About the book

Introduction

This book describes a theory and system of practice – Metamorphic Therapy or Pre-Natal Therapy – which is a holistic approach to self-healing. This specific therapy provides us with a unique language that allows us to decode our personal history and to comprehend the root of many of the dominant behavioral patterns that we observe in our lives. These patterns are rooted in the womb, a time and place that, although it holds great influence over our everyday thoughts and actions, is a period of which we have absolutely no conscious memory. In fact, the embryonic body records experiences and events that eventually become leading patterns that will continue to surface during the course of life and the history of mankind

The idea behind Metamorphic

According to metamorphic thinking, the physical, mental, and metaphysical characteristics of each individual are established during pregnancy and childbirth. There are various factors that influence this period: the cultural and socioeconomic environment into which we are born, the behavioral character that our parents display during the pregnancy, as well as their specific attitudes towards the pregnancy. These determinants vastly influence the embryonic body, leaving their mark on the nervous system and on the skin itself. Furthermore, the mutual knowledge and experiences that the mother and fetus share are directly absorbed through the nervous system and passed along via the spine

In the 1960’s, when British naturopath and reflexologist Robert St. John developed Metamorphic Therapy, he suggested that it was not only possible but also very plausible to connect the primary experiences that have shaped our thought and behavior patterns with the fetal period. The therapeutic technique redirects the spinal influences reflected on the hands, feet, and head

Although Robert St. John formulated Metamorphic Therapy, the idea has it origins in the late fifteen hundreds with the revolutionary work of Leonardo da Vinci. In his book on the anatomy of the human body, Quadrani, Leonardo da Vinci writes about pregnancy, “One and the same soul nourishes the two bodies. The things desired by the mother are often engraved into the child which the mother carries in her womb…one will, one supreme desire, one fear in the mother’s heart or spiritual suffering that the mother experiences has more power over the child than over the mother, since intermittently the child loses it’s life thereby…"