THE UNEXPLAINED ORIGINS
OF CHRONIC ILLNESSS
AND EPIGENETICS;
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS
SYMPTAMOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
BY
Angela Starick
11th November 2023
ABSTRACT
This thesis examines chronic illness and epigenetics and how family constellations can help to heal illness and disease through revealing transgenerational trauma and associated unexpressed emotions of fear, anger, grief etc. from traumatic experiences.
Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience; those traumatic experiences areunchangeable, and can continue to affect not only us but our descendants. (Utah Education, learn genetics)
It is the intent of this to thesis to show how information from past experiences are transferred to
individuals in the present and to show that when observed in family constellations, the impact on the family lineage can be altered.
The many new discoveries in epigenetics are leading to the development of new therapies to treat previously untreatable diseases, producing a major shift in the current understanding of brain chemistry, as well and the causes and treatment of tumors (Egger, Liang, Aparicio, & Jones, 2004).
Epigenetic inheritance links neuroscience, genetics and psychology giving explanations of the possibilities when trying to understanding emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, relationship, and financial wellbeing. It is proposed that epigenetics be added to the existing metaphysical explanations on how experiences of the ancestors are passed to subsequent generations. Family Constellations provides the bridge between these fields of work and the capacity to heal trauma and symptoms experienced by clients.
A systematic review (Jablonka& Raz, 2009) of biology, genetics and medicine demonstrated that
epigenetics explains the transgenerational transmission of behaviors, experiences and traumas experienced by the ancestors resulting in changes that can be passed down to their descendants.
Through Family Constellationwork, it is possible to identify ailments; both physical and psychosocial, by way of understanding the root cause, where it originated through the lineage in order to heal.
The conclusion provides an overview of family constellations and its use in shifting emotional patterns that are creating symptoms and conditions, creating movement forward and back in the family’s lineage. Family constellationsis an invaluable process that investigates the conscious, and unconscious emotional dynamics in your family system, causing energetic blocks.
KEY WORDS: epigenetics, familyconstellation, transgenerational trauma, emotions, illness and disease, chronic illness, heritable, trauma.
INTRODUCTION
What is Family Constellations?
Family Constellations is a solution focused and unique approach to healing on a soul level: every disease (dis-ease) is the result of the soul not being ‘at ease’, causing energy blocks in the physical body affecting chakras, organs and tissue, subsequently leading to what we call an illness or disease; Based on the idea that multi-generational trauma impacts the whole family connected through a morphogenic field, that contains memories and energies of a family or a group.
A family constellation is an intervention aimed to help clients gain insights into their family system and change their inner image of a conflictual system and finally change their behavior in relation to that same system. (Konkolÿ Thege et al., 2021.
When looking at a disease in afamily constellation it may show that the event causing the energy blockage, most likely a severe trauma, (rape, war, death, murder etc, sexual abuse, childhood abuse or abandonment) once seen and or felt, acknowledged or honored was able to lift and clear the blockage by finding the order of Love, “everyone has the right to belong and a right to their own place” for the family system and allow the soul to move towards it.
The Trauma Relationship
Trauma is a relationship between the characteristics of a situation (“threatening”) and those of a
person (“individual coping mechanisms”). Only if the nature of the danger outweighs the individual’s ability to cope does the experience become a traumatic situation. Thus, it is clear that the same situation could be traumatizing for one while another might experience it as stressful or difficult. The variables being age, experience, gender, self-awareness, previous experience of trauma or of unknown origin (epigenetic inheritance) (Trauma, Bonding & Family constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul" by Franz Ruppert).
Three generations at once are exposed to the same environmental conditions (diet, emotions, feelings, experiences and trauma etc.). Three generations are directly exposed to the same environmental conditions at the same time in a pregnant woman, her, the fetus and the eggs in the unborn child. An epigenetic effect that continues into the 4th generation could be inherited and not due to direct exposure. (Utah Education, learn genetics).
