“I am bound to them, though I cannot look into their eyes or hear their voices. I honor their history. I cherish their lives. I will tell their story. I will remember them.”
~ Author Unknown
We carry the roots of who we are in the lineage of our family tree. We are blessed by the strengths and limitations of our ancestors. We carry that lineage into our day as a force out of the past that propels us forward. When we can explore the stories of those who came before us, the unconscious patterns become conscious. “I’m just like them,” you might suddenly realize. “I do that too.”
When I see the strengths, courage, and perseverance of my ancestors, I feel infused with that strength to survive whatever obstacles I face. When I see a pattern of limitation that I carry forward, I feel the lineage give me strength to say, “It is time for another way.” Whether you carry their gift forward or acknowledge a limitation, you now have a choice to create a new legacy for the generations to come.
There is a healing that happens as I have explored the forces in the past that push me forward. In crafting the personal stories that explore the history of my past and my lineage, I extract meaning. To paraphrase, Natalie Goldberg, author of books on memoir, “Why wait until you are old to make sense of your life.” My stories create a vehicle to gift that experience to others for them to extract their own wisdom within the context of their own lives.
Ancestral Medicine
In the context of story, I understand how we can heal the past family burdens to create present-day blessings. There are many ways to honor our ancestors and heal the past, including sacred ceremony and intention. Ancestral Medicine offers ways to work with our lineage to heal the past.
No matter who we are, we all walk through life carrying the burdens and blessings of our ancestors within us.
Current research suggests that our very DNA can hold the traumas of our ancestors and even increase the likelihood that we’ll develop stress or anxiety disorders.
The good news is that there’s something you can do to help mitigate these inherited patterns and to draw from the wisdom that’s available to you through your connection with your ancestors.
Upcoming Online Event
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, psychotherapist and ancestral healing teacher Daniel Foor will introduce the practice of ancestral medicine — and show you how to connect with your ancestral family guides to transform intergenerational burdens into ancestral blessings.
You can find out more about Ancestral Medicine: Discover How to Heal Family Burdens & Reclaim the Blessings of Your Lineage and reserve your spot for FREE here. Listen LIVE or to the recording.
- Discover ancestral medicine and how it can help you heal yourself, your family, and your community
- Understand how connecting with guides along your bloodlines can transform how you see yourself and your connections to your ancestral inheritance
- Explore how emotional, physical, and spiritual suffering passed down through troubled ancestors is a kind of connection — and how it can be transformed
- Be given ways to view your blood family as a resource for goodness, healing, wisdom, and belonging
- Experience a short practice to claim ancestral blessings
- Weaving his background as a doctor of psychology with his personal commitment to cultural healing work for social and earth justice, Daniel offers us a path that goes deep into the past to bring its blessings and transformative revelations into the present — and to future generations and communities.
Book: Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor, PhD
