Simple Ways To Honor Ancestors

Many of us do not know the details about our lineage yet without our ancestors, we would not be here today. Even though we may feel disconnected from our ancestors, they are part of us physically, down to our DNA, and spiritually, looking over us.

Connecting with them can help us understand and discover things about who we are and where we are going. So how can we connect and honor them?

Here are a few simple ways for us to connect and honor them.

We can find pictures of them and really look at them. By looking into their eyes, the windows to their souls, their facial expression, their body language, what they wore, and where the picture was taken, we can feel closer to them.

We can reflect on the time periods they lived and think about the life they had, the things they did, what they celebrated, what they ate, what they enjoyed and what they struggled with.

To honor them, we can hang their pictures or place their pictures among our precious things. We can also create a space, an altar, a place to express gratitude to call on them for guidance and through meditation, we may be able to hear or see signs of this guidance. Especially in certain times of day like 11:11, where the portals into the spiritual world opens allowing our ancestors to point to signs or make us think of something that points us in the right direction. If you pray, prayer directed to them with words of gratitude and forgiveness, can also help us remember what came before us and what lies ahead.

Without them, there would be no us and tapping into the unbreakable bonds we have with our ancestors can lead us down the path we are meant to be on.