Are Ancestral Issues YOUR problem?
learning how you can heal your ancestral trauma is the best way to support your own well-being
Signs you may be carrying ancestral energy:
Recurring emotional patterns you can't explain
Health challenges with no clear medical cause
Feeling "stuck" despite years of therapy
Financial issues
Creative blocks
Floating anxiety
Illogical fears
Feeling you’ve been cursed by life
ANCESTRAL HEALING has become a popular topic lately, especially on college campuses where students call for acknowledgment of the indigenous lands their schools were built on. It's a beautiful sign that consciousness is shifting. But the truth runs deeper than public gestures: We are all, every day, carrying and transmitting the unresolved energies of our ancestors.
Inspired by the teachings of Mokiti Okada, who is recognized as the founder of the Japanese healing technique called Johrei, I’ve come to understand that each human being on this planet is connected by isacred spiritual cords to their entire ancestral lineage.
We couldn’t cut ourselves off from these cords if we wanted to.
However, we can learn what our role is in our lineage and how we can become agents of healing to our ancestors.
Why do our ancestors even need healing?
The evidence is often right in front of us — in our own lives.
If you’ve had any therapy, you know we absorb all sorts of emotional patterns from our parents. And they , their parents, and so on. The excellent Netflix movie “Adolescence” is a brutally honest look at how even when you want to end the flow of trauma, you will never succeed without deep healing, awareness, and commitment.
Even if we consciously resist becoming like our parents, unresolved emotional patterns often seep through. You might recognize this if you've done self-growth work, or even just reflected on how certain family dynamics seem to repeat themselves. True healing requires more than insight. It requires a shift at the energetic level.
That’s where energy healing comes in.
Energy healing — in the way I practice it — penetrates your energy field and, by connection, is sent to your ancestors.
As your ancestors heal, they can send light and strength back to you.
This may seem unbelievable to you. But I’ve had so many experiences with clients where major breakthroughs happened when their ancestors were welcomed into the energetic space. Even in Zoom groups with cancer survivors — afterwards, every single person felt lighter, as if burdens had been lifted. Many felt the loving presence of their ancestors around them.
One example:
When I was training to be a hospital chaplain, I entered a patients’ room to find him up and awake and eager to talk, even though it was late at night. He was a man in his late 30s whom the doctor had said had the pancreas of an alcoholic. Shocked, he’d told them the truth — he never drank. When he told me he was Zen Buddhist and used to sitting still, I asked him if he would like to try this healing technique called Johrei. I briefly explained how sometimes we suffer because our ancestors are suffering and maybe this process could help.
When we finished the 15-minute session, I noticed he had tears in his eyes. When I asked him how he was, he said, “Now I know why I’ve been suffering.”
His mother he told me, had been an alcoholic and had for his whole life abused him, physically and emotionally; finally he stopped talking to her a few years before her death. He went on to say, without my even prompting him, how he now understood that blocking himself energetically from his mother yet holding on to deep rage and resentment , had made him more susceptible to the intergenerational trauma, which had finally manifested in HIS body. .
“Now I know what I have to do to heal.”
He understood that his real path of healing, even more important than any medicine, was to come to terms with that maternal abuse and release himself — through forgiveness. First and foremost, to himself, and then to her. I didn’t even prompt him to say that.
His own heart intelligence had spoken to him.
On one hand, I was astonished that a 15-minute session could reveal this. On the other hand,t his is the power of energy healing as I practice it. .
Through the work, the natural intelligence of one’s heart and body are revealed.
If you are interested in working with your ancestors, either in private session, or in group workshops, please contact me.
