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"We all have ancestors - real people who lived, breathed and experienced life, with similar emotions and feelings as ourselves. In some cases our forebears would have had happy, fulfilled lives; in others they would have died with feelings of guilt, anger, resentment, fear or remorse. You are the product of your ancestors, and something of the complex tapestry of their lives is part of you."
David Furlong, "Healing Your Family Patterns"
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This really is the most extraordinary form of healing that is highly relevant and beneficial in our age of stressful and changing lives.
What is ancestral healing?
We may not have known our ancestors, but their negative patterns and influences run within us at the deepest cellular and energetic level. Ancestral healing is about healing these patterns and influences and, in doing so, making fundamental changes in the present - not only for ourselves, but for other members of our family.
What are we healing?
An ancestor may have had a physical, spiritual or emotional issue, suffered great loss, been adopted, bereaved or abandoned, or had damaging relationship conflicts that carried down (through 'nature' and 'nurture') a family line.
Or possibly you know little about them, but have relationship problems, family conflicts or other issues in your own experience which haven't been understood or resolved. These are all aspects of experience that, if not dealt with, can in some way have a negative karmic impact on subsequent generations.
What does ancestral healing involve?
in ancestral healing, unless there is an earlier significant ancestor dominating the family line, we usually focus on the 3 generations before you, as these are most directly influential. So I'll ask you to bring along to the session a simplified family tree of your nearest ancestors, including parents, grandparents and great-grandparents where known (including any 'step' ones) and noting any that have gone through difficult experiences, relationships or other problems. I'll also invite you to bring any photos or mementos of your ancestors, including those of supportive, loving ones.
Once we have identified the earliest ancestors and talked about some of the issues involved, we will work intuitively and therapeutically together with each in turn, until the energy is cleared and we can complete the healing.
What techniques are used?
Because releasing the negative karma of our ancestors can mean dealing with 'snapshots' of difficult events in their lives, especially when they were a child themselves, an ancestral healing session can include any number of therapeutic and healing tools, including visualisation, guided imagery, hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, Gestalt, EMDR (trauma processing), NLP and EFT, Inner Child healing, past life therapy, journeying and spirit release. For more information about each of these, visit the Therapy page.
How long does ancestral healing take?
An ancestral healing session lasts around 2 hours. With more complex family patterns, several sessions may be needed over a period of time, but it is entirely up to you and the benefits you start experiencing from it.
What changes can I expect?
Changes can be dramatic or subtle and, where there are current issues, depend on the soul choices of those concerned. Where energy has ben cleared there can be a rapid improvement in energy within family dynamics. Additional benefits can include a reduction in symptoms, resolution of problems and even unexpected phone calls from distant or estranged family members, depending on the issues resolved.
Why is ancestral healing so special?
Connecting with our ancestors - those families of our past who we may never have known personally and yet their lives and blood so intimately connected with us - is an extraordinary privilege and blessing - a gift of sharing and unconditional love. When we connect in this way with them and help to release their pain, we share their empowering grateful presence, a sense of release and upliftment, and can notice immediate tangible benefits within ourselves, our family and our relationships. If you are drawn to ancestral healing, you will discover there really is no other healing or therapy quite like it.
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"The parent/child connection manifests as one link in a long chain of ancestral karma that stretches back through time... Many find it absurd to think that the actions of an unknown ancestor could possibly have anything to do with what is happening to them today. But time and time again when investigating someone's karma, I find problems that stretch back generations. Their spirit is not just an individual entity, it is also part of the family spirit that births and nurtures it."
(Dr Hiroshi Motoyama, Karma and Reincarnation)
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