Get Out of Your Head & Into Your Body; A Meditation for Healing the Mother Wound

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In Healing The Mother Wound You Must Get Out Of Your Head And Into Your Body
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An Overview

It isn’t enough to understand what went wrong with your mother/daughter relationship. Awareness is essential and at the same time, not enough. To heal this mother wound, you must first be in touch with the emotional pain. Then you must have experiences that soothe that pain. You know dealing with your mother leaves you with bad feelings. You aren’t sure what to do with them.

What can you do?

I explore the reasons embodied experiences are essential for healing the mother wound. In the womb and later in her arms, mom was first experienced, felt, taken in and embodied. It’s obvious that she affected you. First in your body in a sensory, physical way before you said your first word.

Therefore it makes sense that…….

Healing from a deficit in mothering must incorporate those embodied felt elements.
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HOW CAN YOU INCORPORATE THESE ELEMENTS TO HEAL?

1) Movement is for healing and soothing. The rocking motion that mimics the motion in the womb. This is still soothing to the nervous system, as a baby or as an adult. You are wired to be soothed by rhythmic movement. Walking, running/jogging or dancing can be cathartic, empowering and healing. Even holding yourself and rocking back and forth has proven to reset the psyche from trauma.

 

2) Soothing sounds can be soothing and empowering. First experienced as cooing or lilting maternal voices. Brain entrainment meditations ( like the free one at the end of this post) Isn’t It Too Late For That?

You are not as stuck, or limited, by the original experiences you have had with a Difficult Mother as we once thought. The good news is that your brain and your nervous system can still heal and benefit as an adult.
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A popular saying in neurological circles is “The brain is plastic.” & “What fires together wires together.” You can create experiences that change the structure of the brain. You can learn to shift to self-soothing. While it has been years (or could be never) since you were soothed in this way, your body remembers.

It will respond to

a) soothing rhythms that mimic a mother’s heartbeat
b) regulated breathing that massages you from the inside out
c) sound frequencies that entrain your brain to experience relaxed states as you listen.

As we now know, the brain can be rewired when we give it targeted, intentionally corrective experiences.
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You can learn to tune into yourself. 

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Isn’t that the key – give to yourself these primal healing experiences that you can access ?

When Can I Use This Meditation?

Use this meditation when:

1) You are making changes in your relationship with your actual mother. (You need to address the anxiety you encounter when you are working to make changes. That anxiety can threaten to drive you right back to doing things the same way.)

2) If you have gone “no contact”, the feelings you must endure to keep your resolve can be crippling. Ensure you have supportive practices to help.

3) You get off the phone, or have a troubling encounter with mom, and don’t want to act out of emotion. You want to cool off, get perspective, and think with a rational head. All these are important reasons to learn self-regulation/ self-soothing methods for yourself.

 

In doing so, you learn to rely on yourself for feeling good. This is the key to calm, clarity, and the self-confidence you are seeking. Most therapists don’t know that talking alone is rarely enough. You need to dive deep into curative experiences. Also to intellectual and emotional understanding.

This is what you need to soothe the anxiety, heal the mother wound and come home to yourself.
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Access this meditation and feel the soothing effects immediately.

Let me know how it goes for you.

This is how we rise.

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Here is a free meditation to get you started.

Does dealing with your difficult mother cause you anxiety?

Here is a Free meditation I created just for you.

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Does dealing with your difficult mother cause you anxiety?
Here is a Free meditation I created just for you

 

 

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