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Contents<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 1. The fetal phase, the foundation for your later years<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 2. Becoming aware <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 3. Development of Body, Mind and Soul <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 4. Dimensions or possibilities of consciousness <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 5. Development disorders<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 6. The underwater world, diving, descending and emerging <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 7. Urges and compulsive behaviour, where do they come from? <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 8. Nourishment and protection, necessary for growth<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 9. Your daily existence as a mirror for your fetal past<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 10. Sports<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 11. Birth traumas and regressed behaviour <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 12. Present day politics, more fetal than ever<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 13. The relationship beteween the fetal period and neuroses and psychoses <\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 14.  <\/span>Sexuality, determined by our fetal development<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 15.  <\/span>Pushing through barriers<\/span> together is to reach unbridled freedom<\/span><\/p>\n

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Foreword<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The wind is a force of nature that can shape entire landscapes. Think about the patterns in the sand at the beach that constantly change, or dunes in the desert that are carried from one place to the next. An external force moves them passively. <\/span><\/p>\n

External influences often determine the course of<\/span> our lives. We react to these influences because they are forces stronger than our consciousness or our groundedness. The question is: are we allowing our being to be determined by these external forces unconsciously or is it this force from outside, the wind, that makes our being itself conscious?<\/span><\/p>\n

Making use of your identity and developing it further is, after all, the purpose of our existence. <\/span><\/p>\n

I would call growth an awakening. There is a large difference between training a skill and growth. Growth is about waking up, our becoming aware of ourselves. A skill is a tool needed to survive in the times in which you live. Each time period and each place on Earth demands different tools for survival. <\/span><\/p>\n

When your consciousness is growing strong and you have developed a skill set that enables you to maintain yourself wherever you live, then you become a pillar of strength instead of a ball being tossed about in the waves, or a balloon that is carried off by the wind. <\/span><\/p>\n

The feeling you get when you drive a car or sit in a plane for the first time; that is a feeling I would call a growth in your consciousness. The ability to accurately maneuver a car or plane is what I would call a skill. In nature, you begin by becoming more conscious of something before you can make it into a skill. <\/span><\/p>\n

Consider, for example, the master craftsman of long ago. For years, the apprentice was only allowed to clean the workshop and develop a feeling for the work that was done there. He was allowed to feel what the master did. Whether it was painting or sculpting, it didn\u2019t matter. Sensing what was happening came first. Much like the Tibetans, one had to first feel and experience the knowledge. Only then could he read about it and make it into a skill. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the current times, a skill such as practicing a profession or working with a computer is often considered to be more important than the growth of an individual. Yet in the hasty pursuit of one new skill after another \u2013 a new kind of driving license, yet another diploma \u2013 are we not unconsciously running away from our growth? There is a deep-rooted unconscious fear of feeling. <\/span><\/p>\n

When you are not conscious, the wind can lead you anywhere. Yet the power of the wind can also make you aware of the power of your own being. <\/span><\/p>\n

Niek Brouw<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chapter 1. The fetal phase, the foundation for your later years<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Having freedom or not having freedom. The difference is an unconscious reaction or a response to an external stimulus. Why is it that you never reach your goal? Shall we break this down in an attempt to make it more tangible? Let\u2019s try getting back to our inner foundation so that we may all flourish in who we are, instead of continuing to live on auto-pilot, allowing our lives to be determined by the social norms and dogmas of the outside world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here I am once again, not 3,000 kilometers from home like I was when writing my last book, but here at the home front, writing about a subject matter that I have been working with for a long time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Long before I knew I would become a doctor, I often wondered what actually happens in the period before we become conscious. What happens to us in the first weeks as an embryo in the womb, the months after that as a fetus, and the first couple of years after birth when the consciousness has not yet developed? <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last fifteen years, I have researched this intensively in order to uncover all that can happen and what I believe can be the influence of this on our later life. It is an unconscious period that is actually timeless. If we ask ourselves how long that period lasted, not one of us can come up with an answer. It was a period of primitive consciousness or the subconscious. It was timeless. <\/span><\/p>\n

