Healing Ancestral Patterns

Sometimes, we carry patterns of behaviour or beliefs that have been passed down to us, and often, these are in need of healing. In this track, you will go to the Place of the Ancestors and work with your loving ancestors to heal those patterns within yourself, thus sending that powerful healing backwards and forwards in time through your own lines.

For more Ancestor Work, check out Keziah's "Honouring the Ancestors" course here on Insight Timer.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this session on Healing Ancestral Patterns with me Keziah Gibbons. Please make yourself comfortable in a position that's going to support you and allow you to relax inwards and let go of the outside world. Make sure you're comfortable and well supported and let the sounds around you fade as you turn your attention inwards, Closing your eyes. Make your way down to the deep, Still, Quiet and dark place inside you. The darkest, Quietest, Stillest depths. In this place is a threat, A beautiful threat. Notice the colours, Any scent, The way it makes you feel. Take the thread in your hand and follow it through your internal landscape until you come to the place where it revels into a tapestry. In the tapestry you see the place of the ancestors and mustering your will you step in there and find yourself in the place of the ancestors. Announce your presence and intention to the ancestors. You may wish to light a candle, Offer flowers, Pour a libation or share a song or story. Notice your loving ancestors showing up to support you in your work and sensing into your body. Particularly notice your breathing and notice any areas of tightness or discomfort. Make any changes in posture that you may need to and breathe into the areas of tightness. Giving yourself permission to release and assuring yourself that it is safe to do so. Recall your loving ancestors who are all around you, Supporting you in doing this work. Know that it is ok to go at your own pace in this. You may know what pattern it is that you want to heal and you may already have identified this as something ancestral that has been passed down from or has its origins in your predecessors. Or you may still be identifying an unhelpful pattern or exploring whether this truly has roots with the ancestors in some way. So we will start the practice by identifying the pattern, A repeated behaviour or state that you find yourself engaging in but is no longer useful to you. Here in the place of the ancestors, Place it on the altar. Breathe deeply, Be aware of your body, Support it and your loving ancestors all around you. The reason we place it on the altar is for the ancestors to inspect it so that they can help us to understand what it is. Sit quietly in the place of the ancestors, With your loving ancestors all around you and your unhelpful pattern there on the altar. Breathe in the peace of the place, The quiet, The stillness. You may feel the warmth, A ray of sunshine or the touch of a loving ancestor at your side. Allow yourself to continue to breathe. Ask the ancestors that are here with you, Do you recognise this pattern? Another loving ancestor may also make themselves known. Just ask, Do you recognise this pattern? And then sit quietly, Allowing space, Listening for a reply. Thank the ancestors for being here with you, Willing to work with you. Communicate to them that your healing is an offering for them as well as a gift for you. Still held safely in the space of the ancestors, Allowing your body to relax as you do this deep work, Ask the ancestors, What was the purpose of this pattern? Allow them to show or tell you, Or perhaps they simply choose to impart with you that there was a positive intention once. Whatever the ancestors reveal to you, Show them gratitude and compassion. Gratitude for doing the best they could to take care of themselves. Compassion for whatever need they had to meet in this way. Say or show your thanks to them, Appreciating that they did the best they could at the time with the resources available and that their survival allowed you to be here now. If you have strong emotions come through, Allow them to be, Allowing yourself to acknowledge and release them, Remembering that this work is done in love. Inform the ancestors that you choose now to release this pattern, Trusting that your needs will be met in one or even many better ways, More suitable for you now. You can ask them to help find better ways to meet your needs. As you do so, Notice the thing that you placed on the altar. You may find that it becomes obscured, Shrinks or transforms radically. Ask the ancestors to help you to transform this thing. Allow the process to unfold, Accepting what is made known to you and trusting that what is not yet known to you is aligned with your highest good. When the ancestors have done their bit, There may be a gift on the altar or something new. If there is, Take it. Try it out. See how it feels, Notice the colours and shades, The shape, Any sound it makes. Accept the gift, Knowing that you can always try it out and that if you need to make any changes down the line, You can always bring it back here to the place of the ancestors. Or even ask the ancestors now if they would help you to continue to shape it to fulfil your evolving needs. Once again, Give thanks to your loving ancestors, Offering them your healing as their own. You might see yourself sometime in the near future, In a situation where you would have fallen into the old pattern but now doing something else entirely. Offer this vision to the ancestors and thank them for offering it to you. It's time to take your leave and you leave the place of the ancestors, Coming out of the tapestry and following the thread back through your inner landscape until you come to the place inside. The dark, Still, Quiet place. From here sense outwards, Becoming aware of your body and any sensations or will to move. Aware of the sounds around you. When you're ready you can open your eyes. That's our practice for today and I invite you to allow it to settle and then come back to it as often as you wish. I wish you a wonderful rest of the day.

Reviews

This is a beautiful journey to the place of the ancestors. Thank you for your guidance Keziah 🩷