For me, this quickly raises he question: what do we know, feel, and think about the past's effects on us? What has happened that gave us so many problems?  What do we mean by "past"?  
     For one, the past is what has happened to the conscious "I" - the person who is here now carrying some memories of some of what has happened since birth. And more important for many of us, we carry pain on several levels: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual. Where from? Why? Sometimes these are consciously tied to past events or traumas that are known. Often not, yet the pain is real and very much here now. Present time is where effective healing can happen. 

   Homes and land also retain what has happened in, on, and near them, so in a sense, they have personal and ancestral histories. When we move into a house, we start to pick up signals of the energies of everyone who has lived there. Some families have left mostly warm feelings; others have had unhappy lives that left their imprinted emotions. In this way, we live with the ancestral pasts of others. The good news is that houses are easier to clear than people and often turn out to be as important as our personal stories.

  Because the past is not even past, it is available for healing in present time, in messages form body and spirit.  It is not helpful, actually, to spend too much time in the past, reliving old trauma, rehashing painful memories. 

   The next level of the past that we encounter in Clearing work is the Ancestral past. We have realized that we embody events in our ancestors' lives, good and bad. They are in the present. We have the ability to recognize and transcend ancestral patterns, programs, and habits. Consider one who has been mistreated and disapproved of by a parent.  It helps enormously to clear both the client's present issue and also clear the ancestral line of patterns of parental disapproval.
     Working with homes, we find ancestral patterns imprinted in the energy fields.. The home taks in everything that has happened, including the ancestral unconscious memories of the people who live there.

     Those are key influences, but there are more. Our own soul histories can carry important material. We may have had many lives since our first arising in this realm. For at least 3000 years, this planet has been a place of conflict and violence. Often, current issues are resolved by clearing past life trauma.   
     These past human activities have formed collective programs and beliefs. Each society has core beliefs, some harmful to life. There are things we're not supposed to feel or think, lest we be out of tune with our society. Hard to break free until we recognize them. 

     Of course, thee things are embedded on our homes and in fact all our buildings, plus the portions of the earth we have polluted.  Here now, the history of humans, still with us.  We feel and think that we need to clear as much of this as possible to free ourselves from the tyranny of unmetabolizd grief that so burdens this planet and all our lives.

   Patti and I both have discovered how far we can go with dissolving the many factors that make up what we aren't loving about our present experience.
 Joe Casey

This still resonates so strongly that it seems worth repeating.

From Patti Leahy and Joe Casey

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