WAR GRANDCHILDREN – DISSOLVING THE SUFFERING OF THE WAR GRANDCHILDREN / GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

War grandchildren and war great-grandchildren unconsciously carry unresolved emotional injuries of their ancestors.

If violations of the system law, such as exclusion, suffering, grief, fear and anger, have occurred in the ancestors, for example through war experiences or the early death of a parent, these violations can be reflected in the changed behaviour and personality of the ancestors, who in turn have influenced or are influencing the descendants (war grandchildren, war grandchildren).

Traumas and injured feelings can also be passed on emotionally to children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

LITERATURE ABOUT WAR GRANDCHILDREN

The books about war children / war grandchildren refer to the Second World War and show their connections.

They try to offer approaches to solutions in addition to the knowledge that such “inherited” effects exist. However, in many cases these do not go far enough.

WAR CHILDREN, WAR GRANDCHILDREN, WAR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND THE SYSTEM LAWS

Our experience with the topic is that not only the Second World War, but also the First or previous wars have the same effects. Also, regardless of wars, systemic law violations and traumatic experiences of the ancestors can be passed on in the same way.

If, for example, an ancestor has experienced fear of starvation and has not worked off this fear, it can be unconsciously taken over by a descendant. It is not even necessary for the war grandchild or war grandchild to have experienced this fear in the ancestor. No imprinting or learning has to take place.

This existential fear can be expressed in the fact that the descendant is overweight (eat in stock, because there might be a famine again), or has an addiction or little to self-confidence.

The first step is to bring the feelings and burdens out of the fog and gain understanding.

The second step is then to dissolve the causes or the systemic law violations of the ancestors.

For this purpose we have developed the Empowering and Genea method. With the Genea-Method these injuries of the ancestors can be dissolved internally by the client, so that the personality can develop freely again.

For me, it was and is always about achieving an effect, i.e. finding and working on the causes, so that the issues dissolve. I have got to know and learned methods and approaches such as NLP, Timeline, TA, TZI, EMDR, Wingwave, Buddhism, Zen, Kinesiology, Constellations, Yoga, Psychodrama, Gestalt Therapy, Systemics (Self-Organisation and Chaos Theory) and Quantum Physics and extracted the most effective things for me.

Thus I have developed the Genea and Empowering Methods through constant application and trial and error in coaching clients and myself.

In my personal case, I have applied all the methods I have learned to my fear of being abandoned.

This fear was not imprinted but was unconsciously with me, because an ancestor had died young and her child had experienced this fear in real life and had not resolved this violation of the system law. With the inner constellation I could finally dissolve this fear in 2002. From this the Genea-Method was developed.

GENEA- AND EMPOWERING METHOD TO DISSOLVE IMPRINTS ON THE ANCESTORS OF WAR GRANDCHILDREN AND WAR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

Genea method means: dissolving systemic law violations of the ancestors, so that the forces and life energies can flow fully and completely again.

Empowering method means: Empowering and strengthening one’s own life history and living in the here and now with the powers of the ancestors as well as in systemic mediation to dissolve further systemic law violations.

 

The Genea Method resolves issues with previous generations and the Empowering Method empowers, strengthens and shapes one’s own experienced life anew.

Through the empowerment of the ancestors, many self-generated or self-experienced systemic law violations in private and professional life can be resolved.

Likewise, new abilities, behaviours, convictions and the meaning of life or vision are made accessible or learned anew.

In the above example, this leads to the fact that the descendant no longer feels fear of existence and the problem of being overweight dissolves.

MY BOOK »Persönlichkeitsentwicklung mit System« AND THE WAR GRANDCHILDREN

In the course of my book, the effects of the two world wars on the psyche and health of today’s generation and their possible solutions are shown.

EXAMPLE 1: FEAR OF ABANDONMENT – INABILITY TO BOND OR RELATE

A client could not properly engage in relationships. If it got serious with a partner, she had to leave.

She felt like she was being controlled by someone else. She felt bad, scared. Even though the relationship was fine until then, she had to end it.

After that she looked for partners who were already married or with whom she had a platonic relationship. This protected her from a too close relationship.

