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Connecting the Dots: How Your Ancestors Influence Who You Are Today
Our ancestors are the foundation of who we are today. They have shaped our personality, values, traditions, and habits. Their influence reflects in our beliefs and how we approach life.
The concept of connecting the dots revolves around recognizing the interlinked aspects of our ancestors and our present self. Uncovering the influence of our ancestors provides us with insights into our why we think, feel or behave whatsoever.
Let’s dive deep into how our ancestors influence us.
Ingraining the family values
Do you take pride in fierce loyalty towards your family members, extended family and feel bound to safeguard their overall wellbeing? Are you instilling these values in the future generations consciously or unconsciously? The chances are that the values of protecting and nurturing the family have been impregnated in your genes by your ancestors.
Lifestyle and culture
The place we belong to, customs and practices we follow unknowingly leave a plethora of impressions on our psyche. For instance, if our ancestors came from a tough, difficult terrain, it could develop challenges in problem solving and overall mental toughness. Similarly, from a young age, coloring eggs and egg hunts become fun-filled traditions that we continue to follow through the years because they are part of our culture.
Traditions associated with festivals, weddings, and the outer appearance all play marks role in making us who we are.
Similar personality
Do you see similarities in personality traits of your ancestors and yours? Maybe you love to read and lose track of time just as your grandmother did, or your fitness regimen is motivated by your grandfather’s disciplined wellness plans. Psychologists promote that individuals deduce their inherited personality traits that trickle down from their ancestors.
Basic emotional makeup
Each one of us has an emotional side, happy times, miseries, and heartbreaks. The emotional balance and reaction to tough times are cumulated through inherited trait-triggering elements subtlety passed down by ancestors. If our ancestors were prone to mood swings or depicted tenderness towards anything tender then it might have struck something with us as well.
Why ancestors are worth connecting with?
Living through tough times, fighting for justice, or maybe adventurous streak and infallible courage, surviving during an apocalyptic situation, or even just sacrifices made for the next generation designed genetic imprints in our ancestors — they are part of us. When we search consciously for those qualities identifying with our ancestors that have to trickle down to us, we gain immeasurable esteem, and learn through their historic experiences. As a result, we get better control over the present course and take profound insight into where we are headed.
Connecting the dots from our past is an exercise that is hard-hitting to our situation and how we navigate through life, growing us through our inheritance. All the while drawing attention to the unrecognized aspects that we usually overlook. Ultimately, the objective is to self-discover of the genealogical influences shaping and infallibly fusing us into a unique, fully constituted being relishing on our persona.
