Healing Your Ancestral Patterns

This is an updated edition of a book first published in 1997. It is based partly on research and partly on personal experience and the basis that we need to understand all the factors that have been woven into our lives, whether through inheritance or environment. Accessing ancestral patterns provides a further avenue of exploration for healing that can potentially affect future generations as well. The first part maps the territory historically and cross-culturally, while the second gives practical guidance to healing the family tree. There are a couple of fascinating case histories containing highly evidential items of information and in some cases apparent reincarnation within the same family. The reader learns to construct a 'genogram' of individuals and their patterns, illustrated with the Kennedy and Jung families. Personal awareness is the first stage of change. Various exercises are given to access the Higher Self and gain insight into family patterns. It is important for ancestors to feel acknowledged, understood and forgiven. There may also be a need to balance certain patterns within oneself. In addition, place may perform a significant role. It is also interesting in this context to note the extraordinary healing of near-death experiencer Anita Moorjani, which shows that bodily patterns can be completely transformed through contact with a higher order of existence. The appendix provides a timely update on epigenetics. This is a sound guide to an interesting area of healing.