The Missing Critical Factor (Part 1)

As you’ve navigated your journey to get pregnant and have a healthy baby, you’ve discovered it isn’t enough just to have an egg and a sperm like you were taught in Sex Ed class. 

Many factors underlie your ability to conceive: the egg and sperm need to be good quality. You need a healthy uterus that is free from obstructions like fibroids, plush lining and clear tubes. 

And that’s just your reproductive system. 

Your reproductive system is only one part of the bigger picture. In order to have conception, your body needs to maintain the delicate balance between many internal systems including your endocrine, immune and neurological systems. They all need to be communicating with each other to create the window of opportunity for conception to happen. 

These are the factors that most doctors take into consideration – and they are ALL important. 

And yet, doesn’t there seem to be a missing critical factor? If these were the only factors to consider, wouldn’t assisted reproductive technology success rates be higher? Wouldn’t you already be pregnant? 

Here’s the missing critical factor: You must focus outside the reproductive system in order to make changes TO your reproductive system 

Just as your body is made up of many different systems on the inside, your body itself is part of a bigger system: the Mind/Body/Spirit Continuum. The body is obviously integral – this is where pregnancy occurs. And yet, the Mind and the Spirit components are also absolutely essential for conceiving. 

But, these are most often left out of standard treatment protocols. 

Your Mind and Spirit play a huge role in the ability to conceive. Your Mind and your Spirit create physical changes in your body starting at the level of your cells. 

If you only walk away with one idea from the work that I dot, this is what I want you to know: Your thoughts, emotions and beliefs have an impact on every single cell in your body. This includes those cells responsible for conception. 

When you change your thoughts, emotions and beliefs, you change your body. You change your fertility. You enrich yourself and your fertility. 

I will share the “how” in parts 2 and 3.