inheriting scars

[kitty125]

ive never heard of anyone else inheriting a scar or past injury besides myself. maybe someone on here has? when my mom was young she was jumping from the bed to the dresser and missed,landing on an old sewing machine. it left a scar on her forehead just above the hairline. also during one winter she slipped on an icy patch on a step and broke her tailbone and it healed to the left.
Well it seems that she passed these down to me. I have never had any type of head injury yet i have the same exact scar on my forehead right above the hairline.not so much as a scar i guess, but its a bald spot. one day i tried to do Pilates for the first time and couldnt do the back roll because my tailbone sticks out to the left,causing pain and making me fall to the side.

Does anyone else have scars or such passed down from their parents?maybe its just coincidence?ive tried to look it up but i cant find anything.

 

[Brenda86]

I've read about people having things like that from possible "past lives" but not inheriting from a parent. Maybe someone else has more information! Very interesting though.

 

[Risen]

I had a red mark on my forehead from forceps being used during my birth. My first child ( who died at two weeks) had the same mark and my grandchild also has the exact same mark which has not gone away after four years. Neither my child or grandchild were birthed using forceps. My scar only lasted a few months.
I can't imagine why this happened and wouldn't exactly see this as more information, which is what you asked for, but it is a similar experience.

 

[Lilou]

My mother and all four of us kids have scars on our foreheads, dead center at the hairline. We often joke that mom gave us her mark. But we had physical injuries to account for them. My brother & sister fell out of their highchairs, I jumped off the stereo cabinet and hit my head on the corner of a coffee table. I don't know how the others got theirs.

I sometimes feel that I take on some of my mother's pain. If she has aches in her right shoulder, my right shoulder will start aching. I like to think it gives her relief, but it could just be wishful thinking on my part and it's rather subjective.

These are things that came to mind from reading your post kitty, although it doesn't really answer if scars or marks can be 'inherited'. Stranger things have happened.

 

[kitty125]

Hmm. i'll have to ask my mom is they used foreceps when i was born.that might be the reason right there.and the tailbone thing might just be like a mild deformity or something along those lines?something drives me to find a reason for everything but the other part prefers to keep thinking that some things are still magical and mysterious.they often conflict with each other lol.thank you for info guys,they may not have been the same exact thing but its got me going in the right direction :D

 

[LeeLouisaLawhon]

Oh wow! My son has a brown marking on his right cheek that is identical to the chicken pox scar that i have on my right cheek. Same placement, same size, same shape. It baffles me. I am pregnant now and I wonder if my second child will have that same marking.

 

[edgitarra]

I've read about people having things like that from possible "past lives" but not inheriting from a parent. Maybe someone else has more information! Very interesting though.

Sometimes I wonder about 2 scars I have on my left-hand. I have them since my birth and they are not either burn or cutting scars. They seem to be like a part of the "design", so to speak.

 

[Tigersoap]

Hello & welcome to the forum LeeLouisaLawhon,

As it is your first post it would be great if you could make an introductory post in the newbies forum and tells us a bit about yourself, how you came across the forum and if you read the Wave or any books by Laura for example.

 

[Dirgni]

Oh wow! My son has a brown marking on his right cheek that is identical to the chicken pox scar that i have on my right cheek. Same placement, same size, same shape. It baffles me. I am pregnant now and I wonder if my second child will have that same marking.

Hi LeeLouisaLawhon, welcome to the forum.

As this is your first post on the forum, we would appreciate it if you could post a brief intro about yourself in the Newbies section, telling us a bit more about how you found this forum, how long you've been reading it and/or the SOTT page, whether or not you've read any of Laura's books yet, etc.

You don't have to get real personal. If you are not sure what to write, you can read through some of the others members' posts to get an idea.


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[MusicMan]

I have a small patch of grey hair on my chest (the rest is ginger) in exactly the same place that my father had one. I'm guessing this is inherited, although not a scar.
I have also noticed that I have moles on the neck and other parts of my body, which coincide with moles that my father had. I often wondered if these were inherited, although once again, they are not scars. I see people in the community with similarly placed moles, and wonder if we are related..
The other thing I have noticed is with skin cancers. I have had a lot of these removed, and I have noted that these often recur, but on the opposing side of the body. I always get them checked out, just in case.

 

[A Jay]

My father and I have similar scars on our foreheads at our hairline, but we each have different accidents that lead to them. So maybe there is something here, though not necessarily passing scars along as you would your hair and eye color?

 

[gottathink]

There is something in it, I have curiously noted through mu work in Reiki and massage over the years how often peoples children have identical patterns of stress and pain to their parents. It is quite frequent, and I almost have a sense that when I am working with one generation it is helping the next, they seem to resolve together, its like parent and child both anchor the trauma and it has to released at both ends or it just 'pings' back. In bodywork it is very helpful to work with as much of the whole person as possible, I wonder if that spans generations? If anyone is experienced in family trauma therapy or counselling etc perhaps they have some insight.