The reason for her unconsciously controlled behaviour was that she was afraid of being left. However, she had not had such a formative experience in her life from which she could have derived the fear.

It then became apparent that the client had unconsciously taken over this fear of abandonment from her father and grandfather. They had made the fear real, because the client’s grandmother died suddenly when the grandfather was about 40 years old and her father 10 years old. Neither of them had worked through this fear and so it was passed on to the client as a burden.

Fear of abandonment or inability to relate is shown in the statement: “I would rather leave you preventively than be abandoned.

In the opposite case, it can lead to strong homesickness, e.g. to keep an eye on the parents all the time, because then it cannot be left.

With the Genea and Empowering Method the client has resolved the systemic law violations such as fear, grief and also anger in her grandfather and father in an inner constellation (without her father or grandfather being present in the coaching).

Then her grandfather and her father could take the fear away from her (inwardly).

This led to a liberated feeling in the client and she now lives happily in a solid partnership with her own children.

EXAMPLE 2: NO SUCCESS

One client had successfully built up a business three times in the last ten years and lost it each time due to mistakes on his part.

He now wanted clarity about what might be behind it.

After we had addressed the environmental issues:

 

“What’s the good thing about him not being successful?”

and

“What negative effects can a successful business have?”

I asked him if he felt that he was allowed to be successful.

He had strong ancestor couples, i.e. he could see his parents and grandparents inwardly as strong couples standing close together.

I asked him if his grandparents and parents could say to him

“You can be successful!”

He felt this inside and said yes. So he had the permission of his ancestors.

Now the second step is much more important, whether he can also accept the permission.

I asked him whether he could accept this permission and inwardly thank the couples and say

“Thank you, I can be successful.”

With his parents and the maternal grandparents it felt coherent, with the paternal grandparents it felt not coherent. With him it turned up that his grandparents had a successful coal business, which was bombed in the war and their existence was therefore destroyed. He then realized that out of loyalty he had unconsciously lived the same fate: “success = losing everything”:

On the one hand, so that his grandparents would feel better again if he took on their suffering; on the other hand, so that the frozen feelings such as anger, suffering, grief and fear would be worked off, he lived the dynamic as a signal.

With the Genea method we then resolved these experienced systemic law violations. Afterwards he could say coherently to his grandparents:

“Out of love for you or in honour of you I may succeed – now more than ever.”

So this dynamic of failure was dissolved and he then built up his fourth business, which has been successful ever since.

SIGNALS AS WAR GRANDCHILDREN AND WAR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

In addition to the above examples, I have found another set of signals (thoughts, feelings, symptoms, dreams and events) in clients where the cause is ancestral.

FROZEN ENERGY OR POWER

If the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents have experienced suffering in war and this has not been resolved, then energy / power is frozen.

Every form of fear, grief, suffering, anger and rage, which is not resolved properly, limits the energy and shows itself in various signals.

NOT TO GET ANGRY

We usually get our power from our ancestors. They are unconscious role models who consciously and unconsciously pass on their experiences and imprints to their descendants.

Power der Vorfahren

With war grandchildren and wartime grandchildren, System Empowering Coaching is about uncovering the causative persons through an inner work For some people anger is a shadow, i.e. they must not get angry.

In an inner constellation work, the signal as war grandchild and wartime great-grandson can lead back to the ancestors who have already received this imprint through war experiences.

THROUGH THIS MAN PEOPLE HAVE COME TO HARM IN WAR

If people have been killed in war by the man (e.g. grandfather of the warrior’s grandson) or if he has not helped, etc., a dynamic can develop from this.

Examples can be having to hide, having a guilty conscience, not being able to learn a language, feeling ashamed or guilty or dissociating from one’s feelings.

We often experience such people then weakened, although they were strong balanced personalities before the war.

ANGER AT SON PREVENTS POWER FLOW

Anger at the son can reduce the flow of power. One reason may be that the eldest son has died in a war, for example.

Anger at the death of the eldest and anger at war is diverted to the younger son. (Had the younger son died, then the older son would still be alive – reflects the fourth system law: sooner before later).

