Early Experience

Here's a link to various research citings that indicate that early experiences define the human being. The focus is on "childhood" experience and abuses. I have written much here last year about taking what we know about this and applying it to the prenatal, labor, birth, and infancy period. It is logical that life prior to being able to verbalize, zero to 3 ish ( zero being conception through birth in my definition is a critical, FOUNDATIONAL time. By age three, so much has happened; so much joy, so much fear, so much abandonment, so much love, so much rejection, so much appreciation, so much denial of the self --- we are indoctrinated by our parents and the adult word for years before we can even speak for ourselves. Adult assign feelings, thoughts, and needs to the baby and believe to be true. They believe their interpretation of the world, the baby, and the self and others, that they attribute to their child is the truth. The child, by age 3, has taken on the assumptions, presumptions, and deficits and dysfunctions and illusions of the adults -- some are good and healthy and some are not. Keep in mind if you go this link that it is EVERYTHING that the early brain experiences and wires up --- not just abuse, violence, and other extreme negatives. Everything, EVERYTHING that is said and done to and in the presence of a baby, infant, and toddler is IN THERE ...

How we're treated at the earliest time of life has a powerful bearing -- on our later character, behavior, and inner experience