Glenda Cedarleaf Author, Hypnotherapist, Meditations for Sleep, Relaxation, Healing, Manage Stress, Prepare for Surgery, Pain Management
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  • My Books
    • Who Are You Santa Lucia?
    • A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • Meditative Bedtime Stories
  • Content
    • Healing Imagery for Lyme
    • Testimonials
    • Relax
    • Sleep
    • Journey to Healing Places
    • Spiritual and Archetypal Support
    • Grieving and Letting Go
    • Reconnect with your Inner Child
    • Creativity Meditations
    • Health and Wellness
    • Affirmations
    • Imagine: Bedtime Stories for Adults
    • Intention Focus Empowerment
  • Explore
    • Journey Preparation
    • For Fellow Healers
    • What is Hypnotherapy
    • Trauma: A Case Study
    • Research Article Reprints on Guided Imagery
    • Articles and Videos on Guided Imagery
    • Benefits
    • Affirmations
  • Course
  • Bio
    • Customized Audio
    • What is SoulCollage® ?
  • Listen Clips A-I
    • Affirmations for Well-Being
    • Beginning Again
    • Bedtime Story Sleep Journey
    • Bedtime Story: New Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire and the SageWoman
    • Bedtime Story Claire & Sisters of Assisi
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Grandmother Love
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Spring Inspiration
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Magical Summer Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Autumn Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Day
    • Bedtime Story East O' the Sun
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Solstice Dream
    • Bedtime Story:Gift of the Magi
    • Bedtime Story Rumplestiltskin
    • Bedtime Story: Sleeping Beauty
    • Belly Breathing
    • Blissful Bathtub Meditation
    • Calming Mountain Mindfulness
    • Circle of Support
    • Connecting with Animal Companion
    • Connecting with Your Guardian Angel
    • Connecting with Your Wise Woman
    • Creating an Intention
    • Creativity
    • Divine Embrace
    • Divine Feminine Blessings
    • Ebb & Flow: Breathing with the Ocean
    • Envisioning
    • Fairiy Tales
    • Evening Bedtime Reading
    • Finding Your Healing Place
    • Freedom from Emotional Eating
    • Gratitude Meditation
    • Great Spirit Invocation
    • Grieving With The Rain
    • Guardian Meditation
    • Guided Imagery for Letting Go
    • Guided Imagery for Your "Third Act"
    • Healing Dream
    • Healing Surgery
    • Heartbeat MeditationListenClips
    • Holiday Reading: A Sailor's Gift
    • Holiday Stress Relief
    • Imagery to Meet your Magical Child
    • Inner Child Magical Journey
    • Inner Healer Alchemy
    • Inspired Movement: Becoming Unstuck
    • Intro to Relaxation
  • Listen Clips J-W
    • Journey Through the Chakras
    • LakeHouse Meditation
    • Letting Go Into the Lightness of Your Being
    • Mermaid Magic Meditation
    • Mid-Life Journey
    • Midsommar Meditation with Summer Sounds
    • Mindful Eating and Self-Care Affirmations
    • Mindful Morning Meditation
    • Morning Courage: Medittation/Affirmations
    • Morning Infusion: Come Rise Up Again
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Ocean Sleep Journey
    • Ocean Mindfulness
    • Peaceful Transition
    • Portal of Transformation
    • Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Remember Who I Am
    • River of Relaxation
    • Progressive Relaxation
    • Sacred Flute: Med for Letting Go
    • Shower of Hope
    • Sleep into Dreamtime
    • Sleep into Dreamtime for Children
    • Sleep Lullaby at the Sea
    • SoulCollage Meditations
    • Stories for Your Inner Child
    • Transforming Challenges
    • Transforming Pain and Discomfort
    • Visualizing Recovery from Illness
    • Your Peaceful Interlude
    • Your Healing Journey
    • Wash Away
    • When you are hurting:Inner Child Alchemy
  • Blog
    • The long lost sister and a flutist
    • Solstice Siddhartha, Sacred Rest
    • A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • From Shallow to Divine Feminine Presence
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Hope
    • Where Is The Light ?
The Magic of the Mermaid Archetype
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Beginning at age 2,  I survived 4 near drowning experiences over the course of 4 summers. The deep waters called to me. Twice I walked out onto the shore and continued until I was over my head. One summer, I intentionally slipped out of an inner tube, and another summer I took off my life jacket; conscious of a driving desire to just be in the water without constriction.  I don't recall feeling fear, even when I was drowning.
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Maya Miranda my Mermaid Doll
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As I look back on the primal attraction I had to the water, I now see it through the lens of the mermaid archetype.





So, when choosing which Classic Children's stories to record, Hans Christian Anderson's version of The Mermaid was a top choice for me. The symbolism of this tale covers a range of themes, but for me it was the theme of being innately connected with fluidity that especially drew my attention.

​Then, last year, when I broke my ankle,
 I embarked on a healing journey that was guided by my inner child and a wonderful creativity mentor. During this time, I became even more fascinated with the mermaid archetype. I watched a video series on mermaids and then was inspired to created four archetypal dolls for myself:  and the first of those dolls was a mermaid.
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When my leg cast was removed, I was freed from being land-locked and delighted to be able to float and swim underwater once again. 
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This blissful return to the water was something I savored for the rest of the summer. I was in the experience without without needing to analyze it. I felt "called" to the pool  by the mermaid energy embodied within me. I couldn't have asked for a more effective "personal trainer"  to keep me inspired and moving!
 It wasn't until later that the rationale behind this mermaid archetype activation became even clearer to me.  

A quote by Emilie Conrad beautifully articulates this sacred phenomenon,  "
We are basically fluid beings that have arrived on land. All living processes owe their lineage to the movement of water" ....
( The rest of her powerful words are found below).

So, the archetypal image of the mermaid taps into that ancient cellular memory of our innate fluidity. As I age and observe the ways that I become more rigid in my body and in my thinking, I find that the archetype of the mermaid is a powerful reminder to return to the openness and fluidity that brings more joy into my life. I celebrate the power of my inner child and the mermaid archetype to remind me of these truths!


The Guided Meditation, "Mermaid Magic" is written to inspire the experience of settling into this soothing fluid immersion!

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​Emilie Conrad,
founder of Continuum Movement


​For years, I had a recurring image of the movement of fish dissolving into the undulating waves of the ocean, becoming one inseparable reality. I felt that somewhere in a secret long ago, we were all swimming with the very same boundless wave movements of ocean fish, and if only I could discover how to get there,

​the “real” world would be revealed to me.
 

What I saw was how the undulating wave movements of the Haitian prayer became the connecting link to our spiritual bio-world. At last I saw the movement of ocean fish personified in human movement. I knew in that moment that these fluid undulating movements transcended time, place or culture and provided the crucial connection, linking organism to environment as an unbroken whole.

We are basically fluid beings that have arrived on land. All living processes owe their lineage to the movement of water. Our implicate preexistent memory beginning with the first cell, lies in the mysterious deep, quietly undulating, circulating, nourishing this aquatic being on its mission to planet earth. God is not elsewhere, but is moving through our cells and in every part of us with its undulating message. The fluid presence in our bodies is our fundamental environment; we are the moving water brought to land."


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