Well, unfortunately, family secrets from our ancestors come back as nightmares, phobias, obsessions, vocation and tendencies we cannot explain. We are not just born in a certain way, we are born into a particular story: the story of our family. Family constellation expert, Shavasti or John L Payne as an author, explains how people have been keeping secrets out of shame, guilt and fear since faced with the morality of religions.
Going back only one or two generations, cancer was as taboo as talking about sex was. Many women today had no idea that they were at risk of breast cancer because their mothers never told them what Aunty X had died of. And then there are all the cases in which one of the ten siblings killed someone or went to jail or the grandparent who ruined the family or the darker coloured grandmother. So many topics that have been kept as secrets from the descendants.
Every secret carries energy. The person who decides not to talk about it carries this energy constantly with them. If the person dies without sharing the secret, the energy is attached to the descendants. This can be explained in terms of activated genes through epigenetics. In the same way as memories are inherited, fear and attitudes can be passed on to the descendants too.
Writing is an excellent tool to release the energy of the secret. Even if you write under a pseudonym, once you hit "publish", the secret is released. It is healing for you and your descendants. Remember creative writing is a way to discover thoughts within you that you didn't even know were there. Some of them could be inherited family secrets.
The releasing of inherited secrets is another great reason to start writing today. Don't you think?
No comments:
Post a Comment