Such kind of hiatus has to do with a kind of hunger. There was a lack of nourishment. Whether the missing nourishment was safety, warmth, or actual food, or that this ‘food’ was not ingested because of overstimulation, such a hiatus is hungry. Due to circumstances, living with this hunger and keeping such a hiatus malnourished is often a norm that we have learned to uphold. It is also not possible to nourish the hiatus when it has not been revealed. It was vulnerable and, because of the shock at the time, we still think of it that way. We can only nourish each other in these areas by sharing that part of you that is well developed with someone else who is less developed in that same part and vice versa. This must be done with mutual respect for each other and the acceptance that not everyone is the same. This is a possibility that leads to consciousness: investigating together the fetal aspect that was not yet developed and could not form a foundation on which to build.

Meditation is another possibility to access a particular fetal consciousness. If you open yourself up to the outside world, so not only focusing on your inner world, then you will experience the surroundings in much the same way you sense a landscape as you walk through it. That way of sensing the surroundings, without exactly knowing what it is, is in fact in itself nourishment for your fetal aspects. You passively take in input from the environment and that is then an exercise in observation of a fetal aspect that was dormant.

Objectively noticing always presents a possibility for nourishment for your growth (see my earlier book Love, Agression, Depression).

Qi gong, which has become very popular again today, also promotes such an invisible noticing from the subconscious. That consciousness does not come about by means of your normal senses, but much more through an energetic exchange that, when you engage in this process, both you and others can become aware of it. The same applies when practicing Tai Chi. With certain forms of relaxation yoga you are able to ‘space out’ and feel into the experience. In doing so find peace within yourself and your environment. All of these are possibilities to properly observe and restore aspects that were neglected in your development.