Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Ancestral Alchemy: Get Help from Your Family LIneage

Ancestors, shmancestors!  We are Americans--many of us are only connected back two or three generations.  The dominant culture here is about living in the present, with some honoring of the past...but ancestors?

By contrast, in many cultures, especially in African and many indigenous cultures, this way of living with no connection to, or feeling for our ancestors, we would be considered "lost" or "like orphans".  We would be seen spiritually and literally impoverished and cut off from the flow of blessings and life force energy.  Chinese medicine even has a name for this type of chi or life energy--the kind we inherit from our parents and our ancestry.

We receive life force energy from our lineage, and we also carry physical and emotional issues.  These issues we are carrying are hard to identify and even then, what do you do about them?  There is a lot that can be done, actually, and it's way beyond the reach of conventional talk therapies. 

We can tap into the collective intelligence of  person's family system--with permission and a healing intention--and access information that would otherwise remain hidden.  This can be done through rituals and through a whole body of work, created by Bert Hellinger and now offered around the world, called Family Constellations therapy.

Hellinger was very influenced by the Zulu people among whom he served.  Family Constellations work is psycho-spiritual work done in group sessions designed to heal imbalances in the family system.  (The system includes parents, grandparents, ancestors, and others who have had a significant influence on family members).   

We are now blessed to have the Family System Resonance Repatterning work based on the Constellations work so we can offer this healing not only in groups but also one on one.   

The depth of this work is hard to explain but can be felt tangibly in your cells, in your bone marrow.  It has changed my life and the lives of many and healed long-standing patterns that did not respond to more traditional therapies and healing work.

This work and my studies of Vedic ancestral healing, form the basis of Ancestral Alchemy work.  With Ancestral Alchemy we look at possible financial, relationship or health issues you are carrying from your family or ethnic history. These Ancestral issues can block your greatest good in any area of life. 

I focus on the Ancestral work at this time of year because it's the natural calendar as we move from late summer into fall, the season of letting go.  In the Jewish calendar we are now in the month of Elul, a time of great introspection leading up to the high holy days.  In the Vedic tradition, September is the time of Pitru Paksha when ancestors are honored with ceremony and in meditation. 

So it's a powerful time of year....why not use these energies to move yourself forward and free yourself from generational layers that are holding you back? 

Ancestral Alchemy for Prosperity sessions are on 8/29 and 9/5 with a special bonus session on 9/8.  Learn more here at www.repattern.com/Ancestral_Alchemy.shtml

Prosperity and ancestral blessings to you,
Ellen