Healing a Past Life With Family Constellations

Yesterday the 'VIBES' healing group worked on a family constellation with some variation, deviating from the norm of working with the present to heal the past and set right the future. The person seeking the constellation has chronic knee pain and was regressed earlier to reveal that in a past life she was a very highly placed male, landowner who had beaten to death a worker for some wrong committed by him.

Despite several healing modalities, she is still plagued with painful knees. So we wondered if we could work through this with a family constellation by setting up the stage to enact a scene from a past life. This was a 'victim-perpetrator' kind of situation where she was the perpetrator. We decided to give it a try.

The experience was like any other only we were working with a life already lived. The person representing the 'perpetrator' experienced pain in her legs as if her knees would give way anytime. She also experienced deep guilt, anger and shame at her own behavior. She sought forgiveness of the victim, who had this feeling of' wanting the perpetrator to go down on knees' and ask forgiveness. The perpetrator also desired to seek forgiveness of the wife and family of the 'victim'. As she did this, the pain in her legs began to subside slowly. The facilitator asked her to release all her guilt, shame and sorrow (which she experienced as lump in her throat) and guided her to forgive her own self and release all negative emotions, especially the guilt she was carrying heavily from that birth.

For the 'Vibes' group this was the first experience of working through a past life with a family constellation. It felt no different from any other we had worked on before. It was only working with energies of a past life that were waiting to be released so that healing could occur for both the victim and perpetrator.

There is a strong belief among Native Americans that when an individual heals, seven generations before and seven generations after also get healed. Eventually all that a Family Constellation set up calls for; the release of negative energies that were entangled in a past life so that its affects on the future can be erased and the door ways to healing opened up for all concerned. The beauty of this kind of inner work lies in the profound group healing that is experienced.

Past Life Regression, Power Animals and Family Constellations.

About four years back I attended a workshop on Past Life Regression (PLR). The experience was amazing. Till then I had read about the subject and practically read all books of Dr. Brian Wiess, a world authority on PLR. A few experiences during the workshop convinced me about the past lives I had lived where issues remained unresolved. It is amazing how a situation will repeat itself in a future life, till the underlying energy that caused it to occur is balanced, aligned and integrated.

Past Life Regression therapy is helpful to solve human issues that have roots in a past incarnation. It could be anything from a particularly bothersome relationship with an office colleague or even a fear of water that prevents you from learning how to swim. With a past life regression you can delve into the past and find out why a you feel victimised by your boss or why some self-limiting belief is hindering progress in your current life. It is amazing how we create situations in our current lives because of what occured in a past life, just to learn a particular lesson and integrate it into ourselves. There could be role reversals though!

The workshop was followed up six months later by an advanced workshop where we learnt about Shamanic Healing and Power Animals. Invoking their energies can help you face any issue or situation that is specific to you.

At the end of the workshop Dr K Newton who conducted the workshop, facilitated an experiment in Family Constellations work. We were dumbstruck at the energy dynamics that emerged when even those who knew absolutely nothing about the issue, began to replicate and enact the exact behaviour of family members represented in the constellation! The one seeking healing through a constellation remains an observer throughout the process.

Family Constellations is a kind of psycho therapy inspired and evolved by Bert Hellinger a German psychotherapist. It aims at healing not just the individual but the family as well. Universal laws require that all of us acknowlegde each incarnated soul and respect it without judgement about its chosen path for sorting out its own karma in ways best known to the individual soul essence. Unfortunately as humans we sometimes forget this and subject our lesser fortunate brothers to untold pain, misery and vicitimization through our judgemental behavior with them. As a result many situations in our lives evade solution because the 'orders of love' have been disrupted in the past due to the 'so called misdemeanor' of an ancestor that was concealed from younger generations to avoid social stigma.

My group of like-minded friends is always too eager to work with a Family Constellation. In fact this has become a regular experimental feature of our meets! The best thing about the group is that no one probes or judges a situation for which resolution is sought.

With all this comes the deep understanding that it is possible for each of us to connect at subtle energy levels in order to help heal ourselves, others and the planet as a whole! The collective consciousness is a vast field of energy many aspects of which still await exploration! It brings to my mind Issac Newton's famous quote:

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”