Ancestral Healing Pt 3: Breaking the Karma Loop

While on this journey of self discovery and energetic healing modalities, I found myself in a conversation with my brother about breaking through our own personal glass ceilings. He expressed to me that in an attempt to progress, he kept finding himself repeating the same cycle and never breaking through this invisible barrier. 

As a WOC, I immediately related to the sentiment. I know anything is possible for people just like me. In the past, I’d witnessed others reach levels of success by breaking the socio-economic barriers that exist in this country but I had yet to understand why I was still where I was.

That is, until I unwittingly took on the daunting task of processing ancestral trauma. I explained my journey thus far to my brother and then offered him some tools that I had used to break free from my own karma loop. Energetically speaking, I extended a hand to my brother and asked if he will unpack this familial trauma with me and he said yes. 

Nothing like some good old fashioned sibling solidarity. 

Just bringing an awareness to issues we have been living with our entire lives, becoming cognizant of what they are but not sure how the issues became our own, has intrigued me over the last year or so. As someone surrounded by geminis (mom, dad, brother and partner--but that's an entirely different blog post) I have picked up the habit of developing intellectual fixations. The need to (obsessively) dissect and fully understand how something works is an integral part of my being. So the first thing I did was create a workbook that is an introduction to understanding the self in various types of relationships.

The Inner Wisdom Workbook, a self study program I designed to awaken you to your intuition, combines practical writing exercises with intuitive practices in the framework of ritual, in order to provide a deeper understanding of the self. 

Granted, the workbook doesn’t specifically dive into ancestral wounds and how to heal them but it does show us how much influence our parental relationships have on how we value ourselves, our relationship to money and so much more. 

Since creating this self study program, I have ignited conversations with peers and friends on the subject matter which lead to my own meditative practice centered around letting go of what is not my own through visualization and crystal healing in combination with Reiki to release the energetic blockages that have kept me from reaching my full potential.

I’ve found relief and success through experimentation but more research must be done…