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HOÕOPONOPONO & POSSIBLE
REFLECTIONS OF OUR INNER WORLD IN OTHERS AND THE WORLD AT LARGE Robert Elias Najemy The ancient Hawaiian healing technique called
HoÕoponopono asks us to take 100% responsibility for whatever appears in our
reality - for whatever we perceive or comes to our attention. In this process
we cleanse ourselves and thus, our personal input into the matrix of our
mutually interactive reality. This then affects our life, our relationships and
the world we live in. It is simultaneously a method for solving problems, for
healing persons and situations and for spiritual development and enlightenment. The
process is simple: 1. We realize or remember that whatever we are
observing or is affecting us in any way is there because it is reflecting something within ourselves
mainly our personal memories, beliefs, emotions and programming. We are attracting ÒthatÓ because it is time to clean a
certain part of ourselves that is contributing to that reality in some way. The
specific reality might be persons or situations that seem to be not well
– not harmonious. Or it could be something that bothers us personally
– such as someoneÕs behavior or a world situation. 2. Now we ask that person, situation or attribute for forgiveness for our participation in
the specific reality that has come into our awareness. It is highly unlikely that we will understand what our
ÒcontributionÓ to this is. It could be from our deep subconscious or even
deeper dimensions of ourselves that we are not aware of. The Òcause within usÓ
may be a simple as the fact that we are unable to perceive the divine in
ourselves, in others and in what is happening and thus are allowing whatever it
is to annoy us. 3. We then express our love to ÒthatÓ which was
bothering us or seems to be Ònot well or harmoniousÓ. When doing so, we seek to
feel acceptance, love, unity and well wishes for that person, event or
situation. 4. Then we say Òthank youÓ expressing our gratitude -
which has two aspects. We thank the person, event or situation for offering us
the opportunity to clean whatever is within us that is attracting this
reality. Secondly we thank the Divine for dissolving these unenlightened
memories,
tendencies, fears and beliefs into the light of pure divine consciousness,
which is our true self. We are then able to return to the state of purity
without ideas, memories, beliefs, emotions and prejudices or judgment on what
is happening. We simply do not know. We become like pure loving children more
aligned with our innate divinity. 100% Responsibility ??? This concept of responsibility is quite difficult for
most of us to digest. Can we take responsibility for other peopleÕs
irresponsible or unethical actions? How can we be responsible for those who are
abusing women and children or killing innocent persons in Iraq or Africa or
wherever else? Can we take responsibility for terrorist acts around the world?
Such reactions naturally come to mind when we are asked to believe and employ
this revolutionary system. How can we be responsible for what ÒweÓ have not done
and for what we would ÒprobablyÓ (we never know until we find ourselves in the
same circumstances) would never do? How can we be responsible for what others
are doing on the other side of the world and or for perpetuated by leaders that
we never voted for, do not agree with and even condemn? Also how do we reconcile this truth with another
equally obvious and valid truth that each of us in the exclusive creator of his
or her reality and that others do not create our reality and we do not create
theirs. These truths seem to be irreconcilable. In order to get even a smallest hint of what might be
the answer to this question we need to dig deeply into the nature of reality. I
do not claim to understand this with my conscious mind but I will try to play
with some ideas that might help us both to understand. Why am I interested to do so? Because I find
HoÕoponopono to be a really superb technique that leads ultimately to purity,
love and freedom from negativity – and thus to happiness and unity. Let us play with ideas and see what will happen. Our Collective Unconscious We have many common emotions, beliefs and modes of
functioning as hypothesized by Carl Jung in his theory of the Collective
Unconscious. We share many programmings, fears, emotions and desires. It may
just be that we are all affected by each otherÕs subconscious. Many experiments today are
showing that we can be affected by what others are feeling, even though
consciously we are not aware of what is happening. This is especially true of
people with who are closely emotionally bound. Psychologists are also aware of the Òconnected
container effectÓ, which speculates that people are like two containers with
water connected by a pipe at their base. When we suppress the water in one
container, it will rise in the other. It is well know that in a martial or
family situation, one personÕs suppressed emotions are communicated and often
expressed by other members. Whatever we do to our own Òwater systemÓ will
affect the others who are connected to us in this way. We are affecting others
by our invisible emotional connections to them. Social Paradigms We are also affected by and participate in the common
social paradigms in which we are born and raised. When we accept and limit our
perceptions to these paradigms, we are augmenting them for everyone else. Thus
we are supporting othersÕ belief systems by allowing ourselves to be limited by
