What did your hypnoanesthesia look like?
This was tough for me both times. I am very visual and also a bit of a perfectionist. I wanted to know exactly what my hypnoanesthesia would look like and I wanted to throw myself into the visualization but I never really could. I tried many different ideas and even sometimes switched between them during my practice. In the end, it didn't matter - my hypnoanesthesia worked perfectly. I didn't need to master the visualization of it.
That said, I spent some time wondering how other people saw their hypnoanesthesia and here are some of the answers I found:
...My anesthesia is sparkly and blue green, kind of looks like toothpaste! LOL. I just picture it spreading through different parts of my body and taking away discomfort. ...
...My anesthesia floods my body like paint bomb exploding inside a plastic bottle in the shape of my body as soon as I hit my switch....My center anesthesia is lighter in color than my off switch!...
"I feel it starting in my head. It is blue and works through my whole body feeling like cool liquid moving through my blood."
"This is funny, but I have always pictured it as thick maple syrup because it is like a liquid as it spreads, but it stays there."
"I don't see it, I just feel it and know it is there."
"I feel numb. It starts with a slight tingly sensation and then it is numb."
"I see it as a bright color infusing me with light."
"I imagine it moving forward, up and around my baby's head. Starting from low in my pelvis because my baby is head down."
"I imagine a beautiful golden glow around my birthing muscles or wherever I'm sending my anesthesia. Then I feel a warmth in those areas like I have a heating pad on me. I've actually broken into a bit of a sweat during my sessions because I feel so warm at times. My bubble of peace is the color of a vibrant sunset. Lots of pinks and golds. I'm very color oriented it seems. The light will wave, swirl and pulse as it spreads after my finger drop. Sometimes I exhale the light and colors out of my mouth as I drop my finger. Like smoke."
...I've always found something very calming about the blue gel type stuff inside of cold packs. I imagine a blue gel that will come up like a spring from my center and ooze out through the rest of my body. It will be at once cooling and warming like icyhot and fill my body with soft and squishy relaxation....
...I imagine the chakra colors burning brightly inside the area where I'm sending my anesthesia.
...I see pink- usually a bright hot pink light moving around the inside of my body. Sometime I imagine swimming in pink water and the water goes into my body by kind of seeping in through my skin and then overloads the inside of my body with pink water/hypnoanesthesia. Then ill think of my baby having this link light alll around her like a bubble and the hypnoanesthesia radiates off of her all over me and when she will "slide" down during birth she keeps the entire are with anesthesia...
...It changes, but recently I've been imagining it as lots of cool water pouring over me....
...I visulize purple paint. In my visulizations I'm physically painting (with a big house painting type brush) areas of my body with purple paint. I feel the coolness of the paint and see the color of the paint. I'n actually unsure if the amount of "work" that I have to put into "painting" my birthing muscles will be a good thing or a negative thing in my birthing time. I'm hoping with more practice, maybe I can get the purple paint to pour or somehow spread more easily....
...My hypnoanesthia is like liquid gold filling up all the empty spots in my body and around the baby...
... Sometimes it's a bright teal green that swirls around my belly area. Sometimes it flows like water down my body. Sometimes it's a shimmery disney like fairy dust....
"Bright blue and glowing, like the stripe on a neon tetra fish."
"I didn't have anesthesia. My HB experience was much more geared to how calm I stayed - even the nurses commented almost every time they came in. Labor was 32 hrs long, so it was a lot. I had back labor that was very intense."
"For practice it started out like grey paint, then got white and sparkling like snow. My doula suggested I incorporate colors from my safe place, do I started picturing additional anesthesia radiating from my baby which was bright red and orange."
"If I remember correctly (I'm repeating Hypnobabies for my 3rd baby & have changed some things from last time) it was the color purple. Not sure why though."
"Blue cold liquid that lined my uterus."
"a blue light"
"Green light, that felt like sun shine on my skin."
"My hypnoanesthesia was a bright and blurry periwinkle light."
"It was a white mist or fog. When I directed the hypnoanesthesia to a particular spot, it would concentrate into solid white."
"I never visualized it as a color, warmth, etc."
"Like a bubble of white light."
"Not visual, for me it was a tingly sensation"
"Either amber colored or silver, depending on the birth"
"Yellow light
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