The Field of Epigenetics and IntergenerationalTrauma
Studies on epigenetics confirm that our ancestors, grandparents, and parents pass down both their strengths and weaknesses including unresolved trauma. Epigenetics has become a field in its own right in recent years, following the success of genome projects in defining what genomes are, the emphasis then shifted to understanding their process in our development and growth.
Current medicine is a symptom-based treatment, not looking at the root cause often leaving the client with no resolution. Just management of symptoms stopping them from living a full life.
It’s important to note that these symptoms can have an underlying emotional cause; fear, anxiety, panic attacks, depression or disassociation which can either be preceded by or followed by destructive behaviors directed towards self or others. There are two distinctive forms of chronic illness, mental (schizophrenia, psychosis) and physical (cancer/CFS); the list is exhaustive as seen in the DSM-5.
Symptomology and emotional suffering are complex as they develop in a variety of ways, through a variety of experiences including passed down from our parents, grandparents and ancestors. These symptoms and emotionalstates can be alleviated by working in a targeted way on the symptoms and or emotions through family constellations; reaching the root cause that is not generally the direction taken in the medical industry or alternative industries on offer today.
Intergenerational trauma refers to the phenomenon where the experiences of past generations can influence the behavior, emotions, and well-being of future generations. Recent research has revealed that trauma both ancestral and current can trigger epigenetic modifications which can be inherited in future generations and change gene expression. This can increase the risk of mental health issues and physical diseases in offspring. (National institute of health).
The Connection of QuantumTheory and Morphogenic Resonance
Quantum theory shows us that there is an intelligence behind all events; as the saliva experiment showed shifts in emotions and experiences were also seen in the saliva that belonged to the participants kept in another room through energy strands; this showed the energetic ties connected to DNA. This leads into the fact that our own DNA is connected to experiences(good and bad) and emotions from energetic strands which opens up many possibilities of what can be expressed. Observation of these strands is what we are working on inconstellations, as shown in the double split theory once observed the strands behaved differently which is the basis of observation in the field changing the patterns of resonance. My hypothesis behind this is that new strands of consciousness are added (energy) through the observation allowing for a shift both forward and back.
Morphogenic resonance (the idea of mysterious telepathy and interconnections of collective memories) is what allows for the connection in the field and what sits in the system, the whole basis of epigenetics. The memories that are passed across both space and time can be felt and expressed and can change the focus to initiate healing. When in the field what ispresent on an unconscious level becomes visible via feelings, sensations, body language and emotions. Epigenetics explains how early experiences can have lifelong impacts.
MAIN THESIS CONTENT
Genetic Inheritance; Trauma, Illnessand Disease
The genes children inheritfrom their biological parents provides information that guides their
development physically, mentally and emotionally. For example, how tall they could eventually become or the kind of temperament they could have, however these still remain variables due to personal experiences that can influence the expression of those specific genes; if a child is neglected emotionally and/or provided limited food intake, they may not reach their potential growth as their body doesn’t have the required foundation to express fully. This is also relevant for genes that havenegative impacts when expressed, just because they make part of our DNA sequence does not mean they will be expressed, it is our experiences, lifestyle and inner work that determines the overall outcome of disease. Thus, we are also influenced by our environment and individual lifestyle.
Traumatic experiences in our lives are unchangeable but not unmanageable if dealt with in the moment. There is a requirement for the nervous systemto discharge the energy of the traumatic experience to regulate the system and balance the amygdala or the trauma may continue to affect us into the future.
Pervasiveness in life patternsfrom stored memories and the Limbic System
Memories are stored in the brain and in particular in the limbic system in the form of neuronal
connections or synapses, we do not inherit information or knowledge from our parents like speaking a language or cooking certain foods but we may find that we have an internal guidance system that directs us to certain experiences through the mark left from culture and heritage. This is evident through research by the (universityof Minnesota) on the pervasiveness of genetic influence in life patterns. The three groups looked at in developmental behaviour genetics were family, twins and adoption. The study also showed the phenomena ofselection, for example where a man’s adoptive father was a mechanic, he became a mechanic and worked oil rigs and when he located his birth father, this is what he did too (working on oil rigs).
