Ancestral Healing

How often do you think about your ties to your descendants.  It has been said that "We are the dreams of our Ancestors".  I know that my children, my descendants  are my dreams, I dream about their futures and what I can do to make their futures bright . . . as a father that's one of my "jobs".

Now, how often do you look the other direction, into your past.  When I do that I discover that many times my ancestors are my nightmares.  I see many of the traits that I disliked in my parents and grandparents in me.  Things like health issues (genetic bad back for example), my father's impatience, my grandmother's need to control . . . and the list goes on and on.  I wonder from whom did my father get his impatience, was it his grandfather, or maybe his great grandmother.  I don't know, but genetics and personality traits seem to be passed down from generation to generation.  Until we become free of the past, the past is controlling us and at best we have partial freedom of choice.

Unresolved history and suffering is passed down from generation-to-generation and is held in our ancestral lines. This cumulative energy affects our lives today. And, if we don't do something about the unresolved energy from our ancestors then we are likely to pass it forward to the next generation.  All of us have the choice of unconsciously repeating the patterns of our ancestors or we can heal them. Through healing the ancestral lines, cutting our cords with the past,  we free own health and well-being from the repetition of the past. Once we free ourselves from the influences of the past our freedom of choice is restored and we better reconnect with our souls' unique purposes.  

Ancestral Healing is a lessor-known but essential shamanic healing form. You can follow the instructions below and undertake an ancestral healing shamanic journey alone or contact me and I can guide you through the process.

• ​Set aside 30 to 40 minutes (or more) for a shamanic journey. You will need the typical tools for journeying like a drumming CD, a quiet place, light blanket, an eye cover like a bandanna, and a family issue that you would like to heal.  Keep your journal handy.  Light a candle nearby to mark the sacredness of the process a call on your your spirit guide to be with you on your journey.​

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• Journey to the lower world in your usual way and meet up with your power animal.  Ask your power animal to take you to meet your ancestral guide.  The role of the ancestral guide is to direct and oversee the healing of the family line.  After you meet your ancestral guide you might want to have a short conversation with her or him to find out why he or she has come forward as the chosen representative of your lineage.

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• Share your issue with your ancestral guide and ask the guide to take you to meet with family members who have had direct experience with this matter.  Ask these family members to identify themselves if you con't recognize them.  You might be interacting with the energy of a family member from ten generations past and thus may not know the person.

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• Interview each family member who appears to uncover his or her particular viewpoint or involvement in the issue.  Your goal is to uncover any particular aspect of the issue that the family kept secret. Secrets have tremendous energy and help perpetuate problems and .  Ask family members about their regrets and what legacies they would have preferred to leave behind.

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• Return to your guide and ask that you be allowed to stand in as the representative of your family in the healing of the issue.  Your guide will direct you through a healing process and your power animal will help you as necessary.  This process may involve immersion in water, burning, burial or the disassembling and reassembling of your body parts (sort of like having your engine rebuilt), or the cutting of energetic ties to family issues while you are in the lower world on your journey.  in the past I have been given a knife or short Celtic sword with which to cut vines that have entangled me and that had been keeping me connected to an ancestral issue.  Trust your guide to know the best way to dissolve the ancestral issue or connection.

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• When the healing and restoration of your body has ended in the journey, thank your guides and family members for their help.  Ask if there is anything else you need to understand before you go.

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• Answer the callback of the drumbeat by returning to the room. 

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• ​Record the findings and experience of your journey.​

I wish you a successful journey and increased freedom of choice as you move forward.  Please contact me if you would like to schedule a session.