BALANCE OUT THE SHIFT OF FORCES

If one partner dies or is generally too weak, for example, it is possible that the other partner takes over this part and appears to be hard on the outside (e.g. the “wrecked women”, who were often balanced and powerful, but survival was more important than warmth and love and therefore appeared too hard on the outside).

This “working too hard” can have an effect up to the war grandchild and war great-grandchild and show itself there as a signal.

PERMISSION RECEIVED OR ACCEPTED (YOU MAY… THANKS, I MAY…)

Out of love or honour or loyalty to the parents or grandparents, it often happens that a child does not give itself permission to be successful, happy, etc.

If, for example, the mother had to suffer in marriage or if the grandparents lost everything in the war, the child unconsciously thinks that the same must happen to me – through this I show my love for them.

FOLLOW-UP DYNAMICS INTO DEATH FOR THE WAR GRANDCHILDREN AND WAR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

In the follow-up dynamic to death the 4th system law “Earlier before later has priority” is effective.

If an ancestor dies, a younger part (e.g. father dies and the first child reacts to it) can develop from loyalty to an unconscious feeling “Actually I should have died”.

The effects that we have experienced and resolved may be addiction, depression, attempted suicide, accident or illness.

FEARS AND RESTRICTIVE FEELINGS

If an ancestor of the war grandchild / war grandchild has experienced something terrible in war, e.g. if his life was at stake (after a bomb hit the house collapsed and down in the cellar he was buried, but was able to free himself), it can lead to fear of death. Such unprocessed feelings can also be passed on to children or grandchildren. They occur from time to time, for no apparent objective reason, which is why they cannot be consciously explained. The fear of death can manifest itself in the fact that the person cannot sleep in a tent, is afraid of flying or riding an elevator. In these cases, the person is concerned with narrow spaces and cannot do anything himself in the plane or elevator (helpless).

CURSES AND IMPRECATIONS

Curses and imprecations look like dynamics in terms of their effect.

But the cause of curses and imprecations is different.

Curses and imprecations only differ in that a curse has more energy and thus has a stronger negative effect.

In the following, curses and imprecations will only be referred to as curses, because the causes and the paths of dissolution are the same.

Curses are usually pronounced when something happens to a person or a couple where much suffering and anger is generated. However, this anger could not be dissolved at that time, they feel powerless.

A curse is then pronounced as a valve, which can have an effect on all generations of the cursed person but also on the person who pronounces the curse. A curse works both ways, i.e. together into the abyss.

VOW AND PLEDGE

In order to get out of an emergency situation or to achieve a very important goal, people promise or vow to themselves, another person or institution, to do or refrain from doing something.

For example, during the First World War, there was a sect that visited the trenches.

This sect promised people who were in mortal fear that they would never have sex with a woman (including a wife) again if they survived the war.

The father of a client had made this promise and it caused much suffering and anger on his part and on the part of his wife, because he could not fulfill this promise and had to reluctantly keep it.

Through our developed approach called SystemEmpowering we were able to resolve all the above and many other issues with the war grandchildren / war grandchildren, so that they have become free of it. Further topics and the documented procedure for dissolving I have written down in my book “Persönlichkeitsentwicklung mit System”.

EFFECTIVENESS WITH WAR GRANDCHILDREN / GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

In almost 100% of the cases we were able to resolve the traumas of the ancestors with war grandchildren and war grandchildren and ensure that the signals (fear, grief, suffering, …) stopped in the present.

Thus, war grandchildren and war grandchildren receive an automatically emerging inner strong image of their ancestors, which leads to power, basic trust and clarity in their own lives.

WHY DOES THE DISSOLVING OF INJURIES WORK FOR THE ANCESTORS OF WAR GRANDCHILDREN / GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

We cannot explain this exactly ourselves and have also stopped trying. We only know that apparently all experienced systemic law violations from the lives of our ancestors and our own are somehow stored in us and have an effect on us today.

If we change the cause by working off the ancestor’s violations inwardly, a new inner image is created, which in turn strengthens us in the present. We could put up theories as to why this is so, but others, such as epigenetics, will deal with it. Furthermore, we will spend our energy to accompany war grandchildren and war grandchildren in working through their issues.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO WORK THROUGH THE TRAUMAS OF THE ANCESTORS?

