How to Tell the Difference between a Past Life Memory and an Ancestral Inheritance

This week’s topic was prompted from a question by a viewer, who asked how to tell the difference between a genuine past life memory, or something that you inherited from your ancestors.

I thought that was a great question!!! And it’s a bit tricky, because so much of who we are is informed by our family, ancestors, and the people we grew up with in general. In some cases, we reincarnate into the same family, so we get hit with a double whammy of past life and ancestral traits/memories/vibes.

The funny thing is, if your goal is to clear the energy, it doesn’t matter if it’s ancestral or not. The clearing work is still similar. A classic ancestral case: let’s say you notice a pattern in life where you have bad luck in men. So you look at your family, and realize your mom had issues with men, as did your grandma, and her mother too. It was as if this issue was passed down through the generations. Once you have that sense of where it came from, you can do the clearing work to heal the issue, to break up the energy, and to shift things for the better.

If you had instead discovered that you were not attracting the kind of guy you want to be with because of a past life issue, you would do deep inner work to clear that energy as well. So, to be fair, both situations require a type of clearing and resetting.

The work to do this is fun, though – because it’s positive, it’s beneficial, and it’s effective!

To speak to the main point of how to distinguish a past life from an ancestral pattern, here are 3 ways to figure it out:

1. Look at what you LOVED as a child.

This is one of the biggest clues as to who you were in a past life. Did you constantly draw pictures of 18th century French ballgowns, like me? Or were you obsessively into the  mechanics of WW2 warships, planes, and battles, like my 10 year-old nephew? No-one in my family had the same passion for French ballgowns, and no-one in my nephew’s family is as obsessed with WW2 as he is. I venture to suspect that both of us had past lives during these eras.

2. Do Past Life Regressions!

This is pretty easy, but a past life regression, either with a professional or on your own with a guided hypnosis, will absolutely give you clues as to who you were in past lives. Past life regression therapy definitely helps you to understand issues you are dealing with in this life that originated in your past.

3. Study your Family.

Another very easy way to tell if you are dealing with ancestral energy is to look at your entire family, and those that came before them. What struggles did they have that you are having now? What were their lives like if you go further back in time? What beliefs and practices do they have that you are struggling with, too?

The understanding of the origin of issues is somewhat intricate. I have seen both, and I would say many of us do have both to contend with. Fortunately, both roads lead to a similar type of healing and clearing work.

Do you have an awareness of who you were in a pst life? How about ancestral patterns? Please share them in the comments below if you are watching on YouTube. Thank you!