Beyond Traditional Means: Ho'oponopono

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I am finding this very helpful in resolvong personal challenges right

now. May it be of help for others, namaste!

An interview with ...

Morrnah Simeona and Dr. Stan Hew Len*

by Deborah King -- frequent contributor to the New Times

" We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for

healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this

time, " softly shares Morrnah Simeona. " It is a matter of going beyond

traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves. "

The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian

method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called

Ho'oponopono. The word Ho'oponopono means to make right, to rectify an

error. Morrnah is a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa'au. Kahuna means

" keeper of the secret " and Lapa'au means " a specialist in healing. "

She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received

her gift of healing at the age of three. She is the daughter of a

member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the

Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a

modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven

so effective that she has been invited to teach this method at the

United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of

healing throughout the world.

How does Ho'oponopono work? Morrnah explains, " We are the sum total of

our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts.

When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look

carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is

the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The

subconscious associates an action or person in the present with

something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are

activated and stress is produced. "

She continues, " The main purpose of this process is to discover the

Divinity within oneself. The Ho'oponopono is a profound gift which

allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within

and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word,

deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom,

complete freedom from the past. "

Every memory of every experience, since the first moment of our

creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form which is stored in

the etheric realm. This incredible recorder/computer is also known as

the subconscious, unihipili or child aspect within us. The inner child

is very real and comprises one part of the Self. The other aspects are

the mother, also known as the uhane or rational mind and the father,

the superconscious or Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner

family, which, in partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one's

Self I-Dentity. Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and

molecule has these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely

different.

The most important task for people is to find his or her true identity

and place in the Universe. This process allows that understanding to

become available.

The purpose of Ho'oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within

on a moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it

contains, be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the

Divinity can erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the

Divinity created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a

person.

In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve, manage or cope

with problems. Since the Divinity created everything, you can just go

directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and cleansed.

In the area of problem solving: the world is a reflection of what is

happening inside us. If you are experiencing upset or imbalance, the

place to look is inside yourself, not outside at the object you

perceive as causing your problem. Every stress, imbalance or illness

can be corrected just by working on yourself. It is important to

mention that this system is fundamentally different from other forms

of Ho'oponopono. In traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a

problem needs to be physically present and work it out together. In

Morrnah's system everything can be handled by you and the Divinity.

You don't need to go one inch outside yourself for answers or help.

There is no one who can give you any more relevant information than

you can get by going within yourself.

Morrnah especially recommends Ho'oponopono for those in the healing

profession: " It is important to clear Karmic patterns with your

clients before you start working with them, so that you don't activate

old stuff between you. Perhaps you shouldn't be working with that

person at all. Only the Divinity knows. If you work with a person and

it isn't your business, you can take on the person's entire problem

and everything associated with it. This can cause burnout. The

Ho'oponopono gives the tools to prevent that from happening. "

Morrnah wished for our Western society that everyone would do things

to reduce the stress. " Western people have great difficulty in putting

the intellect behind. It is difficult for the Western mind to get a

grasp of a Higher Being because in traditional Western churches, the

Higher Beings are not made evident. " She continues, " Western man has

gone to the extremes with his intellectualism it divides and keeps

people separate. Man then becomes a destroyer because he manages and

copes rather than letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow

through him for right action. "

Morrnah works with her associate, Dr. Stanley Hew Len, who spent

several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at the Hawaii

State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process with

the most dangerous, violently " mentally ill " criminals in Hawaii. Yet

he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He writes

down their name and then just works on himself. He cleanses his

judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks the Divinity what he can do for

the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed, the

patient improves. " The Divinity, " comments Stan, " says it is time to

bring all the children home. "

[* also known as Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len]

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