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Post by IW on Jun 3, 2018 13:50:12 GMT
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Post by IW on Jun 3, 2018 14:24:59 GMT
The Overwhelming Power of the Ho’oponopono
Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients--without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate's chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane?
It didn't make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.
However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho 'oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more.
I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We're responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does. The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility.
His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.
Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.
"After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely," he told me. "Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed."
I was in awe.
"Not only that," he went on, "but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed."
This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: "What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?"
"I was simply healing the part of me that created them," he said.
I didn't understand.
Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life - simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.
Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life.
This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy--anything you experience and don't like--is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you.
I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho 'oponopono means loving yourself. If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone--even a mentally ill criminal--you do it by healing you.
I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files?
"I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again," he explained.
That's it?
That's it.
Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world. Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message. This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, "I'm sorry" and "I love you," I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.
Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying "I love you," I somehow healed within me what was creating him.
I later attended a ho 'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.
"What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.
"They aren't out there," he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. "They are still in you."
In short, there is no out there.
It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves. Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's only one place to look: inside you.
"When you look, do it with love."
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Post by girlscout on Jun 4, 2018 17:34:20 GMT
Thanks for this irishwome! I'd seen a Youtube with the sequences of phrases and really wondered about where that came from because it's not what I'd learned as ho-oponopono. But the link you listed above led to this one: www.zero-wise.com/morrnah-nalamaku-simeona/ which explains it was a dynamic adaptation of the traditional practices. Awesome!!
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Post by IW on Jun 9, 2018 19:33:20 GMT
Interview of Dr Hew Len with Rita Montgomery and Dr Rick Moss.
Data is what is running us.
It is at the root of what we experience.
Change that within yourself and the outer world changes.
Most of the time we are using dead information.
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Post by IW on Jun 10, 2018 12:41:41 GMT
Dr Hew Len's blog:
ho-oponopono-explained.com/tag/dr-hew-len/
“My job here on Earth is twofold. My job is first of all to awaken people who might be asleep. Almost everyone is asleep. The only way I can awaken them is to work on myself.” ~ Dr Hew Len
By Cat Saunders (in an interview):
How do you thank someone who has helped to set you free? How do you thank a man whose gentle spirit and zinger statements have forever altered the course of your life? Ihaleakala Hew Len is such a man for me.
Like a soul brother who shows up unexpectedly in an hour of need, Ihaleakala came into my life in March of 1985, during a time of massive change for me. I met him during a training called “Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono,” which he facilitated along with the late Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a native Hawaiian kahuna (“keeper of the secret”). -- In 1997, I had the honor of being asked to interview Ihaleakala by The Foundation of I, Inc. (Freedom of the Cosmos), an organization founded by Morrnah. It was an even greater honor to learn that he would be coming from his home in Hawaii to meet with me personally. -- Ihaleakala also has extensive experience working with developmentally disabled people and with the criminally mentally ill and their families. In all his work as an educator, the Ho’oponopono process supports and permeates every breath of his efforts.
Simply put, Ho’oponopono means, “to make right,” or “to rectify an error.” According to the ancient Hawaiians, error arises from thoughts that are tainted by painful memories from the past. Ho’oponopono offers a way to release the energy of these painful thoughts, or errors, which cause imbalance and disease.
Along with the updated Ho’oponopono process, Morrnah was guided to include the three parts of the self, which are the key to Self I-Dentity. These three parts—which exist in every molecule of reality—are called the Unihipili (child/subconscious), the Uhane (mother/conscious), and the Aumakua (father/superconscious).
When this “inner family” is in alignment, a person is in rhythm with the Divinity. With this balance, life begins to flow. Thus, Ho’oponopono helps restore balance in the individual first, and then in all of creation. By introducing me to this three-part system, along with the most powerful forgiveness process I know (Ho’oponopono), Ihaleakala and Morrnah taught me this: the best way to bring healing to every part of my life—and to the entire universe—is to take 100% responsibility and work on myself. In addition, they taught the simple wisdom of total self-care. As Ihaleakala said in a thank-you note after our interview: “You take good care of yourself. If you do, all will be beneficiaries.”
read more on the blog.
I LOVe this it's great.
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Post by Hans Schokkenbroek on Sept 4, 2018 13:45:37 GMT
Wow... What a special day it is. I never was aware until today what Ho'oponopono is and certainly was not aware that it is a Shamanistic practice (says someone who is practicing Shamanism ). The Parents guided me towards this. Because I met my new spiritual friend in Canada who happens to teach Ho'oponopono my interest got peaked and I checked this thread out.... I am sooo looking forward to learning more about it. As always, just following the directions of my Parents .
