Mothers & Mothering
“The Drum Is Your Mother” Not only is music associated with The Mother, with our mothers – but especially so is the drum. Marija Gimbutas, drawing on her most extensive analysis of the signs and design patterns that appear repeatedly in the cult objects and painted pottery of Neolithic Europe, writes concerning the Goddess and music about "the intimate relation between the drum and the Goddess." Read More »
“The Pulse, the Mother, Music and Water”
My soul is an enchanted boat.
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.
– Shelley
The pulse, the mother, music and water. Let's see if we can draw all these together. When we think of the word pulse, words invoking fluidity come to us like blood, flow, and waves. One of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) definitions of pulse is "the rhythmical recurrence of... undulations." It gives this illustrative quotation: "like the pulse of the flowing sea." Read More »“Beat versus Pulse”
All music comes from the mother. From the rhythmic pulsation which we felt when inside her, and then later from her cradling and rocking, her lilt and her lullaby. And all love came from her – and all negativity. Within each of us there are two mothers, the one we know who loves us – and the one we fear, the one we must obey: “She who must be obeyed.”
Read More »Video: The Valley Spirit In this free video, Dr. Diamond equates the "Valley Spirit" of Lao Tzu with the mother of love. One in the "Mothers and Mothering" series of videos. Read More »
“The Drive for Life” There are so many procedures and techniques, systems and modalities, all proclaiming themselves as therapy. They are entitled to do so only if, whatever the means whereby, they raise the Life Energy, the Healing Power within the sufferer: if they raise the sufferer’s will to be well, if they enhance his Life Energy. Read More »
“Breast Feeding, Bonding and Myofunctional Therapy” In his book, Myofunctional Therapy in Dental Practice [Bartel Dental Book Company, New York, 1971], Daniel Garliner cites Richard Applebaum’s paper on breast feeding—a paper of unlimited significance. Applebaum gives very explicit instructions on how the baby should be supported while at the breast in order to ensure the best sucking. Read More »
Video: The Re-Mothering Experience
Dr. Diamond discusses the powerful therapy of Re-Mothering and his classic book about it. The book can be purchased here.
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Read More »Video: Everything Is the Mother
Dr. Diamond discusses how everything in our lives relates unconsciously back to our mothers and the start of life. One in the “Mothers and Mothering” series of videos.
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Read More »“The Tide and the Pulse”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,” Shakespeare proclaimed. Not a force or power, or a direction, but a tide.
A tide: ebb and flow, ebb and flow. Movement, always movement; ever changing yet ever recurring. Always advancing through time—to where? To where? Back and forth, round and round, and on and on.
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