How to Be a Mindful Mama

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ileana Abrev, author of the new Mindful Mama.

Speculations continue about whether maternal feelings are spiritual, bodily, or environmental in nature and cause. Regardless of from where these feelings arise, the maternal essence is there. This essence resides within a woman from the moment she is born. Over time, it grows just as brightly as a lotus flower. I like to believe that each petal is a stage of the essence that makes as women, mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, granddaughters, partners, wives, aunts, stepmoms, and even in adopted parents.

Writing Mindful Mama has given me further insight into nurturing life and the power we have as women. We care for the physical life that is growing within our womb. We look after our physical well-being, but often we tend to forget the emotional food we give to our unborn child who not only feeds nutritiously from its mother but emotionally as well.

When we find out we are pregnant, we start making a list of the things we need to be doing and eating. Our shopping list is full of healthy foods that are nutritiously good for the baby and us. We also follow an exercise routine, which is recommended by our medical provider. But we get so worked up about the physical side of the pregnancy that we tend to forget the shopping list for the emotional stability from which our child will feed.

I suggest you to make an emotional shopping list that is something like this:

Monday: I will tell my baby, “I’m looking forward to being your mother.”

Tuesday: Today I will send nothing but happy thoughts to my baby. I will think of the good things in my life and the things my baby will look forward to by being a part of our family.

Wednesday: I will meditate on a healthy and a positive emotional womb experience. I will send nothing but love and peace to my womb.

Thursday: My mantra for the day is, “My baby is nurtured by the good things within me.”

Friday: I will talk to my baby and tell it stories of my childhood and the positive and bright future it will have.

Saturday: Today, I will let go of the things that bother and stress me so that my baby doesn’t carry my insecurities into its future.

Sunday: I will look forward to my next week of pregnancy with nothing but joy, laughter, peace of mind, and spiritual enlightenment. I will not stress about the things over which I have no control. I will not catastrophize present situations and handle them with ease and comfort while letting my baby know that “All is good and is as it should be.”

Each week, make a different emotional list, tweak it until you get it right with nothing but good things that feed on love and comfort so that your baby can have a happy womb experience. Let your baby feed on nothing but goodness and positive energy.

I wrote Mindful Mama to give my daughter the tools to her own journey into creating and nurturing life herself. She is now pregnant and making her emotional list and guides herself with my copy of Mindful Mama. She is enjoying a new way of nurturing life with nothing but positive affirmations, meditations, crystals, candles, safe essential oils, music to soothe the soul, colour therapy, and balancing her chakras for a mindful pregnancy.

Nurturing life is one of the most wondrous experiences we as women will ever go through. The light essence growing within a woman’s womb is nothing short of a miracle. We can hold this essence close to our heart. When we do, we are able to be the mother we always wanted to be. Our child, in turn, will be an adult who is healthy, true to his/her emotions and a spiritual well-grounded human being.

Our thanks to Ileana for her guest post! For more from Ileana Abrev, read her article “A New Age of Spiritual Pregnancy: Tips for a Happy Womb Experience.”