The Guest is within you, and also within me;

You know that the sprout is hidden inside the seed.

We are all fighting; none of us have gone very far.

Let go of your arrogance and look around you inside.

The blue sky opens further and further.

The daily feeling of failure goes away,

The damage I’ve done to myself fades

A million suns come forward with light,

When I feel firmly in that world.

-Kabir

We wish every woman who wants to be able to conceive and give birth to a healthy child. It’s never too early to take a gentle, holistic and natural approach to preparing for the most miraculous event of her life. Making lifestyle choices that support her health at the deepest level can help her avoid unnecessary infertility diagnoses, pregnancy complications, and birth trauma.

One way it can help prepare your body is by improving blood flow to the uterus and ovaries. Gentle exercises to open your body, mind, and soul to the life force help you welcome new life into your world, whenever it’s time to receive it. Approaching design consciously and attentively can help him connect with aspects of the creative life force that he may not yet have experienced.

Learn to check with yourself. How open and receptive are you? How open and receptive is your world? Write down any feelings, positive or negative, you may have about trying to conceive. How do you feel about: becoming a father, being a mother, caring for a child, sharing a spouse, modifying your workload, reducing stress, dealing with your expanding body? If you’re ready to start more actively preparing to become a mother, keeping a conception diary can help you track your menstrual cycle before you begin your attempts.

How are you expressing the role of motherhood in your current world? Motherhood is unconditional love, and it is not necessary to have biological offspring to practice motherhood. Do you experience appreciation for the new life in your world? Can you honor someone else’s expanding pregnant belly? Can you honor other forms of new life? Do you have a garden? Kitchens? Do you create art? do you dance? Have pets?

Some of the practical ways we express motherhood help prepare our lives for a new child. One of the most difficult aspects of infertility treatment is seeing women limit their lives to fighting for a biological child. The more they struggle to conceive, the further away they are from the inherent creative life force within themselves. As you prepare to bring a child into the world, don’t let your life stop in its tracks.

Take qigong. Take walks. Take yoga, meditate. Honor your close and open relationships. Share your feelings with others.

Play good. Eat well. Try to eliminate alcohol, all forms of prescription and over-the-counter medications, coffee (even decaf, but tea is fine), nicotine, and refined carbohydrates. Stay away from condoms if you can. Include as many locally grown organic produce in your diet as practical. Try to eliminate cow’s milk (goat’s milk is much easier to digest). Stay away from sugar if you can, even if you don’t deprive yourself for the purpose of having children. This will create a very negative psychological stressor for you and your future child!

The plan of good conception is that of abundance. We encourage you to remain open to the creative life force in every way possible: living, loving, and experiencing the inherent joy of life itself.

Our old ways no longer work. Forcing a baby into an already overly stressed life simply doesn’t work – for you, for your future family, and for the future of our planet.

Fertility IS life itself. Work and connect with what creates life, in you and in your world. May your soul be fertile!