Ancestral Healing Pt 4: Trauma, Honor, and Connection
In an effort to find a deeper understanding of how my ancestors have influenced who I am today, I spent the last year researching, attending webinars, reading blogs, articles, books etc. I stumbled upon contradictory concepts, and delved into the many healing modalities such as Qi gong, biofield tuning, the evolution of the relationship between therapist and client, shamanism, energetic clearing practices, crystal healing, death rituals, the list goes on.
I can honestly say I’m “gemini-obsessed” when it comes to this subject matter.
But the main concepts I found in common among most of these teachings are this:
We are all energetically connected to our ancestors. Specifically familial as well as cultural (previously mentioned in Part 1 of this blog series).
Some of your troubles are not your own. They may be the energies of ancestors still connected to this world via your existence.
Not all who pass have the opportunity to tie up loose ends. Many have unfinished business and sometimes we physically bear the brunt of that.
It is not your responsibility to live out all of the residual issues of your ancestors.
But if you’re aware of this, you can aid them in letting go.
There are so many ways to heal; you just have to choose which modality works best for you.
When you do the work, you not only clear the trauma of your ancestors but also clear the way for descendants to come.
Western culture has devolved the human experience in a sense that we are often uncomfortable dealing with death in any capacity. We separate ourselves from our elderly, we are conditioned to believe we are all individuals, separate from one another, our family lineage, our community. We spend less time connecting with each other, ourselves, nature and in turn, do not honor those who have passed.
After collecting and analyzing stories my parents have shared of their own experiences as well as that of my grandparents, I discovered that there are a few family tragedies that I have unknowingly agreed to carry in my own body causing me chronic pain and discomfort mentioned earlier in this series.
So I ask you: How many of us are unaware of this phenomenon and so desperately need healing in order to move forward in life?
More specifically, how can I heal this heart and throat chakra blockage if I don’t feel it as my own? If I named and processed my own trauma, why am I still inflicted? Who in my family experienced such trauma related to these chakras/emotional themes/areas of the body and how can I clear them?
Before you dig up the family tree in search of answers to these questions, know this:
You don’t have to know the origin of the pain in order to release it.
That’s my gift to you.