My own experience is reflective of this, my adoptive mother had two children who died, lost her
father at 13 was closed off emotionally and worked cleaning schools for a living; ironically my biological mother not only had given us up for adoption but also lost two children after birth, her father left at 12, was closed off emotionally and worked cleaning schools for a living. They also both had unfulfilling relationships with their husbands.
Physical similarities also showed the transference of nervous habits, posture, beards, trans-generational bump or earlobe and even identical injuries through the generations. Even going as far to say that there was apattern with partners (in particular between mothers and daughters) chosen, location lived, alcoholism and mental illness just to name a few. (Synchronicity and Reunion 1992 by LaVonne H. Stiffler)
With this is in mind Australian psychoanalyst Averil Earnshaw’s research showed that inherited DNA reflects emotional crises of the parents; their birth, deaths, migration, major gains and losses which occurred before one’s birth and similarly events following the birth through shared events altering ones DNA, reverberating anniversary events.
Most of us are not aware of how unresolved trauma in the lives of a parent, grandparent or
great-grandparent affects us. We are created from a combination of cells from both of our parents who are also formed from the cells of their parents and grandparents.
As Australians, most of our ancestors arrived in Australia as convicts persecuted in their own country whilst trying to survive; sent to a foreign land they had never experienced, it was harsh, treacherous and very dangerous. They experienced great hardship without family, friends and cultural support. Any tragedy they experienced was faced without their former supportsystem, left in the home country of their birth.
As a result, the succeeding generation of children were left feeling excluded, that they weren’t loved and they often assumed they were somehow deficient, unworthy or unlovable and that survival was paramount at all costs. This resulted in another generation of parents with “armored hearts” and a lack mentality, striving and struggling to ensure that they don’t suffer the same fate.
“The ghosts from the past exist in our genes”, carried in our tissues, cells, nervous system, genes and DNA; inherited from our parents, grandparents and our lineage causing diseases like diabetes, autoimmune disorder, Muscular dystrophy, scoliosis, Multiple Sclerosis and Nervous system dysregulation to name a few. These are listed under the heading of hereditary traits and
ailments. The doctor will tell you that schizophrenia is inherited from a family member justified by the history about our parents or if it’s common in our ancestry, which is acceptable because society and medical science understand the passing of genetic material from generation to generation.
Epigenetics has changed everything with the understanding that our inner and outer environment leads to activation of certain genes. Constellation work asks the question, “what makes it necessary”? It is this expansive ideaof memory, time and knowledge that the process of family constellation explores. ‘The field (morphogenic)’ allows us to get in touch with the information that is ‘energetically’ available, bringing in stories and experiences of our ancestors and parents about traumas (murder, rape, theft, etc.) they went through; and childhood traumas, experiences and emotions. This validates that we are not only a byproduct of our own xperiences or individual memories but also those of our lineage; our inheritance goes beyond the physical. It is present as an energy field that we carry with us looking for resolution in the here and now taking shape from the stories and experiences bringing the necessary healing, and rest to the system.
Family Constellations and Understandingthe Epigenetic Inherited trauma behind Family Dynamics.
Family Constellations (FC)works with the family beliefs, emotions, traumas and illnesses that travel down the ancestral line through the RNA/DNA, or in other words, our cells. The morphogenic field allows representatives in the constellation to feel the emotions, body sensations or to see pictures from the family system showing the inherent trauma experienced and emotional patterns and events that have led to the physical illnesses.
FC can find the source andstop the cycle, releasing stored emotions for example; the fears and anger from the rejection of their own country and the lack of belonging in the system. FC can get to the heart of the experience and the trauma, exploring where they originated to allow the client to see how these traumas from family members might be affecting their current life, relationships and health.
