{"id":23346,"date":"2017-05-29T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/?p=23346"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:24:34","slug":"choosing-birth-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/choosing-birth-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing your birth colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/find-a-practitioner\/\">Hypnobirthing Australia<\/a> classes, we encourage mothers to choose an anchor\u00a0&#8216;colour&#8217; for deep relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>Some mothers choose one whilst listening to their <a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/shop\/\">hypnobirthing albums<\/a>\u00a0and some\u00a0find that\u00a0they have <em>already<\/em> been attracted to a particular colour throughout their pregnancy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23347\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/choosing-birth-colour\/img_8389\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23347\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23347 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-450x726.jpg 450w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-768x1238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389-610x983.jpg 610w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8389.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hypnomum Jade at Paddington, Brisbane hypnobirthing classes on the weekend. She has already chosen her birth colour. Can you guess what it is?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I mentioned this in the class that I ran over the weekend, hypnomum Jade said that\u00a0she\u00a0had already &#8216;chosen&#8217; a colour without realising it! Can you guess the anchor\u00a0colour that she is attracted to (see attached photo)???? ?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ways that we use our colour anchor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can visualise the colour enveloping\u00a0us in deep\u00a0relaxation during labour<\/li>\n<li>We can take or wear something of that colour during\u00a0birth<\/li>\n<li>When breathing, we\u00a0can visualise filling an inner balloon (in our birth colour)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You learn more about this technique and others at our Hypnobirthing Australia classes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/find-a-practitioner\/\">Click here<\/a> to find your nearest class!<\/p>\n<p>Melissa x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Hypnobirthing Australia classes, we encourage mothers to choose an anchor\u00a0&#8216;colour&#8217; for deep relaxation. Some mothers choose one whilst listening to their hypnobirthing albums\u00a0and some\u00a0find that\u00a0they have already been attracted to a particular colour throughout their pregnancy. When I mentioned this in the class that I ran over the weekend, hypnomum Jade said that\u00a0she\u00a0had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Choosing your birth colour - Hypnobirthing Australia\u2122<\/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:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/choosing-birth-colour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have you chosen your anchor colour for birth?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hypnomum Jade has. 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