those belief systems. If we believe we that those who are different from us
(race, religion, social class) are a danger to us, then we are co creating that
reality. If we believe there is not enough for all of us, we are co creating
that reality. If we believe that life is difficult and people are not to be
trusted, we are co-creating those realities those with whom we interact. Our Common Morphogenetic Field Biologist Rupert SheldrakeÕs theory of the
morphogenetic field adds a biological dimension to this. He believes that our
bodies and minds get their information from a common pool of knowledge and
tendencies that exist in a field commonly accessible to us all. When any one of
us makes a change in lifestyle, emotions, ways of thinking, those affect to
some small degree the consistency of our commonly shared field and that makes
this new way of thinking or reacting more available and more possible to all
others sharing that field. This works for all emotions, beliefs and behaviors,
negative and positive. Remaining in our old unenlightened beliefs and behaviors
affects all others through this shared field. We are co-responsible for what is
happening. Our positive changes enable others to do the same. Our Personal Causal Body Philosophical systems teach that we each have a
personal Òcausal bodyÓ where all of our soul memories and tendencies, qualities
and abilities are stored along with all of our fears and other emotions. All of
our positive and negative tendencies are stored there. Upon birth these dictate
the type of physical body we will have as well as the conditions of our birth and
our emotional and mental tendencies. These affect, but do not exclusively
determine, most major events of our lives. We are attracting realities that to
a great degree are formed by the content of our causal body. This does not,
however, create an ironclad fate, because in each moment we are adding and
removing qualities from that causal field when we change the way we perceive,
think, act and react. When we perform HoÕoponopono and other
perception-and-reaction-altering methods, we are changing the content of our
conscious and subconscious minds as well as our causal body. We are requesting
and allowing for all tendencies in our causal bodies, that might be
contributing to what we are perceiving and being affected by, to be removed and
dissolved once again into pure consciousness – which is what they
ultimately are. Universal Consciousness All thoughts, emotions, memories, actions and
reactions as well as all physical objects and beings and the interactions
between them are simply manifestations of one universal consciousness. This is
similar to the fact that all images on the movie or TV screen are temporary
manifestations of one white light that only temporarily takes these forms – including the
ÒgoodÓ, ÒbadÓ, loving, hateful, mineral, plant, animal, humans and all
interactions between them. The white light of the TV, when nothing is playing, is
the like the zero point from which all appears and re-dissolves. We are asking
the Divine to dissolve all tendencies that might be contributing to what we are
witnessing, back into their real nature, which is white undifferentiated light. Our Common Causal Body Similar to the morphogenetic field, we all share a
common universal causal body. There is a causal body for each species of
animals and plant and one for all men and one for all women and one for all
humans and one for the planet itself. This common causal body includes all of our shared
tendencies
that affect humanity and the planet as a whole. Thus when we get free from
anger, fear or guilt, we make those tendencies less available in the shared
causal body. Love, understanding, responsibility and peace then become more
available. HoÕoponopono and all forms of energy psychology such
as EFT, TAT, TFT, BSFF, EMDR, The Sedona Method, Freeze frame, meditation,
prayer and wide variety of other methods allow us to perceive and react
differently. Then old memories and programmings dissolve – not only from
ourselves but also from our interactive relationships and from humanity as a
whole. Beyond Time and Space Quantum physics explains to us that time and space, as
we perceive them, are not real but a matter of perception. We are forced to
abandon these concepts when we seek to explain the fact that in laboratories in
the USA one particle can appear in more than one place at the same moment. In
one experiment a particle appeared in 3000 places simultaneously. We need to
let go of the concepts of space and time when we need to explain why, if we
alter the state of one particle, that another particle with which it seems to
have a ÒrelationshipÓ is affected simultaneously thousands of miles away. David Bohm, one of EinsteinÕs students believes that
all matter – including our bodies and all that we know –are
actually, at some level, one united field – what he calls the Òimplicate
orderÓ or Òzero state fieldÓ. In this field, there all is no time or space. All
is one and all is potential. All objects large and small exist in this state
together until they manifest in the Òexplicate orderÓ that we experience in time,
space and separation. All of the above concepts support the truth of
HoÕoponopono that there is no you and me. All is one energy - one
consciousness. We all constitute one united field of energy and consciousness
that appears as separate beings and objects. When we perform HoÕoponopono and other techniques in
order to purify our vibratory input to that system, we change the whole system.