It depends on how many issues are with the ancestors and how many emotional wounds the war grandchild / war grandchild has experienced in his own life. On average we have three to six sessions of 3 hours each.

IN SUMMERY, HOW THE SUFFERING OF WAR GRANDCHILDREN / GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN CAN BE RESOLVED

  • War children, war grandchildren and war great-grandchildren are descendants, whose ancestors went through traumatic experiences in war
  • The symptoms can be varied, but it is characteristic that the cause cannot be found in one’s own life
  • We have found out how the Genea- and Empowering Method can help to resolve these issues
  • The resolution takes place in a System Empowering Coaching, which takes an average of three to six sessions of 3 hours each
  • Why it works, we cannot say, we only observe the always repeating positive effect

 

OVERCOMING AND DISSOLVING FEAR

FEARS ARISE ON TWO DIFFERENT EMOTIONAL LEVELS

OVERCOMING AND DISSOLVING FEAR – CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS ON THE LEVEL OF THINKING OR BASIC FEELINGS

Fears arise on two different emotional levels. The one emotional level I call the thinking feeling, because it is created by my thinking. The other level I call basic feeling, which is independent of thinking.

If the only cause of fear is thinking with the corresponding feeling of fear at the level of the feeling of thought, then this fear can be changed by a change in thinking or acting.

Example:
I think tomorrow will be a bad day, which is scary for me, so by looking at how I came to these thoughts or interpretations, I can change my thoughts and through this also the feeling of fear.

PROCEDURE IF THE THINKING / FEELING OF THINKING IS THE CAUSE: CHANGE INTERPRETATION , BEHAVIOR THERAPY

If the cause of the fear is not my thinking but it is a basic feeling, this fear cannot be dissolved by the methods that change my behavior or thinking.

Example: Fear of commitment
A person falls in love and suddenly a fear comes up which drives this person out of this relationship. The mind cannot understand it, there are also no factual reasons like quarrelling etc. It is as if the person is controlled by someone else. This fear of attachment is a basic feeling that has arisen due to a violation of the system law by the person or his ancestors. (For example an ancestor has lost a loved one)

Procedure if the cause is at the basic emotional level: For this purpose we use the Genea method (internal listing of ancestors and resolving existing system law violations) and the Empowering method. With this method, the system law violations that are the cause of fear are dissolved.

It is not visible at first glance whether a fear has arisen through thinking, whether it is a negative imprint or an inherited fear from the ancestors. The feelings that belong to fear can feel the same with all three causes. Only when the cause is sought and found can this fear be dissolved with the respective methods.

Example: Someone has test fears

  1. This may be because he has not learned enough or for some other reason he lacks the resources to pass the exam. Then this fear is justified and can be seen as a signal that more resources are needed or that more needs to be learned.
  2. The cause can be that he carries a negative imprint within him, i.e. he once failed an exam and felt very bad or got into trouble with his parents because of it. If this imprinting has not been newly formed (see empowering method), this fear continues to work.
  3. The reason for this may be that passing the test has a negative consequence. (ecology / system check). If passing the exam leads to the fact that this person then has to leave the city in order to accept the good job, but the partner stays behind, this can cause fear and cause the failure of the exam.
  4. The reason may be that the permission from the ancestors is not available. If passing the exam leads to the fact that he then no longer feels belonging to the parents or is rejected (parents are workers versus doctoral exams), this can lead to failure.
  5. The reason may be that the person feels loyal to the ancestors. If the mother or father was not allowed to study or to take up their dream job and the child has now been allowed to do so, the unconscious loyalty can lead to the child not giving himself permission to go this way. He must suffer the same suffering as his ancestors. This also leads to test fear.

You can see how many different causes can lie behind fear. Our task is to find the causes and then to solve them.

Here is a list of various fears that have been resolved in our work as coaches:

Test anxiety
Fear of not being able to complete a task
Fear
Shadows (I must never …)
Phobias
Fear of existence
Fear of being abandoned / fear of commitment / fear of relationships
Fear of exclusion (bullying)
Traumatophobia
Fear of dying
Fear of death (follow-up dynamics to death)
Sicknessophobia
Aviophobia
Algophobia (fear of fear)
et al

SYSTEM LAW VIOLATIONS GENERATE FEAR

What happens to the human being in case of a violation of the system law?

