Since I strive to be as scientific as possible, I am going way out on a limb. I suggest that you take what resonates with you and discard the rest.
The emotional congenital aspect enters a gray area of infant health. I am presenting my thoughts in a hypothesis developed from my clinical experiences.
In 1980, I entered the unknown fascial world of infancy. Over the decades, I have found two constant factors. Generally, infants cried a lot in the beginning of therapy, but after the strain was gone from their bodies, they were truly happy. Why?
As a massage therapist working in the physical world, I naturally gravitated to the tight body concept as the answer. They probably had a lot of physical strain during those 40 fetal weeks.
Those tight bodies now created a lot of fussiness. When I helped them loosen, they became healthy and happy. That explanation was a nice neat package.
But there was a catch. I was seeing adults and children who were going through emotional releases during therapy. The Barnes and Upledger groups reported similar findings: the craniosacral and fascial tissues could remember, hold, and release emotions.
I had to rethink what all that crying was about in infant therapy. I deduced that the fetus could also possibly hold emotional trauma that the mother had experienced over the 40 weeks.
Could it be possible that infants are born with emotional baggage that may define who they are? Could it be possible that all that crying in therapy, where many mothers cringed, allows the infants to release those feelings to be truly happy?
In my research, I found that Dr. Arthur Janov, an American psychologist, was on the same path. If these theories are true, they would have a strong impact in the field of child psychology.
I have no gold-standard evidence-based medicine of randomized, controlled, and double blind medical studies. But I feel that, as time goes out in decades, everyone will awaken to this theory.
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