Ancestral healing can be many things depending on what is needed by the family system.
It can be as simple as acknowledging and honoring the love, joy, and triumphs of our ancestors along with their pain and struggles. When we offer compassionate witness, wounds and patterns come out into the light for healing.
Each family lineage carries gifts which have been forgotten. We can call on the collective resilience, wisdom and strength of our ancestors. We might reclaim healing abilities and practices that have been lost in recent generations. Our ancestors may have had gifts of sight, plant medicine, or folk magick. By remembering these gifts, we are healing the lineage and restoring part of its light.
It’s also ancestral healing when one member of the family steps up and says, “No more!” The cycle of abuse or addiction stops with them and their children and grandchildren are free to have a different experience.
In family systems that have moved away from their geographic roots, there can be a profound sense of grief. Depending on how the relocation happened there can be trauma carried in the lineage – especially if it was not by choice such as slavery, war, or loss of land. Even when the choice was made with free will (such as famine or for better opportunity), there is still pain. Energetically reconnecting to the ancestral homeland soothes the yearning for home.
Any of the shamanic healing techniques can also be used to heal wounds in the family lineage:
* soul retrieval to return the missing ancestral soul essence to the lineage
* soul retrieval to untangle generations of soul theft and restore stolen soul essence
* agreement unraveling to release limiting tribal beliefs/family agreements
* extraction to release the red thread of dysfunctional energy from the family
* curse unraveling to release family curses
* compassionate depossession to release ancestors (or other suffering beings) stalking the family lineage as hungry ghosts
As we offer ourselves as a channel of transformation for our family, the ancestors open to receive the healing they never got during their lifetime. As we experience the ancestors and the family energy system shifting into a more balanced place, we have a greater sense of peace and a more heart-centered connection to family. The healing ripples out to the ancestors, the current generations, and the generations yet to come.
This work is real, and it matters.
November 23, 2021