What is Prenatal Memory?
Memories of Prenatal Life: Gateway into Our Consciousness.
Japanese Prenatal Memory researchers Introduced Consciousness of the Unborn Babies.
Dr. Akira Ikegawa has been touching many souls of parents, especially mothers, and changing the lives of people all around the world. The concept of Prenatal Memory has been researched for more than 20 years and is instrumental in solving many cases of difficult parenting situations such as a miscarriage, a child suffering an ailment, or being born with a physical handicap. Currently, this concept has been applied through different professions and practices throughout Japan.
What is Prenatal Memory?
The word Prenatal Memory mainly refers to the memories of prenatal life shared by children and adults.
According to the research conducted in Japan, children remember their birth, shortly after birth, even the time before birth, and amazingly prior to conception.
The word Prenatal Memory mainly refers to the memories of prenatal life shared by children and adults. However, the research undergone in Japan took a very unique path. For the last 20 years, the concept of Prenatal Memory has been evolved and defined into several categories. According to the definition provided by the Prenatal Memory Education Association (PREMEA Japan), there are 8 categories of these Memories:
● Memory of choosing one's parents, prior to being conceived
● Memory of being conceived
● Memory from the time in the womb
● Memory of being born
● Memory of the time from birth to toddlerhood
● Memory of Life-Between-Life
● Memory of a Past Life
● Compound Memory: any combination of the previously quoted memories
In all, Prenatal Memory is not limited to the prenatal period but also includes the time before and after being in the mother's womb, sometimes even beyond the physical existence such as the time prior to conception.
As of April 2016, Dr. Ikegawa and Dr. Ohkado had completed 900+ surveys in the US and more than 10,000 in Japan, in addition to conducting about 60 personal interviews. Japanese Prenatal Memory researchers are challenging us to rediscover our sentient consciousness that originates back to a time before birth.
Ikegawa conducted research started for mothers with children 1 to 6 years old, from 2002 to 2003 in all nursery schools (17 facilities) and kindergartens (2 facilities) of Suwa-city and all nursery schools (19 facilities) in Shiojiri-city. He distributed 3601 questionnaires consisting of 85 questions such as:
- The mother's and their child's age
- Sex of the child
- Contents of memory
- Situation at the delivery
- If parents had a memory from their own birth etc.,
According to Ikegawa's data, the first confirmed cases of children's age are starting from ages 0 to 1, and the number dramatically increases around 2 to 3, and peaks at 3 to 4 years old who are recalling their memories of their time from conception to pregnancy.
Children come from an original place of understanding and awareness, but sadly conventional life with all its customs and judgments often suppresses their pristine knowledge. Prenatal Memory dovetails into a more enlightened and less reductionist understanding of human physiology and psychology.
If all of us could comprehend the meaning of life and the core value of our existence, we can clearly say that all experiences (either good ones or bad ones) are there to promote our growth as human beings. This personal realization will not stop there. Most of the people who resonate with this concept would go out and try to fulfill not only their personal satisfaction but also aim for the bigger achievement in their social, and global missions which we all decided (and forgot) prior to our birth. Once we can hold this broader planetary perspective, the meaning of "Birth" is only to make us realize our perception itself is creating our reality.
Dr. Ikegawa is aiming to get two out of every ten mothers to take Prenatal Memory seriously and put it into practice by telling them how they can enjoy conversations with their unborn baby during pregnancy. Because this method will ultimately promote the mother's happiness which will resonate with all of her family members.
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About the Author
Yuko is a Prenatal Memory Navigator, English/Japanese Trans-Creator, and an International Coordinator aiming to be a global Social Entrepreneur. She is an international Coordinator for the Prenatal Memory Education Association and has launched the Prenatal Memory Global Project in 2018 with top leading researchers, Dr. Akira Ikegawa and Dr. Masayuki Ohkado. She believes prenatal memory is the foundation of Trans-Universal Heutagogy which is the greatest global education and self-learning method to teach unconditional love, sustainable living, and how to build a peaceful future for our children.