What are Family Constellations

Family Constellation is a psychotherapy technique developed by theologian, a former missionary, philosopher and German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. How great scholar and search the human soul, Bert Hellinger studied many therapies, including systemic familiar, primal therapy, psychodrama, and found in the phenomenological field fertile ground to plant your particular model and effective therapy which he called Family Constellation .
Family constellations within the phenomenological line shows what is hidden within the family system, which needs to be seen. Look at what is secret is paramount to balance the system and the individuals who belong to it. 
Orders of Love is a term from the vocabulary of Family Constellations. These orders are rules that when broken imbalance and bring pain to all who belong to the system. These orders can be understood by simple guiding principles as: 
 
Everyone has the right to belong to your family or group; There must be a balance between giving and receiving in relationships; There is a clear hierarchy that family must be respected: parents come first, who came before comes first. The Family Constellation starts from the premise that most of the problems we face are due to misfortunes that happened to other members of our family, which instead of feeling connected in a positive way, we find ourselves entangled, often unconsciously. The path of healing or deliverance of family entanglements, according to Hellinger, is the rescue of the primary impulses, usually an affective impulse loving nature in relation to family members, particularly parents. 
 
The beauty of Family Constellations lies in the fact that we found love as a response to our lives, the balance in the simple things in ourselves the hope of continuity through our blood, our family and see with clear eyes as the reality may be beautiful and really liberating. 
 
In Systemic Constellations, the person who is constellating choose from a group of participants, representatives for certain members of your family, business, families mandates, etc.. (depending on which mode Systemic Constellation is being made) and puts them in relation to each other, within a space. Representatives from the moment they occupy its place, feel the same as those are representing. This occurs without the representatives know something about them. Thus a relationship comes to light, hitherto hidden, with other members of the field, including one that is constellating. In Constellations representatives connect with persons absent not only on the surface, the external form, but rather in the context where a force that guides all experienced it together. Bert Hellinger usually call this great soul force. 
 
From this relationship is shown, the person who is constellating is achieved when enters in connection with this great soul and are shocked with what comes to light. From this first relationship shows that it is possible to renegotiate these relationships, re-establish the motivations, mandates, loyalties, affections, motives, the targeting of love within this system and then achieve healing of all those being represented, who is constellating and therefore the system as a whole. 
Constellation Transgenerational is a mode of Systemic Constellations. It builds on the familiar myth as a basis for negotiation mandates for family members. The myth is the law passed from generation to generation, usually unconsciously. This law governing the system is based on values ​​that keeps this same system and can not be disobeyed. You can not change the laws of a system without placing the same on serious risk of split-up, but what we can do safely is to use trading strategies. 
Constellation Transgenerational makes this negotiation with the family myth. She reads the stories that were silent, shows the true face of the excluded and proposes inserting them in their places and positions, thus freeing those who were bound by their love for their ancestors to live a destination that is truly yours. 
There are invisible loyalties that bind members of a family, even if they have never seen it because the links between the descendants unknown time and space and has its own playing field, which is outside of what man thinks and states as right and wrong rationally. 
 
The performance of this energy, the access to that family memory, was studied and named by biologist Rupert Scheldrake as morphogenetic fields. These fields, which are unaware of time and space, cumulative transmit information across generations and within the same species, independent of direct communication. Morphogenetic fields are constructed by bonding between people, groups and species. Are made by affinity, bonds, and are responsible for transmission of information between these groups. Morphogenetic fields shape the ways and behaviors of systems. These fields transmit information across time and space, which are used without loss of intensity. 
 
Constellation Transgenerational trading works and the transformation of the stories passed through this system, since these fields act as modifiers of probabilistic events. Nature is not rigidly determined, it is chaotic, and therefore, when we propose new images, new stories, we can change the direction of this flow of information. 
These information are in perfect resonance with the concept of transgenerational memory and family. It is in the family that reproduce the contents of supra-individual memories. This transgenerational dimension lies inscribed in us. This memory, however, is not a deposit, it is a process. 
 
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, developed in his work a new paradigm of family therapy called "contextual", based on the dimensions facing the transgenerational. For him, each family brings a cross-term, equity or whose legacy includes both positive and negative elements. This heritage / legacy is the transgenerational mandate, which moves between generations, the psychic dimension, and that most often happens on an unconscious level. This heritage is usually negative and is about him that develops a model of family justice. This notion of justice gives rise to invisible loyalties, a sense of solidarity and commitment that unifies the needs and expectations of families. Loyalty within the family system is understood as expected accession to certain rules, the transgression of which generates the feeling of exclusion. This unconscious loyalty can manifest itself even from unknown members of the same family, which are connected by unconscious demands of their ancestors. 
 
Constellation Transgenerational then treats these ties and trade with this system, through the eyes of these emotions, these complexes, in the Jungian sense, physically unveiling before the eyes of him that constellated, that this invisible force is primarily revealed and soon after traded by another interpretation of family history, thus returning the emotions and feelings, life, who really is its possessor. 
 
This process of liberation is wonderful and makes the family dynamic flow. Looking for stories that life is not told, for faces that did not exist in themselves that system, draw these faces and tell these stories, makes many of the rejected are included and the right of belonging is obeyed. The result is that everyone in the system feel that "all is well, all is at peace." According to Bert Hellinger, this time the faces light up. 
Behold the beauty of life.