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Book SynopsisMany people find themselves feeling stuck, unable to reach their goals. The same problems keep showing up in jobs and relationships no matter how much they try to make changes and overcome obstacles. What if the patterns that repeat in your life and relationships didn’t originate with you? The source of your challenges could be rooted in your family energy field--and the problematic patterns that arise in your life could be ancestral trauma calling out to be healed.
Presenting a guide to releasing the family patterns that hold you back, Anuradha Dayal-Gulati, an energy practitioner specializing in ancestral and emotional healing, explores the energetic principles that govern your family lineage and the many ways your ancestral field can support you as well as how it can hold you captive. She explains how the experiences and wounds of your parents or grandparents as well as more distant ancestors can affect you and how, sometimes, themes reappear in a family for several generations in a row--patterns of financial distress, sibling rivalry, divorce, or conversely long happy marriages, good health, and good humour.
The author provides exercises and tools--such as journal practices, visualizations, meditations, and mind mapping--that can help you recognize and release negative family patterns, explaining how you don’t have to know anything about your ancestors to bring about healing. She shares her own healing journey and her experience with family constellation therapy and explores in depth the use of flower essences to transform emotions and release generational trauma. She discusses the importance of honoring your ancestors, sharing suggestions about altar creation, prayers, and the Vedic ritual of Tarpanam.
Teaching you how to recognize the patterns that manifest in your daily experiences, this guide shows how, by healing your ancestral roots, you can lift the unconscious, invisible barriers that keep you from creating the life you want.
Trade Review“Anuradha Dayal-Gulati, Ph.D., has written a thoroughly engaging guide to gaining more contentment, fulfillment, and harmony in life. This gem of a book will make an important contribution to the emergence of new energy-based therapies. It is rare to find a guide to the gifts of the Earth, ancestors, and spirit that is so highly informative and heartfully lyrical.” * Dan Cohen, Ph.D., family constellation facilitator and author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Fam *
“Anu’s clear, concise, down-to-earth writing style and easy-tofollow exercises make her book one of the best for beginners, clients, and practitioners alike. Sharing her step-by-step process, she shows you how to find peace and contentment in your life by connecting to yourself, to your family energy field, to the Earth, and ultimately to the Source of all that is. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.” * Susan Ulfelder, ND, LMT, BCPP, RDH, traditional naturopath, doctor of integrative medicine, and foun *
“This book seeks to outline an alternative path forward—one that involves healing one’s roots and forging a new path. To accomplish this, the book introduces two crucial concepts— family energy fields and flower essences—that complement familiar techniques to address family trauma, like therapy and essential oils.” * Foreword Reviews *
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Heal Your Ancestral Roots offers a thought-provoking option for dealing with family issues, creating a path to a more fulfilling life.” * BlueInk Review *
“A compelling, spirited guide that aims to help readers understand who they come from.” * Kirkus Reviews *
"In this compassionate entry, personal development coach Dayal-Gulati charts a path for readers to heal from ancestral trauma. This entry takes a nuanced approach to addressing family suffering, and readers will find her advice actionable and cathartic. Dayal-Gulati’s wisdom will easily attract the spiritually inclined." * Publisher's Weekly *
"This is an enlightening guide for anyone looking to uncover how family history and intergenerational suffering impact our lives today. I was grateful to learn about energy medicine through flower essences, family constellations, rituals, and ceremonies. Awareness is often a first step toward action. Dayal-Gulati offers a non-traditional path toward healing, and it requires openness to be honest and vulnerable. Healing family trauma requires deep internal work over time, and I am thankful for the lessons shared in this book." * Maileen Hamto, San Francisco Book Review *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Living Life in Full Bloom
Do You Have the Power to Change Anything?
Part I: Healing My Roots 1 Why Heal Your Roots?
Can You Inherit the Fate of Your Ancestors?
Seeing Patterns
Filling the Void
What Happens When Your Ancestors Fail to Move On?
What to Expect in This Book: The Journey Ahead
2 The Power of the Unseen The Dispensation of Hope
The Arrival of Haripriya
Leaving India
3 From Fate to DestinyDiscovering Flower Essences
The Threshold of Life and Death
My Lifeline Finding
My Purpose
4 Discovering Family Energy Fields What Is a Family Constellation? Whose Emotions Are We Carrying? Karma: The Law of Cause and Effect
Part II: Healing Tools 5 Healing with Flower Essences
How Essences Work
Essences of Transformation
How Long Should You Take Flower Essences For?
6 How to Honor Your Ancestors
How to Set Up an Ancestral Altar
The Power of Prayer
Prayers to Release the Past
Your Ancestors Wantto Connect with You Too
How to Do Tarpanam
Part III: Understanding Your Family Energy Field7 Rewriting Your Parental Story
The Debt of Life: Parents Give and Children Receive
How Trauma Affects Your Roots
Understanding Your Parental Wounds
Rewriting Your Parental Story
Releasing Your Unconscious Loyalty to Your Parents
Connecting with Universal Unconditional Love
8. Parents Give and You Receive
The Queen of Strengths
Your Unconscious Blocks to Receiving
Honoring Our Parents
The Energy of a Mother’s Love
9 Everyone Belongs in a Family Why Does This Happen?
Our Hidden Legacies
The Elephants in the Room
Making Space for Everyone
Part IV: The Journey Home 10 The Path Back to Yourself Karma and Grace
Faith Takes You Beyond Synchronicity
The Challenge of Building Faith
11 Connecting with Mother EarthWhat Does It Mean to Be Grounded?
The Healing Power of Water
12 Let Your Life Blossom What Does It Mean to Honor Your Life or Yourself?
Shifting Your Perspective
Self-Care and Self-Compassion
Blessings to Blossom
Filling the Hole Within
13 The Four Pillars The Price of Belonging
The Path of Transformation
Connecting to the Flow of Love and Life
From Sight to Insight
AppendicesA: Some FAQs on Flower Essences
B: Flower Essences and Essential Oils
C: A Starter Kit of Flower Essences
D: Five Flower Essence Formulas
Formula #1: An Optimism Formula
Formula #2: Boundaries
Formula #3: Self-Love and Self-Worth
Formula #4: Need Direction?
Formula #5: Letting Go
Glossary
Resources
List of Exercises
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