My research led to the conclusion that, already from the time that we were in the womb, we received all kinds of input from the outside world that determine how we will react later on in life. For example, if we will be spontaneous or a know-it-all, or hyper sensitive. And also how important that will be for the rest of our postnatal lives, our life after birth. At the time, I was already interested in the collective conscious and the research of Jung in this area<\/span> \u2013 the invisible influence we also react to. Sometimes you see behaviours emerging among the masses, while the individual people are unaware. This behaviour is based on a collective conscious, such as when the Netherlands wins a football game. This sends out a wave of vibration that can be felt throughout the country. Even if you have no idea that there is a football game going on, you will notice that there is something different in the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

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These vibrations are not visible and difficult to describe, but still they have a significant influence on the behaviour of a mass of people. When May comes around, with good weather and the cafes have opened their terraces, you will see that the people in the streets walk a little differently and they are in a better mood; everyone can be happy again. And when it is cold outside, people stiffen a little and they shrink back into their coat collars. So the cheerful, nice-weather feeling is generated externally and changes once the weather becomes grey and overcast. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in The Hague, in November 1943. I was just one and a half years old when World War II came to an end in the Netherlands and so I did not consciously experience the war. So how is it possible that, from when I was two and a half to when I was four, I regularly dreamt about the Germans in helmets? They were already long gone, so I did not consciously see<\/i> them. Yet in my dreams, I saw exactly how the soldiers looked. How could I have noticed that? This was something that baffled me, already at that young age. My family never spoke of the war at home. After all, hadn\u2019t we been liberated? Hadn\u2019t we already begun rebuilding the Netherlands? There were no pictures of soldiers. And still, I had those dreams. <\/span><\/p>\n

Much later, when I was nineteen years old, I had to be screened for military service. It was then, that I heard from a psychologist working in the psycho-technical department of the navy, that many people born in 1943 didn\u2019t make it through the screening for military service due to their high sensitivity. My sensitivity, too, had tested above the average, certainly for that time, and certainly for boys. Boys were expected to be everything but sensitive. In that time, a man had to be tough. He had to lead in the outside world and was not allowed to be sentimental. He was not to cry. In that time, emotions \u2013 in the collectively determined conscious of the Netherlands \u2013 were left to the women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So why then is this group of men so sensitive? Could that have anything to do with their time in the womb? <\/span><\/p>\n

My father who was a headmaster would often declare: \u2018this is an awful class\u2019 or \u2018that is a cheerful class\u2019, \u2018this one is a sensitive class\u2019 or \u2018that one is a do-your-best class\u2019. That remained so and did not change throughout the elementary school years. So it was not just a yearly phase that each class went through. <\/span><\/p>\n

At elementary school, you are able to see the differences per year much more objectively than at secondary school. By the time they get to secondary school, more students have had to repeat a year and the groups are no longer as homogenous. At elementary school, a group will generally stay together during the six years and take on a particular pattern of reacting. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the town where I grew up, there was no kindergarten. All of the children up to six and seven years of age were unique, free-spirited individuals. Once they became socially captive \u2013 in other words, the first time they went to school \u2013 you could see a collective behaviour developing. You see the same pattern at the university level, where students from different regions come together and begin to show signs of collective behaviour (this is also observed in, for example, each draft year of the military service, first aid training programs, etcetera). <\/span><\/p>\n

So it is not dependent on the characteristics of a single person, such as in astrology, but on the collective behaviour of a class, an age category, or a year group. Anyone who works in a school or with another form of educating people will be able to confirm that some groups are more approachable than others, or lazier, or more dreamy, or less motivated. <\/span><\/p>\n

When I encounter people who were born in the late forties to early fifties, and women in particular, I notice that they have a strong tendency (more than normal) to help everyone around them and put their own needs last. \u2018Others always go first and \u2013 if there is time \u2013 then me.\u2019 These women are very good at organising the lives of others. But can they do this for themselves just as well? Why does this behaviour typically occur among people born in this period? It doesn\u2019t make sense, does it? This type of behaviour was no longer necessary in the time that the Netherlands was rebuilding and enjoying prosperity and better nourishment. <\/span><\/p>\n

