HO'OPONOPONO
by Joe Vitale
"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--but that's wrong.
"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 or 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, you 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."
Beyond Traditional Means: Ho'oponopono
An
interview with ...
Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew Len*
by
Deborah King -- frequent contributor to the New Times
"We can appeal to Divinity who knows our
personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that
are holding us back at this time," softly shares Morrnah Simeona.
"It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing
knowledge about ourselves."
The process that Morrnah refers
to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction
(release) and problem solving called Ho'oponopono. The word
Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah is a
native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au. Kahuna means "keeper of the secret"
and Lapa'au means "a specialist in healing." She was chosen to be a
kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at
the age of three. She is the daughter of a member of the court of
Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The
process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient
spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she has
been invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World
Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the
world.
How does Ho'oponopono work? Morrnah explains, "We are
the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are
burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our
lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is
actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these
memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action
or person in the present with something that happened in the past.
When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is
produced."
She continues, "The main purpose of this process
is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho'oponopono is a
profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship
with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our
errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is
essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the
past."
Every memory of every experience, since the first
moment of our creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form
which is stored in the etheric realm. This incredible
recorder/computer is also known as the subconscious, unihipili or
child aspect within us. The inner child is very real and comprises
one part of the Self. The other aspects are the mother, also known
as the uhane or rational mind and the father, the superconscious or
Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner family, which, in
partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one's Self I-Dentity.
Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and molecule has
these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely
different.
The most important task for people is to find his
or her true identity and place in the Universe. This process allows
that understanding to become available.
The purpose of
Ho'oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within on a
moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it contains,
be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the Divinity can
erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the Divinity
created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a
person.
In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve,
manage or cope with problems. Since the Divinity created everything,
you can just go directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and
cleansed.
In the area of problem solving: the world is a
reflection of what is happening inside us. If you are experiencing
upset or imbalance, the place to look is inside yourself, not
outside at the object you perceive as causing your problem. Every
stress, imbalance or illness can be corrected just by working on
yourself. It is important to mention that this system is
fundamentally different from other forms of Ho'oponopono. In
traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a problem needs to
be physically present and work it out together. In Morrnah's system
everything can be handled by you and the Divinity. You don't need to
go one inch outside yourself for answers or help. There is no one
who can give you any more relevant information than you can get by
going within yourself.
Morrnah especially recommends
Ho'oponopono for those in the healing profession: "It is important
to clear Karmic patterns with your clients before you start working
with them, so that you don't activate old stuff between you. Perhaps
you shouldn't be working with that person at all. Only the Divinity
knows. If you work with a person and it isn't your business, you can
take on the person's entire problem and everything associated with
it. This can cause burnout. The Ho'oponopono gives the tools to
prevent that from happening."
Morrnah wished for our Western
society that everyone would do things to reduce the stress. "Western
people have great difficulty in putting the intellect behind. It is
difficult for the Western mind to get a grasp of a Higher Being
because in traditional Western churches, the Higher Beings are not
made evident." She continues, "Western man has gone to the extremes
with his intellectualism it divides and keeps people separate. Man
then becomes a destroyer because he manages and copes rather than
letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow through him for
right action."
Morrnah works with her associate, Dr. Stanley
Hew Len, who spent several years as a consulting clinical
psychologist at the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound
results by using this process with the most dangerous, violently
"mentally ill" criminals in Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in
fact, he never even sees them. He writes down their name and then
just works on himself. He cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes
and asks the Divinity what he can do for the person. As those
attachments and memories are cleansed, the patient improves. "The
Divinity," comments Stan, "says it is time to bring all the children
home."
[* also known as Dr. Ihaleakala Hew
Len]
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