Womb Memories Part 2
A third trimester example showing the validity of womb trauma
In part 1, we looked at whether womb memories were even possible. In part 2 , we ask the question, “How do you know that recovered womb trauma memories are genuine? In fact that any recovered memory is genuine?”
For a memory to be considered genuine, the person has to feel in her body physically and experience emotionally what she is seeing in her mind. If it is mind alone, there is a possibility that the memory could be false. You can’t fake physical pain in your body that corresponds to what you are seeing in your mind.
Why does my physical body relive what happened decades ago?
Only a Christian worldview offers an adequate explanation. Every event in your life is a spirit, soul and body experience. A totally integrated experience; because you are a trinity of these three components. You are created in God’s image: at the primary level you can’t separate one from the other and yet at another level they can exist as tightly bound duets and at still a third level, they can exist separately.
[For detailed explanation of how our spirit, soul and body reflect the trinitarian nature of God, making humans unique from the rest of God’s creation, read the chapter “Me, myself and I” in our book “Dissociation: The Forgotten Factor in Healing” by Peter Toth, available on our website and available on Amazon everywhere as an e book or paperback.]
To an extent this is self evident. You can’t think back and dwell on a deeply traumatic event for any length of time, an event you can recall – such as the death of a loved one – without, once again, feeling sadness, grief and loss and even heartache; your heart physically aching. It is a spirit, soul and body experience.
Here is a detailed third trimester example:
A woman complains of a sore middle back that aches acutely from time to time. She is 40 and it has been an issue for the last three decades.
Talking to dissociative parts related to the source of the pain, we arrive at a memory where she tightly constricted and it is dark. She senses she is in the womb late in the third trimester. She feels anxious because her mother is emotionally upset with her father. Her mother is driving the car and there is a sense of foreboding she feeling in the womb.
All of a sudden there is a crash and the client experiences a sharp pain across the middle of her back. Her distracted mother has failed to brake in time and rear-ended the car in front. The steering wheel hit her mother hard in the middle of her very pregnant belly.
In late pregnancy the head of the baby is normally engaged against the cervix and the back of the baby is facing the front of the belly with only a thin layer of skin for protection. The pain the client was experiencing right then, was quite strong and completely in context with what she was sensing in the trauma.
This memory was totally a surprise. She checked with her mother who confirmed, embarrassingly, that this incident had occurred as she described. Her daughter’s emotional evaluation of what was happening with her mother was also accurate.
After the daughter had found where Jesus was in the memory, and she forgave her mother, breaking soul ties and asking Jesus to lift off any residue pain, she was totally healed.
The client also now realised why she frequently felt slightly uneasy and hypervigilant as a passenger when her mother was driving, even though her mother was a good driver, without further accidents.
This is a clear example of a baby in the womb’s ability to accurately access the spiritual and emotional environment around her, and her own responses to that environment, as well as experiencing the physical pain. In addition, it shows decision making ability. In this case, a vow that “I am not safe in the car when my mother is driving so I will always be extra alert. I can’t relax.”
Once the vow was repented of, being a passenger with her mother was a pleasant experience. More about womb vows in Womb Memories Part 5.
In part 3, next month, we will look at the most common womb experiences.