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Post by IW on Sept 4, 2018 14:54:13 GMT
I'm glad you saw this WB and it sounds so wonderful that your friend teaches this!
I really feel that between this practice and the video Wes recommended (why people are unhappy) there is an untold vastness of wealth from Source to tap into for any situation in whatever need we find ourself in-
no limitations when we go within.
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Post by IW on Sept 6, 2018 5:42:34 GMT
www.kindness2.com/message-of-peace.html
Peace
To have peace is a state of beauty where there is no longer any mental anguish. It is a grand, mind boggling concept.
Yet, truly, small enough to package in a nutshell, because peace is, as we are, a truth that we can let ourselves experience.
Peace is a gift, a gift readily available for everyone, right here and right now. Peace is in your heart – your humanness – your love and mercy for yourself and for others.
Desire peace, love, kindness, freedom and human dignity.
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Post by IW on Sept 6, 2018 5:43:23 GMT
doves for truelight, we all miss her.
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Post by IW on Sept 6, 2018 6:19:17 GMT
Ho'oponopono Prayer to self (whenever there is negative emotions, thoughts)
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.
Say " I'm sorry" and "Please forgive me." you say this to acknowledge that something--without you knowing what it is----has gotten into your body/mind system. You have no idea how it got there. You don't need to know. If you are overweight for example, you simply caught the program that is making you that way. By saying I'm sorry, you are telling the Divine that you want forgiveness inside yourself for whatever brought it to you. You are not asking the Divine to forgive you, you are asking the Divine to help you forgive yourself.
From there you say "Thank you" and "I love you". When you say "thank you", you are expressing gratitude. You are showing your faith that the issue will be resolved for the highest good of all concerned. The "I love you" transmutes the energy from stuck to flowing. It reconnects you to the Divine. Since the Zero state is one of pure love, and has zero limits, you are beginning to get to that state by expressing love.
What happens next is up to the Divine. You may be inspired to take action of some kind.
WHATEVER IT IS..............DO IT!
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Post by Hans Schokkenbroek on Sept 6, 2018 6:59:56 GMT
doves for truelight, we all miss her. Ok this may sound really really weird. First of all I was not fully aware of Truelight's connection to Doves which is strange when reading the Christos Sophia thread... We have a small back garden with trees along one side to make the garden a bit more private. Just before we went on holiday for a month there was a female dove that was clearly looking to build a nest in one of those trees. Doves tend to make quite a bit of noise and Jasper our son is actually afraid of birds. So we did not fancy the idea of having a nest so close. Anyway, I put a football on the place where she was looking to build the nest. When we came back she and her partner were still around and I have a sneaky feeling that she has still built a nest elsewhere in the same trees. Almost every day I am finding a feather on my lawn and of course I pick it up and see it as a gift. But it just suddenly struck me that it is Truelight (!) who is keeping me company. Now this may be very presumptuous but that is the very insight I got after Wome posted this picture.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 9:51:16 GMT
Ho'oponopono Prayer to self (whenever there is negative emotions, thoughts) 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. Say " I'm sorry" and "Please forgive me." you say this to acknowledge that something--without you knowing what it is----has gotten into your body/mind system. You have no idea how it got there. You don't need to know. If you are overweight for example, you simply caught the program that is making you that way. By saying I'm sorry, you are telling the Divine that you want forgiveness inside yourself for whatever brought it to you. You are not asking the Divine to forgive you, you are asking the Divine to help you forgive yourself. From there you say "Thank you" and "I love you". When you say "thank you", you are expressing gratitude. You are showing your faith that the issue will be resolved for the highest good of all concerned. The "I love you" transmutes the energy from stuck to flowing. It reconnects you to the Divine. Since the Zero state is one of pure love, and has zero limits, you are beginning to get to that state by expressing love. What happens next is up to the Divine. You may be inspired to take action of some kind. WHATEVER IT IS..............DO IT! I have learned about Ho'oponopono last year in the course I followed to become Life Coach and I am practising this exact prayer on regular occasions! I can really say it works, because I immediately feel peace coming through me, over me. You exactly feel all negative emotions and blocks purified and released. This is so simple but very very healing. What happens next is indeed up to the Divine (our Father and Mother). Thank you for sharing this irishwome
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