Do we observe the same differences between year groups of the children today? It seems that this is not so much determined by the upbringing of an individual, but much more by a collective behaviour of a particular age group. Yet this goes against all logic, since the external world (upbringing, social context) does not change that quickly; it does not change in the period of one year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So there are differences between year groups, of which the cause lies much deeper than you would expect when looking at the external factors surrounding any one child. You see a collective behaviour emerging that doesn\u2019t seem to match the individualism of the Western world in which your own performance, your own report card and your own diploma are what determine your standing in society. In reality, we see people who are alone and who do not work together, <\/i>who do not live together. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Their conscious being is being alone. Despite this, there can be an unconscious feeling of togetherness<\/i> that could be translated to a collective conscious, a fetal conscious. This typically does not translate to a postnatal consciousness of togetherness (after all, it is said that \u2018you are born alone and you die alone\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

While nowadays we have more possibilities of experiencing togetherness<\/i> (such as by watching television and receiving input from around the world) and you would expect that we would have a greater consciousness of togetherness<\/i>, instead we notice that people in the Western world live an increasingly individualistic lifestyle. Could the cause for this be traced back to the period in the womb? The illogical versus the logical? The reality of the consciousness or the reality of the subconsciousness? <\/span><\/p>\n

In former New Guinea, when I went to visit the Papuans in what was then called West Irian, I noticed that the children in such a tribe are connected to everyone. How was that possible? To them, it didn\u2019t matter from which breast they suckled or whether or not there was any breast milk. If it gave them peace and quiet, they would even suckle with grandma. And so they would be passed from lap to lap, from breast to breast, without the restriction of the norm of belonging to a single mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is interesting to know that for the Papuan tribe \u2013 with which I had the honour of spending the day \u2013 the men and women sleep in separate houses. All of the women sleep together in one room, as do the men. If a woman is pregnant, then this is experienced with the group, in togetherness with all of the other women who are there. Does that perhaps already have an influence on the fetus? That this tiny little creature in the belly already feels it, this feeling of togetherness? <\/i>In the smaller families of today, this is done very differently. The smaller the family is, the less there is a feeling of connectedness with the group and the more you are dependent on yourself. Your individuality provides more security than togetherness <\/i>does. <\/i>In the larger families of the earlier days, as well as in the larger families you sometimes still see today, people worked together and thus depended on each other. This connectedness was necessary to run the family business, to survive and to grow. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 1920, about 70 percent of Americans was a farmer. They had a large family that usually included also the grandparents and aunts and uncles. There were many adults to share the responsibilities, creating more of a feeling of togetherness. <\/i>This is completely different in small families where grandparents and aunts and uncles are often no longer included because, according to society, they must lead their own individual lives. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was interested to know why that was and what it was that caused the difference. <\/span><\/p>\n

Why are so many people unhappy, isolated, alone and seemingly unable to reach their potential? Given their circumstances, it would make sense that they were happy and that their personalities were flourishing. This was a mystery that I was fascinated to solve.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Could the culprit be found in the period in the womb, with all of the input we receive during that time? For the Papuans, a feeling of togetherness <\/i>is very important; living together. <\/i>The piglets, the game of the hunt, the harvest, all of it is for everyone and is shared fairly. Could it be that the fetus in the womb can feel the connectedness of being together <\/i>with all the women in the womens\u2019 house? Going together to the field, doing everything together. Could all of this sink in and have an impact on you in the period, around the time of your third or fourth birthday, before you become conscious of life?<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, the individuality of the people in New Guinea was very clear, yet beneath that you could feel their connectedness to the others in the tribe. As far as I could tell, that connectedness is very important for the development of each individual into his or her unique self. The advantage for these people is that they are very good at making contact with others on a feeling level in the outside world and can move around easily in society. <\/span><\/p>\n

A study revealed that Ugandan newborns are further developed than American newborns (see J.C. Pearce Magical Child)<\/i>. When they are born healthy, Ugandan babies laugh already after two or three days, while babies in the United States typically laugh only after four to six weeks. Pregnancy in the United States is usually planned and therefore an American baby already has a social function. I consider the laughter of the American baby to be a form of learned behaviour.<\/span> The emotional bond with a newborn is less here than in cultures of unplanned babies and so I see this delayed laughter as an insufficient emotional bond between mother and baby. A baby laughs when it feels safe in its inner world, Westerners laugh in order to feel safe in the outside world (since they don\u2019t feel safe in their inner world).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ugandan children already form a part of the tribe from the time that they are in the womb. From that time, there is already a feeling of belonging. Everything is done together: the pregnancy does not take place in isolation, working is not done in isolation, eating is not done in isolation, and living in general is not done in isolation. The children are free to express their true nature. Perhaps that is what they feel in the womb, the freedom to be. <\/i>As free little people in nature, Ugandan children have a better foundation than Western children. <\/span><\/p>\n

