Reiki and Healing Our Ancestors

[Shallah Kali]

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During this process I have become keenly aware of the energetic effect that my ancestors have on who I am, and also the energetic effect that I have on my children. I recognize now that I have been holding genetic coding from my ancestors, which affects my cellular memory, and in turn influences the patterns in my subtle energy system. Therefore, I make choices in my life based in part on the beliefs, experiences, feelings and thoughts of my ancestors.

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Let me give you an example. I learned that many of my issues involving self-worth, prosperity, and work ethics go back through many generations. Although I feel that I have come a long way in healing them, I still see traces of these issues in my life daily. I have been sending healing to my guides, masters, and ancestors. Through this process I am developing clarity on healing issues that some of my ancestors did not complete in their lifetime, and thus passed on to me genetically.

Many of our parents and grandparents lived through the Depression in the 1930's, and I imagine some of you reading this did also. Living in that time created much fear for the ability to survive. It also brought up self-worth issues for many and created a workaholic consciousness in some. Many people felt powerless to change their circumstances. Whenever there is a sense of powerlessness it is based on a fundamental belief in separateness from the Divine, or perhaps an abandonment by one's own spiritual guidance. Only through reconnecting with that personal Divine power can such a belief system be healed.

One day while I was sending healing energies to my ancestors I felt a particularly strong connection to my paternal Grandmother. She lived the nightmare of the Depression when she and her family lost everything they owned except a piece of land in Illinois. For a period of time they lived in a small barn on their property, and they farmed the land to feed themselves and help their neighbors. The earth sustained them through this difficult time, and ultimately they were able to re-establish financial stability. However, this experience further instilled several beliefs in my grandmother, who already had lived through some very challenging times as a child. During this healing session I felt her fear, sense of hopelessness, unworthiness, and I also felt the anchoring of the belief that life is hard, and that we must work very hard for everything we receive.

I have seen in myself and my family the effect of these familial thoughtforms played out many times. Have you ever caught yourself acting and saying things like your parents - even things you swore you would never do? I know I have caught myself wondering why my Mother's words were coming out of my mouth in times of stress which had me going :WTF: :crazy: I have mentioned her before a key phrase my Mother would exclaim when worn to a frazzle "I don't know why I bother! I might as well give up!" that I caught myself repeating. When I asked my Mother about why she said this she didn't even recall ever saying it when I can remember it being used right back to elementary school at least. She did however remember her Dad saying it constantly.

I have also found other odd things that somehow have been carried on in my from my biological family who I had no contact with until I was in late teens. I doubt there is a gene that makes me prefer silver to gold and (apologies to the vegetarians here) white meat chicken & turkey to the dark, both very unlike my adopted family but prevalent in my maternal biological family. I know a woman who when she met her biological Mother found out ran a bed and breakfast just like she had been dreaming of, had previously worked in posisition the woman was currently considering and breeding Himalayan cats while the woman I knew wanted to raise Siamese.

I have read that some belive that there is such thing as family agreements that pass from generation to generation that if you are born into this family you must have a certain disease or certain things must occur. I don't know if this is true or not but just in case after reading of the possibility I have affirmed many times that I wish to break any such contracts or agreements from my biological family, my adoptive family, and any other group that I am part of that does not serve my highest good. I did feel a sense of relief the first few times I did that so maybe I really released something :)