Previously, many psychologists believed that a child comes into this world (is born) as a blank sheet of paper. He does not yet have any memories, attitudes, beliefs, his own character. They even thought of the fact that the child does not feel anything during childbirth, and the cry at birth is a reflex to the opening of the lungs.

Maybe a blank sheet of paper, but, firstly, paper, and secondly, paper already has a density, color, format, structure, etc. All in all, something is already there.

The surname of Stanislav Grof is more often mentioned as the third in the list in terms of significance of influence on discoveries in the field of the unconscious after Z. Freud and K. Jung.

30 years of research has shown and proved that any person can remember his life before birth, your life in the womb. And Grof insists that biological birth is the first and main mental trauma for a person. Grof divided intrauterine experience and birth into 4 unequal segments, stages, matrices. Now it is customary to call these matrices as - Grof's Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPM).

Matrix- (literally) trace, cast, imprint.

Perinatal- from the Greek. peri - close, near and Latin natalis - birth, i.e. "pertaining to genus".

Basic base, foundation, basis.

Each of the perinatal matrices is vital for the normal existence of a person and is milestone development of his psyche. However, the traumatic experience of any of the matrices can distort a person's behavior.

First BPM. Matrix of Paradise, Bliss. The Naivety Matrix.

Her period is from conception to the start of contractions.

At this time, the child is in a state of bliss and comfort. He does not worry about food, heating or cleaning his habitat, security is also not his concern. And most importantly, my mom is there. And the mother (most often) loves her child. Even at the level of instincts, she protects him (in case of danger she will cover her stomach with her hand).

Such a blissful stay is "recorded" in the subconscious of a person with a feeling of the Primordial Paradise, harmony with the Universe. After all, mom is his universe. Thanks to this Matrix, we love and are able to relax, rest, rejoice, accept love. The same Matrix stimulates us to develop and serves as the foundation for faith in God, the Higher Cosmic Mind, and so on. A desired and well-bearing child in adulthood will be capable of great love and deep affection. An adult person accepts himself as he is, he has a high life potential.

If the peace of the child in the womb was disturbed negative events in the life of the mother (by the way, Grof also ranks the mother’s smoking, her use of alcohol or potent drugs as negative factors), then in the depths of his soul he will form an unconscious fear, a feeling of vulnerability and helplessness. With an unwanted pregnancy, a subconscious program is formed “I’m always at the wrong time”, “I’m not expected, no one needs me in this world.” If parents thought about abortion - fear of death, the program: "As soon as I relax, they will kill me." Unwanted children grow up with a sense of alienation, guilt. With all their appearance, they seem to ask for forgiveness for what they are. If the parents wanted a child of the opposite sex, this may be a prerequisite for the development of sexual problems in the future. It is not at all necessary that he will join the ranks of sexual minorities, but the child’s gender identification will be more difficult - the setting “I was not accepted as I really am” is already with him.

Second BPM. The Victim Matrix.

The period from the beginning of contractions to attempts.

Imagine this nightmarish situation for a child: all his “conscious” life is a state of harmony in the ocean of bliss, and now suddenly this heavenly Universe begins to squeeze from all sides, there is not enough space, oxygen, and there is nowhere to run, the exit is closed. Panic, feeling of hopelessness. At this moment, the uterine contraction force is about 50 kilograms - and imagine that the body of a 3-kilogram child can withstand such pressure!

In this case, the baby partially regulates its birth by releasing its own hormones into the mother's bloodstream through the placenta. If the load on the child is too high and there is a danger of hypoxia, then he may slow down his birth somewhat in order to compensate. From this point of view, labor stimulation disrupts the natural process of interaction between mother and fetus and forms a pathological matrix of the victim. On the other hand, the mother's fear (fear of childbirth) provokes the release of stress hormones by her body, spasm of the placental vessels occurs. With a planned caesarean section, this matrix is ​​not formed (with an emergency one, it is formed).

If the birth is normal - not too fast, without stimulation, caesarean section and anesthesia - the baby develops the ability to survive in difficult situations, perseverance in achieving goals, independence, the will to win, self-confidence. It is very important that during this period the mother is calm.

If the child, as they say, “jumps out”, this may come back to haunt him with the fact that in the future he will try to solve problems quickly. If something does not work right away, the “swift child” will refuse it. The same kids who, on the contrary, “got out” for too long, may feel like a victim, they can often find themselves in situations where they are pressed. If the birth was stimulated, then such children may not be able to take the first step or choice. For “cesareans” difficulties may arise with overcoming obstacles, and for children born under anesthesia, with the ability to solve complex issues: when you need to be active, they will “hibernate”.

Grof called this Matrix the matrix of Victims (the state “I feel bad, they put pressure on me, but there is no way out”). It is accompanied by feelings of hopelessness, depression and fear. This phase is unpleasant, but necessary for the formation of such qualities as patience, the ability to complete the work begun and not to panic in a hopeless situation.

In the subconscious of everyone there are these experiences associated with the contraction of the uterus before the cervix opens. We've all been imprisoned in this shrinking dungeon. However, according to Grof, those who felt particularly bad in this dungeon had emotional problems associated with this phase. In adulthood, they are expressed through frequent depression and claustrophobia (fear of a limited enclosed space, such as riding in an elevator).

Third BPM. Revolution Matrix. The Fight Matrix.

The period from the full opening of the cervix until the moment of "publication". The passage of the child through the birth canal.

But now the painful, but necessary fights are behind - "the path is open" - attempts begin. The cervix opens, the child adds its own movements to the contractions of the uterus, striving literally “to the light”. The experience of “light at the end of the tunnel” also belongs to the images of this matrix. It characterizes the activity of a person in those moments of life when a lot depends on his active (or expectant) position. If the mother in the difficult period behaved correctly, helped the child, if he felt that he was not alone in his struggle, then in later life his behavior would be adequate to the situation. With caesarean section (both planned and emergency), the matrix does not appear to be formed. Most likely, it corresponds to the moment the child is removed from the uterus during the operation.

This Matrix lays down the program "I can do everything". This is a real struggle for life (hence the name of the matrix). This is the first major hurdle to overcome. And you need to go through it, relying on your own strength. If the child independently mastered this path and “met the deadlines” (normally, he should do it in 20-40 minutes), then in later life he will not panic and become depressed on the way to the goal.

If childbirth takes place with the use of painkillers, then this is reflected in behavior, if problems arise, a person goes, for example, into drugs, because the first experience of this kind was obtained already at birth. Such children are especially predisposed to computer addiction.

The use of forceps in childbirth is a strong psychological trauma for the child. If you do not compensate for it in early childhood, a person can grow up vulnerable, prone to tantrums. In addition, he may refuse help because the first help in life was painful.

Babies born by caesarean section skip the struggle matrix: they may have a lowered sense of danger, a desire to get everything at once, the slightest obstacle “paralyzes”.

If a child independently, but for a very long time, made his way "to freedom", he can live with the feeling "all life is a struggle." If he walked ass forward, then there will be a desire to do everything in an unusual way (however, this is not such a drawback).

With a successful birth, this matrix develops active strength (“I will fight and cope”), purposefulness, courage, and the ability to take the first step. With the clinical death of a child in the third BPM, a program of hidden suicide arises.

Fourth BPM. Matrix of Freedom.

Corresponds to birth (separation from the mother), cutting of the umbilical cord and the beginning of the life of the newborn as an autonomous being.

The child symbolically “dies” in that intrauterine world and is born in this material world. How did the world welcome him? Bright, eyes-burning light, loud, frightening sounds? Or subdued light, pleasant, soothing music, gentle, kind hands? Depending on this, a person will either fight the world (destroying the environment) or love and protect it in the future.

It is very important that the child immediately placed on the mother's stomach. Firstly, for 9 months he heard his mother's heartbeat, lived in his mother, felt her as a single organism with himself. Having gone through a difficult path, he needs to write down a program in himself that everything ends someday, and ends well, and the Universe loves me, everything is in order.

Secondly, psychologists believe that BPM - 1 lays in a person the ability to set goals - constructive or destructive. BPM - 2- wait, endure, be able to limit yourself somewhere when achieving the goal, believe, hope. BPM - 3- move your feet in the direction of the goal, take responsibility, overcome obstacles. That's why, BPM - 4- this is the result, the achievement of the goal, the relief and joy of possession. The cycle is complete.

You must have met people who do not know how to rejoice at the results achieved, who do not know how to celebrate holidays.

If you immediately take eggs from under the hen, where the chicken has just hatched and do not allow her to complete the process of incubation by the process of “bringing chickens to the people”, then she will sit to exhaustion, even if not a single egg is already under her. And the chickens won't recognize her as their mother.

