Ho’oponopono Meditation Restores Harmony Within, and With Others
The Ancient Hawaiian Practice of Forgiveness, Ho’oponopono
It was an interview with Ihaleakala Hew Len PhD, a Hawaiian psychologist and shamanic practitioner, that motivated me to take on the simple yet profound Ho’oponopono forgiveness practice.
Practicing Ho’oponopono, I found immediate benefits in my personal life.
The Mantra at the Heart of Ho’oponopono: I’m Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You, I Love You
Over time I found these four simple concepts, these words, acted like tuning forks, each carrying a different tone of purity that I could use to tune the disharmonious parts of myself.
Best of all, I found that applying this chant to the chaos of my mind brought about peace and calm.
The literal translation of Ho’oponopono is “to put to right; to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy up, make orderly or neat”.
It can be defined as a forgiveness and reconciliation practice, cleansing of “errors of thought” – the origin of problems and sickness in the physical world, according to the Hawaiian worldview.
At the core of Dr. Hew Len’s perspective is the idea of taking responsibility for more than yourself because “you are in me and I am in you”.
The only problem with human beings is that they are arrogant, because that’s what thinking is. This is in essence “I know”. Wisdom is being in the void. To be thoughtless. Only by being in the void can the Light come through. As long as I have something going on in my mind the Light can’t come through. The Light can only come in when the mind is cleared–in a state of silence. – Dr Hew Len, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers
His way of expressing Ho’oponopono contains an awareness that the discordance we find in others and in the world outside ourselves is due to “errors” in thought stored in our personal and collective memories.
The belief in these “errors” existing in some form of collective memory accessible to all allows for a person practicing Ho’oponopono to clean these “errors”, whether the “error” originated in their personal thoughts or not.
In common with other shamanic traditions, the Hawaiian tradition teaches that all life is connected. Ho’oponopono is, therefore, not only a way of healing ourselves, but others and our world as well. – Timothy Freke, Shamanic Wisdomkeepers
If You Want To Change What’s Going On Around You, Change What’s Going On Within You – Billy Cox
This is how, with Ho’oponopono practice, the reality not only within but around the practitioner can be adjusted.
Read more: Ho’oponopono: The Ancient Hawaiian Practice of Forgiveness
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