This guided Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming audio series is designed to help expecting mothers prepare for birth with more calm and confidence. It focuses on breathing, relaxation and building familiarity with calm responses, so you can practise them before labour begins. It is designed to work alongside the care of your midwife, obstetrician or GP, and you should keep following their advice. Individual experiences vary and no outcome can be promised.
This session is designed to help you practise building calm using breath, gentle touch and focused connection. You’ll practise three anchors, thumb and finger, hand on belly and your partner’s touch, that you can use as reminders to settle and relax. Many people find that rehearsing calm ahead of time helps them feel more prepared for labour, though individual experiences vary.
This session is designed to help you practise a calm, focused response to physical sensations, using imagery such as a “control dial” that you turn up towards calm. You’ll practise thinking about contractions as part of labour’s progress. It does not claim to reduce pain and it is not a substitute for pain relief, and your midwife or doctor can talk through your options with you.
This session guides you through a mental rehearsal of the birthing process, from early labour to the final moments, so the experience can feel more familiar. Each visualisation revisits your anchors. Many people find that familiarity helps them feel more confident, though birth rarely goes exactly to plan and individual experiences vary.
This session uses guided imagery and anchored touch to focus on your connection with your baby and your partner, and on feelings of safety and warmth. It is designed to support emotional connection only. It does not claim to affect labour, hormones or any other physical process.
This session is designed to help you use your anchors in the days after birth, for calm, emotional balance and confidence as you adjust to life with your baby. It is not a recovery treatment and does not replace follow-up care from your midwife, GP or child and family health nurse.
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Hear how Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, delivered as guided audio and drawing on Clinical Hypnosis, Strategic Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is designed to support calm.
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How Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming Works
Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming is the method behind the Mindshift Method, created by Rob Edmonds and delivered through Mindshift Mentors. It draws on Clinical Hypnosis, Strategic Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Clinical Hypnosis is used to create a highly focused state of attention. Within that state, Strategic Psychotherapy identifies and works with unhelpful patterns and is designed to help develop more useful ways of thinking, responding and behaving. Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques may be used throughout to interrupt unhelpful patterns and anchor more useful responses. You are not asked to relive anything or talk through your history. While listening, you remain aware and in control, able to hear what is being said and respond if you choose.
Rob holds a Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy and is a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner. You listen privately to a recorded session created by Rob Edmonds, so there is no live session and no therapist in the room. Each session is built around a specific recurring pattern. People respond differently, there is no fixed timeframe, and the sessions are designed to be repeated. This series does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it is designed to work alongside the care of your midwife, obstetrician or GP. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
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Tools to practise staying calm and in control as labour approaches
Relaxation practice that sits alongside the pain relief options you and your midwife choose
Support to feel more connected with your partner and baby
Practical anchors to practise calm responses at each stage of labour
Calming practices for the days after birth, alongside your usual care
Answer: Hypnobirthing is a way of preparing for birth using breathing, relaxation and visualisation. This audio series draws on Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming and is designed to help expecting mothers practise feeling calm, confident and in control during pregnancy and birth. It is not a substitute for medical or midwifery care.
Answer: Hypnobirthing is designed to help people practise responding with relaxation rather than stress. It may help some people feel less fearful and more at ease, but individual experiences vary.
Answer: We do not claim that hypnobirthing reduces pain. Some people say practising helps them feel calmer and more in control, though individual experiences vary. It does not replace pain relief or medical care, and your midwife or doctor can advise on pain management.
Answer: It is designed to support emotional calm and mental readiness whatever kind of birth you plan, and it sits alongside medical and midwifery care. It is not medical advice. Keep following your midwife, obstetrician or GP, and check with them before starting.
Answer: Yes. Clinical Hypnosis is one of the approaches used within Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming. Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming draws on Clinical Hypnosis, Strategic Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Clinical Hypnosis is used to create a highly focused state of attention. Within that state, Strategic Psychotherapy identifies and works with unhelpful patterns, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques may be used throughout to interrupt unhelpful patterns and anchor more useful responses. The sessions are delivered as guided audio. While listening, you remain aware and in control, able to hear what is being said and respond if you choose. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
Answer: Some mothers say they feel calmer and more confident about labour and birth, though individual experiences vary and no outcome can be promised.
Answer: It may help some people feel calmer, but Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming does not treat trauma. If a previous birth was traumatic, talk to your midwife, doctor or a mental health professional as well.
Answer: There is no set number and no fixed timeframe. People respond differently, and the sessions are designed to be repeated. How early you start, and your emotional and physical needs during pregnancy, both play a part.
Answer: You listen privately to a recorded session created by Rob Edmonds. Each session is built around a specific recurring pattern, in this case the fear response that builds around birth. While listening, you remain aware and in control, able to hear what is being said and respond if you choose. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
Answer: Partners can listen too and may find it helps them feel more prepared.
The Mindshift Method digital program provides self-guided wellbeing, personal-development, behavioural change and pattern-change content. It does not provide medical or psychological diagnosis and is not intended to replace medical, psychological, psychiatric or other appropriate professional care.
Individual Mindshift Method Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming sessions with Rob Edmonds are a separate professional service from the Mindshift Method digital subscription. Rob holds a Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy and practises in New South Wales, Australia.
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