Muladhara-The Mother Archetype

Muladhara The Mother Archetype-2012

The mother archetype is well known.  She is the lady who nurtures and loves us.  To put a name to this would be to say: Mary the mother of Jesus, Demeter, Freya.  They personify love, safety and nurture, and continuation of the species.   For our study here we are looking at the integration of our mother archetype into our lives.

It is important to integrate this archetype, as this is how we learn to LOVE, to love ourselves, so that we may love others, and ultimately everyone.  As she becomes more active in our lives, we learn to stop projecting our needs, and faults on others and the world at large.  We stop the blaming and finger pointing.  She teaches us that we are responsible for ourselves, and how to look after ourselves.

Many adults become arrested in childhood, and they just haven’t tried to see their ability to take care of themselves.  They are still waiting for someone to come into their lives and fulfill this need.  It is quite possible that our own mother was not able to grow and provide the teaching we need, so we must learn to do this for ourselves.  In this chakra we learn to be our own good mother and heal the inadequacies of our childhood, if any exist. 

We become victims when we lose our grounding in the mother.  She is closely related to the Earth, and when this energy is cut off we lose our ability to sustain ourselves.  “When we are our own good Mother we know our body’s limitations, our emotional strength and fragility, and our mental ability to think clearly.  When we are our own good Mother we know where we stand in life, literally and figuratively.

How to bring the Mother into your life

Take responsibility for yourself, and look after your needs.   Nurture yourself and know what you need to feel safe and secure.  These two things require thought, and practice.  Once we accept that “I am enough”, contemplation/meditation/connecting with our higher self will reveal what we need to do to feel safe and secure.  By bringing the mother into your life one is required to manage their life, to eat well, and care for your physical needs for clothing and shelter.  When you get good at this, the less you depend on others to fill the mother roll.  You stabilize your base that lets you join the world on you own terms knowing there is a safe place for you within; free from strife, stress and interference. 

Exercise

• Recall a time when you felt unable to look after yourself.  Whether it was from illness, tired or emotionally upset, you needed help from someone to regain your strength and stability.  How do you feel about that situation?  Did you feel better after someone else’s cared for you?

• Can you remember how you got the support you needed to recuperate?  Were you patient and understanding with yourself?  Did your family or friends give you the support you needed?  Was it their willingness to stick by you that helped you get better?  Did you know that you had to look after yourself?

• Can you give yourself time off from the stress and strain in your life now?  Do you know when you need some R&R?  Do you know how to protect yourself from the pressures of work or relationships?

• Look at the people in your life now.  Do you feel you could call on them to assist you when you are in need of help?  Do you feel entitled to ask for help when you need it?

• Are you willing to take responsibility for yourself to the best of your ability, and look after your own physical and emotional needs?

• Can you build in the care and nurturing you need for yourself in your life now?  How can you change your life to include your needs in your daily routine?

Meditation

I find this meditation is really nice if you do it outside, standing barefoot in the grass, in a rather quiet spot.  You don’t want distractions.  If I can’t find a quiet spot outside, I just make sure my feet are in contact with the floor.

Use whatever relaxation technique works for you.  I describe one in a previous blog.  Make sure that you are deeply relaxed.  I like to do the relaxing breathing of equal counts of inhalation and exhalation.

Ground yourself by imagining your energy extending into the earth, it goes deep into the core of mother earth.  You feel all the negative energy running from your body into the earth and this is the perfect place for it.  The earth has its own cleansing energy, and will cleanse that energy for its own use.  You feel that negativity replaced by the warm, clean energy of mother earth.  You feel clean energy course through you body cleansing any negative energy that may be left.  You feel safe and warm; wrapped in the energy of the source of all things.  Feel the strength.  Feel the love.  Feel the comfort.

Know that you are a spark of that energy.  You feel it as a rush of pure joy as you realize that you have tapped that energy from which all things are created.  That energy is malleable. You know that you shape your world with this energy.  You know that you can manifest anything that you desire.  You know that you are always in control, and what you want to manifest is already yours.  You feel the satisfaction and joy of having what you need and want.  It is already yours.  You are safe, secure, and have all your needs met. 

Surround yourself in a warm red energy, feel it seep into every inch of your body.  Just feel the energy coursing through your body.  You control that energy.  You are the creative source, imagine what you want.  Know that it is yours, feel the joy of having what you want, and reap the benefits of having it, because it is created.

Relax, and slowly allow yourself to come back to awareness.  You will take the feeling of your manifestation with you.  Connect to it as often as you want to.

Namaste