My personal experience with regression hypnosis confirms the information described above, that children have registered much more of their environment than they realise. I do not refer here to the popular regression hypnosis for revisiting previous lives, but instead for revisiting earlier stages of life, as far back as the time in the womb. <\/span><\/p>\n

So how does becoming aware work for a tiny baby in the womb? What are the consequences of this for the rest of its life? What are the consequences for a group that is born in a particular period, such as in the middle of the war during a famine in winter? How about the little children of the wartime of former Yugoslavia, or the children in the womb of their mothers in Rwanda, who felt the stress and anxiety of the battles around them? <\/span><\/p>\n

And what is the influence of drugs, for example, on the fetus? The children of crack mothers or alcoholics display behaviour that goes against all logic and they find it very difficult to make contact with the real world. In the United States, a film was made about the fetal alcohol syndrome and the serious consequences this has on the postnatal life of a child.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All of this was very interesting to me and I wanted to find out how such influences worked. How it that our development in the womb already starts off in a certain direction, even though we are not yet able to make a conscious choice in the matter? After all, a person can only make a choice when he has become conscious. If you are not yet a conscious being, everything just comes at you and you have no defense against it. Through the umbilical cord, for example, you could be getting adrenaline from your mother when she is afraid or tense, or frightened by something. Or other types of input: the mother might not give in to the demands that pregnancy has on her daily functioning, wanting to put on a brave face and work until the end. Or perhaps she sees her pregnancy as just another aspect of her normal life, ignoring the hormonal, emotional and physical changes that come with pregnancy because she finds her social life more important. <\/span><\/p>\n

All of these and other forms of input have, in my opinion, a significant influence on the rest of your life. In the womb, you are subjected to all kinds of input without any defenses against them. There has been relatively little research done on this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the research that is currently being done into the influence of such input on a fetus, the question arises whether this is done out of interest, out of a healthy curiosity, or as an experiment to determine the influence of the outside world. Is it a useful and healthy research? Or is this research \u2013 as often happens \u2013 colored by the pathology, the development disorder, or the researcher? <\/span><\/p>\n

In a study in the United States (J.C.Pierce The Magical Child), <\/i>a particular music was played repeatedly for fetuses in the womb. After birth, when the same music was played for the babies, they appeared to recognize it. Personally, I am not a fan of this type of research since I find it to be a lot like the tests that Pavlov carried out with dogs. Each time before giving them food, he rang a bell and after some time the dogs would begin to salivate as a reflex to the sound of the bell. A natural reaction is taken away and, in its place, an unnatural signal is made to call up an automatic reaction of<\/span> recognition. What effect will this have for children who are already conditioned, who are already trained from the time they are fetuses?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I myself believe that it is very important that the period in the womb form a solid foundation on which you can build your postnatal house and, from about three years of age when you start becoming conscious of life, your personality. With a sound foundation, you can be certain of having solid ground beneath your feet and that you can build something beautiful. This forms the root of your existence.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

If there was a physical or mental deficiency during the pregnancy, then the individual is not well grounded. Or, even worse, perhaps you were chemically overstimulated via the umbilical cord, or mentally overstimulated because your parents experienced extreme conditions in the outside world, such as war, a divorce, or the death of a loved one. Since the natural reaction to too much input is to close yourself off, such overstimulation may have prevented you from getting the nourishment you needed to establish a solid foundation within yourself. Without a solid foundation, without proper roots, how can you grow into a sturdy oak tree, a strong tree that flowers and bears fruit?<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of us have the potential to bear good fruit, to generate beautiful creations in life, and yet we never manage to do so. Always, just before you say \u2018now I am ready to blossom\u2019, something gets in the way and your plans wither. The same happens with plants. They wither when they bloom too often or are just about to bloom, but have not properly taken root. The way I see it, this is because of the foundation laid out in the time in the womb. We wither when our root system, our groundedness, is malnourished and has not been able to develop enough power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our consciousness in the womb, <\/b>or rather our subconsciousness<\/b>, is the foundation for the remainder of our lives and it determines the logic and illogic \u2013 or the battle between the two \u2013 later on in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The consciousness <\/b>develops logically. We are able to think and we are able to make choices. Still, there are things that occur automatically and not by using logic. For example, we can cause pain within ourselves and for the ones we love. It overcomes us time and time again, those two worlds, the logic against the illogic; we don\u2019t want it to, but still it happens. Suddenly we find ourselves in the middle of arguments we don\u2019t want to be in, wars we don\u2019t want to wage. Yet still it happens, against all of our better judgment. We can\u2019t seem to stop these types of situations from taking place. <\/span><\/p>\n

