It offers you an opportunity to learn more about yourself. Sometimes we are happy with ourselves and other times we are not. Labor is not a time to judge ourselves, but a reflection of our movement through life at a given moment. It is not possible to control labor. It is only possible to follow the process and meet whatever it has to offer.
Labor is also team work.
It is a mother and baby learning together how to push and how to be born, how to yield and separate from the shared union of pregnancy. You are not in control nor are you out of control in labor. The best way to approach labor is with an attitude of learning rather than controlling. The approach presented in this book is based on nature's cooperative energy. This method is a mind and body approach, but not one based on mind over labor.