Dolphin therapy for pregnant women. Pregnancy for dolphins is a heavy burden, literally. Classes in the pool at different stages of pregnancy
Dolphins are incredibly smart and friendly to humans, they have a cheerful disposition and are simply adorable animals. It is not without reason that these aquatic mammals deserve such a respectful attitude. Let's learn more about these amazing animals.
The word dolphin goes back to the Greek δελφίς (delphis), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *gʷelbh- "womb", "womb", "womb". The name of the animal can be interpreted as "newborn baby" (perhaps because of the external resemblance to a baby or because the cry of a dolphin is similar to the cry of a child).
The dolphin is the only mammal whose birth literally begins with the tail, and not with the head! Young dolphins stay with their mother for 2 or 3 years.
In nature, there are almost forty species of dolphins, their closest relatives are whales and sea cows. Dolphins evolved relatively recently - about ten million years ago, during the Miocene. Most species of dolphins live in salt water, but there are also freshwater animals.
Adult dolphins reach sizes from 1.2 m in length and weight from 40 kg (river dolphin) to 9.5 m and 10 tons (killer whale). The brain is the largest organ in the dolphin's body. During sleep, a part of the brain is awake, allowing the dolphin to breathe in sleep so as not to drown! The life of a dolphin is directly dependent on access to oxygen.
Dolphins have a weak sense of smell, but excellent eyesight and absolutely unique hearing. Emitting powerful sound impulses, they are capable of echolocation, which allows them to perfectly navigate in the water, find each other and food.
Dolphins are capable of making a wide range of sounds with the help of a nasal air sac located under the blowhole. There are roughly three categories of sounds: frequency-modulated whistles, explosive impulse sounds, and clicks. Clicks are the loudest among the sounds made by marine life.
Dolphins can swim at speeds up to 25 miles per hour for long periods of time. This is about 3 times faster than the fastest swimmers in the world.
The so-called. is associated with dolphins. "Grey's paradox". In the 1930s Englishman James Gray was surprised by the unusually high swimming speed of dolphins (37 km / h according to his measurements). Having made the necessary calculations, Gray showed that, according to the laws of hydrodynamics for bodies with unchanged surface properties, dolphins should have had several times greater muscle strength than was observed in them. Accordingly, he suggested that dolphins are able to control the streamlining of their bodies, maintaining a laminar flow around at speeds for which it should already become turbulent. In the United States and Great Britain after the Second World War and 10 years later in the USSR, attempts began to prove or disprove this assumption. In the United States, they practically ceased from 1965-1966 to 1983, as erroneous conclusions were made on the basis of incorrect estimates that the "Grey's paradox" does not exist, and only muscular energy is enough for dolphins to develop such speed. In the USSR, attempts continued in 1971-1973. the first experimental confirmation of Gray's conjecture appeared.
Dolphins have a system of sound signals. There are two types of signals: echolocation (sonar), used by animals to study the situation, detect obstacles, prey, and “chirps” or “whistles”, for communication with relatives, also expressing the emotional state of the dolphin.
Signals are emitted at very high, ultrasonic frequencies, inaccessible to human hearing. The sound perception of humans is in the frequency band up to 20 kHz, dolphins use frequencies up to 200 kHz.
In the "speech" of dolphins, scientists have already counted 186 different "whistles". They have about the same levels of organization of sounds as a person: six, that is, a sound, a syllable, a word, a phrase, a paragraph, a context, they have their own dialects.
In 2006, a team of British researchers from the University of St. Andrews conducted a series of experiments, the results of which suggest that dolphins are capable of assigning and recognizing names.
Communication with dolphins has a positive effect on the human body, especially on the child's psyche. British experts came to this conclusion back in 1978. Since that time, the development of "dolphin therapy" began. Now it is used to treat many physical and mental diseases, including autism, and other ailments. Swimming with dolphins relieves chronic pain, improves immunity and even helps children develop speech.
Dolphins are also used in pet therapy to treat people with ultrasonic sonar.
A dolphin and a pregnant woman off the coast of Ixtapa, Mexico. Ixtapa, MexicoPicture: CATERS
An absolutely unique feature of dolphins is that they can "look inside" a person, like an ultrasound device - for example, they quickly determine the pregnancy of a woman. The feeling of "new life" is often very emotionally exciting for dolphins, they react violently and joyfully to pregnant women, and, as a rule, pregnant women are not allowed to swim in enclosures (although this may be best time for communication) so as not to take away the attention of animals from other visitors, and to avoid an involuntary "emotional attack" on the unborn baby.