With a successful delivery, this matrix corresponds to the images of revolution, victory over the enemy, the spring awakening of nature, the opening of rivers from ice, etc. But this is the case if the child was allowed to reunite with the mother immediately after birth, that is, to experience reunion with the “original paradise” of the uterus.

After hard work and the experience of childbirth, the child is freed, loved and accepted. Ideally, a mother should take the child in her arms, give her breast, the child needs to feel care, love, security and freedom, relief.

If a child, for some reason, was separated from his mother after birth, then in adulthood he can regard freedom and independence as a burden and dream of returning to the Matrix of naivety.

If the child was immediately taken away from the mother, then a panic fear of being left without a mother, even for a short time, may develop. In adolescence, an “uncomfortable” birth threatens to result in alienation, a lack of understanding with parents. And already at an older age, this can manifest itself in the fear of being left alone, without loved one. Fear of death, unreasonable jealousy (like fear of loss).

Our ancestors had an idea that the life, actions, thoughts, emotions of a pregnant woman affect the child. Therefore, in all cultures, they tried to protect pregnant women from any negativity. But, nevertheless, we do not live in sterile conditions. Therefore, midwives immediately after the birth of a child for several days “rolled out” the perinatal negative with an egg (they removed the negative from one egg (womb) to another). Also, during pregnancy, they rolled out an egg, “cleaned” the information field of the mother and child.

Grandmothers - midwives knew that in the process of childbirth, the bones of the child's skull fold and are under tremendous pressure. You can imagine how important it is that the bones then become correct, because. it affects the brain. A large load also falls on the cervical and thoracic spine. Therefore, the grandmothers “sculpted the head” of the child, followed the spine (and knew how to expose!).

If doctors in maternity hospitals knew how to do this, probably 90% of children would not have cerebral palsy.

Perinatal Matrices

Today I would like to talk with you about where the roots of most problems, complexes, illnesses and fears grow from. On the psychology of childbirth. We work through all the problems of this period with people on our own, in particular at the seminar "Healing of a Woman. The First Discovery of the Force".

Stanislav Grof most consistently described the state of the child from conception to birth. Stanislav Grof is an American physician and psychologist of Czech origin, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology. In the concept of prenatal (prenatal) human existence he created, four main periods are distinguished, which are stored in the human subconscious. Grof calls them basic prenatal matrices (BPMs) and describes in detail what happens on each of these matrices, what the child experiences, what are the characteristics of living each of these matrices, and how BPMs can influence human behavior in later life. Each matrix forms a unique strategy of attitude towards the world, others, and oneself.

PERINATAL MATRIX I

Primordial unity with the mother (fetal experience before birth)

This matrix refers to the original state of intrauterine existence during which the child and mother form a symbiotic union. If there is no harmful effect, the conditions for the child are optimal, considering safety, protection, a suitable environment and the satisfaction of all needs.

The first perinatal matrix: "Matrix of naivety"

When its formation begins is not very clear. Most likely, it requires the presence of a formed cerebral cortex in the fetus - i.e. 22-24 weeks of pregnancy. Some authors suggest cellular memory, wave memory, and the like. In this case, the matrix of naivete begins to form immediately after conception and even before it. This matrix forms the life potential of a person, his potential, the ability to adapt. Desired children, children of the desired sex, have a higher basic psychic potential during a healthy pregnancy, and this observation was made by mankind many centuries ago.

9 months in the womb, from the moment of conception to the moment of the start of labor - PARADISE.

Even the very moment of conception is imprinted in our psyche. Ideally, the child lives in conditions that correspond to our idea of ​​Paradise: complete security, the same temperature, constant satiety, lightness (floats as if in weightlessness).

Normal first BPM - we love and know how to relax, rest, rejoice, accept love, it stimulates us to develop.

The traumatized first BPM can subconsciously form the following behavior programs:

In case of unwanted pregnancy, the program “I’m always at the wrong time” is formed. You have probably met such people.
If parents were thinking about abortion - fear of death, the program "As soon as I relax, they will kill me." These people from childhood cannot relax, they even have muscles in good shape from birth.
With toxicosis (preeclampsia) - "I'm sick of your joy", or - "how can you develop when children die of hunger." This happens because the mother, for one reason or another, could not accept her pregnancy.
If mom was sick - "if I relax, I will get sick." These thoughts don't let me relax either.
So, the first matrix that Grof is talking about is a long period from conception to the preparation of the mother's body for childbirth. This is the golden age. If the course of pregnancy is not complicated by psychological, physical or other problems, if the mother desires and loves this child, he is very happy and comfortable in her womb. He is imbued with his mother in the literal and figurative sense - not only depending on her physically, but also spiritually - her love. This period ends (one would like to say that all good things come to an end!) with the appearance of warning chemical signals in the body, and then with mechanical contractions of the uterus. The primary and habitual balance and harmony of existence are violated, the child experiences psychological discomfort for the first time.

PERINATAL MATRIX II

Antagonism with the mother (contractions in a closed uterus)

The second perinatal matrix refers to the first clinical stage of labor. Intrauterine existence, close to the ideal under normal conditions, is coming to an end. The world of the fetus is disturbed, at first insidiously - through chemical influences, later in a rough mechanical way - by periodic contractions. This creates a situation of complete uncertainty and threat to life with various signs bodily discomfort. At this stage, uterine contractions affect the fetus, but the cervix is ​​​​still closed, and there is no way out. Mother and child become a source of pain for each other and enter into a biological conflict.

Second Perinatal Matrix: "The Victim Matrix"

It is formed from the moment of the onset of labor until the moment of complete or almost complete dilatation of the cervix. Approximately corresponds to 1 stage of childbirth. The child experiences contraction pressure forces, some hypoxia, and the “exit” from the uterus is closed. In this case, the child partially regulates his own birth by releasing his own hormones into the mother's bloodstream through the placenta. If the load on the child is too high, there is a danger of hypoxia, then he can somewhat slow down his birth in order to compensate. From this point of view, labor stimulation disrupts the natural process of interaction between mother and fetus and forms a pathological matrix of the victim. On the other hand, the fear of the mother, the fear of childbirth provokes the release of stress hormones by the mother, placental vasospasm occurs, fetal hypoxia, and then the victim matrix is ​​also formed pathological. With a planned caesarean section, this matrix cannot be formed, with an emergency - it is formed

From the beginning of fights to the beginning of attempts - EXILE FROM PARADISE or ARCHETYPE OF SACRIFICE

The second BPM begins from the moment the contractions begin to the full opening of the cervix and the beginning of attempts. At this moment, the uterine contraction force is about 50 kilograms, imagine that the body of a 3 kilogram child can withstand such pressure. Grof called this matrix “Victim” because the state of the victim is when it’s bad, you are under pressure and there is no way out. At the same time, a feeling of guilt arises (expulsion from Paradise), the guilt is taken over: "I was bad and they expelled me." Perhaps the development of a trauma of love (loved, and then hurt and pushed out). In this matrix, passive strength is developed (“you won’t take me with your bare hands, I’m strong”), patience, perseverance, and the ability to survive. A person knows how to wait, endure, endure the inconveniences of life.

The negatives of this matrix are divided into two groups: when it is absent (caesarean: planned and emergency) and when it is excessive.

With an insufficient first matrix, a person does not have enough patience, it is difficult for him, for example, to sit through a lesson or lecture, to endure an unpleasant situation in his life. The influence of anesthesia leads to "freezing" in life situations that require patience. With an emergency cesarean (when the contractions were, and then they stopped), it is difficult for a person to bring the matter to an end. With rapid childbirth, a person tries to solve problems very quickly, “with a swoop”, and if something does not work out, refuse.
With an excess of the second matrix (prolonged childbirth), a person has a strong role of the Victim in his life, he attracts situations when he is “pressed”, crushed, either by the authorities or in the family, he suffers, but at the same time he subconsciously feels comfortable in this role . During rhodostimulation, the program “until I am pushed, I will not do anything” is recorded.
After a period that is meant to be a time of bliss, tranquility, silence, peace, "swinging in the ocean of the mother's womb", the time of testing comes. The fetus is periodically compressed by uterine spasms, but the system is still closed - the cervix is ​​not open, the exit is not available. The womb, which has been guarding and safe for so long, becomes threatening. Since the arteries that supply the placenta pierce the muscles of the uterus in a complex way, each contraction of the placenta limits the flow of blood, and therefore oxygen, nutrition for the baby. He begins to experience an overwhelming sense of increasing anxiety and a sense of impending danger to life. Grof believes that at this stage, the born baby experiences a state of horror and hopelessness.

