By Elisa Novick
In my first sessions with my clients, unless an immediate issue is pressing, I almost invariably work on generational karma, that which comes through the family. When I’ve asked my inner guidance, I’ve gotten that, for most people, at least 75% of our karma, the unresolved “stuff” we carry around, comes down to us from the family. Yes, we have past-life karma and we may have created karma in this life through our actions, but those will almost always be reflected or engendered by the families we’ve embodied into. Though the issues may seem to be about something current, they usually stem from the family.
Delving into the family system may not be as exotic or glamorous as past-life regression, vibrational remedies, or many popular quick-fix methods for healing your life and creating health, wealth, and happiness (all of which I’ve used and have value), but it is foundational and essential. Some will say, “But I already did that in therapy. This isn’t psychotherapy, is it? I thought you were a spiritual healer?”
While I do not disparage the understandings gained through the therapeutic model, if there is still more to handle, it is always worthwhile to explore what has not been addressed yet. Going in with spiritual guidance and attunement and the assistance of the Light often reveals new information and transmutes the root patterns at levels either previously unreachable or impervious to change.
Last night I had a dream, somewhat nightmarish, that gave me a deeper understanding of something I’ve worked with for years. There were three parts to this dream, and the identities and ethnicities of the people involved kept shifting, which I believe is significant.
First scene:
I am in my late teens, at a boardwalk park bench by the water with my younger sister, except this bench is facing away from the water toward the buildings. Our parents are nearby but not seen. I sit on the bench, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt with the hood over my head (reverberations of Trayvon Martin’s “hoodie”). I explain to my sister that I used to get beaten by my parents for doing something like this. As I sit there, I am aware that I might be beaten even now for this, but I don’t move.