Spiritual Teachings All religions teach the concept of divine justice.
Everyone is getting exactly what they justly deserve based on what they have
done in the past until now. In Christianity this is expressed in ChristÕs
words, ÒAs you sow, so shall you reap,Ó ÒAs you judge, so will you be judged.Ó
Also when Christ healed the paralyzed man, he said to him, Òget up and walk -
your sins have been forgivenÓ, indicating that he was paralyzed because of some
past mistakes. According to these spiritual teachings and the law of
karma taught by eastern religions, no one could possibly do us harm if the
universal laws of perfect justice did not allow them to. Thus if the universe
is allowing someone to behave in negative ways, our only conclusion can be that
even thought this feels totally unjust and wrong, it is being allowed and thus,
there must be some hidden justice and thus there must be some ÒcauseÓ within me which
is attracting or allowing this. The actual meaning of HoÕoponopono is to correct or
make right again. We simply assume that we, in this or perhaps (if you believe so) in
some past life have done something that is contributing to what is occurring.
Another possibility is that it is happening because we need to learn something.
In which case we can express our gratitude and love to the other for giving us
this opportunity to learn and grow through this experience. So if we believe that we are indeed connected through
a collective unconscious, a morphogenetic field, a united causal body or a
quantum zero point field or one united universal consciousness, it is obvious
that we affect each other with every thought, word and action. The next question is how do we affect each other and
how is our personal and common reality created? Creating
reality through interpretation and projection We create our subjective reality by the way in which we interpret
behaviors, situations and events.
Unfortunately most often we are not perceiving what is there, but actually perceiving
what we have been programmed to believe is there. Our belief system works as a filter that
subjectively and selectively interprets whatever is perceived in ways that
corroborate what we already believe and ignores what we do not. For example, if we
believe that others will reject us and do not love us, we will interpret their
suggestions or other actions as a form of rejection and lack of love for us
even when that is simply not reality. We have all been surprised to discover
that people have misinterpreted our actions, believing that we had motives and
feelings that we never had. We do the same. We project onto persons and situations motives and
dangers that simply are not there. When we do so, we experience fear, pain,
bitterness, creating unnecessary unhappiness for ourselves and others. Conflicting Belief Systems and Memories We could subdivide our beliefs into the following categories. 1. Emotionally Charged Impressions - These are not so much beliefs as
"emotionally charged impressions" that are imprinted on the mind
during traumatic experiences. The mind then identifies this particular stimulus
with an emotionally charged feeling, and when we think of it, we feel fear and
other emotions. This kind of ÒbeliefÓ has a strong Òemotional chargeÓ but is
not based on observations and facts, but rather on one or two intense
experiences, which are not representative of reality. 2. Mistaken Childhood Conclusions -
These are mistaken beliefs about reality in which we perceive ourselves
as weak, wrong, unlovable and to blame for just about everything that happens
around us such as our parentsÕ anger, absence, unhappiness, indifference,
divorce, illness, and even their death. We falsely interpret that we are
unworthy or unable and that others will always behave towards us in ways that
we experienced in childhood. These first two categories are usually repressed in the subconscious mind (in the ÇshadowÈ,
or inner child) because of the pain and confusion they produce. We suppress
them so that we can focus and function in our daily lives. Although these "beliefs" are repressed so that we do not
feel the unpleasant negative emotional energy charge associated with them, they
are activated whenever we come into contact with or think of a specific
stimulus. They generate fear, emotional withdrawal and often aggressive
behavior. They also create psychosomatic illnesses. They control our reactions
to events, situations and persons.
Most importantly, they attract the realities we encounter. Because of their repression and subsequent isolation from our conscious
mind, these first two belief systems do not evolve as we do. They remain in
their original state regardless of our evolving logic, reasoning, new
experiences and spiritual faith. Unless we engage in inner psychological or
spiritual work, they receive no new data.