It is amazing that each person experiences this stage in their own way. Someone "makes a decision" to look for a way out and subordinates his entire state to this search. Someone shrinks from horror and makes every effort to restore the former peace. Someone falls into a state of inactivity, experiencing a kind of paralysis. Some psychologists draw parallels between this matrix of intrauterine development and how, in adulthood, a person begins to respond to changed situations. The way an adult experiences a state of increasing anxiety, how he solves the problems of impending danger - the roots of his behavior, perhaps - in the decision that he "made" in the mother's womb.

PERINATAL MATRIX III

Synergism with the mother (pushing through the birth canal)

This matrix is ​​associated with the second clinical stage of labor. Contractions continue, but the cervix is ​​already wide open, and the difficult and difficult process of pushing the fetus through the birth canal gradually begins. For a child, this means a serious struggle for survival with crushing mechanical pressure and often with suffocation. But the system is no longer closed, and there is a prospect of ending the unbearable situation. The efforts and interests of the child and the mother coincide. Their joint intense desire is to end this basically painful condition.

The Third Perinatal Matrix: "The Matrix of Struggle"

Approximately corresponds to the 2nd period of childbirth. Formed from the end of the period of disclosure until the birth of the child. It characterizes the activity of a person at the moments of life, when something depends on his active or expectant position. If the mother behaved correctly in the difficult period, helped the child, if he felt that during the struggle he was not alone, then in later life his behavior would be adequate to the situation. With caesarean section, both elective and emergency, the matrix does not appear to form, although this is debatable. Most likely, it corresponds to the moment the child is removed from the uterus during the operation.

Attempts and childbirth - LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL - MATRIX OF FIGHT or THE HERO'S PATH

The third BPM covers the period of attempts, when the child moves from the uterus through the birth canal. Normally it lasts 20-40 minutes. This matrix develops active strength (“I will fight and cope”), purposefulness, courage, courage

The negatives of this matrix can also be both its excess and its deficiency.

With a caesarean section, a rapid delivery, pushing out a child, people in the future do not know how to fight, when a situation of struggle arises, they must be pushed in the back. Children intuitively develop this matrix in fights and conflicts: he fights, he is beaten.
The excess of the third matrix is ​​manifested in the fact that these people have a whole life - a struggle, they fight all the time, they always find against whom and with whom.
If at the same time asphyxia developed (the child was born blue or white), a huge feeling of guilt arises and in life this is manifested by a game with death, a deadly struggle (revolutionaries, rescuers, submariners, extreme sports ...).
With the clinical death of a child in the third BPM, a program of hidden suicide arises.
If obstetric forceps were used, someone's help is needed in action, but on the other hand, he is afraid of this help, because it is painful.
With breaks, there is a fear of one’s strength, a feeling of guilt, a program “as soon as I use my strength, it will cause harm, pain.”
During childbirth in the breech presentation in life, people tend to do everything in an unusual way.
The third stage is associated with the opening of the cervix. There is an exit option. Highly important point in psychological terms - first a person makes a decision - to look for a way out or not, and only then does the possibility of a way out appear! At this time, the child is doomed to begin the "struggle for survival." Regardless of whether he “made” the decision to go out or do his best to preserve the situation, uterine contractions push him out. He begins to gradually move along the birth canal. His body is subjected to crushing mechanical pressure, lack of oxygen and suffocation. Grof notes that these circumstances make him related to mythological characters passing through complex labyrinths, or with fairy tale characters, pushing through impenetrable thickets. If the psyche has the courage to overcome obstacles, if the inner determination to overcome has already matured, then the passage through the birth canal will be the first experience of a purposeful path for the child. There is only one way - you have to be born. But how a person overcomes this path, whether he is helped in the passage of the path or not - according to the author of the theory, much depends on these circumstances in his later life.

According to Grof, it is during this period that the foundations of most behavioral, psychological and, as a result, social problems. The first serious life test, which a person has not been able to overcome on his own, since he was "came to the rescue", lays the installation and in the future to expect help from the outside. When a child is born from a family womb, it psychologically buds off from its parents, taking on the burden of self-establishment. social relations, he "remembers" the experience of his own birth.

PERINATAL MATRIX IV

Separation from mother (termination of symbiotic union with mother and formation of a new type of relationship)

This matrix refers to the third clinical stage of labor. Painful experiences reach their climax, pushing through the birth canal comes to an end, and now extreme tension and suffering are replaced by unexpected relief and relaxation. The period of breath holding and, as a rule, insufficient oxygen supply ends. The child takes his first deep breath and Airways are revealed. The umbilical cord is cut, and the blood that previously circulated through the vessels of the umbilical cord is sent to the pulmonary region. The physical separation from the mother is completed and the child begins to exist as an anatomically independent being. Once the physiological balance is established again, the new situation is incomparably better than the previous two, but in some very important respects it is worse than the original undisturbed primal unity with the mother. The biological needs of the child are not met on a continuous basis, and there is no constant protection from temperature changes, annoying noises, changes in light intensity, and from unpleasant tactile sensations.

Fourth Perinatal Matrix: "Matrix of Freedom"

It starts from the moment of birth and its formation ends in either the period of the first 7 days after birth, or in the first month, or it is created and reviewed throughout a person's life. Those. a person throughout his life reconsiders his attitude to freedom and his own capabilities, taking into account the circumstances of his birth. Different researchers estimate the duration of the formation of the 4th matrix in different ways. If a child is for some reason separated from his mother after birth, then in adulthood he may regard freedom and independence as a burden and dream of returning to the matrix of innocence.

From the moment of birth to 3-9 days - FREEDOM + LOVE

This matrix covers the period from the moment the baby is born to 5-7 days after birth. After hard work and the experience of childbirth, the child is freed, loved and accepted. Ideally, a mother should take the child in her arms, give her breast, the child needs to feel care, love, security and freedom, relief. Unfortunately, in our maternity hospitals only in last years began to think about and implement the principles of the non-traumatic fourth matrix. Most of us, unfortunately, subconsciously associate freedom with cold, pain, hunger, loneliness. I strongly recommend that everyone read Leboyer's book "Birth Without Violence", which very vividly describes the experiences of a child in childbirth.

In connection with the birth experience, we also determine the experience of love in our life. You can love according to the first BPM and the fourth. Love according to the first BPM is reminiscent of placing a loved one in an artificial womb: “I am everything for you, why do you need others - you have me, let's do everything together ....” However, such love always ends, and after a conditional 9 months, a person is ready to die, but to break free. Love at the fourth BPM is a combination of love and freedom, love is unconditional, when you love no matter what the other person does and give him the freedom to do whatever he wants. Unfortunately, this is extremely difficult for many of us.

There are also other traumatic situations associated with childbirth, such as:

if the child was expected as a boy or a girl, and he was born of a different sex, there is a trauma of gender identity (“will I justify the hopes of my parents”). Often these people try to be the other sex.
If a premature baby is placed in an incubator, then a barrier between oneself and the world subconsciously arises.
In the case of the birth of twins, a person needs a feeling that someone is nearby, during childbirth, the second one has a trauma of abandonment, that he was betrayed, left him, and the first one has the guilt that he abandoned, left.
If the mother had abortions before this child, they are recorded in the psyche of this child. You can experience the fear of violent death and feelings of guilt, the fear of giving yourself freedom (suddenly they will kill you again).
Pain relief in childbirth can leave the program that my pain is not felt or intoxicated.
The fourth period is the birth itself. Grof believes that this is the completion of the feat. A sharp change in all previous conditions of existence - the transition from water to air type of existence, change temperature regime, the action of the strongest stimulus - light, the action of atmospheric pressure - all these conditions in combination cause the strongest stress of the whole organism of the newborn. According to most psychologists, it is birth shock that allows the child's psyche to develop so intensively in the first three years of life. There is an opinion that a person is never so close to death as at the moment of birth. And at the same time, it is after this test that the impossible in other periods of life becomes possible. Three years after his birth, any child carries out such an intellectual program that even a Nobel laureate cannot afford. And the feat of birth is one of the main reasons such achievements.

Rapid childbirth, caesarean section, premature birth - this is the strongest stress for the child, which later, according to Grof, will negatively affect his psyche and physiology. But full breastfeeding for up to a year, good care and love can compensate for negative prenatal matrices. And loving mother knows and feels it without any theories.