If someone is excluded, disrespected, unjust or someone pushes himself forward, there is a sequence of four steps that happens to the injured person.

1. Basic feelings I: First an injured basic feeling I develops. Typical descriptions of injured basic feelings are stomach ache, muscles tense, soft knees, trembling, pressure in the stomach, hot, cold, tears shooting into the eyes, trembling, heart palpitations, fear, sadness etc. …

Depending on the severity of the injury, these feelings are stronger or weaker. Almost everyone knows a not so strong feeling when someone pushes in front of you in traffic.

2. Basic feelings II: Shortly afterwards (often only a second later) the basic feeling II, namely anger or rage, develops.

3. Thinking: Only after the basic feelings have developed does the person start to think about the injury. It is interpreted and concluded depending on what “glasses” the person is already wearing.

4. Feelings of thinking: This thinking and interpreting generates a feeling, which I call the feeling of thinking. It is in direct interaction with thinking. These feelings of thinking are often described as follows: I feel ignored, disrespected, unfair…

THINKING AND THINKING FEELINGS – THE INTERPRETATION LOOP / “GLASSES”

The interpretation loop is an explanatory model for how communication often takes place and which internal dynamics and feedback loops can occur. If system law violations occur, this interpretation loop is more intense.

Further consequences of a violation of the system law

If the violation of system law that has taken place, i.e. basic feeling I of suffering, grief, fear and basic feeling II such as anger, is not resolved, this usually leads to thinking being used to suppress these basic feelings. Usually a re-injury is also returned to the person who caused the first injury. However, we will only look at what happens to the heart and sword side and the strength of the injured person if there is no immediate clarification of the injury or conflict.

Depending on how a person consciously or unconsciously deals with it, the violation of system law leads to either too hard + – or too soft – +. Both can lead to illness, burnout, demotivation, addiction, even rampage and suicide.

Cover/freeze basic feeling I: Some people put a “lid” on their feelings and separate themselves from their emotions, their suffering, grief, fear. This can be shown by the fact that they are very good at logical thinking and do a lot of mental cinema or become addicted to alcohol. However, the frozen energy becomes visible again and again through aggressive behaviour.

Cover/freeze basic feeling II: The others put a “lid” on their frozen aggressions. This can be seen in the fact that they avoid any conflict, mourn continuously, become fearful or give in to small and suffering. When the barrel overflows and the suppression of anger is no longer possible, the frozen energy manifests itself in an outburst of rage, so that everyone present is surprised. These people are then often called choleric.

Change in behaviour between “too soft” and “too hard

The descriptions “too soft” and “too hard” are not descriptions of identity or character, but express how the behaviour becomes visible. This is illustrated by the fact that a person who suppresses his anger (behaves too soft) can still explode and let his anger out. She no longer manages to keep the lid on her anger. Afterwards she falls back into her old, too-soft behaviour and often even feels bad for having acted so angry and overshooting the mark.

Sustainability – Emotional work with the basic feeling and thinking

In order to achieve sustainable changes and goals, it is crucial to find the causes and resolve them. If the causes can be found in the ancestors and their system law violations and in self-experienced system law violations, these are stored as basic feelings like fear. Thinking and the resulting feelings of thinking cannot dissolve these violations by rethinking or forgiving, forgiving and reconciling. The cause is not the thinking, but the experienced unresolved systemic law violations.

That is why the Genea and Empowering Method works with basic feelings. Thinking is also used, for example by looking at the grandparents as a couple or by looking at an experience with a new behaviour. This creates new feelings of thinking. But this is not enough. Therefore, the comparison between the basic feeling and the thinking feeling is always carried out. Only when it feels right can a lasting change take place. If it is not harmonious, it can still feel better than before for a short time. However, it is not sustainable because the causes have not been dealt with. It is then the same as when you decide to buy something and regret it afterwards.

Here now a few examples, which fears by unresolved system law violations of the ancestors have passed on to the descendants, how to solve them.

