What is the Best Way to Heal Generational Trauma?
Generational Trauma can be simple, or it can be complex and nuanced. We take a variety of approaches depending on the energetic spiritual cause.
What is the Best Way to Heal Generational Trauma?
Short Answer
It depends on the nature of the trauma and where and how it began!
Long Answer
Generational Trauma can stem from a single event. More often, it is layered and complex with many contributing factors that develop and multiply over time and generations.
Dislaimer: I am not a therapist or a trauma specialist. As a spiritual healer, I assess and treat the spiritual energetics of trauma.
From an animistic perspective, generational trauma, trauma that is STILL reverberating down the generations, is usually caused by a curse or oath, a possessing spirit, or both. It can also be caused by a generational entanglement, that is, a soul agreement where a living descendant takes on the burdens, trauma, and unfinished business of an ancestor.
In either case, there is an unresolved energy somewhere far back in the Ancestral Field which is still bearing down on you and your family.
As a remedy, we look and discover what can be found so that we can use the most effective methods of healing.
Examples of Generational Trauma from my own Family System and their remedies
Here are three potent examples of generational trauma from my own family system and how they were resolved differently:
In the first instance, an ancestor had made a vow of fealty. The vow went roughly like this: “I and my descendants will always be subject to you and your descendants.” That vow/oath was taken in high ceremony and witnessed by many, many people This vow was acting like a generational curse, requiring it to be unraveled.
In the second case, an Otherworld Being whom my ancestors had a good relationship with got caught up in an innocuous spell of protection cast by another ancestor. As often happens with many such spells, workings, and curses, it morphed over the centuries, turning into a sort of trap for this Being. The result was that the Being became a sort of possessing spirit for the family line as a whole, and their suffering was perceptible by everyone. The Being was subsequently freed through compassionate depossession so that they could continue their existence in peace.
In a systemic constellation, I was shown an entanglement in my family system that I was caught in. The constellation showed how I had tried to live the life of an ancestor and take on their pain for them out of love and loyalty. I tried to live their life for them. Witnessing and recognizing that these burdens (and lives!) were not mine, the facilitator was able to show me that they were not in their rightful place. The facilitator was also able to help the Field return the burdens and the life to their rightful place in the family system so that they no longer rested with me.
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