Probably each stage of biological birth has a specific additional spiritual component. For a serene intrauterine existence, this is the experience of cosmic unity; the onset of labor is parallel to the experience of a sense of all-encompassing absorption; the first clinical stage of labor, contraction in the closed uterine system, corresponds to the experience of "no way out" or hell; pushing through the birth canal in the second clinical stage of labor has its spiritual counterpart in the struggle between death and rebirth; the metaphysical equivalent of the completion of the birth process and the events of the third clinical stage of childbirth is the experience of ego death and rebirth.

The first matrix is ​​of particular importance. The process of its formation is due the most complex processes development of the fetus, its nervous system, sensory organs, various motor reactions. It is the first matrix that makes the body of the fetus and the newborn child capable of forming complex mental acts, for example, in the normal position of the fetus, it reflects the biological unity of the fetus and mother. At ideal conditions this is how it is, and the formed matrix is ​​manifested by the absence of the boundaries of consciousness, "oceanic consciousness", connected "with mother nature", which gives food, security, "bliss". Under the influence of adverse factors during the first months and years of life, symptoms may appear, the content of which will be an unconscious danger, "inhospitability of nature", perverted perceptions with a paranoid tinge.

It is assumed that when such a person develops, already in adulthood mental disorder, the main symptoms will be paranoid disorders, hypochondria. With various complications during pregnancy (fetal hypoxia, emotional breakdowns in the mother during pregnancy, the threat of abortion, etc.), memories of a “bad bosom”, paranoid thinking, unpleasant bodily sensations (trembling and spasms, hangover syndrome, etc.) disgust, a feeling of depression, hallucinations in the form of a meeting with demonic forces, etc.).

The second matrix is ​​formed over a relatively short period of time (4-5 hours) as contractions intensify. For the first time after a period of "bliss" and security, the fetus begins to experience strong external pressure, aggression. Activation of this matrix under the influence of unfavorable factors during the subsequent life of a person can lead to the detection in the patient's nervous system, i.e. in the memory of situations that threaten the survival or integrity of the human body. There are also possible experiences of being in a closed space, apocalyptic visions of the world, ominously painted in dark colors, a feeling of suffering being driven into a trap, a hopeless situation that does not see an end, a feeling of guilt and inferiority, the meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence, unpleasant bodily manifestations (feeling of oppression and pressure, heart failure, fever and chills, sweating, shortness of breath).

Of course, all provisions about matrices are largely a hypothesis, but the hypothesis received some confirmation in the study of patients who underwent caesarean section. The latter leads to the fact that a child born by caesarean section does not pass the 3rd and 4th matrices. This means that these matrices cannot manifest themselves in the next life.

S. Grof, who specifically dealt with this issue, concludes that “having reached the level of birth, under hypnosis, those who were born by caesarean section report a feeling of wrongness, as if they are comparing the way they went into this world with some phylogenetic or an archetypal matrix showing what the process of birth should be like. It is amazing how they clearly lack the experience of a normal birth - the challenge and stimulus contained in it, the collision with an obstacle, the triumphant exit from a compressive space.

Of course, this knowledge served as the basis for the development of special techniques. When giving birth by caesarean section, transpersonal psychologists believe that in order to eliminate the consequences of an unexpected break in contact with the mother, a number of special measures should be taken immediately after birth (lay the baby on the stomach, place it in slightly warmed water, etc.) and then the newborn develops " psychologically favorable impression of the world.

At the same time, it is known that experienced obstetricians have long sought (in the absence of fetal suffering) during a cesarean section to restrain the rapid removal of the newborn, because this through the reticular formation contributes to the inclusion of the respiratory system, more precisely, the first breath of the newborn.

Recognition of the role of perinatal matrices makes it possible to come to the fundamentally important conclusion that the fetus lives its own mental life in the womb. Of course, the latter is limited by the unconscious mental, but, nevertheless, the fetus can register its own mental processes occurring during childbirth. Knowledge of the pattern of activation of matrices makes it possible to predict the symptoms of development clinical picture in specific conditions of exposure to harmful factors.

Ways of information transfer

If we recognize that the fetus and newborn have the ability to record information about the perinatal period for life, then the question immediately arises of how this information can be transmitted from the pregnant woman to the fetus and vice versa. According to modern ideas, there are 3 main ways:

1. Traditional - through the uteroplacental blood flow. Hormones are passed through the placenta, the level of which is partly controlled by emotions. These are, for example, stress hormones, endorphins, and so on.

2. Wave - electromagnetic radiation of organs, tissues, individual cells, etc. in narrow ranges. For example, there is a hypothesis that an ovum, which is in favorable conditions, can accept not any spermatozoon, but only one that matches it in terms of the characteristics of electromagnetic radiation. The zygote (fertilized egg) also notifies the mother's body of its appearance at the wave level, and not at the hormonal level. Also, a sick organ of the mother emits “wrong” waves to the fetus, and the corresponding organ in the unborn child can also form pathological.

3. Water - through the aquatic environment of the body. Water can be an energy-informational conductor, and a mother can transmit some information to a fetus simply through the liquid media of the body.

The electromagnetic field of a pregnant woman works in the millimeter range, changes in accordance with the changes environment and plays the role of one of the adaptation mechanisms. The child, in turn, also exchanges information with the mother in the same range.

Interestingly, the problem of surrogate motherhood can be viewed from a completely different angle. A surrogate mother carrying someone else's (genetically) child for 9 months inevitably influences him informationally and this is partly her child. A gestating child also affects its biological stepmother.

So, after reading the research of Stanislav Grof, you can understand where you or your children may have certain health or behavior problems. Unfortunately, in our country, only now they are beginning to master a humane approach to pregnancy and childbirth, and parents, having the opportunity to use protection, can plan the desired pregnancy. And this means that people who were injured in such early age will become smaller.

Put everything aside for a minute, close your eyes and try to remember your first childhood memories. How old were you? What do you remember?

Stanislav Grof, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology and the theory of perinatal matrices, believes that memories of our intrauterine life, development, and all stages of childbirth are stored in the depths of the subconscious.

We remember not only bodily sensations, but also emotions of high intensity and intensity. These memories leave in the psyche - the unconscious - the deepest trace that influences the future fate: forming behavioral patterns, attitudes towards the world, towards oneself, towards people around, and even a predisposition to diseases.

Sometimes we catch ourselves feeling that we are “stepping on the same rake”, “running in a circle”, from which it is difficult to escape, sometimes we are overwhelmed by strange inexplicable feelings and vague images ... And we do not understand what is happening, where this is? Often the reason may lie in the sacrament of birth.

“When we return to the experience of our birth in deep self-exploration, we find that the resurrection of each stage of labor is associated with various experiential patterns that are characterized by a particular combination of emotions, physical sensations and symbolic images. I call these patterns the basic perinatal matrices.” (c) S. Grof.

Grof identifies four basic perinatal matrices.

It should be noted that the theory of perinatal matrices is not considered scientific now, since no experimental data have been obtained to confirm it.

Stages of development and childbirth and their correspondence to basic perinatal matrices (BPM)

BPM 1, "The Naivety Matrix". It is formed from the moment of conception and continues throughout the pregnancy until the first contraction.

BPM 2, The Victim Matrix. Formed from the first contraction until the cervix is ​​fully dilated, normally lasts 4-5 hours (up to 10 at the first birth)

BPM 3, "The Matrix of Struggle". It is formed from the moment of full disclosure of the cervix until the birth of the child, lasts from 20 minutes to 2 hours at the first birth.

BPM 4, "Freedom Matrix". It is formed from the moment the child is born and lasts up to 3-9 days.

Let us consider in detail the development of a person from conception to the first days of life.

BPM 1. "Matrix of Naivety", "Paradise Matrix".

This is the matrix of the unity of the child and mother. The whole world, the whole universe for a child during nine months of pregnancy is the womb. The child is in it in a state of security, with ideal comfortable temperature, always full, in a comfortable relaxed position. All his needs are met. These are oceanic experiences of complete serenity and tranquility.

With a normal pregnancy and if the child is desired, the ability to accept oneself, rejoice, relax, develop, and feel oneself a part of nature is formed.

BPM injury 1.

The threat of abortion, miscarriage, toxicosis and diseases of the mother form the fear of death, a feeling of uselessness, inability to relax. "No one needs me", "If I relax, I will die or get sick." An unwanted child may feel guilty for the very fact of his existence, the pain that he is not accepted as he is.

BPM 2. "The Matrix of Sacrifice", "No Escape", "Expulsion from Paradise"

It starts from the moment of the first contraction until the opening of the cervix.

