Greetings, friends! I am very excited for this week’s message from Spirit, as it brings us freedom from things we’ve mistakenly accepted as inevitable truths about ourselves and our families. This week Spirit would like for us to talk about generational curses within our families.
As you all know, we are born with a particular physical appearance, unique to each of us, but at the same time a familiar mingling of our ancestors. Within families, we resemble each other and it’s common to hear new parents comment that their child has their father’s nose or their mother’s eyes. As we grow these physical characteristics mature and become more defined. Perhaps you have wavy red hair like your grandmother or the sturdy build of your grandfather, these are characteristics we are born with and identify you as a member of your clan.
In addition to physical attributes, other qualities are passed down from generation to generation. While some of you may consider certain physical characteristics from your family a bit of a curse, the true curses that we receive from our ancestors has less to do with our physical appearance and more to do with our physical well-being, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
So, what else is passed down from generation to generation besides physical appearance? These are characteristics that you were not necessarily born with, but perhaps are predisposed to, or characteristics that you subconsciously developed over the years because they are believed to be truths. There are three areas that Spirit would like for us to cover today with regards to breaking generational curses in your life. These areas are diseases, behaviors, and attitudes and beliefs.
First, Spirit would have us look at attitudes and beliefs. An example of this would be racism and prejudices. These are learned beliefs that are taught, either by example or by lecture. Children are not born as judgmental beings, but they learn it from observing how their parents feel about and interact with others. In addition to mere observance, often times children are actually taught that it is wrong to associate with one particular group of people or another based on their differences. This perpetuates hate and encourages limited and narrow minded points of view. The curse that is passed down with attitudes and beliefs is a subtle one, it is also one of a karmic nature. You cannot hate and expect to be showered with love. You cannot judge without eventually being judged yourself.
Similar to attitudes and beliefs are behaviors. We are not born with either, but attitudes and beliefs are generally characteristics we develop from witnessing them, and while behaviors are also witnessed, they are almost always personally experienced as well. The examples Spirit brought to me for this type of generational curse are child abuse and alcoholism. When a child is abused, generally they will grow up to either be an abuser themselves or to become a victim to an abuser other than their parents. Likewise, a child of alcoholic parents will typically struggle with alcoholism themselves or will become involved with an alcoholic in their personal relationships.
Disease is another area where we deal with generational curses in our lives. Genetics gives us a predisposition to certain diseases, but it does not give us the disease. Sometimes we encourage the disease to survive and thrive because we merely accept it to be true. Spirit knows this is perhaps a hard concept to grasp, but your body is listening to your thoughts and words and will accommodate your “wishes”. For example, if your mother had breast cancer and your grandmother had breast cancer, it is easy to fall into the acceptance that it is inevitable that you will also get breast cancer. Or perhaps you are obese, but have never considered that you could be a healthy weight because your father was obese, your grandfather was obese, as well as his father before him. So many times I have heard someone say “it runs in my family” and in doing so, this is a subtle form of acceptance.
As you begin to become aware of generational curses in your family, Spirit would warn you not to get caught up in trying to determine the origin or cause of the curse, but rather, how to break its hold on your life and change the lives of future generations to come. So how are we to do this? The simple answer is awareness and intention. While the answer itself may be simple, it does require personal responsibility and often times a lot of focused self-work in bringing about the change.
In order to sever generational curses that surround attitudes and beliefs, the first step is to examine them. Do they resonate with you? Are the attitudes and beliefs accurate, based on fact, or are they based on opinion and accepted as truth? This is one of the easier curses to break because it can be dissolved with facts, education and logic. Once you know the truth about a particular topic it will be difficult to justify holding onto the false belief of the curse.
Breaking generational curses that are behavior related will require more effort, but the first step begins with the desire to change. For these generational curses, Spirit would encourage you to be open to seek support and counsel. These curses are damaging to us on a spiritual and emotional level and threaten us to our very core. Recovery often requires skills that were never developed, due to ongoing abuse and internal retreat. Spirit is here to comfort you during this time, helping you make a stand and release yourself, your children and their children from the entrapment of this behavioral curse.
With regards to cancelling the generational curse of disease, I realize this may seem impossible, as I know that many of you are standing up to your eyeballs in physical issues and that real physical damage has already been done. Spirit wishes for you to know that although damage has occurred, you can be free from future damage and can halt this curse in its tracks, thus sparing future generations from the same issues. Cancelling this curse will require a complete change in your thought process and a proactive approach to developing a healthier lifestyle. Part of that healthier lifestyle involves changing the way you talk about the disease, resisting the urge to claim it as your own.
Of course there are many other situations that could fit into the categories we’ve discussed today, I’ve only listed a few examples, but the process is the same. It all begins with awareness of the curse and then the desire and willingness to let it go, followed by seeking the appropriate help and guidance. Spirit says it is time to put these things down. It is time to live your life in Divine truth and not in acceptance of anything less than health and happiness.
Blessings to you on your journey of letting go and breaking free!
Namaste
DeAnna