Spirit is prompting me to add the ancient Hawaiian Huna practice of Ho’oponopono to my Juice Feasting, and tell my body many times daily: “I’m sorry. I love you. Please forgive me. Thank you.” As I do this, images of events from my past have flashed up, causing brief moments of intense feelings … I can press into certain areas of my body and feel a need to cry, to grieve, to forgive, to let go. After all, as we are awakening into our Real Nature, we lovingly see there is no need to be a walking file cabinet of past hurts. All can be released into LOVE.
Ponopono begins with “pono.” The definition of pono: “goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper procedure, excellence, wellbeing, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf, equity, sake, true condition or nature, duty; moral, fitting, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in perfect order, accurate, correct, eased, relieved; should, ought, must, necessary.
Ponopono: “neat, tidy, in order, arranged, cared for, attended to, administer.”
Ho’oponopono is “to put to rights, to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy up, make orderly or neat, administer, superintend, supervise, manage, edit, work carefully and neatly, to make ready, as canoemen preparing to catch a wave.”
YES!!!!!!!!! … catch the Wave of Higher Consciousness (LOVE) and surf higher frequency!
Ho’oponopono is “mental cleansing, family conferences in which relationships were set right through prayer, discussion, confession, repentance and mutual restitution and forgiveness.
Perhaps you have heard of a therapist in Hawaii who healed people, but never saw them.
Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len worked in a mental hospital for violent, mentally insane criminals. Patients there were sedated and often even shackled. Staff called in sick a lot because they hated their job, the patients, and the environment. There was high staff turnover and high absenteeism … people just didn’t want to come to work, and the patients were violent and miserable.
But Dr. Len turned all that around. He did it solely by working on himself, doing an updated version of this ancient Hawaiian healing method called Ho’oponopono.
Dr. Len never saw a patient. He asked that all of their files be brought to his office. Each day he would pour over their files, and then look within himself, trying to clear what was in him that created the patient and his condition.
Huh?
The therapist said everything in your life is created from within you. When you change you, the outer world changes.
This unusual therapist was taking the idea of total responsibility into unknown territory. He was claiming that he could heal people — even mentally ill criminals — by healing himself.
After a few months of doing this inner work at that hospital, patients began to improve. Many began to go off their sedation. Many that were in chains could be freed. And many that had been in the mental hospital for seven years, were actually being released.
Even the staff started to get better, beginning to love their job and joyfully showing up to work every day. In fact, so many patients got better, that the hospital closed.
Incredible. Simply incredible.
This brings the idea of ONEness right to our very doorstep. Dr. Len actually heals himself to heal others. What was he doing inside himself, anyway?
“I just keep cleaning,” is all he could say.
This method of invoking Ho‘oponopono can be summed up in the 4 phrases that he uses whenever he wants to invoke Ho‘oponopono, which is also called “cleaning”:
- “I Love You”
- “I’m Sorry”
- “Please Forgive Me”
- “Thank You”
That’s it! By creating a mantra of saying those 4 things pretty much as often as you can day after day and week after week, you will quickly come to the realization that by Loving yourself, by Apologizing to yourself when you have done something wrong, by Forgiving yourself for that wrong-doing, and by Thanking yourself for the opportunity to create Good, as well as to stop creating Bad, that you can create your life to be “right”.
Recent research into DNA suggests that it functions as a recording device. The thoughts, experiences, traumas and emotions of our ancestors down the lines of time have created the experience we call “us”, and therefore our ancestral DNA is key to the formation of our own individual egoic identity and the conditions of our life. Spooky, huh? Those irrational fears may be those of your ancient relatives. That free-floating anxiety that seems groundless may be the result of real traumas experienced by your great-great-great granddaddy in another time and place, and although you did not live through it, it has manifested in your life. So the answer to the question “who am I?” may be that we are not “separate” beings at all, but rather, a collective consciousness of Life Dancing through You and Me. What a relief! Giving up the idea of separateness feels like heaven.
In Hawaiian, kahuna means “Precious One, The Provider, The Keeper of the Sacred Principle”. A beautiful kahuna (who was designated a Living Treasure of Hawaii in 1983) Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona uses this prayer to clear our ancestral DNA back in time, which clears our current reality:
The liturgy she said, goes like this:
“Divine creator, father, mother, son as one … If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness … Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light … And it is done.”
Morrnah says:
“in every faith there always is a portion (of the liturgy) in which we ask forgiveness of those we offend … But we go beyond that … to family, relatives, and ancestors … because possibly some of the problem stems from a grandfather who chopped off somebody’s head in another century.” That which we expel is transmuted into “pure light,” she said, because otherwise, “we would pollute the atmosphere” with our discarded garbage. “But as pure light, it does not contaminate.”
At the instant that she utters “and it is done” the transmutation takes place, she said, and “the computer automatically erases” the garbage that has been stored for … who knows for how long?
There are now therapists using the updated Ho’oponopono approach, (a process of repentance, forgiveness and transmutation developed by Kahuna Morrnah), where the therapist is able to have erroneous thoughts within himself and within the client transmuted into perfect thoughts of LOVE, working directly with the Original Source who can transmute erroneous thoughts into LOVE.
In response to the repentance and forgiveness appeal of the therapist, LOVE begins the mystical process of transmuting the erroneous thoughts. In this spiritual correction process, LOVE first neutralizes the erroneous emotions that have caused the problem, be they resentment, fear, anger, blame or confusion. In the next step, LOVE then releases the neutralized energies from the thoughts leaving them in a state of void, of emptiness of true freedom.
With the thoughts empty, free, LOVE then fills them with Itself. The result? The therapist is renewed, restored in LOVE. As the therapist is renewed so is the client and all involved in the problem. Where there was despair in the client, there is LOVE. Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of LOVE.
The wonder of the updated Ho’oponopono process is that you get to meet yourself anew each moment, and you get to appreciate more and more with each application of the process the renewing miracle of LOVE.
Here are the key ideas of this practice:
“I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights:
1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.
2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.
3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a physical reality brimming with LOVE.
4. I am 100% responsible for creating my physical universe the way it is.
5. I am 100% responsible for correcting the cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.
6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything exists as thoughts in my mind.”
I believe that we Superheroes who CHOOSE to activate ourselves can RIGHT NOW begin daily employing this practice to heal our bodies, our families, our communities, our earth, this planet and bring in a new era of LOVE. LOVE, FORGIVENESS AND COMPASSION cures all, restores all.