A comfortable environment, the whole loving and safe world of a child suddenly suddenly becomes aggressive - it begins to shrink, it hurts to squeeze and "kill". And there is nowhere to go, there is no way out. The child finds himself in a situation of threat and horror, hopelessness, hopelessness. It is believed that at this stage of childbirth, the ability to wait and endure in difficult situations, fear of death, guilt is laid.

BPM 2 injuries

Short matrix or its absence.

Occurs with caesarean section or rapid delivery. A person develops impatience, an inability to see things through to the end and fight, a feeling that all problems can be solved quickly. "You never have to put in the effort." People with insufficient BPM 2 tend to give up when something doesn't work on the first try, they don't have the persistence to achieve goals.

long matrix.

Occurs during prolonged childbirth and forms the role of the victim. A person in life can often find himself in situations where he is put under pressure and usually does not resist, but endures. People with an injured matrix 2 often live with a feeling of "falling into a trap" or under the slogan "there is no way out, but you have to endure."

BPM 3. "The Matrix of Struggle", "There is a Way Out"

It starts from the moment the uterus opens until birth. Mother and child act together: they both push and fight for a common goal.

At this stage, the child has a way out in the world that is squeezing and killing him. The body, which has been in the “fetal position” for nine months in a state of lightness and weightlessness, is subjected to severe compression, hypoxia, and unusually arches during passage through the birth canal. This first path in life - to freedom - the "path of the hero", is full of pain, effort and suffering. But he is also full of hope. Aggression, the ability to fight, determination, self-expression: "I can!", Courage, a sense of disgust and disgust are laid in this matrix. Also at this stage, sexuality is laid.

BPM 3 injuries

Short matrix. Formed inability to fight, to defend their interests. A person is inclined to expect help in solving problems from outside - a "magic pendal" - when obstetricians push the child out. If a child was born with the use of forceps, this can lead to the “it is dangerous to take help” pattern and the person will refuse it.

long matrix. Too protracted period of childbirth forms the divisive "life is a struggle." Such people find situations where it is necessary to fight with someone, they do not feel the lightness of being, the joy of simple solutions.

BPM 4. Freedom Matrix, Paradise Returns

The child, after long and difficult experiences, finds himself at liberty. The main leitmotif of the fourth matrix is ​​freedom after effort. In a sense, the fourth matrix is ​​a mystical experience of death and rebirth: a person who existed in a serene "womb universe" dies and is reborn in a completely new quality. Contact with the new world is a huge stress. On the one hand, the terror of the killing pressure had ceased. But on the other hand, he finds himself in a hostile and, most importantly, unusual world. Here is a different temperature, suffocation before the first breath, there is no amniotic fluid and the first collision with gravity occurs, here is helplessness. At this stage, it is very important that the child immediately finds himself in the arms of his mother and feels security and warmth, a familiar smell. This is the return of Paradise, reconciliation with a new unfamiliar world.

BPM injury 4.

The child is separated from the mother immediately after birth. After the difficulties of childbirth, after the "hero's journey", the child finds himself in an aggressive environment: they begin to weigh him, wash him, measure him, put him on a cold table. In this case, the pattern "Everything was in vain. Why make an effort if everything ends so badly?" - a person does not see the point in actions, since they "do not lead to anything good." Freedom by such people can be regarded not as a value, but as loneliness and coldness.

Violations in the basic perinatal matrices can and should be corrected! Love, acceptance, attention, some special methods upbringing in the first years of a child's life to a large extent compensate for the traumatic consequences.

Adults who want to look into the mystery of their birth and work through the negative consequences can use holotropic breathing techniques.

perinatal matrices

Pre- and perinatal psychology (Eng. Pre- and perinatal psychology) - studies the circumstances and patterns of human development in the early stages: prenatal (antenatal), perinatal (intranatal) and neonatal (postnatal) phases of development, and their impact on all subsequent life.

Perinatal - the concept consists of two words: peri (peri) - around, about and natos (natalis) - related to birth. Thus, pre- and perinatal psychology is the science of the mental life of an unborn child or a newly born child (the science of the initial phase of human development - prenatal and perinatal).

Basic perinatal matrices (BMP) - a concept introduced by S. Grof, characterizes four stages that
a child passes before being born. Each matrix forms a unique strategy of attitude towards the world, others, and oneself.

PERINATAL MATRIX I

Primordial unity with the mother (fetal experience before birth)
This matrix refers to the original state of intrauterine existence during which the child and mother form a symbiotic union. If there is no harmful effect, the conditions for the child are optimal, considering safety, protection, a suitable environment and the satisfaction of all needs.

The first perinatal matrix: "Matrix of naivety"

When its formation begins is not very clear. Most likely, it requires the presence of a formed cerebral cortex in the fetus - i.e. 22-24 weeks of pregnancy. Some authors suggest cellular memory, wave memory, etc. In this case, the matrix of naivete begins to form immediately after conception and even before it. This matrix forms the life potential of a person, his potential, the ability to adapt. Desired children, children of the desired sex, have a higher basic psychic potential during a healthy pregnancy, and this observation was made by mankind a long time ago. 9 months in the womb, from the moment of conception to the moment of the start of labor - PARADISE. Even the very moment of conception is imprinted in our psyche. Ideally, the child lives in conditions that correspond to our idea of ​​Paradise: complete security, the same temperature, constant satiety, lightness (floats as if in weightlessness). Normal first BPM - we love and know how to relax, rest, rejoice, accept love, it stimulates us to develop.

The traumatized first BPM can subconsciously form the following behavior programs: in case of an unwanted pregnancy, the program "I'm always at the wrong time" is formed. If parents thought about abortion - fear of death, the program "Only I relax - they will kill me." With toxicosis (preeclampsia) - "I'm sick of your joy", or - "how can one develop when children die of hunger." If mom was sick - "if I relax, then I'll get sick" Who finds it difficult to bear the second part of the process in rebirthing - to relax, then most likely there were problems in the first matrix.

PERINATAL MATRIX II
Antagonism with the mother (contractions in a closed uterus)

The second perinatal matrix refers to the first clinical stage of labor. Intrauterine existence, close to the ideal under normal conditions, is coming to an end. The world of the fetus is disturbed, at first insidiously - through chemical influences, later in a rough mechanical way - by periodic contractions. This creates a situation of complete uncertainty and threat to life with various signs of bodily discomfort. At this stage, uterine contractions affect the fetus, but the cervix is ​​​​still closed, and there is no way out. Mother and child become a source of pain for each other and enter into a biological conflict.

Second Perinatal Matrix: "The Victim Matrix"

It is formed from the moment of the onset of labor until the moment of complete or almost complete disclosure of the cervix. Approximately corresponds to 1 stage of childbirth. The child experiences the forces of contraction pressure, some hypoxia, and the "exit" from the uterus is closed. In this case, the child partially regulates his own birth by releasing his own hormones into the mother's bloodstream through the placenta. If the load on the child is too high, there is a danger of hypoxia, then he can somewhat slow down his birth in order to compensate. From this point of view, labor stimulation disrupts the natural process of interaction between mother and fetus and forms a pathological matrix of the victim. On the other hand, the fear of the mother, the fear of childbirth provokes the release of stress hormones by the mother, spasm of the placental vessels occurs, fetal hypoxia, and then the victim matrix is ​​also formed pathological.

With a planned caesarean section, this matrix cannot be formed, with an emergency - it is formed from the beginning of labor to the beginning of attempts - EXILE FROM PARADISE or ARCHETYPE OF THE SACRIFICE

The second BPM begins from the moment the contractions begin to the full opening of the cervix and the beginning of attempts. At this moment, the uterine contraction force is about 50 kilograms, imagine that the body of a 3 kilogram child can withstand such pressure. Grof called this matrix "Victim" because the state of the victim is when it's bad, you are under pressure and there is no way out. At the same time, a feeling of guilt arises (expulsion from Paradise), guilt is taken over: "I was bad and they expelled me." Perhaps the development of a trauma of love (loved, and then hurt and pushed out). In this matrix, passive strength is developed (“you can’t take me with your bare hands, I am strong”), patience, perseverance, and the ability to survive. A person knows how to wait, endure, endure the inconveniences of life.

The negatives of this matrix are divided into two groups: when it is absent (caesarean: planned and emergency) and when it is excessive.

With an insufficient first matrix, a person does not have enough patience, it is difficult for him, for example, to sit through a lesson or lecture, to endure an unpleasant situation in his life. The influence of anesthesia leads to "freezing" in life situations that require patience. With an emergency cesarean (when the contractions were, and then they stopped), it is difficult for a person to bring the matter to an end. In rapid childbirth, a person tries to solve problems very quickly, "with a tip", and if something does not work out, refuse.

