Healing and the Western Mind VI
Ancestral imprints are not monolithic in their nature. One can absorb differing and conflicting energies from various family members. Judy had absorbed both her mother’s passive, helpless energy and her father’s strong, assured and controlling energy. In certain aspects of her life, Judy could do and accomplish things in a manner that is impressive. Yet other times she felt totally in capable of accomplishing small every day task; sometimes the thought of going to the grocery story was overwhelming.
These conflicting imprints not only expressed themselves emotionally but also physically. On the one hand Judy had a strong healthy constitution, but would also be plagued by unusual conditions and physical problems that were not life threatening but left her in need of care and hospitalizations. These incidences most often occurred when she had begun to fully own her power and potential. These differing energetic imprints would war with one another and then create physical crisis within the body. Initially I approached this problem from a psychological perspective attempting both to build on her core inner strength while also understanding the part of her that believed she was weak and in need of being taken care of. One day in a shamanic journey I was told that part of the problem was the absorption of both of her parent’s very different energetic states and that these energies needed to be removed. This process involved helping Judy to see how she had absorbed not only the thoughts and beliefs of each parent but also their energy. It was not until her mind and heart could identify that these thoughts and feeling states were not her own was it possible to begin to remove the warring ancestral imprints that had resulted in much emotional and physical distress.
