The Mother Archetype Meditation

Introduction

• Discusses the mother archetype
• Represents divine feminine, eternal mother energy
• Exists independently in the universe

Using an Image for Connection

• Choose an image that represents this maternal energy (e.g., goddess, literary figure, Glenda the Good Witch)
• Image should evoke feelings of maternal love
  • Characteristics: spacious, unconditional, eternal

Maternal Love Qualities

• Holds everything: pain, multiple truths, paradox, complexity
• Enormous, profound, rich love
• Penetrates limitations of material and lived experience

Meditation Process

Step 1: Connect with the Mother Image

• Visualize and connect with the image of the mother
• Feel her presence, gaze, and receive her love

Step 2: Focus on Negative Emotions

• Shift attention to feelings of terror, hopelessness, despair, demoralization, fear
• Experience these emotions physically
  • Visualize as heavy substances (e.g., dark gooey tar, heavy lead)

Step 3: Redirect Attention to the Mother

• Focus gaze back on the mother image
• Receive her joy and unconditional love
• Understand that you don't have to earn or prove for her love

Step 4: Allow Her to Lift Your Burdens

• Say yes to receiving her love
• Feel her presence lift off heaviness and pain
• Know it's effortless for her to lighten your load

Step 5: Circulate Her Love in Your Body

• Feel love circulate through your body, cleaning toxins and residual pains
• Experience lightness and upliftment in her presence

Step 6: Closing the Meditation

• Visualize her ascending back to her home
• Understand she is always available
• Requires your engagement to reconnect
• Open your eyes when ready