Personally, I think that the root of this behaviour lies in the period we were still in the womb. The illogical behaviour is based on a memory, the same way that any behaviour is based on a memory. My goal is to restore the fetal foundation in people so that there is no room for a negative or incomplete memory. It is already very helpful when you can make someone aware of such a memory. <\/span><\/p>\n

When the normal flow of life becomes stagnant, we often display regressed behaviour that is based on old memories. This behaviour is completely different than before the stagnation. Stagnation has many faces. For example: you lose your job, or you begin retirement, or you have to move to a new home, or your partner leaves you, or your welfare payments stop. Stagnation can come very suddenly, after which you first go into an illogical, automatic behaviour, on automatic pilot. You can no longer logically structure your life. It often takes a while before you have all of your ducks in a row again. You pull back from the flow of life and feel paralyzed in the outside world. Then, just like when you were in the womb, you are no longer participating in the world around you. The behaviour you display here is based on your very own unconscious memories. By experiencing this consciously, you will be able to connect with the period you were in the womb. <\/span><\/p>\n

For the remainder of the book, the following is very important: you were never inside<\/i><\/span> <\/i>your mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The vagina, the cervix and the fallopian tubes are in open contact with the outside world, much like the digestive system that runs from the mouth down to the anus. Everything that passes through the digestive system is not in your body, not in your cells. You carry it around with you, but it isn\u2019t in <\/i>you. In the same way, the mother carries her baby, not in her cells, but in a cavity within her that is in open contact with the outside world. She carries you, but you are not in <\/i>her, so you do not belong to her. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient philosophies, ancient religions such as Hinduism proclaim: \u2018a child is its own entity\u2019, which makes sense. Even the egg that comes together with the sperm during conception is entirely separate from the mother. The moment the egg is secreted from the ovary, it becomes separated from the mother. The same happens with the secretion of the sperm cell: it becomes at that moment separated from the father. Nowadays, it is also possible for fertilisation to take place outside of the womb (in vitro). Therefore, fertilisation does not necessarily have to take place inside of the mother. <\/span><\/p>\n

The fertilised egg cell is completely autonomous. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many mothers will say to their child: \u2018I was pregnant with you and you are part of me\u2019. This is not an accurate statement (and this is very important): from the moment of conception you were already in the outside world; never have you actually been in the cells, in the consciousness of another person!<\/span><\/p>\n

That your mother developed an umbilical cord for you and shared blood with you does not mean that your mother can claim you. A child is its own entity from the moment of conception. It only needed the environment of the womb to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chapter 15. Pushing through barriers together is to reach unbridled freedom <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

While reading this book, you have no doubt already recognised things about yourself. What do you need to change in those areas? <\/span><\/p>\n

The fetal aspects that had did not have much chance to fully develop in the womb can still be addressed now by diving into those aspects \u2013 the aspects in which we are vulnerable and less mature \u2013 and by being open about them with another, with a fellow human being. You must first make these aspects visible to the other person so that they can develop. Then you can rebuild an emotional connection with the hiatus that was created in a particular week or month of the pregnancy. Such a hiatus can even be related to the entire period in the womb.<\/span><\/p>\n

If your 6-9 month period in the womb was a bad period, whether you were born prematurely or went hungry in that period, then you are more likely to experience later on in your postnatal life that you make optimal use of your analytical brain, so for quick thinking. This is the part of the brain you use first to analytically feel into a situation, to experience it, and to camoflauge the hiatus in this way. <\/span><\/p>\n