Incredibly romantic fact from the "private" life of dolphins - ethologists studying Amazon dolphins have discovered that males give gifts to potential mates. So, what gift is the female dolphin waiting for to consider her as a candidate for the continuation of offspring? Of course, a bouquet of river algae!
India has become the 4th country to ban the keeping of dolphins in captivity. Earlier similar measures were taken by Costa Rica, Hungary and Chile. The Indians call dolphins "a person or person of a different origin than" homo sapiens". Accordingly, the “personality” must have its own rights, and its exploitation in commercial purposes legally unacceptable. Animal behavioral scientists (ethologists) say it is very difficult to define the line that separates human intelligence and emotions from the nature of dolphins.
The United States and Russian law enforcement agencies have trained oceanic dolphins for military purposes. Fighting dolphins have been trained to detect underwater mines, rescue sailors after their ship is destroyed, and search and destroy submarines using kamikaze techniques.
A dolphin has twice as many convolutions in the cerebral cortex as a human.
Dolphins not only have vocabulary"up to 14,000 sound signals, which allows them to communicate with each other, but also have self-awareness, "social consciousness" and emotional empathy - a willingness to help newborns and the sick, pushing them to the surface of the water.
Dolphins are voracious predators, feeding mainly on fish, mollusks, and crustaceans; sometimes they attack their relatives.
Dolphins are mostly social, found in all seas and even rise into rivers.
Dolphins are famous for their playful behavior and for the fact that for the sake of entertainment they can blow air bubbles in the form of a ring under water with the help of a blowhole. These can be large bubble clouds, bubble streams, or individual bubbles. Some of them act as a kind of communicative signals.
Within a pack, dolphins form very close bonds. Scientists have noticed that dolphins care for sick, wounded and elderly relatives, and a female dolphin can help another female with difficult childbirth. At this time, nearby dolphins, protecting the female in childbirth, swim around her for protection.
Along with humans and bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees), dolphins are the only animal species that can mate for pleasure.
Another proof of the high intelligence of dolphins is the fact that adults sometimes teach their cubs to use special tools for hunting. For example, they “dress” sea sponges on their muzzles in order to avoid injury when hunting for fish that can hide in bottom sediments of sand and sharp pebbles.
Dolphin skin is very delicate and easily damaged by contact with other surfaces. That is why before petting a dolphin, it is necessary to remove all sharp objects, such as rings.
Dolphins have up to 100 teeth in their mouths, but they do not chew food with them, but only capture it. Dolphins swallow all their prey whole.
Dolphins can dive to depths of up to 305 meters, but they usually swim this deep only when hunting. Many bottlenose dolphins live almost in shallow water. In Sarasota Bay, Florida, dolphins spend considerable time at a depth of only 2 meters.
The oldest dolphin in captivity was named Nelly. She lived in the marine mammal park "Marineland" (Florida) and died when she was 61 years old.
When dolphins hunt, they use an interesting tactic to drive the fish into a trap. They begin to circle around the school of fish, close the ring, forcing the fish to huddle into a tight ball. Then, one by one, the dolphins snatch the fish from the center of the school, preventing it from leaving.
Dolphins can rise up to 6 meters above the water when they jump out of the water.
You can even give birth in the sea, with dolphins! © Shutterstock
In terms of significance, the invention of underwater childbirth with dolphins in open water is compared by many with the first flight into space. After all, children who were born helped by dolphins are more perfect people.
Underwater birth in the Black Sea
Underwater births have been known in the West since 1970. In France, many such births were accepted, and all were without complications. Now we and Russia are actively developing this direction.
Academician, President of the World Association "Aquaculture", Honorary Doctor of the University of California "Sierra" Igor Charkovsky took more than 20 thousand underwater births.
Once, when Igor Charkovsky and his team brought a woman in labor to the Black Sea and began to prepare for childbirth, three dolphins swam up to the woman.
They pushed all the assistants aside and took the birth under their control. The woman gave birth almost without pain and fear. This was the beginning of the practice of underwater childbirth with obstetric dolphins.
According to the adherents of such childbirth, during childbirth, dolphins project something like sonar, which relaxes the woman in labor.
