Shifting Energy: Ho'oponopono

The act of forgiving others and ourselves carries the greatest possibility for mental freedom and inner peace. However, forgiveness can take time and can require persistence to reach the point where we no longer feel an emotional charge when thinking of someone we feel has wronged us in some way. I recently shared a few processes we can try to help move us towards forgiveness but there is another process we can practice to soften that charge and defuse potentially divisive situations.  It's called Ho 'oponopono.
 

Ho'oponopono:
I'm sorry
Please forgive me 
Thank you 
I love you

Ho'o means 'to make'  /  Pono means 'right‘’

This ancient Hawaiian clearing prayer helps to make the process of forgiveness easier. To repeat it continually, either out loud or silently, is said to clear away negativity and restore that energy back to love. It not only clears what no longer serves us from our own life but from the lives of our ancestors too, so it's great for generational healing.

The History

Ho'oponopono came to the attention of the Western world due to the actions of a man called Dr. Hew Len who worked at the Hawaii State Hospital in a ward for those who were criminally ill from 1983 to 1987. Many witnesses claim that Dr. Hew Len didn’t do any therapy on the patients and never made personal visits to the inmates. He only browsed through their files whilst repeating the Hawaiian prayer for each inmate. Over time, prisoners were released and eventually, the clinic was closed down due to the lack of inmates.

We've already seen the energetic power of words like 'Thank you' and 'I love you' when we looked at some of the images from Dr. Emoto's water experiment. So it makes sense that repeating these words can cause an energetic shift in us.

We can focus on ourselves, a particular situation, or another person or we can simply repeat the prayer continually throughout the day and it will do what it needs to do to restore harmony and balance. 

Why it works

When we say 'I'm sorry, please forgive me...' we are not necessarily saying sorry to the other person or asking them to forgive us, we are speaking to our highest self and forgiving ourselves. We forgive ourselves for failing to remember that we are love and choosing instead to believe in the data that sits on top of the truth of who we are; the judgements, the stories, the memories, the assumptions and the limiting beliefs.

Ho'oponopono allows us to 'let go' of all of the illusions. This results in the incorrect data held within our subconscious being erased. Once erased we are left in an enlightened state, a state void of 'data', a state of pure love and freedom.

The beauty of this simple process is that you don't need to speak to the other person. They don't need to apologise to you and you don't need to tell them what you are doing. We can only be 100% responsible for ourselves. Through changing 'self' the other person is also changed, setting both free.

With love and light
Gwen x