An individual with a poor experience of the 0-3 month period is often skilled in quickly getting a feel for a situation. In certain circumstances, he will make less use of his analytical brain and will more spontaneously show an empathic reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those with an analytical brain will need to vocalise this to those with a capacity for empathy and vice versa. Ask each other \u2018Why?\u2019 so that the other will need to give structure to this information. Dare to go outside of your comfort zone here! In this way we help each other to become conscious of the period in which the hiatus occurred. <\/span><\/p>\n

When there is a hiatus in the development and we become aware of that, we also become aware of the pain from that period; that is intimidating, it\u2019s scary. It is difficult to confront this on your own in the here and now. That is why we need to push beyond our boundaries together to reach an unbridled freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 \u2018food\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

Objectively noticing always presents a possibility for nourishment for your growth (see my earlier book Love, Agression, Depression<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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 \u2018space out\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From my wife, Martine, I learned that diving (in the underwater world) is another way to re-experience the fetal world, for encountering it and restoring it. The underwater world, whether diving or snorkeling, can give you a fetal consciousness. Through repetition and continuous careful observation and sensing what you experience in that timeless world under water, you can become aware of the hiatus from the period when you were in the womb. <\/span><\/p>\n

In my practice, I work with psychomotoric exercises, using particular body positions to recreate the various periods in the womb and discover the energy of each to restore a piece of your development. I have trained many people to work with this method. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can use the exercises to reach a diagnosis, but also as a form of therapy to further develop a hiatus that was revealed in a safe and familiar environment. Since the time you were in the womb was a period in your life that was not safe and natural, this method enables you to begin restoration, but under safe circumstances. You do so under the guidance of a therapist so that you can once again have a solid foundation in your life. <\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, I give workshops for the targeted healing of hiatuses originating in the fetal phase and thus also for the restoration of the foundation. <\/span><\/p>\n

We will ultimately need to push beyond our boundaries in order to restore these pieces that have been continuously neglected, while it is exactly these pieces that are needed to form the basis for the development of a human possibility. Pushing beyond our boundaries together is far more productive than doing it alone. Still, there are things that we must do alone. During pregnancy and birth, for example, both mother and fetus are focused on their individual processes. There is a certain distance maintained during development, and that is not a bad thing. You can go through this together, but the process is yours alone. <\/span><\/p>\n

To push through boundaries together, you will need a certain curiosity. Curiosity is a healthy characteristic to overcome your fears. Fear causes you to be reserved and becomes an obstacle to progressing further. It stunts your growth. Curiosity is often a driving force for discovering new horizons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The intention of this book lies in our past, in our fetal consciousness, discovering the new horizon. And there is so much more to discover! Aren\u2019t you curious to discover the beauty of your true nature and the many possibilities of becoming whole? Your children, your loved ones, are waiting already for years for these to become visible. <\/span><\/p>\n

By continuing to hide your wholeness, your true nature, and camouflaging it with fear, you are a thief of your own self, and you are also a thief to your loved ones. You are, in fact, hiding the most beautiful aspects of yourself and not allowing these to be seen. <\/span><\/p>\n

Only a thief has something to hide.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wind is a force of nature that can shape entire landscapes. Think about the patterns in the sand at the beach that constantly change, or dunes in the desert that are carried from one place to the next. An external force moves them passively.<\/p>\n

External influences often determine the course of our lives. We react to these influences because they are forces stronger than our consciousness or our groundedness. The question is: are we allowing our being to be determined by these external forces unconsciously or is it this force from outside, the wind, that makes our being itself conscious?<\/p>\n

Making use of your identity and developing it further is, after all, the purpose of our existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59,"parent":16,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tmp-book.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-772","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVerbergen doet alleen een dief ["Only a thief has something to hide"] - Stichting Ontwikkelingsmotoriek Niek Brouw<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/niekbrouw.nl\/en\/literature-audio\/only-a-thief-has-something-to-hide\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/niekbrouw.nl\/en\/literature-audio\/only-a-thief-has-something-to-hide\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Verbergen doet alleen een dief ["Only a thief has something to hide"] - Stichting Ontwikkelingsmotoriek Niek Brouw\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The wind is a force of nature that can shape entire landscapes. 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