What Do Members Of A Family Constellation Mean?

Introduction

Family dynamics is more complicated than it looks. Every individual within a family has a position that affects interactions, in a flow of relationships, and also in a balance. In the family constellation therapy, all these positions are dealt with to help members identify latent dynamics and unresolved problems that may be affecting individuals unconsciously and at multiple generations. Learning about the members in the family constellation is the first step towards revealing these patterns and establishing a process toward healing and reconciliation. So what is the nature of family constellation members and what is their importance?

What Are the Family  Constellation  Members?

In family constellation sessions, the term members has several meanings: 

1. The individuals or representatives that are taken in a session to make up members of a family represented. 
2. Those representatives that have roles to fulfill in a system. They may symbolize the parents, siblings, and grandparents or more abstract things like trauma, sickness, or feelings.

The main concept is that all the members of a family system should have their place. When one party is left out, neglected or saddled with unresolved feelings then there is imbalance in the system. This imbalance may come in the forms of bad relationships, career problems or perhaps just repeated cycles of stress and sickness.

Through the inclusion of all the family constellation members and bringing them to the place of recognition, the order of belonging of a natural character is retrieved. This has a very strong tendency to end with the utterance of powerful revelations and release to the participant. Any position in a family constellation is cognizant and plays a part in the developmental process:

1. Parents

Parents are also symbols of life and unconditional belonging. In constellations, conflicts with parents might represent wider-range patterns of generations. By respecting parents in their due positions, the participants will feel liberated and form more nurturing relations.

1. Siblings

Siblings are an embodiment of equality in the family system. Their existence or lack of it, in terms of birth order, or other family dynamics, has the propensity to emphasize issues of belonging, rivalry, or support. According to the recognition of siblings as constellation members of the family, the participants adapt to harmony and balance.

 

1. Grandparents and Forebears

There is strong power in generational ties. It is common to have unresolved traumas in the grandparents/other ancestors that would transport to the unconscious. Recognizing them in the constellation opens hidden influences that present potentials to heal over the generations.

1. Excluded Members

In every family, there are the tales of people who were forgotten or left out and silenced. This might include stillborn children, distant relatives or other hard-luck people. Inclusion of excluded members in recognition again has an integrating effect on family life.

1. Abstract Representatives

In addition to individuals, constellation therapy may entail the representatives of the emotions, illnesses or events. Such abstracted members are proxies of what cannot be named. Incorporating these issues enables the participants to confront the source of the struggles and change them.

Why it is Important to You Understand Members

It is important to understand the members since each is a mirror of the inner world of the participant. They show what is lurking beneath the surface: what is unconscious, subliminal dynamics and unhealed sorrow. As a result of this process, participants are usually made to:

• Remove inherited patterns of the family.
• Even more care towards parents and ancestors.
• Healing of long held emotional wounds.
• New understanding in personal and professional life.

The sessions at Home Wellness are led in an accepting, nurturing atmosphere, so participants can explore these realisations safely and embrace change.

Conclusion

Family constellation members are critical in providing the much-needed insight into the non-characteristic family processes. All the members who could represent parents and siblings, ancestors, and even abstract emotions are important in bringing balance to the family system. Being aware of this significance provokes significant healing and personal development.

At Home Wellness, you have an opportunity to undergo this life-altering therapy with the support of expert facilitators, who provide a non-threatening, supportive environment to help you explore. Regardless of whether you are in search of inner harmony, solving family issues or wanting to be free of some cyclical behaviors, family constellations can be a significant step on your way to completeness.

Are you one of those individuals, who have been in search of greater clarity and healing? Then it is time to find out how powerful family constellations can bring your family system into harmony.