The family is the group of human relationships that most affect us in life and generally do so throughout our lives. The bond with our mother, father, brothers, sisters, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts and uncles and other family members, is often the key to many of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual conflicts. Each family has one or several karmas, just as each person has them. Karma is the cause of not only many of our personal problems but also family ones. Family karma also affects the family members who are no longer here, who have passed away but are often part of the problem or in some cases have caused it. Releasing family karma is essential to free the deceased and to let the living live more peacefully.

Until recently, family constellations have been the only tool to deal with a spiritual problem within a family, but many times a constellation or a series of constellations are not enough to heal family karma. The reason is that the karmic energy within a family, shared by many of its members (living and dead), is very difficult to access for many constellation facilitators. Even though the person who facilitates a constellation puts all of their energy and heart into solving the situation, many times that is not enough, because the problem is basically karmic. Besides this, my suggestion to many people who attend a shamanic session is that they get family constellations work done, to see to what extent their personal problem is related to their family.

Karma in a family is a static energy, dense and frozen in time. Shamans see that karma as karmic intrusions (energies inside and outside of a person’s body and that come from past lives). Those karmic intrusions are shared among family members. Shamans remove these intrusions with the extraction technique. Spirit helpers also remove intrusions that the shaman cannot take out. Karmic intrusions assume different shapes such as chains, bonds, wooden structures, among thousands of forms that the shaman sees.

There are times in which, in a family constellation, this type of karmic intrusion is usually removed because one of its members changes their attitude and seeks to heal; then the family clan can begin to heal. Sometimes this also happens because a helper spirit involved in the constellation intervenes by removing the karmic problem. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes the constellation therapist has the necessary strength or power to remove these intrusions and the participants feel it.

Family karma can manifest as a disease that is transmitted from generation to generation, as constant economic hardship for many of the family members, fighting and estrangement, lack of communication between family members, etc. For example, take this Spanish family: many deceased family members had job problems (they were fired) and the living ones had the same issue; a karma release for the family found that one of the relatives on the mother’s side of the consultant had opposed in 1870 to the sale of all their properties by their brother to emigrate to America. During that karmic release, that soul appeared really angry, putting a sort of family curse on the entire branch of his brother’s descendants. When that soul could be freed from that revenge, the younger members of the family began to have job security.

Family karma passes inevitably from one member to another for the simple reason that the Great Spirit has placed us in that family so that we pay our individual karma and learn what we have to. The family in which we are born and grow up, the family tree that we join at birth, is the most perfect place to pay a part of our personal karma.

However, the Universe is constantly changing and there are times when family karma can be released and a little light can be cast upon a problem that seems hopeless. There is a moment in the history of a family in which one or several of its members begin a healing process and this will, eventually, impact the other members if the root of the problem is discovered. If the problem is a family karma, the issue must be approached as a family and not only at the bonding level, otherwise the solution won’t be easy to find.

In a family constellation you can clearly see how this karmic energy affects the members of the constellation, making them change their postures and attitudes when they take on the role of a family member. However, many times the healing of the problem is not straightforward and many constellations must be repeated to arrive, at least, at a partial solution. But just because the family problem has been made visible does not mean it has been healed. If the family problem is a karma shared by all its members, eventually a family karma release will be required. The family constellations prior to that release are very useful because they pave the way to healing.

The same thing happens when a past-life regression is done: if the problem is karmic, the consultant will very likely not experience and see the cause of the problem (you usually see more experiences in which you are a victim and not the victimizer). No matter how many regressions to past lives are done, and even if you ask the help of all the Masters of the Universe, if the karma is not ready to be released, the underlying problem will not healed (when you see yourself as the victimizer, then you are getting closer). The person doing a regression should try to find out the underlying karmic problem. In some places, shamans do karmic regressions to try to see and heal the underlying problem.

There are times when family karma (for example the lack of communication between family members) is caused by the soul of a relative who has already passed away but is still among the living, affecting all or almost all the members of the family. In those cases, when the soul of the deceased is released, the karmic problem usually begins to go away, more or less quickly. But the key is to identify that the family’s problem is being caused by the soul of a deceased relative and raise them to the light so that they can move on. Whoever can do this will greatly help that family.

Not everybody is capable of doing a family karmic release. This requires experience in healing and understanding karmic intrusions. Family karma releases can also be done remotely, it works as well as doing it in person.

Usually a family karma problem is a combination of karmic intrusions with one or several souls of the ancestors affecting the living members of the family. Releasing both is essential for that family karma to begin to go away and for its members to heal that issue. If we can release that karma, the family’s present and past are more likely to heal and if the family is healed, the energy of the place where we live will improve and the planet where we live will improve as well.

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Blessings!

Martin Armando