3. Our Evolving Conscious Belief System - This is our conscious belief system which, as it
processes new data, reevaluates its perceptions of reality seeking to make the
adjustments necessary to understand the truths behind the phenomena we observe.
This conscious belief system is evolving in a small number of people.
Many have stopped processing new data and thus have remained with the same
conscious belief system for many years and will leave their bodies with it. This belief system understands that we are safe, secure, good, worthy
and capable. It also realizes that we are not in danger from people, heights,
cars, insects, dogs, cats, elevators, airplanes etc. The facts available to it
cause it to realize that its fears are unfounded. It also realizes that our
self-worth has nothing to do with what others say, think or do. 4 Our Spiritual Intuitive Faith - These beliefs are usually based on intuition or
faith rather than proof. We feel that what we believe is true. In addition to being affected by
othersÕ spiritual beliefs, we also experience our own inner awakenings or
revelations in which we just "know" that something is true. According to HoÕoponpono this divine inspiration can occur only when
the mind is purified of the previous three types of mental content, all of
which are limited by memory. We often have simultaneous beliefs, which are working at different
levels creating conflicting emotions and reactions to events and situations. We
can simultaneously feel love, peace, hurt and anger because our various beliefs
are creating different internal realities. Thus one basic way in which we create our reality is the way in which
we interpret whatever is happening in our lives. No two persons create the same
reality with the same external stimuli. Creating reality through attraction and mirroring The second factor contributing to our personal reality is how we
actually attract or create the events that occur in our lives - what actually
happens to us. There are three popular beliefs about this. 1. There are no laws. All happens and exists by chance. Creation is an accident with no
reason or purpose. 2. There is a Divine being that
creates and controls all that happens in our lives. 3. We ourselves are the creators of what happens to us, by
our previous and present actions and choices. Let us look at each possible answer in more detail. 1. It is difficult to belief that there is no cause, reason or laws governing creation when the
sciences of physics, chemistry and biology present us with a magnificent image
of order, intelligence, interdependency and innate wisdom. The existence of an
intelligent consciousness behind the phenomena we observe is more than
obvious. 2. Although it
seems to be true on some levels that an unperceivable divine power is
responsible for much of what happens, there seem to be other factors involved
in the creation of our personal reality, including free will and our own
personal efforts or lack of effort.
Or perhaps we could explain it in another way. Divine will can create
our lives to the degree that we do not interfere or resist. The problem with the perception that all is created by a divine being
and that we have no participation in the creation of our reality is that we
have difficulty in perceiving a sense of justice or responsibility regarding
what happens. Why are some born without sight or hearing or the use of their
limbs or into families that abuse and emotionally damage them for life? Why do
some die after a few years and others live long lives? Why do some lose their
loved ones and others not. Why do some good people who make good efforts get
unfortunate results? 3. The third
answer, that we ourselves are the creators of our reality seems to explain a larger more
encompassing portion of the reality we perceive. This explanation becomes even
more understandable when we remove the illusion of separation between us as
individual expressions of the divine and divinity itself. When we perceive
ourselves as temporary expressions of divine consciousness or divine energy in
the physical realm, it becomes clear that we are all individually and collectively creating our personal
and social reality. We are the divine itself encased in temporary bodies. We are creating
and forming our reality. We do so
in various ways. a. The past.
Our previous thoughts,
actions, choices, feelings and words all a have causal impact on our present
reality. This concept is accepted by all religions and spiritual philosophies.
Not all may believe in reincarnation but all do believe in cause and effect, as we have already
mentioned. Our choices to care for
ourselves or not, to communicate sincerely and honestly or not, to help and
love others or not, to free ourselves from fears or not, all have their effect
on our present reality. b. The present.
Our present thoughts,
beliefs, expectations, fears, guilt and other emotions and behaviors all create
our present reality through the "laws of reflection and attraction".
