John Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, has spoken to US TV about the “miracle” birth of their son Benjamin in November last year.
The 48-year-old actress admitted how hard it was to conceive and also spoke of how the birth has helped heal the family from the tragic loss of son Jett, who died aged 16 from a seizure while on holiday in 2009.
“It’s been wonderfully healing,” Preston said.
“Of course, you know … it’s still every day. But it’s been, I think, a really nice gift for a lot of people throughout the world. We’ve gotten the most beautiful letters. And the most beautiful notes of happiness.”
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Preston also gave a glimpse of some of the practices of the couple’s Scientology religion when it comes to childbirth, including “silent birth”.
“Silent birth is basically just no words as much as possible,” she said.
“If you need to moan, if you need to cry out … of course that’s normal. But, it’s just bringing them in, in as peaceful and gentle a way as possible.”
She went on to explain the reasoning behind this, citing Scientology’s founder.
“Because L Ron Hubbard found that the single source of aberration, of psychosomatic illnesses, stress, fears, worry, things like that, have to do with the reactive mind, and in that part of the mind is different words and commands that can come back to affect you later in your life,” she said.
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“I’m blessed with, my kids have always been amazing, very calm, very peaceful, happy, and I absolutely know that it’s very much because of that.”
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