Is there a memory of failure within you that causes you to believe that, no matter how much you achieve, something will happen to bring you down?  Despite all that you have, do you still need more to satisfy your craving for security?

Each of us chose our particular human embodiment to learn certain lessons in this lifetime.  We hold within and have available to us the experiences of those who came before us.  Past, present, and future are very linear concepts that, given the right environment and conditions, can be experienced and understood in the present moment.

Our minds, on some level, contain all of the memories of all that ever was.  These thoughts may be influencing us in ways in which we are unaware.  They may be preventing us from acknowledging our havingness.

Many of the obstacles blocking an awareness of our havingness are in our subconscious.  One example of a psychic obstacle is an ancestral memory or agreement made prior to birth or conception and usually forgotten.  A pre-birth agreement is the decision by a group of energetic beings to be physically born as family or friends, for example, to assist each other during a lifetime and to grow as a group.  A ready-made spiritual support system was thereby established.  Unfortunately, members of the group may subsequently grow at different rates or move along different paths.

This pre-embodiment energetic agreement can cause some group members to sacrifice their own potential progressions in life and adhere to the level of advancement of the group.  Those members can’t seem to pull away from a family’s destructive or non-productive environment.  Developing a physical distance may not be possible or desirable.  A solution may be to identify and break free of the ancestral agreement.

However, conscious awareness and disavowal can take many years to develop.  We are heavily influenced by being in physical bodies and existing within a material realm.  We forget that we are still energetic beings, unfettered and infinite.

Try this exercise to break free from undesirable energies of your group:  imagine that you are connected by a rope.  You are in a balloon.  Visualize yourself floating away, moving towards your highest potential.  Cut the rope.  It might take a long time to completely sever the rope.  The last strand might be the hardest.  Repeat the exercise until you break free.  This can take years, but it helps you to reinforce an awareness that the ancestral agreement is not a chokehold.  You can move on even if your group wants to stay put.

Another example of being influenced by an ancestral memory is living with the energetic lives of those who didn’t or couldn’t achieve their desired goals while embodied.  That ancestral energy working in and through you may cause you to make life choices and have perceptions based upon those ancestral experiences.  For instance, images of slavery, genocide, colonization, and other types of subjugation are deeply imbedded within some people.

During these experiences, no matter how hard the struggle, freedom was unobtainable.  Attempts to flee were met with severe harm or death.  For present day free people, that repressive energy can be strong, particularly in the face of continuing oppression and disadvantage.  Those influenced by repressive energy may respond to unfair situations and abusive people with anger, bitterness, resentment, and unhappiness.  Lack and limitation seem to be constant.

Be aware that these unproductive attributes can be energetic and may at times need to be resolved with the assistance of therapeutic energy practitioners.

Our very presence in this day and age proves that we have empowering freedom energy within us.  The ancestral memories of our bodies also stem from those who persevered, triumphed, and prospered in spite of the degradation and deadliness of their lives.  We must acknowledge, nurture, and utilize the strength of these ancestors.

The lessons that you are to learn in this lifetime have their genesis in the history of the body that your spirit inhabits.  Your challenge is to take that history to the next level and, thus, elevate yourself and others.  Identify and acknowledge all of your ancestral memories.   Be aware of spirit guides who stand ready to help and protect you.  Learn to flow with the energetic influences that appear to impede your progress; but, in fact, serve to teach and help you expand.  Welcome and gain strength from those who prevailed in the past and moved their and your evolution forward.

You are they – continued.