“How do you work with past lives within the family? Meaning that the grandmother has reincarnated as her granddaughter or great-granddaughter?” one of my students asked me this week.
I answered that since I distinguish between the family constellation and karmic constellation, it usually doesn’t come up for me in the field, because the use of the ‘family language’ is almost nonexistent.
And in the world of phenomena, as in the world of phenomena –
When a particular subject appears on my doorstep, it often shows up in my clinic as well.
Ronit (pseudonym) and I are doing a family constellation.
Ronit is very open to the spiritual world and we’ve often worked with and on previous incarnations. But this time, we’re in the family field because there’s something there that needs resolving.
Her great-grandmother appears, and when Ronit represents her, she suddenly sees how similar they are.
When Dr. Michael Newton studied the journey of souls, he found that very few souls reincarnate in the same family unit.
According to Newton, souls want to experience as much as possible, and returning to the same family unit limits their experiences, since for the most part we stay in the same culture, with the same DNA, and in the same tradition, and the soul doesn’t gain much from this.
Shamanic traditions see things differently and tend to see how people do reincarnate in the same family.
Also, people of different faiths and cultures, such as the Druze, believe that people remain in their own culture when they reincarnate (and therefore, the Druze people will always reincarnate as Druze).
I don’t know what the truth is, and I try to be as open as possible.
Is Ronit a reincarnation of her great-grandmother? Or perhaps she’s so deeply entangled with her that she can’t distinguish between herself and her great-grandmother?
As far as I see it, both options are okay.
I ask Ronit to step off the representations and ask her, “If I were to ask you to set up a representation for your soul and for your great-grandmother’s soul, what representations would you add?”
This question contains the answer to what I want to know.
Ronit thinks a little and then tells me that she would have set up the same representation—one soul for them both.
Now I know that Ronit is a reincarnation of her great-grandmother.
So what do we do with this?
Why did Ronit reincarnate into the same family? What does the soul have to learn here?
The truth is, I don’t know.
To the directions that the session went in, the knowledge that Ronit was a reincarnation of her great grandmother was irrelevant.
At the same time, I have no doubt that this knowledge is significant, and that at a later point in time it will serve Ronit in her inner healing and personal development.
This is one of the things that make me really like the constellation—the knowledge that comes from the field, from the client, and not from me.
This leaves the power in the client’s hands, and grants them much deeper healing.
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