Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MFFK2OM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 510 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A practical guide to connecting with your ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing• Provides exercises and rituals to help you initiate contact with your ancestors, find ancestral guides, and assist the dead who are not yet at peace• Explains how to safely engage in lineage repair work by connecting with your more ancient ancestors before relating with the recently deceased• Explores how your ancestors can help you transform intergenerational legacies of pain and abuse and reclaim the positive spirit of the familyEveryone has loving and wise ancestors they can learn to invoke for support and healing. The author offers guidance on preparing for death, funeral rites, handling the body after death, and joining the ancestors. Coming into relationship with your ancestors empowers you to transform negative family patterns into blessings and encourages good health, self-esteem, clarity of purpose, and better relationships with your living relatives. Offering a practical guide to understanding and navigating relationships with the spirits of those who have passed, Daniel Foor, Ph.D., details how to relate safely and effectively with your ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing. He provides exercises and rituals, grounded in ancient wisdom traditions, to help you initiate contact with your ancestors, find supportive ancestral guides, cultivate forgiveness and gratitude, harmonize your bloodlines, and
He has led ancestral and family healing intensives throughout the United States since 2005. Daniel Foor, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist and a doctor of psychology. He lives in Asheville, NC. He is an initiate in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has trained with teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and different indigenous paths, including the older way
The world needs it. This powerful book arises from years of work with groups and individuals so that as we read it we can benefit not only from the teaching but also from practical exercises. Crafted in thoroughness, wisdom, and deep sensitivity, Ancestral Medicine gives us keys to appreciating, coming to terms with, and even healing our ancestral wounds. Foor’s text and exercises provide numerous ways to make one’s progenitors a living presence--one that is inspirational, instructive, and, for many readers, transformative for themselves and their families.” (Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., coauthor of Personal Mythology)
"Can you let in all the goodness your ancestors offer?" according to Pavini. This book has been so needed for so long. I personally have needed these teachings, so that I could get right with all my ancestors. Wow. What a special offering, one I am delighted to read and review. Daniel Foor is so thorough in his work: his writing, his explanations, and his methodology. I appreciate especially the focus on personal safety and wellness. Having completed many of these rituals, I can say that there IS a difference that I feel; it's palpable. I feel the blessings of my ancestors, and. "Practical approaches to ancestral engagement" according to Jessica H T. Philosophical PragmatismThere are a handful of teachers/elders out there at this moment who are emphasizing the importance of ancestors and relating to them. Daniel is the only one I have come across who is actually teaching the practical steps of engaging them in a safe, direct, effective, compassionate, and intimate way. He generously shares dozens of powerful ways (specific rituals) to work with ancestors of blood, place and spiritual traditions. These are informed by a myriad of traditions he has s. The ancestral book I've been waiting for! Melrose This is the book on ancestral work that I've been waiting for. After about 20 years of personal healing work, and in turn doing healing work for others for over a decade, I still didn't get what the ancestors thing was really about. I knew I had ancestors, and they were supposed to be important, but I didn't have much of a direct experience of them. The ancestral healing work I had done in the past, through soul retrieval work primarily, was overall beneficial but had not led to a sense of personal con