Others and life itself reflect back to us the content of our mind and behavior
on all levels. If we reject ourselves, fear or expect rejection, or reject
others, we attract rejection. If we think, speak or act antagonistically or
egotistically, we attract the same. Basically we attract whatever we fear,
love, desire and hate as well as what we expect and what we do. Life wisely mirrors back to us our own thoughts, emotions, beliefs,
roles and behaviors, offering us an opportunity to look inward and let go of
those aspects of ourselves that are attracting what is unpleasant for us. In
such a case, our lesson is to discover what is being reflected and transform
it. Otherwise we will continue to attract our present reality. This fact is
basic to HoÕoponopono. This is what we need to clean in order to heal what we
are co-creating. It is important to understand that the power and opportunity for positive
change is in the present
and no where else. We cannot change the past - but we can change our perception
of the past - and thus its effect upon us, in the present. We do not know the
future, but can form it by our choices in the now moment. Some people accept negative realities believing that it is some
"karma" that they have to suffer. There is no benefit from suffering
or being punished if we do not learn something from the experience and if it
does not initiate change. The concept that we must suffer for past mistakes has
no value if that pain does not become an opportunity for growth. 3. Our soul choices. The third factor that determines the nature of the events occurring
in our lives is our "soul choices". We as souls chose even before
birth that we would like to or need to learn certain lessons as a part of our
evolutionary process. If we have chosen to learn self-acceptance, we will
naturally "make a contract" with those close to us to test our
ability to feel our self-worth even in the face of disapproval or rejection. If
we have decided to learn unconditional love or forgiveness, we will logically
choose close contact with persons who will be difficult for us to love. In this
way we have the opportunity to overcome our fears and love even those persons.
If we would like to learn self-dependency, we will set up a life drama in which
we will not easily find support from others. We also have the free will to
resist learning any of those lessons. When we are passing through difficult times, it may not because we
have been "bad" in the past, but because we have chosen to learn
specific lessons.
Thus, we and all others create our personal and collective reality
through our: a. Past beliefs, words, choices, actions and
behaviors. b. Present beliefs, words, expectations, choices,
actions and behaviors. c. Our soul
decisions to learn certain
lessons. d. How our
presently programmed belief systems interpret what is happening What About Our Mutually Created Realities? If each of us is creating
his and her personal reality in these ways, then how can we take 100%
responsibility for what others are creating? The answer is that our realities
are a matrix created by the sum total of our personal inputs. Some examples may
help. A Pond Of Ripples Imagine a pond into which each of us 6 billion humans is throwing his
or her own personal pebble every second. The result will be a wave pattern
formed by the interaction of all the waves created by our billions of personal
pebbles. Assuming that our pebbles are our present and past beliefs, emotions,
words, actions and choices, we can imagine that we are all co-creators of that
unique matrix pattern that we call reality. We are affecting the whole with
every thought. Not one centimeter of that matrix is free from our input. Our
input is affecting the whole pattern. Not one human or event is free from our
emotional energy, and thought input.
With HoÕoponopono we seek to free the pond and all beings in from our personal
subjective input. Imagine a World of Six Billion
1000-Stringed Instruments Sympathetic vibration is a law of physics that states,
among other things, that if we have a two guitars or two pianos and we strike a
cord on one of them then the cord on the other that is tuned to the same
frequency as the one we have struck on the first will be the most affected and
will start to vibrate. A vibration of one will affect the other only if it is
tuned to the same frequency. If it is tuned to another frequency it will likely
not be stimulated. We can imagine in the same way that are affecting each
other by conscious and subconscious frequencies that were emitting. We and others would not be affected if
we did not have something within ourselves that is being stimulated by what is
happening or being emitted by the other. We will investigate later on the
possible aspects of our being that might be stimulating aspects in others and
vice versa. We create the stimulus – they create their
reality It is important to clarify we are responsible only for
our conscious and subconscious output in the past and present – but not
for what actually happens to the other. That is their creation. Our only power is purify our own self and remove (or
ask the divine to remove) those strings that have been tuned in those specific
ways that they affect or attract through sympathetic vibration negative
realities for ourselves and others. HoÕoponopono is the process of eliminating
our own strings from vibrating at those frequencies so that we do not add to
othersÕ reality in any way. We are withdrawing and purifying our own input. We are affected by others in the same way. When
othersÕ Òvibrating stringsÓ stimulate movement in us, they are the stimulus but
it is our own vibratory programming that causes us to be affected and create
our own personal reality. Imagine World of Imperfect Mirrors Remember those funny mirrors that distort the image