OVERCOMING AND DISSOLVING FEAR – THE CAUSE OF FEAR LIES WITH THE ANCESTORS

Returning fears (restrictive feelings)

If an ancestor has experienced something terrible (violation of the system law), e.g. his life was at stake (after a bomb hit the house collapsed and he was buried down in the cellar, but was able to free himself) or a parent died when he was young, this loss can lead to a fear of abandonment. Such unprocessed feelings can also be passed on to the children or grandchildren. They occur from time to time, for no apparent objective reason, which is why they cannot be consciously explained.

For example, the fear of abandonment often leads to the person not entering into close relationships, because it is true: I would rather leave you as a precaution than be abandoned. In the opposite case, the person can be very homesick, because he or she wants to keep an eye on the parents, for example, all the time, because then he or she cannot be abandoned.

The fear of death from the above example can be shown by the fact that the person cannot spend the night in a tent or is afraid of flying or the elevator. In each case it is a question of narrow spaces and helplessness.

In order to dissolve these fears, we look at which line of ancestors these feelings come from. Then the format “Forces of the Ancestors” is performed. If the person who has experienced this fear trigger is powerful (+ +) and has his parents behind him, he can carry the fear himself and take it back from the descendant. “I am strong now, it is my fear, I can carry it myself, please give it back to me now!” If there is still anger, grief, etc., he should return this energy to the causer, e.g. the causer of war, or the causer of the death of his ancestor.

If he is now really powerful, the descendants will gladly return this fear and are now free of it.

Example: Fear as a burden/load

A grandfather was afraid of death or abandonment during the war. The grandson took this fear as a burden. He himself has no formative experience in his history in which this fear may have arisen. Nor did his parents set an example of fear to him. If the grandfather becomes strong again in a balanced way and the grandparents and the parents become strong couples, then the grandfather takes the burden back from his grandson. “Give me the burden that you have borne for me. It belongs to me.” If the grandson can also let go of the load, he will experience relief and relaxation. Usually shortly afterwards, anger comes up in the grandson that he had to suffer under this load. The grandfather can also acknowledge this suffering and take the anger back. “I see your suffering caused by this burden, and I take back the anger that goes with it.” And he keeps only his share of this anger and makes sure that the other causers take their share of the anger.

Example: Fear not taken over as a burden, but created by an imprint

Fear is not a burden if it has itself been created by a formative experience. For example, if the father has died, a fear of abandonment can arise. The dissolving of this fear consists in the fact that the ancestors are all equally powerful, it is checked who or what was the cause of the father’s death (cause of the accident, illness, follow-up dynamics?) and this is also worked off. Then the father sees the suffering in the son, takes the anger from his son and they can be sad together. Since the fear was created in the imprint, it is not a burden and therefore cannot be taken back by the father.

Sadness versus being sad and fear versus being afraid

In order to cover up anger, i.e. not to be able to act out or to live it out, people often go into mourning. They grieve and mourn and nothing really changes in this grief. In this case it is a matter of the causer taking back the anger about this grief. (The person who is mourning then says: “I am angry about having such grief”). If a part of the anger is released, a new feeling of sadness arises. It feels calmer. Both persons can then be sad, cry together or say together: “Too bad”. This sadness with the other person then dissolves and another feeling of relief, exhaustion or even anger arises.

Therefore I distinguish between “sadness” (which does not dissolve) and “being sad”.

Fear also occurs as hidden anger to cover the anger. Here the procedure is the same. The anger about this fear has to be taken back by the perpetrators. Then either the fear dissolves completely or the fear turns into being afraid.

Dissolve fear through the follow-up dynamics to death

A follow-up dynamic to death describes a system dynamic in which a person consciously or unconsciously wants to follow another person to death. This follow-up dynamic always generates fear that seems inexplicable for the person. So far, I know of four reasons or causes for succession dynamics, which are briefly presented in an overview and then explained in detail:

Earlier before later: A parent or an older sibling dies and a younger child reacts

Membership or exclusion: If only one person of a group of people survives, he or she can feel connected to the others and want to follow them into death

Responsibility: If an older sibling is responsible for the death of a younger sibling, this can lead to “guilt feelings” and a follow-up dynamic

New system before old system: If an older child dies before the parents, one parent may want to follow the child

Earlier before later: 1. follow-up dynamics at sibling level:

If a sibling C1 died earlier than the younger child C2, it is possible that the child C2 unconsciously wants to die out of love for the earlier child C1 (“Then you would still be alive”). Here the system law 4: “sooner has priority over later” works in reverse dynamics.