When dolphins are close to a pregnant woman, all their attention is focused on her. And the appearance of a baby for them becomes the greatest of all phenomena.
At the sight of a human birth, dolphins become very excited. They are very fond of children and pregnant women.
Underwater childbirth with dolphins - the philosophy of creating a perfect person
Underwater childbirth, and even with obstetric dolphins, is a whole philosophy. Igor Charkovsky says:
The purpose of water birth is not only to put a woman in a bath to relieve her suffering and ensure a gentle birth, the purpose is to give birth and raise a more perfect person.
© Shutterstock Babies born underwater never go below 150 IQ.All of them are exceptionally stable emotionally and physically strong, always surpassing their peers in some way.
Children born under water under the strict guidance of obstetric dolphins, with the right aquatic upbringing, become homodolphinus - human dolphins.
Water becomes their natural habitat. They even sleep at the bottom of the pool, rising to the surface about every 10 minutes in their sleep and breathing in the air. Water is their home.
With the help of water education, according to the students of Igor Charkovsky, it is possible to grow a person with a more perfect brain, more highly developed both physically, and intellectually, and spiritually.
After all, even Tsiolkovsky said that in the future the brain of a person living in space, in a state of weightlessness, will be four times larger and much more perfect than the brain of a modern person. And water just gives this weightlessness.
How to prepare for an underwater birth with dolphins
© Shutterstock To prepare for an underwater birth with dolphins, you need to start swimming with them from the 4th month of pregnancy.After all, dolphins affect a pregnant woman through a future baby.
Dolphins- one of the most amazing animals on our planet. The ability of these animals to have a beneficial effect on people has long been noticed, improving mood and improving well-being. When communicating with them, the psycho-emotional state of a person stabilizes, and this is explained not only by the friendliness and charm of the dolphin, but also by its special ability to have a beneficial effect on a person.
One of the most unstable psycho-emotional states, as you know, is the state of a woman who is expecting a baby. A woman in a state of pregnancy becomes not only emotionally unstable, all mental processes undergo significant changes. Women who went through this period mark it as completely different, very strong in terms of the level of experiences, specific in terms of a complex of sensations.
Both positive and negative emotions have a strong effect on the body of a pregnant woman. Worries and fears, especially those associated with pregnancy, cause biochemical changes in the body. One of these biochemical changes is the production of catecholamines, which cause narrowing of the arteries and reduce blood flow to the internal organs. Since ancient times, dolphins have evoked awe and delight in people, they were associated with something mystical and mysterious, they were loved, they were worshiped, they were deified.
The friendly attitude of dolphins to humans is a unique phenomenon that causes positive changes in the psycho-emotional sphere of a person communicating with a dolphin. Positive emotions experienced when communicating with them reduce the possible impact of psycho-traumatic stress factors on the psycho-emotional sphere of a person, and, of course, a pregnant woman. Water allows easy and free movement, the feeling of flight, it has a beneficial effect on the expectant mother and her baby. These mysterious creatures will be able to paint together with you, or for you, a picture that will remind you of this wonderful event.
Under the guidance of a perinatal psychologist, it is possible to acquire relaxation skills using the experience of communicating with dolphins. This makes it possible to use these techniques during the birth of a child and during the postnatal adaptation period.
The influence of the future mother on the development of the child in the womb is undeniable and is determined not only by heredity, but also by the characteristics of the emotional state during pregnancy. Anxiety that affects her own nervous system, cannot, will not touch the child. The baby continuously captures the sensations, feelings, thoughts that it causes in the mother the world.
Finding creative ways of behavior during pregnancy contributes to a more complete awareness of the joy of motherhood, one's own femininity, which will serve as an inexhaustible resource for further interaction with the baby.
During pregnancy, a woman feels especially light and free in the water.
Classes are held as follows:
1) Communication with a dolphin, stroking, playing. (10 min.)
2) Swimming with a dolphin, to specially selected music. (10 min.)
3) Joint drawing in a pair - a dolphin and a woman, aimed at subsequent interaction in a pair during childbirth, postpartum interaction with a baby. (5 min.)
4) Relaxation, to the music under which communication with the dolphin took place. (25 min.)
5) The use of maritime themes in art therapy in subsequent classes in preparation for childbirth.
6) Art therapy aimed at accepting the unborn child, one's motherhood, to the music, under which communication with the dolphin took place. (35 min)
7) Using the image of a dolphin, the experience of communicating with him, in acquiring self-regulation skills, breathing techniques, contact improvisation.