Many situations can be addressed with constellations for the client and their succeeding generations such as:
Uncovering the hidden contributing factors to physical and emotional illnesses such as migraines, chronic back pain, depressions, alcoholism, anxiety, thoughts of suicide and eating disorders beginning to heal these imbalances by releasing unresolved grief or anger.
Breaking the cycles of abuse,poverty, failure, disconnection and dysfunction and resolving
misunderstandings, entanglements, and blocks in all of our relationships.
Balancing the ranking in the system caused by divorce, adoption, miscarriage, infertility and abortion.
Resolving misunderstandings and blocks between family, partner and business relationships.
“Science refers to transgenerational emotional transmission as epigenetic methylation or
epigenetic inheritance” Findings confirm that this transmission can impact many generations without them ever personally experiencing the original trauma. (National Library of Medicine)
Epigenetic changes are transient by nature. That is, the epigenome changes more rapidly than the
relatively fixed DNA code. An epigenetic change that was triggered by environmental conditions may be reversed when environmental conditions change again. (UtahEducation, learn genetics). New scientific research showsthat environmental influences can actually affect if and how genes are expressed. The expression of our genes is impacted by the gene expression of our parents, grandparents, and many great grandparents before them. (Utah Education, learn genetics). FC work shows how epigenetic changes are more likely to occur in response to a major incident or trauma with our ancestors. It is these heritable changes in genomic expression that are the focus; providing a way of understanding the dynamics within our ancestry that cause illness and disease and why constellations are energetically effective in addressing the issues.
The concept of intergenerational trauma and its effects on gene expression through epigenetics is a well-studied concept and can explain how Family Constellations can work on balancing pigenetic markers retained and transmitted across generations. Through this framework it is possible to ‘reprogram’ the client’s DNA expression once there has been an acceptance of the past event, emotions, trauma etc. Only through accepting and acknowledging the experience and feelings can the client move through the blockage and begin to operate consciously; honored for their destiny.
Trauma from extreme stress or starvation among many other things can be passed from one generation to the next due to leaving a chemical mark on a person's genes; through elevated levels of “Hunger” a Hormone (acyl-ghrelin) leaves trauma-exposed adolescents at higher risk of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Acyl-ghrelin is an especiallypredictive biomarker of PTSD, increased adrenalin and nutritional deficiencies can also be passed down to future generations impacting their health and emotions
through gene expression, increasing the trauma response in the body. Revisiting the initial trauma may allow room for the body to re balance producing a physical healing. (National Institute of Health).
MTHFR (DNA Methylation) is onesuch anomaly that causes issues of b12 and folate impacting mental health and toxin build up in the body; 70% of the Spanish population carry the gene, the gene is expressed when high amounts of cortisol and other stress hormones are present. Looking at Spanish history, there was a lot of war, famine and a fear of death. In 2021, the number of schizophrenia cases registered in Spain amounted to around 207.6 thousand, up from about 193 thousand cases reported a year prior following the conditions of Covid restrictions (2:1 ration men to women). (MTHFR support Australia, pioneers in Health Science and Genetics - study)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can be seen to come from devastating events such as the Holocaust or in the case of Spain the events surrounding the Spanish flu; showing up in the descendants of those who have survived, yet they weren’t there themselves. The findings are that the gene expression of their children and grandchildren are being impacted as well. Typically, the symptoms are repeated through resonating memories and flashbacks causing feelings of numbness, apathy, indifference, disassociation, self-depravation as well as avoidance. (Shapiro and Forrest 1998).
Kurt Gruenberg (journal ofpsyche) reported that both harmony and tension co-existed in the family of survivors of Alschwitz with events such as violence towards their children, deep anguish for those that died, lapses into childlike behaviour and memory gaps were evident. One such case study showed a young man with panic attacks, held within him his mother’s panic having witnessed the death of her brother during the war. Resolution was possible after several steps, releasing him from the entanglement with his mother, increasing his contact with his father and the identification with the dead uncle which transformed the anxiety into the pain and grief. (Franz Ruppert 2008)
Understanding (energetically) the dynamics behind what is being experienced can link the knowledge for understanding emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, relationship, and financial wellbeing to our genetic makeup and inherited experiences.
