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Learning From the Bones: Lessons From the Ancestors BY CAROL BURBANK
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Have you ever known something so deeply that nothing could shake your conviction? Have you ever felt something so deeply that it feels like the foundation of reality? These are messages from our ancestors, supplementing our personal experience, and rising up from deep in our bones. Some of these messages come through spiritual connections, webs of history linked through our parents and grandparents and beyond. ,EHOLHYHRXUDQFHVWRUVYLEUDWHLQD¿HOGRILQÀXHQFH:KHWKHULWLVWKH echo of their stories that informs us or something more mysterious, the past has a lot to teach us. 6RPHFRPHWKURXJKRXU'1$WKDWHOHPHQWDOVSLUDORILQIRUPDWLRQ that shapes every cell and organ. Geneticists have proven that our '1$DGDSWVLQHYHU\JHQHUDWLRQHSLJHQHWLFDOO\UHVSRQGLQJWRIDPLQH DEXQGDQFHWUDXPDDQGRWKHUWUDQVIRUPDWLYHH[SHULHQFHV2XU'1$ is constantly healing and revealing itself, unlocking and relocking it- self in response to multiple stimuli from the present as well as our genetic past. ,ORYHWKHUHVRXUFHVR̆ HUHGE\FHOOXODUDQGERQHGHHSNQRZOHGJH Our cells hold collective knowledge, so small, but vital to our survival. %RQHVIXQFWLRQRQERWKPDFURDQGPLFUROHYHOV7KH\IRUPWKHDUFKL - tecture of motion and stillness, and hold within them the factory that builds our blood, formed by the spiraling instructions at the heart of cells of creation. There’s no question we need to pay attention when we hear these prompts. They may alert us to danger, or show us patterns we might otherwise have missed. They may push us towards our purpose or rec-
Our Response Makes All the Difference Even as we acknowledge these callings, we need to listen with a dis- cerning ear. The knowledge that rises from the depths is compelling, often urgent and primal. There can be truth in the messages, but the FDOOWRDFWLRQPLJKWQHHGWREHPRGXODWHGWR¿WRXUFXUUHQWVLWXDWLRQ Some warnings may be memories; some feelings may be triggered trauma vibrating the web of our consciousness. :KHQSULPDOPHVVDJHVUHÀHFWDQFHVWUDORUIDPLOLDOVX̆ HULQJWKH\ rise up to name a wound begging to be healed. It may be our gift to apply the balm needed from the resources and choices available here DQGQRZ,WLVDOZD\VDSX]]OHWKDWGHVHUYHVDWWHQWLRQ%XWZHDUHWKH authors of our lives. Ultimately, we get to choose how to react and in- tegrate those ancestral impulses and awarenesses. It can be hard to act consciously when these old stories activate. They are often wordless and always deeply felt, but they are nonethe- OHVVVWRULHV6WRULHVOLNH'1$DUHDOPRVWLQ¿QLWHO\DGDSWDEOH+XPDQV develop by mastering their living generative force, simultaneously an- cient and renewing. I like to think of our ideal response as a great experiment, requiring observation, exploration, and conscious steps. Awakening to the Ancestors: Be Fully Present The world of our psyche is so much larger than we see in our day- to-day lives. When we know something or feel something so strongly, we enter the realm psychologist Carl Jung called “active imagination.” This is a real place, where many dimensions of myth and memory weave stories in cahoots with our own minds, hearts and spirits. In this “imaginal” space, we move into Soul. -XQJ ZURWH ³, IHHO YHU\ VWURQJO\ WKDW , DP XQGHU WKH LQÀXHQFH RI things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left XQ¿QLVKHG´ We know from geneticists, energy healers, and spiritual teachers that Jung was right, on many levels. The key for successful integration
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