Clients interested in ancestral healing often ask me if it will still be effective even if they don’t know much about their family.
I reassure them that they don’t have to know details. Shamanic healing transcends the thinking mind and goes directly to the intuitive, energetic, and spiritual.
If you feel a pull to ancestral healing, it will be effective even if you’re unaware of your family history or cultural heritage. It even works if you’ve been adopted and know nothing about your birth parents. The helping spirits will still bring through the healing that is ready to happen. The ancestors themselves will share their stories in order to heal the original wound in the lineage.
The stories about the traumatic event get erased from the conscious family memory fairly quickly, often within one or two generations. Because of the pain and the sense of shame that arises in talking about the original wound, it is forgotten. But the trauma responses, pain, and maladaptive coping mechanisms continue until they are cleared from the family energy field.
When the heavy burden is shifted, the family energy system opens up and makes space for the family to return to greater balance. The healing ripples out to the ancestors, the current generations, and the generations yet to come.
This work is real, and it matters.
July 27, 2021