Hoʻoponopono
Maybe you’ve heard about it, or a version of the story about it?
If not, keep reading. If you have, maybe you could use a refresher.
Anyway, here’s the legendary story that I was told a number of years ago about this Hoʻoponopono.
It’s about a psychotherapist in Hawaii who was hired to help at the Hawaiian State Hospital for the insane. It seems that the patients in a certain section of the hospital were totally out of control.
You see, the ward where they kept the criminally insane patients was a very dangerous place. Psychologists and psychiatrists would quit on a regular basis and the other staff would frequently and consistently call in sick or simply resign. Visitors and employees would walk through the ward with their backs against the wall because they were afraid of being attacked by the patients.
It was not a safe place to either work, or live.
A few months after the new psychotherapist came to the ward, patients who had previously been restrained started being allowed to walk about freely. Others, who had been heavily medicated, had their medications reduced since they no longer needed them.
Disgruntled staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism rates plummeted and employee turnover all but disappeared.
The new psychotherapist worked in that ward for some three years and by the end of his term the ward for the criminally insane was closed down because almost all of the patients had healed. Hopeless cases were eventually released back into society or transferred to less secure accommodations.
So, what happened to change things so dramatically?
Well, the strange thing is that this psychotherapist never saw any of the patients professionally, nor did he counsel them at all. He merely review their files.
And as he regularly studied each individual patient file, he would repeat a mantra over and over: “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”
The psychotherapist’s name was Dr Ihaleakala Hew Len. He was an expert in the spiritual practice called Ho’oponopono.
Hoʻoponopono is a Hawaiian ritual of reconciliation and forgiveness. The Hawaiian word translates into English simply as “correction”. Correction of self.
Dr Hew Len said this about what he did: “I was simply cleaning the part of me that I shared with them.” He further 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.”
So, it would seem that we are all part of one consciousness, and therefore everything that is in our experience is affected by our actions. By everything we think, say and do. We are all responsible for everything that we experience! It’s a shared consciousness where as one person’s consciousness changes, it affects the whole.
Now you have likely heard the following quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Actually, what he really said was this:
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
Very similar to Ho’oponopono – no?
Quite interesting isn’t it?
Do you believe it?
Or do you find it pretty hard to swallow?
Let’s see –maybe there really is something to it?
Instead of blaming a god, devil, circumstances, or other people for what happens in your life– perhaps you just need to accept responsibility for all of it?
Wow! That’s certainly way beyond anything I have been taught or that the “world accepts as true”.
So, it’s gotta be pure bullpoop right?
Or is it?
I’ll leave it for you to decide.
Repentance – I’M SORRY.
Forgiveness – PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
Gratitude – THANK YOU.
Love – I LOVE YOU.
Keep manifesting only good things :)
Tony
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