With an excess of the second matrix (prolonged childbirth) - a person has a strong role of the Victim in his life, he attracts situations when he is "pressed", pressured, either by the authorities or in the family, he suffers, but at the same time he subconsciously feels comfortable in this role . During rhodostimulation, a program is recorded "until they push me, I will not do anything."

PERINATAL MATRIX III
Synergism with the mother (pushing through the birth canal)
This matrix is ​​associated with the second clinical stage of labor. Contractions continue, but the cervix is ​​already wide open, and the difficult and difficult process of pushing the fetus through the birth canal gradually begins. For a child, this means a serious struggle for survival with crushing mechanical pressure and often with suffocation. But the system is no longer closed, and there is a prospect of ending the unbearable situation. The efforts and interests of the child and the mother coincide. Their joint intense desire is to end this basically painful condition.

The Third Perinatal Matrix: "The Matrix of Struggle"

Approximately corresponds to the 2nd period of childbirth. Formed from the end of the period of disclosure until the birth of the child. It characterizes the activity of a person at the moments of life, when something depends on his active or expectant position. If the mother behaved correctly in the difficult period, helped the child, if he felt that during the struggle he was not alone, then in later life his behavior would be adequate to the situation. With caesarean section, both elective and emergency, the matrix does not appear to form, although this is debatable. Most likely, it corresponds to the moment the child is removed from the uterus during the operation.

Attempts and childbirth - LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL - MATRIX OF FIGHT or THE HERO'S PATH

The third BPM covers the period of attempts, when the child moves from the uterus through the birth canal. Normally it lasts 20-40 minutes. In this matrix, active strength is developed (“I will fight and cope”), purposefulness, courage, courage. The negatives of this matrix can also be both its excess and its deficiency. So with a caesarean section, a rapid birth, pushing out a child, people in the future do not know how to fight, when a situation of struggle arises, they must be pushed in the back. Children intuitively develop this matrix in fights and conflicts: he fights, he is beaten.

The excess of the third matrix is ​​manifested in the fact that these people have a whole life - a struggle, they fight all the time, they always find against whom and with whom. If at the same time asphyxia developed (the child was born blue or white), a huge feeling of guilt arises and in life this is manifested by a game with death, a deadly struggle (revolutionaries, rescuers, submariners, extreme sports ...). With the clinical death of a child in the third BPM, a program of hidden suicide arises. If obstetric forceps were used, someone's help is needed in action, but on the other hand, he is afraid of this help, because it is painful. With breaks, there is a fear of one's strength, a feeling of guilt, a program "as soon as I use my strength, it will cause harm, pain." When giving birth in a breech presentation in life, people tend to do everything in an unusual way

PERINATAL MATRIX IV
Separation from mother (termination of symbiotic union with mother and formation of a new type of relationship)
This matrix refers to the third clinical stage of labor. Painful experiences reach their climax, pushing through the birth canal comes to an end, and now extreme tension and suffering are replaced by unexpected relief and relaxation. The period of breath holding and, as a rule, insufficient oxygen supply ends. The baby takes his first deep breath and his airways open up. The umbilical cord is cut, and the blood that previously circulated through the vessels of the umbilical cord is sent to the pulmonary region. The physical separation from the mother is completed and the child begins to exist as an anatomically independent being. Once the physiological balance is established again, the new situation is incomparably better than the previous two, but in some very important respects it is worse than the original undisturbed primal unity with the mother. The biological needs of the child are not met on a continuous basis, and there is no constant protection from temperature changes, annoying noises, changes in light intensity, and from unpleasant tactile sensations.

The fourth perinatal matrix: "Matrix of freedom"

It starts from the moment of birth and its formation ends in either the period of the first 7 days after birth, or in the first month, or it is created and reviewed throughout a person’s life. Those. a person throughout his life reconsiders his attitude to freedom and his own capabilities, taking into account the circumstances of his birth. Different researchers estimate the duration of the formation of the 4th matrix in different ways. If a child is for some reason separated from his mother after birth, then in adulthood he may regard freedom and independence as a burden and dream of returning to the matrix of innocence.

From the moment of birth to 3-9 days - FREEDOM + LOVE

This matrix covers the period from the moment the baby is born to 5-7 days after birth. After hard work and the experience of childbirth, the child is freed, loved and accepted. Ideally, a mother should take the child in her arms, give her breast, the child needs to feel care, love, security and freedom, relief. Unfortunately, in our maternity hospitals, only in recent years have they begun to think about and implement the principles of the non-traumatic fourth matrix. Most of us, unfortunately, subconsciously associate freedom with cold, pain, hunger, loneliness ... I strongly recommend that everyone read Leboyer's book "Birth Without Violence", which describes the experiences of a child in childbirth very vividly.

In connection with the birth experience, we also determine the experience of love in our life. You can love according to the first BPM and the fourth. Love according to the first BPM is reminiscent of placing a loved one in an artificial womb: "I am everything to you, why do you need others - you have me, let's do everything together ..." However, such love always ends, and after a conditional 9 months a person is ready to die but break free. Love in the fourth BPM is a combination of love and freedom, love unconditional, when you love no matter what the other person does and give him the freedom to do whatever he wants. Unfortunately for many of us this is extremely difficult.

There are also other situations associated with childbirth, for example, if the child was expected to be a boy or a girl, and he was born of a different sex, there is a trauma of gender identity ("will I justify the hopes of my parents"). Often these people try to be the other sex. If a premature baby is placed in an incubator, then a barrier between oneself and the world subconsciously arises. In the case of twins, a person needs a feeling that someone is nearby, during childbirth, the second has a trauma of abandonment, that he was betrayed, left him, and the first has guilt that he abandoned, left.

If a mother has had abortions before this child, they are recorded in the psyche of this child. You can experience the fear of violent death and feelings of guilt, the fear of giving yourself freedom (suddenly they will kill you again). Pain relief during childbirth can leave the program that my pain is not felt or intoxicated. It is believed that full breastfeeding for up to a year, good care and love can compensate for negative perinatal matrices (for example, if there was a caesarean section, if the child went to the children's hospital immediately after birth and was separated from mother, etc.)

Probably each stage of biological birth has a specific additional spiritual component. For a serene intrauterine existence, this is the experience of cosmic unity; the onset of labor is parallel to the experience of a sense of all-encompassing absorption; the first clinical stage of labor, contraction in the closed uterine system, corresponds to the experience of "no way out" or hell; pushing through the birth canal in the second clinical stage of labor has its spiritual counterpart in the struggle between death and rebirth; the metaphysical equivalent of the completion of the birth process and the events of the third clinical stage of childbirth is the experience of ego death and rebirth.

The first matrix is ​​of particular importance. The process of its formation is due to the most complex processes of development of the fetus, its nervous system, sensory organs, various motor reactions. It is the first matrix that makes the body of the fetus and the newborn child capable of forming complex mental acts, for example, in the normal position of the fetus, it reflects the biological unity of the fetus and mother. Under ideal conditions, this is how it is, and the formed matrix is ​​manifested by the absence of boundaries of consciousness, "oceanic consciousness" associated "with mother nature", which gives food, security, "bliss". Under the influence of unfavorable factors during the first months and years of life, symptoms may appear, the content of which will be an unconscious danger, "inhospitability of nature", perverted perceptions with a paranoid tinge. It is assumed that if such a person develops a mental disorder already in adulthood, the main symptoms will be paranoid disorders, hypochondria. With various complications during pregnancy (fetal hypoxia, emotional breakdowns in the mother during pregnancy, the threat of abortion
etc.) memories of a "bad bosom", paranoid thinking, unpleasant bodily sensations (trembling and spasms, "hangover" syndrome, disgust, feeling of depression, hallucinations in the form of a meeting with demonic forces, etc.) are formed.

The second matrix is ​​formed over a relatively short period of time (4-5 hours) as contractions intensify. For the first time after a period of "bliss" and security, the fetus begins to experience strong external pressure, aggression. Activation of this matrix under the influence of unfavorable factors during the subsequent life of a person can lead to the detection in the patient's nervous system, i.e. in the memory of situations that threaten the survival or integrity of the human body. There are also possible experiences of being in a closed space, apocalyptic visions of the world, ominously painted in dark colors, a feeling of suffering being driven into a trap, a hopeless situation that does not see an end, a feeling of guilt and inferiority, the meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence, unpleasant bodily manifestations (feeling of oppression and pressure, heart failure, fever and chills, sweating, shortness of breath).