For example we not only inherit our mother’s autoimmune disorder but also her deep sense of rejection at birth by her parents for being a girl, the need for adoption or the death of the mother, we inherit way beyond what we think our bodies can feel and our eyes can see.
For generations, we weretaught that our genetic makeup is fixed or unchanging. Through epigenetics, psychology, science and modalities such as Family Constellations we can now see that the limitations once believed in terms of the genetic hand we are dealt, is changeable with genes altering continually in response to events and stimuli in our environment. This field of study is deeply interconnected with our wellbeing and thus illness and disease.
The key element frequently overlooked in medical or psychological diagnoses is that our behaviors and symptoms may be impacted or generated emotionally through “epigenetically inherited” trauma from our parents or the ancestors who came before us; through exposure to beliefs and behaviors and genetic chemical reactions (energy). If our genes are switched on or off depends on the event, was it life giving or traumatizing this is what changes things at the cellular level.
Family Constellations seeks to heal wounds or emotional trauma to regain balance and wellbeing in the system; gathering any missing (or excluded persons) family members lost or forgotten due to traumatic events, mental illness or excluded due to family reputation this can lead to Entanglement Identification which can manifest as an identity disorder, feeling out of place or not being seen.
Individuals in our ancestry often endured their pain and hardship to avoid foolish emotional displays or discussion about feelings. Each time oneof our ancestors experienced an emotional trauma or crisis and their emotions were not openly expressed; the pain, anger, resentment, guilt, rage, shame, grief, fear, sorrow, or shock was pushed into the depths of their unconscious mind and into the cells of the body. Immersing their cells in an unhealthy emotional mix of chemicals (neurotransmitters, stress hormones) affecting the brain and in particular the nervous system which maintains and controls all bodily functions. Thus, storing an emotional pattern that is imprinted in their gene expression.
Our body may be expressings ymptoms of anxiety, fear, obsessive behaviors, cancer, addictions, chronic fatigue, Crohn’s disease, Lyme disease, depression, fibromyalgia, social alienation, or any number of other conditions. There may be certain behavior’s that make you crazy, yet you just can’t seem to stop doing them. You may have patterns of behaviour that keep you from getting close or intimate with others. Epigenetic inheritance may be holding these patterns in place and that’swhy your efforts to shift your life and health are not effective.
Parent/Child Bonding and RoleReversal
While in the womb, the child will unconsciously sacrifice its own wellbeing to carry or share the emotional burdens of the mother. It is a survival mechanism. If mother is okay, I will be okay. “I will carry this fear for you mother.” “I will share this feeling of being unsafe with you mother.” constellations and language can shift these burdens back to their rightful owner. Referred to in FC as “parentification” which in this case refers to mother of the mother syndrome; where the child takes on the role of the parent causing a ranking issue within the parent child relationship (a child can also take on the parenting role of the father), essentially the child can feel unsafe, unsupported and unloved.
Once a child is born, themother’s hippocampus and amygdala of the brain act as the emotional and memory Centre for the child until they reach about the age of 2 or 3, when the child’s brain is more fully developed. That’s why most individuals have little recall of their earliest years of life. As the child develops it is impacted by stress and emotional trauma that occurs in the life of the parent especially in utero. From the moment of conception, emotional response, strategies and patterns are set in motion as you absorb your mother’s emotional wellbeing, or lack thereof while in the womb, during birth, and during early childhood switching genes of and on. (van der Kolk, 2000; bering, Fischer and Johansen, 2005).
