In the Grips of Another's Fate. The Practice of Systemic Constellations

Fate. What is it? Do we accept our fate or fight against it, resist it or thank it, reject our fate or come to terms with it? But what to do with those who fall into the trap of another's fate? I pity such people, they sail along the winding paths of their ancestors. But what touches me the most are the unimaginable stories of the innocents who find themselves captured by another's fate, trapped in the entanglements of family dynamics or become a refuge for lost entities. It doesn't matter how they ended up in this whirlpool: whether by refusing their own destiny or driven by the impulses of blind love or the need to be a part of their family system. These people, standing in the wrong place, do not feel themselves, do not understand who they are. They either forget themselves and live someone else's life, repeating the fate of their relatives, or they drown in the abyss of foreign passions, events, entanglements. I know of no better way than systemic constellations, where a person receives the amazing chance to see firsthand whose fate they are repeating, to realize this, and to become free from this obsession. How this happens, as well as examples of repeating others' fates, are described in the stories in this book. Nadezhda Markova