8) Body art involving a dolphin, with the subsequent use of meaningful images and symbols, in subsequent classes.
Dolphin lessons can be both individual and group. Future dads also take part in them, helping a woman to go down into the water, supporting an easel while drawing in pairs, and possibly participating in the drawing process. Collaborative drawing is often used in family therapy sessions to gain experience of non-verbal interaction in the family system. These classes can be aimed not only at obtaining a positive emotional mood, but also used in the future as elements of accompanying the family during the period of the birth of a child.
The birth of a child, especially the first, is a period of internal personal growth, a period of enrichment of personal characteristics, a transformation of knowledge and understanding of oneself, the world around, and a partner.
Article about positive influence dolphins on health, mood and the benefits that communication with them brings to pregnant women
The fact that dolphins are very smart and understand people is confirmed by stories described two thousand years ago. Stories about dolphins that rescued people from shipwrecks, played with them, sought to communicate and helped in fishing, are found in many sources - from ancient to modern. And these are not only legends, but also real confirmed facts. Since ancient times, dolphins have been friends and helpers of man. They evoked awe and admiration, they were loved and deified. And although the mystery of the healing effect of dolphins on people has not been fully disclosed, there is still a lot of evidence that the charm, friendliness and benevolence of these animals have a positive effect on the human biofield.
Dolphin therapy
The word "dolphin" itself has Greek roots and is translated as "source of life." And this certainly has a special meaning.
In 1978, the beneficial effects of communicating with dolphins on children were first proven by scientists from the UK. Since then, the use of dolphin therapy as a method of psychological rehabilitation began in other countries. Now the effectiveness of this method is proved by the scale of its use in medical practice in some countries - Mexico, Germany, Great Britain.
Dolphins can help a person overcome many diseases, because communication with them helps to stimulate metabolic and immune processes, enhances the production of hormones, calms and strengthens the nervous system.
Dolphins are the embodiment of joy and optimism, which is so lacking in people today. Communication with dolphins creates conditions for psychological relaxation, very positively affecting not only the emotional state of a person, but also his health in general, and this happens at the cellular level.
The friendliness of dolphins, their constant willingness to play, is a huge support for anyone who needs positive emotions or feels lonely. Dolphin therapy is very effective method rehabilitation for people who have experienced violence.
After several sessions of spending time with dolphins, a person's working capacity increases, spiritual uplift is observed, and sleep improves.
Benefits of interacting with dolphins during pregnancy
The life of the fair sex is ruled by emotions. As for pregnant women, they are doubly emotional. Unstable psycho-emotional states are often observed, which are accompanied by constant changes in the body. The expectant mother is required to take responsible care of her health, especially emotional. In the womb, the baby feels everything, catches the slightest sensations, thoughts, feelings of his mother, her feelings and anxieties.
Communication with dolphins allows expectant mother get rid of experiences and feel the joy of motherhood, realize your own femininity, positively affects her psyche and, most importantly, even prevents some anomalies in the development of the fetus, for example, heart disease. A woman's mood is evened out, fears and anxious thoughts go away, health improves.
The benefits of communicating with dolphins are enormous, because just imagine, these animals feel that a woman is pregnant, even if the period is still very short. The ability to recognize pregnancy is an amazing ability of bottlenose dolphins, because this species is considered the most intelligent in the dolphin family. Their special, reverent behavior with expectant mothers causes inexpressible impressions. It is expressed in care and respect for a pregnant woman. The dolphin will never touch the stomach, will not push, will not cause any harm. Being with him in the water is absolutely safe. He will swim, gently bending around the contours of the body of the future mother. Such special sensations as in a pool with a dolphin, a pregnant woman, probably, will not get anywhere else. Dolphin ultrasound helps the fetus develop properly, and interaction with dolphins, their positive bioenergy gives a pregnant woman a sense of calm.
It can be concluded that communication with dolphins is beneficial for everyone. Many girls will surely be very happy if applicants for the hand and heart invite them to the dolphinarium. A wonderful gift for a loved one will be swimming with dolphins in the pool.
Using the laws of nature , a person can do a lot for his health, and communication with animals, especially such amazing ones as dolphins, will give not only joy and peace, but also remind us that on this earth there are no creatures closer, sweeter, kinder and more affectionate to us than animals that make us better.