Of course, all provisions about matrices are largely a hypothesis, but the hypothesis received some confirmation in the study of patients who underwent caesarean section. The latter leads to the fact that a child born by caesarean section does not pass the 3rd and 4th matrices. This means that these matrices cannot manifest themselves in the next life. S. Grof, who specifically dealt with this issue, concludes that "having reached the level of birth under hypnosis, those who were born by caesarean section report a feeling of wrongness, as if they were comparing the way they went into this world with some kind of phylogenetic or archetypal matrix, showing how the process of birth should be. It is amazing how they clearly lack the experience of a normal birth - the challenge and stimulus contained in it, the encounter with an obstacle, the triumphant exit from a compressive space. "

Of course, this knowledge served as the basis for the development of special techniques. During childbirth by caesarean section, transpersonal psychologists believe that in order to eliminate the consequences of an unexpected break in contact with the mother, a number of special measures should be taken immediately after birth (lay the child on the stomach, place in slightly warmed water, etc.) and then the newborn develops " psychologically favorable impression of the world.

At the same time, it is known that experienced obstetricians have long sought (in the absence of fetal suffering) during a cesarean section to restrain the rapid removal of the newborn, because this through the reticular formation contributes to the inclusion of the respiratory system, more precisely, the first breath of the newborn.
Recognition of the role of perinatal matrices makes it possible to come to the fundamentally important conclusion that the fetus lives its own mental life in the womb. Of course, the latter is limited by the unconscious mental, but, nevertheless, the fetus can register its own mental processes occurring during childbirth. Knowledge of the pattern of activation of matrices makes it possible to predict the symptoms of the development of the clinical picture under specific conditions of exposure to harmful factors.

Ways of information transfer.

If we recognize that the fetus and newborn have the ability to record information about the perinatal period for life, then the question immediately arises of how this information can be transmitted from the pregnant woman to the fetus and vice versa.

According to modern ideas, there are 3 main ways:

1. Traditional - through the uteroplacental blood flow. Hormones are passed through the placenta, the level of which is partly controlled by emotions. These are, for example, stress hormones, endorphins, and so on.

2. Wave - electromagnetic radiation of organs, tissues, individual cells, etc. in narrow ranges. For example, there is a hypothesis that an ovum, which is in favorable conditions, can accept not any spermatozoon, but only one that matches it in terms of the characteristics of electromagnetic radiation. The zygote (fertilized egg) also notifies the mother's body of its appearance at the wave level, and not at the hormonal level. Also, a sick mother's organ emits "wrong" waves to the fetus, and the corresponding organ in the unborn child can also be pathological.

3. Water - through the aquatic environment of the body. Water can be an energy-informational conductor, and a mother can transmit some information to a fetus simply through the fluid media of the body. The electromagnetic field of a pregnant woman operates in the millimeter range, changes in accordance with environmental changes and plays the role of one of the adaptation mechanisms. The child, in turn, also exchanges information with the mother in the same range.

Interestingly, the problem of surrogate motherhood can be viewed from a completely different angle.

A surrogate mother carrying someone else's (genetically) child for 9 months inevitably influences him informationally and this is partly her child. A gestating child also affects its biological step-mother.

The problem of "unwanted children", i.e. children unwanted for one of the parents or for both, children of the unwanted sex, children with a further violation of social adaptation - this is the bread of a large army of specialists in
civilized countries. "Unwanted" is a very vague concept. Which of the relatives is hindered by the appearance of this child, when, for what reason - always in different ways. How do children in the perinatal period learn about their undesirability? Maybe then all the problems of a person that can no longer be attributed to undesirability are shoved off. Enthusiasts deal with these problems, and all this is nothing more than hypotheses, although they are very beautiful and, one would like to believe, true in some way.

Practical conclusions.

If a child can be influenced by the mother, is it possible to bring him up in utero? Perinatal
Psychology says that it is not only possible, but necessary. For this, there are programs of prenatal (prenatal) education. The main thing is a sufficient amount of positive emotions experienced by the mother. Classically, pregnant women were asked to look at the beautiful, at nature, at the sea, not to get upset over trifles. It is very good if the mother draws, even without knowing how to do it, and conveys her expectations, anxieties and dreams in the drawing. Needlework has a huge positive effect. Positive emotions include the "muscular joy" that a child experiences when his mother does physical education and sports, and during long walks. To perceive all this, the fetus uses its sense organs, which are developed in utero to varying degrees.

Touch.

First of all, the fetus has a sense of touch. At about 7-12 weeks, the fetus can feel tactile stimuli. The newborn also experiences "tactile hunger" and there is the concept of "tactile saturation", which should occur by 7 months if the child is carried enough in the arms, massaged and generally touched. In Holland there is a system called "haptonomy". This is a system of tactile interaction between mother and fetus. You can talk with the child, say kind words to him, ask him his name, pat his stomach and determine the answer by his pushes. These are the forms of the first game. The father can also play with the child.

The auditory and vestibular apparatus of the fetus are formed by 22 weeks of pregnancy. Newborns hear quite well. In the early days, they may be disturbed by fluid in the middle ear cavity - this is amniotic fluid that did not have time to flow out or be absorbed. Some children hear well right away. In utero, children also hear, but they are disturbed by the noise of the mother's intestines, uterine vessels, and the beating of the heart. Therefore, external sounds reach them poorly. But they hear their mother well, because. acoustic vibrations reach them through the mother's body. Newborns will recognize the songs that their mothers sang to them, the beat of the heart and her voice.

There are many specialists all over the world who deal with music and pregnancy. It has been proven that children whose mothers sang during pregnancy have a better character, are easier to learn, more capable of foreign languages, more assiduous. Premature babies who have good music playing in the incubator gain weight better. In addition, singing maters give birth easier, because. their breathing normalizes, they learn to regulate exhalation. In order for the child to hear the father, it is necessary to make a large cardboard mouthpiece, put it on the stomach and speak or sing into it. You can put headphones on the stomach or put them behind the bandage and turn on calm music. But it is impossible to silence a child with music for a long time, because. it's still kind of aggressive. As for what kind of music a child needs and when, there are many versions, and even at the Conservatory prof. Yusfin does it. Some believe that a child needs Mozart and Vivaldi, some - that folk lingering songs and lullabies, some - that popular light music.

The reaction of pupils to light is observed from 24 weeks of pregnancy. Whether the red part of the spectrum passes into the uterus, as some believe, is not very clear. The newborn sees well enough, but does not know how to focus his vision, so he sees everything blurry. It is not exactly clear which objects he sees better - at a distance of 25-30 cm (i.e., the mother's face when the baby is lying at the breast) or 50-70 cm (carousel toy). It is most likely the distance
individually. But the toy should be hung as soon as possible. According to some observations, toys should be black and white, or shiny, or yellow. The idea that the child sees everything upside down does not find support. There is the concept of "bonding" ("attachment", "imprinting") - this is a very important event to restore the first emotional contact of a newborn with his mother after birth. Usually a few minutes after birth, the baby begins to look into the mother's eyes very consciously and look at her face. Often this happens before he took the breast, sometimes an hour or two after birth. Whether he really looks at the features of her face or not is difficult to say, but it is very impressive for everyone.

As always, we have a choice: we can fully live the corresponding stage of life and resolve the burden associated with it, or we can get stuck in it, and then the development of the situation can turn against the child.

First matrix: intrauterine phase (conception and pregnancy)

In the case of a fully lived first matrix, the child feels himself floating freely in a perfect paradise. He is a welcome child and feels himself in the seventh heaven or like in a country with milk rivers and jelly banks. If he lives this time in a negative way, because he is unwanted or is subjected to abortion attempts, he feels like in hell, full of mistrust and despondency and doomedly awaits new meanness from his entourage.
We are talking about a long time span from nidation to a later phase, when the fetus first stumbles upon the boundaries of its previously seemingly limitless world. Ideally, the feeling that arises from this should be a feeling of unity with the whole world. Regressive dreams of a country of milk rivers and jelly shores in later life are connected with this early situation. But never again will a child experience this state in such a pure form like at the beginning of your life. All regressive attempts to return this world end in disappointment and frustration.
Our deep aspirations are directed towards unity, although the divine, sacred world for a person who has grown up in polarity is not on this Earth: you can find access to it only by following the spiritual path. In earthly life, we can experience opposites one by one and must take into account the influence of polarities. If we are looking for total security, then we doom ourselves to feel its spatial boundaries in their oppressive, restrictive crampedness. If we strive for complete freedom, then we also encounter the cold that surrounds us at its height.
There is nothing left for us but to sacrifice this heavenly state of unity in order to advance on the path of life and regain unity for more high level. A variety of spiritual traditions describe transcendental states that allow us to rediscover the beauty of the first phase of our life. external experiences).
People with a positive experience of interaction with the first matrix live, experiencing full-fledged basal trust and taking everything for granted. They are self-confident and seem to be the minions of fate, to whom life gives everything and for whom everything turns out as if by itself. True, such a full-blooded living of the first matrix is ​​fraught with the danger that self-confidence can deprive them of the opportunity to adequately evaluate themselves, especially if they tend to ignore any criticism. Under a lucky star it is difficult for them to see dark clouds, which as a result often form a huge shadow around them.
Such people easily find positive aspects in life changes, but it is more difficult for them to free themselves from the influence of their mother and dependence on her. They can free themselves from many things, but they cling to this hem especially tightly, not least because they have such wonderful experiences with their mother. Their main chance is to grow up through inner liberation from their mother and truly take responsibility for their lives, and not masterfully stage it. Let us recall the heroines of fairy tales and myths, who somehow had to lose their usual paradise in order to later regain it at a higher level. Otherwise, there is a danger that they will remain eternal teenagers or eternal girls.

