Ho'oponopono

We Are Responsible but it’s not our fault!

When you have a problem where does it come from? When someone is doing something you don’t like what part of you has attracted that experience in to your life? What happens before you have a thought, any thought?

 

These and many other questions are explored in a new book I read by Joe Vitale called “Zero Limits”.

 

According to Vitale’ and co-author Dr. lhaleakala Hew Len we have only two ways in which we live our lives. Read More.

 

1. Replaying old memories of our own, or those we share with others, in our subconscious, as if these memories are life’s realities
2. Or living in inspiration which is allowing “the Divine” or “God” or “Yahweh” (or whatever your concept of a higher power is) to take full control of our lives. This concept is simple in its explanation but not so easy to implement.

 

When we live our lives through inspiration we are aligned with all that is good and life becomes easy for us. When we look outside ourselves for the answers to our problems, fears, illnesses and attitudes our lives just don’t seem to work so well. Most of us live by default and experience inspiration on occasion but mostly experience the replaying of all those old memories.

 

“Zero Limits” teaches and explains the practice of Ho’oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian healing practice, which allows us to “clean” away the old memories and open ourselves to a state of zero where “God” can inspire us. As I read this book I thought about the limiting beliefs I have and those of my clients. It seems that every day someone brings me a problem from outside themselves….I don’t feel well, I was never good enough for my mother, I couldn’t possibly do that…whatever that might be, It’s genetic, we have had that in our families for generations and the list goes on. We all share something from this short list…ah replaying the old memories again.

 

So, how do I become inspired? According to Dr. Len, who has pioneered a modern version of Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono (SITH), I look at every problem as a blessing and an opportunity to constantly “clean” my energy making way for “The Divine” to come in to my life to guide and inspire me.

 

I have been practicing and it seems pretty easy to get the basics so here they are:

 

1. Take complete responsibility for the fact that EVERY experience that comes in to your life is there because you created it. 

2. State the following 4 affirmations over and over until you feel better:
   I love you
   I’m sorry
   Please forgive me
   Thank you 
3. This is known as cleaning: Do it whenever you are thinking. Less thinking, more cleaning.

 

This concept of Ho’oponopono is hard to absorb if we have been living as if all our problems and the problems that present to us from the rest of the world are somehow created outside ourselves. Don’t we feel guilty enough? Do we need any more shame? Now I am responsible for all the problems in the world and those of my acquaintances and all the news stories and the war in Iraq and the grief of the family who just lost a loved one in a car accident?

 

Just because we are attracting this energy into our lives it doesn’t mean we are at fault or deserve judgement in some way. We are just replaying shared memories from our past. This is a very empowering realization when the light bulb comes on and we finally get it. If the thought enters your head you have created it and therefore you are responsible for it but it’s not your fault. In fact, you have been given a blessing and an opportunity to clean, clean, and clean some more allowing for inspiration to replace the old memories and attitudes. As Wayne Dyer says; “If you change the way you look at things the things you look at will change”. “I love you, I’m sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you”. The gift of Ho’oponopono.

 

Moment by moment, Ho’oponopono.

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