before them. They may make us look fat, tall, thin, or short. These mirrors are
distorting what they are reflecting. We are all mirrors that have certain
distortions and do not reflect a totally pure image of what is there. Life and
people around us reflect to us what we are but sometimes in distorted and
unclear ways. We are the image for othersÕ mirroring and they are the images
for our mirroring. We and they have certain subjective qualities that prevent
us from reflecting purely. However, what is being reflected by others back to us
is somehow a reflection of something in ourselves. It may not be pure, it may
contain a great deal of their subjectivity, but we are the basis of the reflection. We need
to understand that something in ourselves is being reflected in peopleÕs
behaviors and events – even if it is distorted. Then we can take 100%
responsibility and free ourselves from whatever is reflecting as our reality. When we do this, our own reflection back to others is
much less subjective and distorted by our own memories or problems. When we
become totally pure, there is nothing to reflect. We will give examples of
various aspects of ourselves that reflect back to us through othersÕ behavior
later on. Quantum Physics – Collapsing the Wave Quantum physics tells us that a photon or electron is
actually a wave of possibilities until there is a witness that causes that wave
to ÒcollapseÓ into a specific particle in a specific place and time. It appears
that the witness causes the wave of possibilities to leave that state of many
possibilities and become one specific reality, as we know it. We might imagine that something similar is happening
between ourselves and life. Imagine life as a wave of possibilities, all of
which exist together in a quantum zero state or implicate order or for
spiritual aspirants the universal consciousness. In this state (which is the
state – HoÕoponopono seeks to reestablish) nothing is formed yet. All is
possible. Memories and programs are not yet limiting this conscious- energy. Once pure consciousness begins to express itself
through our programmed minds it becomes limited and tends to attract what is in
agreement with our memories and programming. Our beliefs and emotions cause the
unlimited zero point field of pure light consciousness to form into what we
call our reality – with people, actions and events – all of which
are reflections of and responses to our inner content. HoÕoponopono is a process for cleaning out our inner
content so that we can cease distorting the expression of this pure
consciousness in our lives. When we ask others to forgive us, is it not because
we have done them some harm or made a mistake. It is because we are
acknowledging that we ourselves are creating our reality and not them. Also we
are realizing that something in our programming has brought them into our
awareness and cause us to notice them and perhaps have feelings about what is
happening or what they are doing. Once we realize that it is our own inner reality that
is causing this outer reality to manifest, become noticed and affect us, then
we are free from feeling that we are the victims or that others are responsible
for our reality. We are taking 100% responsibility for our own reality. We
realize that the only way to change that reality is to free ourselves from
whatever there is within us that is contributing to it – even thought we
do not know what it might be. Our Inner Content Our beliefs, emotions, programmings, needs, desire,
fears, attachments and behaviors all reflect back to us through othersÕ
behaviors and life itself. Following is a list of some aspects of ourselves that
might be reflecting back to us through othersÕ behaviors or situations. Note: HoÕoponopono does not require that we know what it is
within us that needs to be cleaned. The following list is simply to help us see
the varied possibilities of what might need to be cleaned because of what is
being brought to our attention – perhaps by someoneÕs behavior or
situation. The presence of any of the below can easily attract
corresponding behaviors and situations.
1. When we feel negative emotions about that is happening – we attract that so that we can
become free within ourselves. 2. When we have specific limiting beliefs about others and what is
happening or when we perceive someone or something as sad, wrong, unjust etc.,
we attract that so that we can work on it. 3. Our own behaviors until now towards this person or towards others
in the past reflect back to us in the present so that we can learn from them. 4. Our fears attract and create realities. Especially our fears concerning our
self-worth, security, freedom, pleasure or control? 5. We also attract what we expect from others and life. 6. Our doubts about what we deserve, limit our reality to what we believe we
deserve. 7. How we behave
towards ourselves, causes others to do behave towards us in similar ways. 8. At times we attract behaviors from others that a part of ourselves
would like to imitate but fears to do so. 9. Unresolved childhood experiences tend to replay repeatedly in
our lives, until we manage to heal them. 10. The roles we identify with for our meaning, self-worth and
security can attract life situations and
corresponding behaviors from others – so that we can free
ourselves from the illusions and limitations of those roles. We might be playing some of the
following roles: A. the victim B. the intimidator C. the teacher D. the parent E. the child F. the intelligent one G. the righteous one H. the rebel I. the strong one - without needs J.
the just one K.
the Good
person L. the
one Responsible for all M. the server N. the weak one O. the spiritual person P. the judge Q. the Aloof one, R. the Critic or Interrogator Q.