Second Matrix: Opening Phase

While the first matrix promises heavenly bliss, the second can be compared rather with expulsion from paradise. Having bumped into the boundaries of its space, the fetus feels that the mother's womb fetters and limits it, and the situation becomes more and more tough. His own growth continuously increases this pressure until, in the opening phase, it reaches the first highest point. The incredible pressure also compresses the nourishing blood vessels, which can cause the sensations of coldness and suffocation that are often relived as part of a reincarnation therapy or bonded breathing session. The child is stuck in a dead end. There is no way back to paradise, and the one that opens before him inspires fear, primarily because it is boundless. There seems to be no way out. The light at the end of the tunnel is not visible because the uterine os has not yet opened.
The situation of hopelessness leaves an imprint on people who are stuck in consciousness in the second matrix. They often feel that they are at the limit of their capabilities, they feel the pressure that plunged them into a hopeless state even during the fights, and in everyday life. They do not know what will happen to them next, and a sense of meaninglessness can become decisive in their lives. For part of their lives, they may suffer from fears that are activated in explosive situations that lead from their point of view to a dead end. The consequence is a flight reflex in the direction of the old prosperous world of the first matrix.
In looking for ways to resolve the burden of a pronounced second matrix, it can be helpful to look at the circumstances of birth. specific person. In this phase, the child presses his head more and more into the still unopened uterine os. Pain and suffering become subjectively unbearable, there is no light, no way out. But at some point, it is this pressure that provokes the opening of the uterine os, and a breakthrough into the next phase begins. In the same way, pressure makes sense in life, helping to open gates and doors, especially if we endure it and deal with it consciously - and, of course, do not lose faith that one day this situation will be resolved.
There is an association with the passage of the underworld, without which it is impossible to enter the light. Nevertheless, many people negatively fixed on the second matrix are roasting in hell for most of their lives, because they do not lose faith that it is in the regression that salvation and deliverance awaits them, and they try to escape. Such people should be helped to realize that in the flow of search they forgot about such an important component of it as the ability to find a way out.
If we feel into a typical situation for such a person, we can understand what kind of frustration his attitude to life is imbued with. For example, a person tends to study carelessly until exam time comes; ends relationships just before they threaten to become committed, and then spends a lot of time grieving over unfinished life situations and open questions. People of the second matrix are distinguished not only by low frustration tolerance, but also often face the problem that they want to achieve a lot at the same time in different areas and, as a result, scatter their forces. If they manage to concentrate energy on one goal, they often have enough resources to ensure that efforts are crowned with success.

Third Matrix: Struggle for Birth

After the child has endured a long phase of pressure and hopelessness, the turn of the third phase comes. Pressure, which does not make much sense to resist, stimulates the gradual opening of the uterine os. A second wind opens, new forces are mobilized. As soon as the light dawned on the horizon again - an image that could well owe its appearance to the situation of obstetric care - the situation, although not losing tension, nevertheless becomes not so deadlocked. Hope comes, even if the forces are already completely exhausted.
A child experiences the same thing when he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The actual struggle for birth begins, associated with painful and frightening sensations. Passing through the birth canal, the child at every moment feels oppression, pushing out. His head pushes through blood and feces, but from that moment he can start to fight for life.
Each of the many traumatic moments of this phase can, being unprocessed, resurface years or decades later and for a completely different reason. Fear of open spaces and sexual deviations, such as a tendency to suffocate, arousal in connection with the acts of excretion of feces and urine, suddenly find explanations when the third matrix is ​​taken into account. Since the pain of tightness and the joy of release often go hand in hand in this phase, some describe this time space as the first sexual experience.
People fixed on the third matrix can turn into tireless fighters who do not lose sight of their goal even for a moment. They love change and sometimes disaster. Relentlessness could be one of them. distinguishing features. And if a person with problems in the second matrix in life is accompanied by feelings of fear and meaninglessness, then the prisoners of the third matrix feel obliged to prove to themselves and the world how strong they are in spirit, kind, or how much better they are than others.
In the context of the doctrine of first principles, these people, being Plutonists, are often well acquainted with the god of the kingdom of the dead, because in this phase of exile, children are more closely in contact with death than ever. In general, the third matrix is ​​the most dangerous fragment of the act of birth and is associated with the largest number complications.
If the problem of the people of the second matrix is ​​that they tend to give up and run away, then the third difficulty arises with the completion of the case and relaxation. Death and rebirth are the central theme of their lives, but they are often replaced by continuous external changes, testing their strength in the jump to the next level of development. The ersatz rituals of puberty are associated with this phase, as are all kinds of extreme sports and many other life-threatening attempts to grow up.
The emergence of problems in connection with any phase is always associated with a lack of awareness. Just as an infant had to lose its former paradise and struggle to survive outside its mother's body, so many large children are trying to make the jump into adulthood. However, in the absence of awareness, such a rebirth of a person who is responsible for his actions is simply impossible. Bungee jumps, which African children have successfully performed for hundreds of years due to their ritual coloring, even if repeated a hundred times, will not lead us to the Goal. As a result, the hostages of the third matrix are forced to constantly seek new difficulties and trials for themselves, spurred on by an equally intense as well as mistaken hope that one more pushing of the outer boundaries of fear and pain will finally grant them liberation.
Countless mythological battles with dragons indicate how mindfulness helps a person overcome his own immaturity. Fairytale and mythical monsters symbolize violent, instinctive and selfish forces that must be subdued. Only when these internal battles are won is the way to the princess, a beautiful young woman, and with it to one's own soul opens. The final breakthrough is made, and the baby, like the adult, moves to a new level of life.

Fourth Matrix: Birth, Liberation

At the time of the final liberation, the child had overcome all the burdens, and life in freedom outside the mother's body opened up before him. All constraint is left behind, and the breadth of a new, yet unknown world awaits when new person starts to get to know her. If the previous phases have been lived and suffered consciously, it is possible to leave the past behind and enter the present. At this moment, the opportunity opens up to start everything from scratch. Since everything starts from the beginning in understanding spiritual philosophy, first impressions can have a decisive influence on how a child perceives the world throughout later life.
Frederic Leboyer called our attention to the importance of first impressions in life, but, unfortunately, most of today's adults have not yet had the opportunity to come into the world through childbirth without violence. Blinded by the bright light, hard and suffocatingly forced to take their first breath, many of them have difficulty in how to use the freedom and development opportunities bestowed by the fourth matrix.
In this regard, there is a need to re-live the phases of childbirth that were not completed at the internal level in order to be able to truly free oneself from the sufferings of the past. Many people seek and instinctively find such life situations and experiences that support them in this. And someone “hangs” in the same place and needs therapeutic help in order to enter into this process of liberation from generic models that have eaten away at him all the liver.
At the level of the soul, a step towards freedom means, first of all, taking responsibility for one's life. Only those who recognize the laws of the polar world can take advantage of their potential, that is, that every action carries the opposite aspect. When a person embarks on an independent path of gaining freedom, he receives the freedom to dispose of his life, but loses the security and security of a career as an official or official. On the other hand, every little bit of security marks the loss of freedom. The deeper we dare to plunge into the polarity of life, the wider the range of our opportunities for experience becomes.
Ideally, within the fourth matrix, a person makes a real breakthrough and can enjoy the fruits of their efforts. Such a person realized the opportunity to start the life that really suits him. In all significant breakthroughs, you can see the quality of this matrix.