Views:264 | By: Winnie Generational curses are commonly talked about in religious, cultural and psychological communities. It describes the idea that difficult actions, behaviors or experiences of one generation might be encountered by the next in forms such as poverty, addiction, abuse or illness. According to some, generational curses reflect invisible spirit forces, but others suggest they are the result of influences taught by family, inherited pain or the environment people live in. If we understand family history literally or symbolically, this raises questions about its ongoing result and the value of our decisions.
Many people in Christianity and traditional African religions believe generational curses happen because of faithless ancestors. Some scriptures from the Bible, including Exodus 20:5, indicate that bad actions by fathers may harm children "for many years to come." In this belief, prayers, apologizing for one's actions, and spiritual healing are thought to end these curses. A great number of those struggling with repeated bad circumstances visit faith leaders to overcome them.
What some call a generational curse can instead be seen as inherited patterns of behavior. Many adults learn bad behaviors because they experienced them as children growing up in difficult conditions. Though it might seem like a curse, this pattern is really the result of repeated conditioning and unresolved pain in previous generations. When you have help and understand yourself more deeply, you can stop these unhealthy patterns.
The way a community grows depends a lot on its social and economic factors. Those in poverty, without an education or living with inequality may face trouble year after year over many generations. The main reasons for such disparities are not paranormal but rather related to how society is built. Society must change, everyone must be taught and there should be equal opportunities to solve them. So, even though generational curses can feel very real, they are, in fact, caused by complications in both the human and natural world, which can be changed.