Earlier before later: 2. follow-up dynamic to the parent or grandparent level:

For example, if the first child dies at the age of ten, it may indicate that there is a follow-up dynamic to the parent or grandparent level. If one parent died early, i.e. the child was younger than about 14 years, this Hansel & Gretel effect can occur.

Or an older sibling of a parent has died early. In this case, the father would normally react with a follow-up dynamic, as described in the picture with the thin arrow. But there is the possibility that this dynamic is passed on to the first child. The child follows this.

In the same way, this dynamic can also come from the grandparent or great-grandparents or higher level. If the grandfather or the grandmother or an older sibling of the grandparents dies and, as shown in the picture with the thin arrows, the grandparents’ daughter is affected by it, it is possible that she unconsciously passes this dynamic on to her eldest child (which is often shown in miscarriages). So the mother does not have to carry any follow-up dynamics and their signals. It can also skip a generation.

From my experience with the Genea Method and the dissolving of follow-up dynamics, fear, addiction, depression, attempted suicide, accident or illness like multiple scleroses, premature birth are possible indications of a follow-up dynamic.

These follow-up dynamics can manifest themselves in the child in anxiety, depression, addiction, attempted suicide, illness or accident. In the case of illness or accident, numbers often indicate this: If the grandfather stayed in the war when the mother was ten and her son dies at ten, I speak of a dynamic or signal. Or the same illness occurs as in the ancestor, or the fear of the age of death or the illness in the ancestor, these can be indications of a follow-up dynamic.

If the second, third or later children are affected by the succession dynamic, it indicates that an older sibling has died or been excluded. It does not indicate the parental or grandparent level. The Hänsel & Gretel effect occurs particularly when the deceased person is hushed up, i.e. excluded. This includes miscarriages as well as abortions.

DISSOLVE FOLLOW-UP DYNAMICS

First, the powers of the ancestors are established, i.e. that all ancestor issues are internally clarified and the ancestors can each stand side by side as a pair with ++ power. Then this dynamic can be checked when the deceased powerful ancestor tells the child: “You shall live well! Does this sentence reach the child? And conversely, can the child say: “I will live well”? If he cannot say this sentence correctly, this dynamic is usually present.

If the ancestors are all equally powerful and stand side by side as pairs, the ancestors want the child to be well, to be free and to live well, etc.

So the direction from the ancestors to the child can be resolved with the forces. Now the child must still accept this. It is helpful if the parents and grandparents tell the child that he or she can especially show love or honour towards them if the child no longer holds on to loyalty but lives happily and successfully. If this procedure is not yet sufficient, a person who respects the child should appear, often it is the grandfather or grandmother who clearly tells the child their opinion, if necessary even getting angry until the child arrives.

Then the child can say: “I will live well! You will always have a place in my heart and I see you alive in my mind’s eye!” If mourning is present, the child shows the deceased his or her grief. If anger about death arises, the anger should be taken from the causer and the deceased.

If, like many other people, you have to deal with fear and you are looking for a solution to it, contact us with confidence and profit from our 20 years of experience in dissolving fears. 

FEEDBACK – FROM TRIAD TO QUADRILATERAL

FEEDBACK – FROM TRIAD TO QUADRILATERAL

Feedback is given in many different ways, we have expanded the feedback – from triad to quadrilateral. All of them have the goal of encouraging the feedback recipient to change his or her behaviour.

Sandwich Feedback
In Sandwich Feedback, something positive / appreciative is said first, followed by a point of criticism and finally something positive again. This procedure has proven to be unsuccessful. The criticism deletes the positive and the criticism makes bad feelings and usually does not lead to a change in behaviour. Both feedback givers and feedback receivers remain dissatisfied.

