Remember Your Roots: How to Awaken Your Ancestral Power and Live with Gratitude

by Christine Olivia Hernandez

Supported by Mayan tradition, this book shows you how to embrace gratitude in every area of your life so that you may find ultimate bliss, happiness, and connection to all things.In REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS, cacao ceremony facilitator Christine Hernandez draws upon her own Mayan heritage, sharing that in Mayan, gratitude is ‘maltyox.’ This ancient word expresses much more than a simple ‘thank you.’ It touches on a feeling of ultimate bliss, happiness, and connection to all things. However, there is a problem. Most people, especially women, do not feel bliss and true connection, but rather a sense of fear, separation, and unsafety in the world.By speaking to this core wound of fear, Christine introduces a 13-step method to bring you into the core embodiment of bliss. Each chapter surrounds an aspect of life, along with a theme, transformational path, and embodiment practice. For example, the chapter on ceremony inspires you to move from distracted to present, simplifying the inner landscape so that you may experience love for all things, and for yourself. When we connect with and activate these 13 aspects of life, we move out of fear and into full liberation, with gratitude as the signal that we’re living our best life.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 9, 2024

Reviews

[Luna · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED IT!!

[Paloma Arriero · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is full of wisdom with the power to ignite your ancestral magic. Reading this book became a form of prayer and meditation in my daily life. The wisdom in this book provided me with such a supportive and meaningful schema of how I wish to live my life in reciprocity with all divine energies. It has deeply awakened my connection and communication to divinity within and around me. I feel so supported in my humaneness knowing that to be in harmony is to be authentic in all that I experience. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to be encouraged in remembering who they are and where they came from on a soul level.

[Chelsea Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely one of my favourite spiritual books to the point where I couldn't stop reading but also didn't want it to end (in a good way).
I will read this over and over again and continue with the beauty and wisdom from this book. Filled with so much love and magic and also I love the embodiment practices. Maltyox 💖💖💖

[lunacat37 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book! Lots of helpful tips I resonating deeply with.

[Crystal Teegarden · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was beautiful, a true gift that feels like a warm hug from a big sister. I appreciate the guided meditations and specific steps we can take to heal and connect with our ancestors. I felt connected to the author and realized that I’m not the only one who struggles with my culture since throughout history, my ancestors were not allowed to embrace their culture and identity. This books shared some beautiful wisdom on gratitude and how to become our most authentic self. I also loved learning about history and our ancestors.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know the author poured her heart and soul into this, and there were a LOT of good points. But as I read, I don’t feel living with gratitude, living as our true selves, respecting nature, necessarily has anything to do with ancestors (at least not for everyone). I enjoyed the parts on how to love ourselves more wholly, and some of the recommendations at the end of chapters are good, but I felt mixing the gratitude with the ancestor part didn’t flow well.

[Reader · Rating 1 out of 5]

Basically a lot of hippie trash that leads to nowhere, the author is a major woke warrior. Believe that we should go back to our "indigenous" ways. Like the Mayans who killed babies for ceremonial practices

[The Celestial Chapter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very grounding and easy to read book, some aspects that are already carried in the heart, some that you had to be reminded of and also a lot of new enriching tools that I use in everyday life.

Thank you Christine for your wisdom ♡