How many of you believe the power of the mind plays a huge part in our lives?

What I mean by that is...how many of you believe we can control things (for want of a better word) in our pg/labour etc just by our thinking.

For instance, i know that it's fact that if we are negative during labour we can stuff things up there and the progress of it.

But who here believes that we can even assist the process of birthing along before it begins? Affect the process in a good or bad way. I mean I do beleive that while we may not be abel to control the actual date of the baby I do believe that if we are positive then we can certainly help things along. And alternatively, if we are negative then we can slow things right down. I dont mean just generally having a good or bad day..i mean really focusing on one or the other. Like, "omg i am never going to go natural" then it could really stuff it. iykwim And alwyas thinking that way,

Maybe I am being naieve but I dont see how it hurts to think that postivity helps.

Anyway, just curious hehe.

Lisa