If you are anything like me, you have been feeling an overwhelming sadness when you think about the turmoil in India as it relates to the farmer's protests.
For many of us, our families have been overcoming and surviving silently for generations. We have seen British rule destroy our villages, we have been displaced through the partition, we have been colonized to countries that separated us from our motherland. And still we rise.
At what point does our survival mode turn into thriving? I believe it starts with us. We must acknowledge the grief that has stricken the generations before us, for what they never had the privilege to process becomes ours.
We have inherited a way of being that is unconscious and impacts us day to day. To start to free ourselves we must begin to sit with our ancestor's grief. We have the great privilege of starting to feel our feelings, many of our massars, nanis, and baba's did not.
What does healing from generational trauma even look like? Tell their stories. Process the emotions and pains of our ancestors. How has this shown up in your own life? Beginning to process these concepts will free future generations from similar patterns and it will slowly start to free you as well
Our elders in India have shown us that it is never too late to confront our traditional ways of being as they have implemented the largest protest in the history of the world. What is more beautiful than that? It is never too late to do something different. I hope this challenges you to do the same.
May we always be courageous,
Ashley Singh
