WHY I DO ANCESTRAL HEALING
Lynn shares why we all need ancestral healing
ANCESTRAL HEALING FOR PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
There is an ancient wisdom of ancestral healing that has been practised for thousands and thousands of years. It can be reignited today to help liberate our generational family.
About Ancestral Healing
When we invite our GREAT and HEALTHY ancestors from long ago to heal our lives, we heal our past, present, and future and all the members of our family tree in the past, present and future.
Ancestors refer to anyone from whom you have descended in your mothers, fathers, mother’s father and father’s mother lineages.
The Healthy and Great Ancestors are those who once lived well, died well and have elevated to a high vibration in the afterlife. They lived before the 'trauma time' came when we were separated from Mother Earth, her seasons and cycles and elements. They lived in thriving communities before the mass migrations and forced dispossession of the Industrial Revolution and Wars.
Relatives who have recently died (last seven generations) may not always be healthy ancestors (not yet anyway), nor ready to heal their descendants.
Sometimes their living descendants carry the recent dead’s physical/emotional or mental wounds that they passed on when they died, leaving unresolved issues in the family tree for a descendant to resolve. The impact of war, disease, guilt, anger, grief, physical illness or sudden death can leave their mark on the descendants.
“Forgiveness, a common component of family healing and ancestral repair work promotes greater physical and mental health”. Daniel Foor
Healing refers to the act of making healthy one’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual life.
When we work with our healthy ancestors by showing them respect through ritual and prayers, we not only ensure all our healthy and unhealthy ancestors become well, but the outcome for us is to heal ourselves and those living relatives in our extended family.
When we heal our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual traumas, illnesses and shortcomings, we will affect all our family members because family patterns don’t exist in a vacuum.
WHO PRACTICES ANCESTRAL HEALING?
For thousands of generations, the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks along with the Celtic and Gaelic cultures practised ancestral reverence. At the same time, it was and continues to be a significant aspect of many First Nations cultures such as First Nations Americans, Canadian First Nations, First Nations Australians, and Maori Nations.
It continues today to be practised in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Madagascar, China, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, and West and South East African countries including Senegal and Gambia.
It is also a component of the major religions of Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Christianity. The “communion of saints” refers to those who have passed away and those who can advocate God for humans.
The Church has incorporated All Saints Day to remember the dead and regularly offers prayers for those who have passed away. The celebration of Halloween emerged from the tradition of remembering the dead on the eve of All Saints day known as “All Hallows Eve (Hallowe’en).
In all these instances, ancestral reverence (not worship) is considered a necessary part of holistic health for both for the living and the dead.
Amongst these cultures and religions, ancestors occupy a position of dignity and respect among their descendants.
BENEFITS OF ANCESTRAL HEALING
Your Great and Healthy Ancestors ( if called upon and asked), have the power to heal your body, spirit, mind and emotions. Ancestral healing helps to build a strong anchor to who we are, our identity and where we have come from, as well of course to encourage a greater understanding of where we will be going in the next life.
This knowing that one has healthy family spirits can bring security, guidance, a greater sense of belonging, completeness and purpose to one’s life.
Healing the "stuck trauma” in our ancestral lineages can also heal our physical and emotional bodies as the trauma can be present in our DNA causing pain and disease in our bodies that do not ‘belong’ to us.
What I’ve learned from my own experience, training, and clinical practice is that the answers to our emotional spiritual or physical issues and problems may not lie within our own story, as much as in the stories of our parents, grandparents, and even our great-grandparents.
The latest scientific research called EPIGENETICS also shows us that the effects of trauma can pass from one generation to the next. This family “bequest” is known as inherited family trauma, and emerging evidence suggests that it is a genuine phenomenon. Pain does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time.
"Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, even if his or her story lies submerged in years of silence, fragments of life experience, memory, and body sensation can live on, as if reaching out from the past to find resolution in the minds and bodies of those living in the present. "(M. Wolynn)