Some other
role? 11. Those needs and attachments that are limiting our peace, happiness,
love or evolution may reflect in
various life situations and behaviors so that we can have an opportunity to
free ourselves from them. 12. Our tendency to feel guilty, attracts behaviors and situations that
stimulate that programming so that we can free ourselves form it. 13. We bring into our lives whatever we criticize, judge, reject or
have prejudiced perceptions of. 14. We attract whatever causes us to feel jealousy, pain, anger,
bitterness, injustice or any other negative emotion so that we can have an
opportunity to get free from the illusions that create those emotions. 15. We attract whatever we cannot forgive in others or in ourselves. 16. When we compare ourselves to others we bring them into our reality. 17. Our own inner conflicts and self-doubt attracts specific behaviors
from others that bring those feelings to the surface. 18. When we fail to communicate clearly assertively but without
criticism or complaints – we create realities in which we do not get what
we need. 19. If we have become accustomed to a reality, we tend to stay it in because
of our fear of change. 20. If we fear happiness, abundance, health, being loved etc, we will create analogous
realities. These and other aspects of our inner world can very
easily be contributing factors in the realities we are co-creating. How Might we be Contributing to World Crises? Most of us are unhappy with the way the world is and
tend to be critical of our own and other leaders and how they are handling
these issues, which might be global warming, the Middle East, terrorism,
Africa, the economy etc. When we feel rejection or hate towards whatever is in
our reality, we actually energize and increase it. We actually empower whatever
we hate, whatever we allow to bother us in any way. How might these world crises actually be a
manifestation of ourselves? 1. First of all, our leaders are simply a manifestation
of our group consciousness. When our consciousness changes, our leaders will
change. We need to look into ourselves to understand why we have the leaders we
do and how we empower them. 2. Another way that we contribute is through our dependency
on comfort and material things. All of these require oil, heat, and deplete the
natural resources of the earth. Our addiction to these comforts causes us to
give much money and thus power to the conglomerates that produce them and they
in turn have the ability to control the governments. We are giving our power
(through money) to the businesspersons who are controlling the politicians who
are making the decisions. Our life style is directly responsible for global
warming and policies that have to with need for oil. 3. Our personal identification with the small group of persons we feel
comfortable with and our alienation from people from other religions, races or
nationalities reflects in the situations in Kosovo, Ireland, the Middle East
and Africa all over the world where people from different groupings are
fighting with each other. They are a reflection of the fact that we do not yet
feel the same unity with all religions, races and nationality or even social
classes. 4. The unjust and biased misuse
of power
in the world simply reflects our own misuse of power as parents, spouses,
employers etc. Few people have learned to use their power in a totally just and
unbiased way. Our governments are simply doing the same. They are nothing more
that reflections of our own state of evolution – or lack thereof. 5. We can never know what we would do if we were in the
othersÕ position. If a foreign power came into and occupied the USA or Europe,
would we be pacifists or terrorists until they left. Were the early Americans,
who ambushed and killed the British, terrorists or freedom fighters? On the other hand, if we are
responsible for a whole country and someone bombed us and killed our people,
could we do nothing about it? Most often the actions of both sides in these
conflicts are extreme, unjust and unenlightened – but they are the exact
reflection of our personal tendencies. It is easy to judge others when we are
not experiencing their situation. This judgment only increases what is
happening. There is a potential terrorist in each of waiting to
manifest in the right conditions of feelings of injustice when we feel all
others avenues are hopeless. And there is a vindictive and unmercifully avenger
in all of us, if our family has been unjustly harmed. In each of us there is a
bigot. Even a rejection towards the bigots, is a form of bigotry. We may be for
peace, but we may hate those who prevent that peace. Then we are the same as
them, and they are reflecting us to ourselves. 6. All of our problems start with the illusion of our
separateness
from others, which then leads to fear, self-protective mechanisms, alienation,
indifference for how others are fairing. We become imprisoned in self-serving
lives with a basic mistrust those we do not know or of those who are not like
us. This in itself is an illusion that attracts a wide variety of personal and
social realities. Political and religious leaders add to these fears and
