.  I'm specifically referring to how we give birth, what we eat.  We need to accept birth as a natural, spiritual, and beautiful phenomenon.  Not something that to which should numb ourselves, so we can just get the prized baby at the end.  That's similar to just getting a medal for running a marathon, when you didn't really run it.  What makes our babies so sweet is the transition and evolution we must endure / get to experience to bring them into this world.  And then we get to watch them and help them find their own way in this world.  And it all starts with birth.  I trust my body, I trust my baby, I trust nature.

I trust nature for what we eat.  When we look outside the constructs of all the beautiful nutrition that abounds, we find ourselves deep into disease.  Our bodies do not know how to send our brains the "full" signal.  Our bodies cannot fully process the toxins that reside in processed foods, and sometimes our body gets confused. This goes hand in hand as to why the further we get away from nature's pantry, the more unhealthy we become as a nation and as world.  It's not only our bodies that suffer, our minds start to get confused, too.  We are starting to see mass amounts of depression, ADD and ADHD.  I blame this not only on the fake foods we eat, but also on our processed environment.  The television, the computer and the mass exodus of  people outdoors to indoors for most of their time.

For myself, I know the more I am in the natural world, the more naturally I eat, the better I feel.  Physically, emotionally and spiritually.  We are meant to be living in our natural surroundings and with it.  Not slamming it into something that comfortable (in the moment)  for us.