Can your ancestors' bad deeds affect you generations later?

Nikki Mackay, who lives in the next village, author of The Science of Family: Working with Ancestral Patterns
says you can blame your ancestors if you end up in doomed relationships, drink too much or generally just behave badly! Apparently, the events of previous generations can have far-reaching implications on the choices you make today. She believes it could be the reason why some people repeatedly select unsuitable partners or feel they make the wrong choices in life.

Your ancestors are a huge part of who, what, where and why you are the way you are today. It is comforting to think of the ancestors as something quite far away, unreachable but still there in the background. The reality is it all starts with your parents, who are connected to their parents, who are connected to their parents and so on until it all gets a bit blurry. Do you know, really know your parents? Do you know you Grandparents? What happened to them, what challenged them, what made them who they are or were? What happened in the family? Where are your roots? Patterns, energy, events and burdens from the past are carried down and are repeated through generations leaving an emotional, physical and spiritual imprint on the individual as they follow the fates of those that have gone before.

"We don't always think of our family and ancestors as being connected to how we are as individuals," she says. "But where we come from and our place in the family has a huge impact on not only how we feel about ourselves but also the choices that we make in our lives."

"It is amazing the things that are forgotten or suppressed with a family," she says. "The secrets that are never spoken of, the children that never were, the affairs, the crimes, the violence, murders, abuse, the missing - all the things that are swept under the carpet. "But the unseen and unspoken has a habit of making itself heard further down the line."War and violence, the loss of children or parents - even if it happened generations ago - are all events that can leave a subconscious imprint on your actions, she claims.

Nikki claims she has an uncanny knack of being able to psychically pinpoint who, and why, among our ancestors, is influencing our lives today.

In The Science of Family: Working with Ancestral Patterns
Nikki Mackay explores these patterns, their effects and how to work with them using techniques from the world of energy healing, tarot archetypes and family constellations.