Quote: Have you heard of ancestral miasma? It helps form instinct in both animals and humans. It's a heritable mental pattern, which gets stronger and stronger every time it's acted upon. Almost like a habit, except this one is imprinted genetically and will be passed on to at least some, maybe all, of your offspring.
If there was no pre-existing miasma of that sort, it can still be learned in one lifetime and unlearned in one lifetime too. Strangely enough, juniper berries help unwrite it. If I have a chicken or animal which has negative patterns of thought or behavior which aren't bad enough to cull for, then juniper will help them write new pathways. Therapy is only as useful as the mind is plastic; if you're lacking ability to change you won't get far. Various things help make our genetic patterns and DNA 'laws' changeable.
The minds of humans and animals are like soft rock. A thought is like a tiny trickle of water. If it passes over once it leaves no impression unless there was strong emotional or physical stimuli attached to the experience that provoked the thought. (In that case, a thought/reaction/behavioral pattern can become a set and powerful instinct in one blow, so to speak). Generally though, thoughts must be repeated before they carve a definite pathway, like water carving through rock to make a riverbed. Neural pathways become large, easily visible highways after something is repeated enough times, and thoughts and patterns of behavior follow/flow much swifter and easier down this now well established highway. What was once a single filament of thread becomes a thick many-stranded rope. But without traffic it can wither and die, due to our brain's plasticity. The same is true of animals. Juniper berries can also undo miasma which predicts physical issues, health, mental, and so forth. Some mental patterns lead to physical diseases in both humans and animals, particularly heart disease and self abuse.
Anyhow, I understand that this sounds 'woo-woo' and possibly witchy to some folks, even though it's not either... But just offering a different take on what can impel behavior, especially heritable compulsions, in animals and humans. There are many treatments, orthodox and otherwise, which deliberately or coincidentally correct or worsen these ancestral miasmas. We create new miasma, and 'embroider' the old, with our lifestyles, our habits of thought and behavior, our environments, our diets, etc. As do our animals.
Best wishes.