Was your mother well supported by her your father and her family? Was the pregnancy welcomed? Was the mother’s life calm or stressful? Did anything traumatic happen while you were developing in utero? Did your mother receive good nutrition? Did she smoke or use drugs or alcohol? Did fire, floods, famine, accidents, death, abuse, fear, violence, or any other emotional trauma impact mother? Even if the emotional trauma occurred before conception, this can still impact your life today.
If the baby is a female, when the developing child is 5 months old in the womb, she carries all the eggs she will carry for her lifetime. Those egg cells are impacted by the emotional experiences of the maternal grandmother as well.
Many of us are carrying fearsthat have been imprinted onto our cells from conception through to early childhood. With the body continuing to feel these fears even when the event or situation is decades in the past. That’s why we sometimes have fears that we don’t seem to understand consciously.
When looking at the linkbetween chronic illness & emotional stress or trauma, generalizations are impossible. The susceptibility to any given condition mayhave many different causes including the unhealthy relationship with their mother or father which usually comes from unresolved family emotional trauma; maybe someone is shunned or missing in the family system, or there is a family secret, they will often show up as a symptom, condition, or relationship issue for a descendant of the family due to entanglements and identification with the excluded one.
"Carl Gustav Jung’s ideasabout a collective unconscious become more concrete and tangible in light of links between bonding theories and trauma theory. The acceptance of the notion that a patient’s psychological conflict may not originate from their own experiences, but may indeed be inherited from their ancestors"
Various authors (Trossman,1968; Grubrich-Simitis, 1979; Niederland, 1980; Moser, 1996) in studying these repercussions, have established that traumatised parents transferred their anxieties to their children; the parents need for comfort taking precedence over their children to relieve their own unbearable grief (parentification). They transferred their stored hate to their children while any loving feelings were paralysed.
Their children’s needs were not seen or they were inadequate to fulfil them. They saw their children as substitutes for the ancestry or their own mother/father and required them to unconsciously restore family pride and heal the wounds. As a result, the parent-child relationships were highly symbiotic, the children taking on the task of caring for the emotional and psychological stability of their parents, relieving their parents’ suffering (parentification). Attempts by children to leave the family home often created a serious threat to the family and the children felt guilty about leaving their parents to their fate. Family constellations can reveal these patterns of underlying stress, fear and trauma. (Trauma, Bonding & Family Constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul).
Stephan Hausner’s book, evenif it costs me my life, emphasizes that “one cannot practice holistic medicine without including the family or the patient’s relevant social context.”
Many people unconsciously fit into their family system by being ill. Grandmother was depressed, mother is depressed, and now you aredepressed. Grandfather had addictivebehaviors, father has addictive behaviors, and now you find yourself with addictive behaviors. The dynamic of addiction isdue to solidarity conflict with the parents. Not being able to take in both parents. Depression is an emptiness due to a parent missing inside, this can be an ancestral lineage pattern from parent to child (disrupted movement), identification with first love or following into death.
Symptoms, chronic illnesses, conditions, or relationship issues frequently represent someone or a group in the family system that want to be seen, heard, acknowledged, accepted, or welcomed into your heart. For the adoptedchild this might be their biological mother, father, siblings, grandparents, or themselves as there is a need to fit into a family’s energetic structure to belong, often changing who they are. Anadopted child will often have a “disrupted movement towards the mother” which can influence their capacity to bonding to others and they can present with trust issues, strong feeling of rejection with neurotic behaviour, some even have a fear of life. Deficient personal development is common due to their inability to deal with emotions.
The family system will always try to balance itself and so it is trying to connect with us spiritually and energetically. It will call to us withdiscomfort until we pay attention and heal.
Schizophrenia’s Link to Ancestral Trauma.
