Contact your ancestors and learn about your history. You can improve your physical, emotional, and mental well-being by reversing the effects of your inherited qualities and features. Make use of the knowledge and experience of your ancestors as you continue on your spiritual journey. Remove all negative karma from the lives of your children and grandchildren so that they inherit only positive karma.
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How does ancestral healing work?
In the context of a family, long-term ancestor work can aid in the healing of patterns of intergenerational family dysfunction. Families' good spirit can be progressively reclaimed through working with spiritually vibrant forefathers. By doing so, one can begin to comprehend and transcend patterns of trauma and abuse.
How do you get rid of ancestral trauma?
- Recognize any unspoken allegiances to pain or addiction that you may have for your ancestors.
- An inherited trauma facilitator should be sought out (resource below)
It's time for a self-assessment. What kind of memories do you long for? What facets of your personality would you like to explore in greater depth? My job is to assist you recover your destiny and personal power by helping you make peace with your heritage and your childhood so that you can move forward in your life.
What is ancestral lineage healing?
Reconnecting with and nurturing relationships with your own wise and loving ancestors is a spiritually-grounded ritual process known as ancestral lineage healing (ALH).
After decades of being uprooted, oppressed, colonized, and dealing with the lingering effects of cultural wounded, many of us feel disoriented, detached, and desperate for a sense of home. Our families and bodies bear the weight of these hardships, but we also carry the blessings. In the lineage restoration process, a path is opened to your roots so that inherited burdens and gifts can be transformed.
Ritual work, unlike traditional treatment, is an effective and firmly held form of ritual work that enables you to directly access the supporting advice of your blood relatives. Rituals, dreamwork, and offering practices are all part of the process. Prerequisites for this course are not required, but previous experience with inner work and a relationship with spirit guides are both beneficial. One-on-one phone and Zoom sessions are available, as well as support for small continuing study groups. I am a certified practitioner of Dr. Daniel Foor's Ancestral Medicine method, which I have studied extensively.
How do you start ancestral healing?
So how do you get started? Getting started is as simple as creating a family tree that includes your immediate ancestors (or great-grandparents if you have access to that information). Write down any and all traumas each person has experienced next to their name.
What is generational healing?
The importance of Generational Healing cannot be overstated. The physical and energetic traces of one's genetic lineage can be found in one's DNA. You were born with certain qualities, abilities, fears, habits, and issues that have been passed down from generation to generation through your family.
We now know that your physical, emotional, and mental characteristics are influenced by the genetics of your ancestors. The structure of our DNA can be altered by trauma experienced by previous generations, increasing the likelihood that stress and trauma would “turn on” unfavorable responses. Past abuse and trauma can have an impact on hormones and glands of any age. Genes from your ancestors can lead you to have mental or physical difficulties now because of the issues you acquired from them. As painful as they are, they can be healed.
What is soul trauma?
A belief among Shamanistic cultures holds that the soul of a traumatized person is able to leave the body in order to protect itself from overwhelming suffering. Soul Retrieval is a procedure in which members of the community surround a person with unconditional love and safety. The person's spirit is welcomed back into this sacred area, allowing them to reclaim their wholeness.
When Our Coping Strategies Fail
Trauma occurs when our nervous system is overworked and our most primitive coping mechanisms fail. Frozen and dissociated, we are powerless to fight or leave what is threatening us, and the fear is lodged in our body. “Stuck” in the biological state of stress, fear and reactivity can lead to chronic anxiety, depression and addictions as well as the constellation of symptoms known as post-traumatic stress disorder.
It's irrational to choose to disconnect and live in a state of constant anxiety. The limbic system is in charge of this response because our more recently developed brain does not have access to rational thought, compassion, or mindfulness when we are traumatized. We are also unable to benefit from the care and protection that others may be able to provide us when we are traumatized.
Shame, however, is the most agonizing layer of misery that accompanies trauma. We blame ourselves for the manner in which our bodies and nervous systems were able to adapt to survive. The goal of the recovery process is to reawaken compassion for oneself and reestablish a connection with our inherent vitality and a long-forgotten sense of spirituality.
Cultivating Love and Safety
Often, when discussing how to teach meditation, we discuss the importance of bringing kindness and clarity to one's students' experience of the present now. When dealing with trauma, it's critical to remember that replenishing must come first before any direct presence can be offered. We may minimize re-traumatization and enhance the foundation for future transformational work by first cultivating a sense of love and safety.
What is bloodline trauma?
When a group of individuals experience a collective trauma, it can have a long-lasting influence on the succeeding generations of that same group. To put it another way, the psychological trauma that is experienced by a group of people can have a lasting influence on the group's collective memory and sense of identity. The Jewish Holocaust survivors and other members of the Jewish community at the time, and First Peoples of Canada during the Canadian Indian residential school system, were both examples of people suffering from collective trauma. The term transgenerational trauma refers to the effect that this collective trauma has on following generations. If, despite being born after the end of the Holocaust, Jews nonetheless live in constant terror of another genocide, they may be dealing with the effects of transgenerational trauma.
People's cultural identification causes transgenerational trauma, which is a collective experience (e.g., ethnicity, nationality, or religious identity).
Individual families and parentchild dyads are not typically referred to as “collective” families.
As with victims of individual child abuse, those who were directly affected by the collective trauma, as well as those who came after them, may experience symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Despite its youth, this area of study has grown rapidly in recent years.
Through taught behaviors (e.g., from parents), stress before birth, or epigenetic alterations, trauma can be passed down from generation to generation.
What is it called when you worship your ancestors?
People honor the departed, including their ancestors, because they cherish and value those who have passed on. People in various cultures believe that the dead continue to exist after death and may be able to influence the lives of those still alive. Ancestors of the immediate family are revered by some religions. Saints are revered as God's intercessors in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism; the latter also prays for departed souls in Purgatory. The veneration of the dead is considered idolatry and a sin by other religious groups, on the other hand.
It is a practice in many cultures around the world to ask for special favors or assistance from ancestors in order to ensure their well-being and positive outlook on life. Non-religious ancestor veneration serves to foster kinship characteristics such as filial piety, family loyalty, and lineage continuation. The reverence of ancestors continues to be a significant part of many religious traditions today, regardless of the level of social, political, or technological complexity in a society.
What you heal in yourself you heal in your family line?
“You are the dream of all your ancestors,” writes Bert Hellinger, the inventor of Family Constellations.
It's a common theme in my work with Mending Webs that those in this position are the ones that make a big difference.
In Hellinger's words, they are the ones who free the entire family tree from the burden of recurrent problems and stories.
Teaching methods for working with both the roles people play in the family and the system as a whole is a major focus of my Mending Webs workshops
When we work one-on-one with a client, their recovery often moves along much more quickly, and this has a ripple effect across the entire family.
You can overhaul the entire family structure in one session if you work directly with them.
With these fundamental webs (the core parts that make up a person's sense of self) in mind, you may finally interact with them “Everyone in the universe is affected by the phrase “I Am.”
There is some form of dysfunction in the vast majority of families.
There are a lot of tools out there for dealing with dysfunctions, but Mending Webs is one of the most effective I've come across.
Wow, that's a lot of power there!
I've found this statement to be true time and time again: “The healing you bring to yourself is the healing you bring to your entire family tree.”
How do you pray for your ancestors?
Hope and love can only come from God. In the name of our forebears, hear our supplications. May the path they took to find peace and pleasure in you serve as a mirror for us, so that we may find the same serenity and joy in you. Lord, grant them eternal rest, and may your light shine upon them.