Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path
We reap what we sow, but we also reap what others before us have sown. If we do this unconsciously, we find ourselves victims of unfortunate circumstances, but if we are conscious of what we have taken on from our family legacy, we can turn it around.

Doctors Bedi and Matthews have worked with people who have carried the burden of their families' best achievements, worst failures, and unrealized dreams. With their experience, we learn to recognize our karmic inheritance and settle our family's karmic accounts so we can redirect our energies in accord with our own true path and passion, our soul's calling. Bedi and Matthews explain how ancestral karma gets energetically encoded in the chakras of our subtle body and manifests as chakra blockages or overactivity. They provide case histories from their patients, an analysis of the Kennedy family history, as well as the archetypal example of the history of the House of Atreus—the Greek legacy of family betrayal stemming from Tantalus to Atreus and Thyestes, to Agamemnon and finally, Orestes. In addition to these examples and illuminating case studies, the authors teach us how to use dreamwork, journaling, and diagramming our family tree as tools for identifying and overcoming inherited karma.

To totally comprehend our roots and to realize our destiny, we must look beyond our individual life and understand our ancestral context in order to make sense of our journey. Once we have identified the blessings and the curses we have inherited, we have the possibility of choice. The best way to break old patterns is to work on establishing new ones.

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Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path
We reap what we sow, but we also reap what others before us have sown. If we do this unconsciously, we find ourselves victims of unfortunate circumstances, but if we are conscious of what we have taken on from our family legacy, we can turn it around.

Doctors Bedi and Matthews have worked with people who have carried the burden of their families' best achievements, worst failures, and unrealized dreams. With their experience, we learn to recognize our karmic inheritance and settle our family's karmic accounts so we can redirect our energies in accord with our own true path and passion, our soul's calling. Bedi and Matthews explain how ancestral karma gets energetically encoded in the chakras of our subtle body and manifests as chakra blockages or overactivity. They provide case histories from their patients, an analysis of the Kennedy family history, as well as the archetypal example of the history of the House of Atreus—the Greek legacy of family betrayal stemming from Tantalus to Atreus and Thyestes, to Agamemnon and finally, Orestes. In addition to these examples and illuminating case studies, the authors teach us how to use dreamwork, journaling, and diagramming our family tree as tools for identifying and overcoming inherited karma.

To totally comprehend our roots and to realize our destiny, we must look beyond our individual life and understand our ancestral context in order to make sense of our journey. Once we have identified the blessings and the curses we have inherited, we have the possibility of choice. The best way to break old patterns is to work on establishing new ones.

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Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path

Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path

Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path

Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path

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Overview

We reap what we sow, but we also reap what others before us have sown. If we do this unconsciously, we find ourselves victims of unfortunate circumstances, but if we are conscious of what we have taken on from our family legacy, we can turn it around.

Doctors Bedi and Matthews have worked with people who have carried the burden of their families' best achievements, worst failures, and unrealized dreams. With their experience, we learn to recognize our karmic inheritance and settle our family's karmic accounts so we can redirect our energies in accord with our own true path and passion, our soul's calling. Bedi and Matthews explain how ancestral karma gets energetically encoded in the chakras of our subtle body and manifests as chakra blockages or overactivity. They provide case histories from their patients, an analysis of the Kennedy family history, as well as the archetypal example of the history of the House of Atreus—the Greek legacy of family betrayal stemming from Tantalus to Atreus and Thyestes, to Agamemnon and finally, Orestes. In addition to these examples and illuminating case studies, the authors teach us how to use dreamwork, journaling, and diagramming our family tree as tools for identifying and overcoming inherited karma.

To totally comprehend our roots and to realize our destiny, we must look beyond our individual life and understand our ancestral context in order to make sense of our journey. Once we have identified the blessings and the curses we have inherited, we have the possibility of choice. The best way to break old patterns is to work on establishing new ones.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780892540815
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc
Publication date: 11/01/2003
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Ashok Bedi is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of Great Britain, a Diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and president-elect, training analyst, and faculty member at the Analyst Training Program of the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He practices psychiatry at the Aurora Psychiatric Hospital and the Aurora Health Care Networks. He is author of

Path to the Soul (Weiser Books, 2000) and and the co-author of

Retire Your Family Karma (Nicholas-Hays, Inc., 2003). His website is www.pathtothesoul.com.

Table of Contents

List of Journal Exercisesix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introductionxv
Part ITracing Your Family Karma
Chapter 1.Beginning the Work of Retiring Your Family Karma3
How to Use this Book5
Chapter 2.What is Karma?7
Means and Ends9
The Three Sources of Karma10
The Matrix of Karma16
Introduction to the Journal Exercises17
Repetition and Reversal19
Chapter 3.Evidence for Family Karma in Ancient and Modern Legends21
Family Karma in the Bible21
Family Karma in the House of Atreus22
Violent Death in the Kennedy Dynasty28
Chapter 4.Exploring the Family Dynamics and Our Relationships33
The Authors' Experience with Family Karma34
The Importance of Relationships to Our Soul Growth36
Chapter 5.How We Inherit Family Karma51
The Unconscious51
Family Complexes and the Word-Association Experiments52
Morphogenic Fields and the Kundalini Chakras55
Family Legacy in the Seven Chakras57
First-Chakra Family Karma: Tom's Horror of Insecurity62
Second-Chakra Family Karma: Karen's Sexual Fantasies67
Third-Chakra Family Karma: Edward, the Benevolent Tyrant73
Fourth-Chakra Family Karma: Sex with the Stepson79
Fifth-Chakra Family Karma: Ann Finds Her Voice84
Sixth-Chakra Family Karma: Ruth Emerges as a Leader89
Seventh-Chakra Family Karma: Esther Hears the Whispers of the Sacred94
Part IIWorking Out Your Family Karma
Chapter 6.Clues to Karma and How to Sort Them Out101
Where We Start: Awareness, Knowledge, Responsibility102
Tools for the Search105
Family Karma and Adopted Children107
Relationship Patterns and Problems110
Examining Our Parents' and Relatives' Relationships112
Career Choices116
Fantasies117
Complexes119
How to Work with Complexes123
Fascinations and Antipathies128
Psychiatric and Medical Conditions and Chakra Imbalances131
Dreams135
Working with Dreams138
Tragic Events139
Chapter 7.Mapping Your Family Karma143
Basic Components of the Genogram143
Using the Genogram to Map Family Karma144
Setting up Your Genogram148
Chapter 8.Encouragement for Your Soul Journey151
What Do You Do after You've Identified Family Karma?152
The Archetypal Pattern154
The Courage to Become Yourself158
Appendices
A.Additional Reading159
B.Genealogy161
Notes165
Bibliography169
Index173
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