Our Ancestors

WHO ARE OUR ANCESTORS?

We, as human beings, have a family that give us, not only a name, but also a DNA where part of our past is written. And through the DNA, we can connect with our immediate ancestors… our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers. And it is good. Because in this way we can connect with our family roots and the land where we were born.

But sometimes, it is difficult to know or to connect with our ancestors. Maybe our parents don’t remember much things from their own family, or perhaps they died without explaining us their own history, or we are far away from them for whatever reason. Therefore, there is a lack of information that create a void within us… a void filled with no memories… a space within us depleted of memories and history. In this way, our soul is partially grounded in the here and now. Thus, we live in a lack of connectedness with our society and with the land that makes us powerless and even sometimes, we don’t know why we are here and what is our task… we feel disoriented and disconnected from our consciousness. There’s something missing within us, but it is difficult to realize what it is…

Although we, also, are our own ancestors chained or not with our family DNA, there’s more…

Because, especially in those cases, but in general for all of us, it is very important to turn our regards towards some deeper ancestors… the Ones who always have been here and always will be… the Ones who are always ready to help us and fill up us of Love, Compassion and Tenderness. And also, of Courage, while giving us Truth, Connectedness and deep reason to be here on this marvelous planet named Earth.

These Ones are the Wind, the Rivers, the Mountains, the Seas and Oceans, the Sand, the Rocks, the trees and plants, the Planets and Stars, and the Earth, of course!

All Nature around us and far away from us is here… and have been here from eons of time before we took the first step on Earth as human beings. They are here… ready to accompany us in our lives… ready to sustain and nourish us. And most of all, ready to restore our soul from our own history and restore our connectedness with Life…

We always can invoke them…

An exercise that I like especially is one we can carry out with some friends outside our home. It is much better to perform it in the beach, in a meadow or some other quite place where we can find to be peaceful for some time. At least it is important to be three people. Although it could be more.

For that, one of us place him or herself in a suitable spot. Behind him or her, another person takes his or her place. This latter person would represent the immediate ancestors (although it could represent the prehistoric ancestors, for instance) of the person who stands before. And behind this one, another person takes his or her place representing the channel of the Old Ones… it is this latter person who would invoke the marvelous souls of the Ocean, the River, the Mountains, the soil, the Earth beneath us… and all beings that would come up to his or her mind, including the Cosmic Wind, the Planets, and the Stars…

All of you would place your hands a bit below the shoulders of the person who stands before you… the hands placed in the rear part of the heart chakra of the person before you. And in this way, with the eyes closed or opened, you start the exercise invoking the Old Ones. It is not necessary to say it in words, not saying them aloud if you don’t want. But it is necessary that all people doing the exercise would invoke the Old Ones while the person placed behind all of them channel the energy of the Ancestors in some way. But without purpose. Only channel their energy…

Once invoked, let the thing unfold for themselves… don’t rush… breathe deeply to enter in a timeless state of mind… to enter in the timeless presence of the soul… and in this way, let the souls of the Old Ones to come and present themselves… to connect with you in their particular way…

Feel the Earth below your feet… feel the wind how it caresses your face and body… feel the energy of the ocean and rivers how come to you flowing playfully while carrying plenty of memories of our past…

Let all beings unfold and convey themselves without fear, with no hurry… there would be some that need more time to unfold themselves than others…

Feel quite and ease… feel secure and grounded…

And let the Old Ones unfold themselves in each one of you…

Once you feel that time is over, maybe 15-20 minutes, you can sit down and explain what you have felt…

Normally doing this exercise some invisible threads are created between us and Life, between us and society, between us and Nature… and a void that was within us have disappeared…

Because when we cannot connect with our mother, the Earth and Nature is our Grand Mother that houses us with tenderness and love.

When we cannot connect with our father, for whatever reason, the Cosmos is our Grand Father that gives us alignment, Justice and Trust. He is our loving male authority while the Earth is our loving female authority.

In this way, we are more complete than before… we tend towards a completeness, a wholeness while aligning our soul, consciousness and body all together.

That's why is important to connect with the Old Ones...