Beautiful mothers, mothers-to-be and women who plan on someday having a child; I woke up today embraced by the loving energy of Goddesses Yemayá and Òshún asking me to share their plea in calling back women to breastfeed, and also asking women to become aware of the deep and negative spiritual ramifications that comes from being, uninformed about the power of breastfeeding.
A child’s makeup such as its growth, psychological responses, and much more is not only taking place through DNA via the hormones that crosses the placenta. For if you didn’t know, breastmilk also contains hormones. Hormones that design the child’s character, love language, their brain’s functionality and countless of other characteristics. These profound influential hormones shapes a child both, inside the womb and while being breastfed.
In today’s modern society, the use of baby bottles and baby formula is quite normal and little by little, women are being influenced by food industries and its’ propagandas to believe that it’s much better and more socially acceptable to use baby bottles and the vast array of baby formulas out there, than to breastfeed. Yemayá and Òshún though, reminds us of the broken bonds that occurs between mother and child when she opts not to nurse her baby. When a woman holds her child to her bosom, the resting place of emotions and intimate sensitive feelings, and breastfeeds her baby, her most passionate love is conveyed to her newborn. The dependent baby starts to learn what protection is long before it can even learn how to utter his or her first words.
Today’s demanding lifestyles and professional obligations, brings a sense of spiritual death to the bond between the mother and her baby when forced to go back to work and having to get back to the survival rollercoaster ride of life. In many homes where marriage is still present, mothers find themselves separating from her newborn child as early as two months after birth. Let’s not even speak about how much harder it is for single mothers and those who fall under the low-income spectrum. That disconnect that occurs when a child is separated from its mother at such a fragile early stage, is detrimental to his/her spiritual, psychological, mental, and emotional frame. As a spiritual healer, to me, this is trauma. A level of trauma that can last a lifetime, and that subsequently, as other female daughters are born and they too grow and have children of their own, the broken cycle continues as life pressures and demands increases; …thus, giving way for the continuation of such trauma to go on for decades.
Furthermore, Yemayá and Òshún also brings to our attention an equally important matter to be addressed by mothers who still do nurse their child; and that is, being aware of her own spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental state of mind as she breastfeeds. When breastfeeding your baby, it is imperative to keep in mind that this is not just the action of nourishing your child. It is also a spiritual and divine sustenance of love itself that is taking place. But what’s suppose to be the feeding of love, can turn into a deposit of negative emotions when doing so under duress, in a state of anger, depression, heightened levels of anxiety, low self-esteem and so on. It is even advised to be conscious of your environment when breastfeeding. This can mean, being alert to the kind of music you’re listening to, the level of stress you’re feeling, and the negative thoughts and emotions that are flowing through you when nursing your child. Whatever a nursing mother feeds into her mind, body and spirit, is being energetically deposited into her milk. Whatever you influence your milk with, will be fed to your baby.
Remember, when you breastfeed your precious child, it’s done at the seat of your heart chakra or Anahata in its original Sanskrit name. This fourth energy center, sings lyrics of love, compassion, beauty and balance. Let’s make sure, to the best of ones human abilities that, the energy being transmitted to the baby, is that of pure and clean love that helps promote emotional growth, an unbroken sense of protection, and the rhythmic harmony of divine power. In other words, my Spiritual Warriors, when you breastfeed your baby, I want you to let him or her know how much of a king and queen he/she is. Nurse your child with divine love, and most importantly, regardless of what the professionals might say, Yemayá and Oshún says, to breastfeed your baby for as long as you can or for as long as you and your child wishes to do so. The loving mothers Yemayá and Òshún wants to remind women how important this stage of a child’s life is and that no matter how much you can spoil them in years to come, it can never substitute the loving nurturing and unbreakable bond that needs to take place during those fragile years of a child’s early life. The divine Òrísha Mothers wants to bring to your awareness how status, money, power, fancy looking homes, your physical beauty, competition, your quest for recognition and other material things of life, will never make up for the traumatic experience of separating from your newborn too soon and can never take the place of the love language that needs to be experienced during breastfeeding.
With Divine Love,
Spiritual Doctor AFI
The love and blessing are in the breasts.