mistrust by reinforcing the idea only we have the truth that the others are bad
and want to do us harm. When we are functioning in such paradigms, we are
contributing to the social and world situation as it is. These world situations are simply reflections of our
own mental tendencies that need to be purified and evolved with HoÕoponopono
and other methods. HoÕoponopono declares that if someone does us wrong, then we
or our ancestors must have done something to warrant that and we need to ask
for forgiveness from them and express our love to them and ask the Divine to
remove from us, whatever may have caused that. This is a far cry from our usual
reactions. We Are All in a Process of Growth As souls in the process of becoming more emotionally,
mentally and spiritually mature and enlightened, we attract to ourselves situations that offer us
the opportunity to learn the next lessons we need to learn in our evolutionary
process. Of course, we have free will to learn from these situations or not. We
have the option of holding on to our pain, fear, guilt and anger, or we can let
go of all that as we upgrade our perception of reality and move into
forgiveness, self-acceptance, love and peace. Some of the situations we are attracting are for the
purpose of learning these lessons. We may not have done something in the
past to warrant what is happening. We may have chosen as souls for this to
happen because we can use to that to let go of fear and old dysfunctional
beliefs and move forward. In such cases we are responsible not because we have harmed
someone, but because we have chosen this as a growth process. In such as case
we can ask forgiveness or simply Òfree the other or life situationÓ from the
need to be that way any more, because we have learned the lesson, that we are
responsible and that we can love whomever or whatever it is. Having learned to
love, we do not need the lesson anymore. On the other hand, some of these behaviors or
situations may be the result of actions and choices in previous or parallel
lives, in which case it is appropriate to ask forgiveness for anything we might
have done that is attracting the present reality. We do not need to know what
it is. We Are All One Spiritual Consciousness. Most religions teach that we are ultimately all one
with the Divine and that in the divine we are one. St. John the Evangelist
repeating quotes Christ as saying, ÒI am in you and you are in me and I am in
the Father and Father is in me.Ó
Eastern religions are even more emphatic in declaring that we are
actually all expressions of one divine consciousness. We are one consciousness,
which seems to have split into many, as does the light of the projector at the
cinema appear to break up into many different beings and their interactions on
the screen. We are all projections on one divine consciousness, which is
ultimately interacting with itself through our actions. We, however, have the free will (or wonÕt) and power
to hinder the purity of that expression and are in a process of purifying and
evolving our ability to express our true spiritual nature. We are all evolving
together and each personÕs success in that process benefits us all.
Simultaneously each personÕs refusal affects us all. HoÕoponopono is a process in which we recognize that
we are not yet enlightened that we still are attracting realities based on
ignorance, memories and programmings. Having realized this, we ask forgiveness
from the phenomena we are attracting and reestablish the state of love, which
is based on the truth that we are actually one being. Then we thank the divine
for removing from us whatever may be other than love. Conclusion HoÕoponopono is a process in which we realize that: 1.
We are attracting all that is in our reality for some reason – it
is not by chance. 2.
We are co-creators of all that is happening personally and socially. 3.
Everything is as it should be for the moment – as a stimulus to correct it in ourselves.
4.
We can only correct ourselves and by doing so, affect the others and the
whole. 5.
We do not need to know what we are correcting in ourselves. 6.
We do not need to know what it in us that is resonating with that which has our
attention. 7.
The causes of our reality are either in the subconscious as memories,
programs or lessons we have chosen to learn, or once we
are pure, by divine inspiration or guidance. 8.
The solution is the removal of inner causes for ourselves and others 9.
When we free ourselves from any aspects that are contributing to what is happening – then what is
happening is less a function of us and more of othersÕ own lessons and / or
divine creation – choice. 10.
Freedom from memories and programs allows inspiration to come. 11.
The solution is love for others and self. 12.
This is the goal of life - a road to enlightenment In short HoÕoponopono is: 1.
Realizing that what has come to our attention is within us – that we are
attracting or co-creating it. 2.
Asking forgiveness or setting other person(s) or situation free. 3.
Expressing love 4.
Thanking the divine that the causes are now being dissolved. ******************************************
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