{"id":8062,"date":"2021-05-13T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:10:22","slug":"the-divine-mother-in-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/the-divine-mother-in-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Mother in You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe there&#8217;s a divine mother in each one of you. Let&#8217;s talk about it..<\/p>\n<p>We all have a mother.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us become mothers.<\/p>\n<p>When I became a mother what struck me was &#8220;My God&#8230;we created a life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A whole perfect human being.<\/p>\n<p>I would stare at my son in total awe and marvel at his existence. How could a living, breathing whole being be created and come through me, and this love with my husband?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, and the ACT.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine every mother has some sort of this feeling.<\/p>\n<p>It gently nudged me towards a spiritual path&#8230;I didn&#8217;t recognize it at the time, but now its very clear.<\/p>\n<h4>What I Know Now that I didn&#8217;t Know then<\/h4>\n<p>There&#8217;s a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity\">Holy Trinity<\/a>&#8221; where we all came from &#8211; \u00a0the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and the Holy Spirit or Infinite Spirit or <strong>Mother Spirit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This Mother Spirit is the SPARK of life. She is here and pervades our Universe. Here are some of her qualities you&#8217;ll recognize:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nurturing<\/li>\n<li>Patient<\/li>\n<li>Kind<\/li>\n<li>Supportive<\/li>\n<li>Caring<\/li>\n<li>Passionate<\/li>\n<li>Protective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and this one last one requires FAITH:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I believe in you<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Divine Mother Spirit is not the same as &#8220;Mother Earth&#8221;, which is a different spirt bound to the earth plane. \u00a0We see how nature work in an intricate balance where we are all inter-connected so often think of &#8220;Mother Earth&#8221; as &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221;, which the Mother Spirit is a part of.<\/p>\n<p>The divine mother spirit in you believes in all the ways your child can become whoever he or she wants to be.<\/p>\n<p>She nurtures, supports and provides every way for her child to feel safe, while venturing off onto their OWN adventure of life &#8211; not hers.<\/p>\n<p>Especially not with her fears of what could happen if her child fails. Falling down is part of the journey to joy, success, purpose. She&#8217;s there to support the &#8216;getting back up&#8217; part.<\/p>\n<h4>What I Discovered Raising 3 Children to Adulthood<\/h4>\n<p>I learned to stop following the crowd of &#8216;parenting rules&#8217; that said &#8220;do this or do that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I learned no one knows your children like you do.<\/p>\n<p>But first you have to know yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Investing in me transformed my parenting.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to LISTEN to them. It took patience and asking questions. What&#8217;s going on over there in their little minds? Do I even understand where they are coming from?<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to SUPPORT them.<\/p>\n<p>I practiced being PRESENT. I drove them, fed them, championed them. \u00a0I put their stuff ahead of my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>My husband chose to become the &#8216;breadwinner&#8221;, and I chose to become the &#8220;spiritwinner&#8221;. They needed both.<\/p>\n<p>He provided the means, and I provided the way.<\/p>\n<p>We are spiritual beings living in the material world.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to TALK so they could LISTEN to what I needed to teach them by meeting them where they were with KINDNESS not judgment.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how not to land critically (a work in process as it&#8217;s been conditioned in me, and hard to see.) When I see WHAT&#8217;S wrong, I want to FIX, but it can land as CRITICISM.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to have constructive conversations by moving away from CRITICISM because it sends the message that &#8216;something is wrong with you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to PAUSE, and NOTICE so I could recognize their defensiveness was coming from my tone with my words. \u00a0We could resolve issues in that moment or later moments after we&#8217;d cooled down.<\/p>\n<p>I learned how to NURTURE their interests by paying ATTENTION not to what I needed, but to \u00a0what they needed at their various ages and stages.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that when I said &#8220;YES&#8221; and the times I had to say &#8220;NO&#8221; that I ensured a WHY went along with it. Our values are hidden here, and often get missed.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to APOLOGIZE for my mistakes and missteps so that one day they would come forward to take responsibility for theirs.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that a child needs to feel SAFE inside themselves with who they are in order to face the outer world without falling apart.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to BE LOVE and give them the nurturing SUPPORT they needed because they are children needing a divine mother to believe in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I took this to be my RESPONSIBILITY.<\/p>\n<p>It does not spoil a child when you are kind and respectful. They do not feel entitled when they have a role model who they see working hard, and treats them with love, patience and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Trusting themselves is their journey, but if I didn&#8217;t trust them, and truly believe in them, how could they?<\/p>\n<h4>3 Young Adults &#8211; Happy, Healthy, and Thriving<\/h4>\n<p>What came back is beyond my wildest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The precious moments we share every day. The laughter and learning. The good times and sad times.<\/p>\n<p>The conversations!<\/p>\n<p>All 3 feels a sense of purpose in how they feel called BE and what feels right to DO.<\/p>\n<p>All 3 are actively pursuing their passions &#8211; what makes them feel alive.<\/p>\n<p>We are very close because they want to share things with me without me asking!<\/p>\n<p>I learned how not to nag them &#8211; I think this is a life skill that could fill a whole book!<\/p>\n<p>Emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually, they are <a href=\"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/the-truth-about-being-healthy-in-mind-body-soul-with-spirit\/\">healthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, they are kind, compassionate, and want to create something meaningful in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>They want a better world. They see what&#8217;s wrong out there. We all do.<\/p>\n<p>They are hard working, determined and self-disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>I get embarrassed to share the things they do and say here at home &#8211; like &#8220;I LOVE my LIFE!&#8221; and &lt;gulp&gt; &#8220;You&#8217;re the Best Mom!&#8221; followed by a huge hug.<\/p>\n<p>I feel SO blessed, and want to celebrate the qualities of what it means to BE A MOTHER &#8211; a DIVINE mother.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for my mother who instilled hard work, kindness and respect. It gave me a necessary foundation to trust myself.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel you were missing qualities you needed growing up, know that they are available to everyone through the Mother Spirit that&#8217;s always been here for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>She is the spark of life when life begins on a planet. It&#8217;s what humans cannot ever create out of nothing. It&#8217;s what you experience in nature, in all the creatures big and small when you pay attention to how life evolves&#8230;it&#8217;s in us because we were born from this same Divine Mother Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>When your mom became a mother, she did her best to give this same spirt to you, but we can also access these qualities within us since we were born of the Holy Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>Once you do, you carry the Divinity of this Mother Spark that you can bring to others who need support &#8211; big or small.<\/p>\n<p>What comes back feels like nothing short of a miracle.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8068\" src=\"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/motherday2021-e1620924943474.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe there&#8217;s a divine mother in each one of you. Let&#8217;s talk about it.. We all have a mother. Some of us become mothers. When I became a mother what struck me was &#8220;My God&#8230;we created a life&#8221;. A whole perfect human being. 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