Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

Description

A practical guide to connecting with your ancestors for personal, family, and
cultural healing • Provides exercises and rituals to help you initiate contact
with your ancestors, find ancestral guides, and assist the dead who are not
yet at peace • Explains how to safely engage in lineage repair work by
connecting with your more ancient ancestors before relating with the recently
deceased • Explores how your ancestors can help you transform
intergenerational legacies of pain and abuse and reclaim the positive spirit
of the family Everyone has loving and wise ancestors they can learn to invoke
for support and healing. Coming into relationship with your ancestors empowers
you to transform negative family patterns into blessings and encourages good
health, self-esteem, clarity of purpose, and better relationships with your
living relatives. Offering a practical guide to understanding and navigating
relationships with the spirits of those who have passed, Daniel Foor, Ph.D.,
details how to relate safely and effectively with your ancestors for personal,
family, and cultural healing. He provides exercises and rituals, grounded in
ancient wisdom traditions, to help you initiate contact with your ancestors,
find supportive ancestral guides, cultivate forgiveness and gratitude,
harmonize your bloodlines, and assist the dead who are not yet at peace. He
explains how to safely engage in lineage repair work by connecting with your
more ancient ancestors before relating with the recently deceased. He shows
how, by working with spiritually vibrant ancestors, individuals and families
can understand and transform intergenerational patterns of pain and abuse and
reclaim the full blessings and gifts of their bloodlines. Ancestral repair
work can also catalyze healing breakthroughs among living family members and
help children and future generations to live free from ancestral burdens. The
author provides detailed instructions for ways to honor the ancestors of a
place, address dream visits from the dead, and work with ancestor shrines and
altars. The author offers guidance on preparing for death, funeral rites,
handling the body after death, and joining the ancestors. He also explains how
ancestor work can help us to transform problems such as racism, sexism,
homophobia, and religious persecution. By learning the fundamentals of
ancestor reverence and ritual, you will discover how to draw on the wisdom of
supportive ancestral guides, heal family troubles, maintain connections with
beloved family after their death, and better understand the complex and
interconnected relationship between the living and the dead. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bear & Company (July 11, 2017)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591432693
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 92
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #47,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #36 in ESP (Books) #353 in Interpersonal Relations (Books) #436 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books)
• #36 in ESP (Books)
• #353 in Interpersonal Relations (Books)