“Schizophrenia is a family issuethat goes through several generations. Schizophrenia is not a personal issue- it affects the whole family. You need only work with a member of the family, not the schizophrenic person. If you look at schizophrenia as an ill person, you cannot help. The system has an unresolved issue of murderer and victim. When the murderer and victim are both excluded, they are represented in one person. A schizophrenic person does service to the family out of a deep love. This deep love can point to resolution. The solution works for all members of the family.” Bert Hellinger
Bert Hellinger worked with the parents of a schizophrenic child where both parents were entangled in their own family system. The child was entangled with both the mother and father. This can be seen when a participant, representing a family member, is going in circles in the field. This is how schizophrenia looks in a family constellation. The same can be said for a family member entangled with both the committer and victim of a crime, both have been excluded.
One mother who had two sons diagnosed with Schizophrenia and a brother who had also been diagnosed 25 years earlier worked with family Constellations, it showed that the system was
suffering through the pain experienced in WWII and the family was entangled with both the victim and committer. Once they were bought back into the system through resolution the client noticed shortly after the workshop things had started changing with her children and brother; and three years later, both sons were doing very well, attending college and are fairly well adjusted. One of them worked with their doctor and stopped taking medications for over two years now. “Albuquerque, New Mexico”
During Bert Hellinger’straining on "Psychosis in the Family" the same hidden dynamics were
revealed in constellation after constellation; Someone in the client’s family linage had experienced a difficult fate, usually a murder and the victim or perpetrator excluded. This led to someone in the current generation being identified with both the victim and the perpetrator, causing deep inner conflict, and carrying the burden of Schizophrenia, Bi Polar or possibly Autism.
You may ask how is this possible, that it could show up so often. Considering we are only a few
generations from WWII and just a generation from the Vietnam War, and every conflict that has followed, it becomes much easier to understand. A few generations back, life was very different, accidents happened, people were run over by farm equipment, machinery, cars, and trains. In every case the perpetrator (even by accident) must be seen and included; it is this movement
that brings peace and resolution to the family.
SUMMARY:
As we have seen unresolved emotional trauma and traumatic events of our ancestors have everlasting consequences in the ancestry causing illness and disease. The far-reaching extent of this is hard to fathom. However, it is prudent to consider that the underlying cause of the symptoms or diseases manifested may have been transmitted down as an emotional (energetic) entanglement that echoes the patterns of our parents and ancestors that is unresolved. As well, also carrying imprinted emotions (guilt, fear, anger) and trauma from our own childhood experiences where there was a lack of understanding of what was actually happening or the fact that we enjoyed something and didn’t know it was wrong, early death of a parent or feeling neglected, unloved or unsafe due to our parent’s capacity to not parent effectively due to their own traumatic and emotional experiences. All of these experiences, emotions, feelings or traumas are being held in our cells; cause and effect!
CONCLUSION:
Body focused family constellations can specifically help us transition into who we are beyond our inherited epigenetic trauma, patterns, behaviors and emotions that are causing illness and diseases; so prevalent in today’s society.
If you are stuck in life or unwell in some way, it may be time to look back through your family system for possible underlying causes. It is possible to cause a shift in our family systems that are creating illness and disease. Family constellations are a valuable way to get important insight aboutthe emotional dynamics in your family system.
If you don’t do your ownhealing work around the emotional issues that impact you, you pass it on to
your children and grandchildren. If you have already passed it to the next generations, you can still do your own healing work and it will shift the dynamic for the next generation and change the way you interact in the future with your children and grandchildren; teaching your children and grandchildren
to express their emotions.
Genes that respond rapidly to their environment are instantaneously connecting with the body’s neurochemical systems. This means they are interconnected and impacting other genes. Our
brain has the potential to shift and generate new neuronal pathways until the moment it physically dies. Science has proven that our brain can continue learning and changing as long as we continue to stimulate it. This means that we have the capacity to shift the expression of our genes and our epigenetic
emotional inheritance, potentially having a great impact on the state of our wellness and that of the next generation, until the day we physically die.
I am continuously humbled by the depth and scope of this work, and its effect on those looking to see and acknowledge truth and change their life, unburdening loved ones, and offering new opportunities to participate in life, to take life!
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