FEEDBACK AS A TRIAD – PEW

Giving feedback is more successful than triad with the PEW:

  • Perception
  • Effect and
  • Wish.

It assumes that the level of relationship between the two is ok.

Perception: The feedback provider describes the behaviour of the feedback recipient as objectively as possible. What was when and how the concrete behaviour? All senses may and should be used to describe the situation as concretely as possible. Continue to describe until the feedback recipient can remember or get a picture of it. (No interpretation/evaluation, generalizations or statements of identity)

Effect: The feedback giver describes his or her feeling of what has triggered this behaviour. How exactly and where in the body did it make a feeling? (Tingling, pressure, tension, also no interpretation, insinuation, such as “That made me sad” or similar)

Wish: In the last place is the goal of behavioral change. Here the wish, the demand or the learning task is formulated in a positive, concrete and future-oriented way. (Next time do it this way and that way.) It is important that the feedback recipient then knows exactly what behaviour is meant and what exactly he can or must do. If the feedback triad is carried out correctly, the feedback recipient will know what it is about, what feeling it triggered (motivation not to do it again) and what the desired concrete change in behaviour looks like.

However, this feedback as a triad is only successful if there is no violation of systemic law, such as exclusion or lack of recognition, but if there is an appreciative attitude between giver and taker.

If it is not ok between the two, the triad is not sufficient, because something from the bad relationship level will always resonate and hurt the feedback receiver or he cannot accept the feedback properly. The goal of changing behaviour is not achieved in this way. Therefore we have extended the feedback as triad to the feedback as quadrilateral.

FEEDBACK AS QUADRILATERAL – APEW

Feedback is most successful when an appreciative attitude is added to the triad.

So

  • Appreciative attitude
  • Perception
  • Effect and
  • Wish.

The three PEW of the triad are the same. The appreciative attitude is decisive, i.e. is it ok between the feedback giver and receiver. This expands the feedback – from triad to quadrilateral.

For us, an attitude of esteem means that there are no major violations of systemic law between the two and that there is a basis of trust. Appreciative attitude is an attitude which is on the basic emotional level and cannot be easily established by thinking. Appreciative attitude does not mean to say something appreciative like in sandwich feedback, but to feel this feeling of appreciation within oneself at the time of the planned feedback.

In our workshops on “Resolving System Law Violations” and “Giving Feedback” we give participants the task of preparing a feedback according to the Vierklang. They can manage the triad, but the crux of the matter is the appreciative attitude. Many then arrive and say, “I can’t prepare the feedback because it’s not good between us.”  Do what?

CREATING AN APPRECIATIVE ATTITUDE

If there is no appreciative attitude of its own accord, it is necessary to develop one.

  • It used to be good: Go back in time in your thoughts to the point where and when it was still good between you and the person receiving the feedback. Remember that. To be absolutely sure, check how it was when you first met. Was everything okay there? Was there a leap of faith?
  • It’s never been good: In our work as a CoachMediator or System Empowering Coach, various reasons have come to light why it was not good to get to know each other, which are only presented here in an overview: 
  • Confusion with a remembered person
  • Interpretation loop – “Glasses”
  • Mirror: Seeing shadows – I mustn’t… / I must…
  • System law level – poisoned space
  • System law level – not balanced strong enough (+- , -+ or –)
  • System law level – accidental installation
  • Systemic law level – exclusion and prejudice / “glasses”: having heard about the person before
  • System law level – poisoned order … 
  • Structures in organizations that lead to systemic law violations

These nine possible causes are explained in detail in my book “Systemische Mediation” and what can be done to make it good after all.

  • It used to be good, but there are system law violations: If it was good when getting to know each other or also afterwards and afterwards system law violations occurred, like exclusion, lack of appreciation or injustice with the corresponding violated basic feelings, there is no more appreciative attitude. Only the structured dissolving of these systemic law violations with the five prerequisites helps that in the end an appreciative attitude can develop and only afterwards a feedback in the four-sound is possible.

My book “Systemische Mediation” also explains how system law violations are resolved in a clearly structured procedure. In our training courses and seminars you will learn how to apply this special method of “System Empowering” yourself.