What is in me is seen in the world. What brings suffering in me is mirrored in the world. My world is like a thousand refracted rainbows all based on a bending of the light. Sometimes the light gets bent too far…..but I see this bending in the world around me…this light that is bent in me. The path to healing becomes a path of self honesty that there is nothing before me that does not first originate within. As much as I try to make deals with it, the truth of it faces me each moment. There is a way to heal it. It takes honesty. Humility. I am not the most humble person, so there is often struggle.
Ho’oponopono recognizes this reality, that what we see before us in our day-to-day is a reflection that is within us. Each moment is colored by it. We attract perfectly what we are. If you do not like something “out there” look within for the answer. It sounds magical, but it is the way.
Ho’oponopono is a healing modality or Hawaiian origin that recognizes that the way to healing is by healing first what is within us. When we do this, it provides a path for healing what we ourselves have attracted. Shift yourself, you shift the world. It has a powerful leveraging effect. It is also the essence of a compassionate path whereby what you heal in yourself will be healed in others.
The practice is simple. You pray to the universe. You think of the problem before you in your awareness and you hold it there while you pray to the universe saying
I am sorry
Please forgive me
I love you
Thank you
Ho’oponopono is a method for atonement, for helping to heal and erase the error and cause of hurt in our lives. By being able to touch upon the grace available to us, that can be in us, we can begin to free ourselves and others from the things that have troubled us and that cause trouble for us.
To understand the power that this simple method has for you, I direct you to a video that I think you will find very interesting. After that, perhaps you will find a way to include this in your tool-box of tools for healing. It is an interesting video of a practitioner of Ho’oponopono who has a great story to help illustrate how this can work in your life.
One very effective way of learning to deal with what is out in the world is first becoming aware that what you are being attracted to is something unresolved in you at some level. People who have awakenings speak of how they can feel what others feel. True, but look deeper though at what it is that you are picking up on. In every instance, you will find that you are making a choice in what you are picking up on. If you are like me, you might come to the realization that you aren’t picking up on EVERYONE’s energy, just certain people. Why some and not others? There is a reason for this, and it is rooted in where you are and what you are feeling, even when you are not entirely aware of what these things are. They are still inside of you and they help to paint a portrait of your life in a way that might be difficult to face sometimes, but is perfect for how accurate it can be. It is in learning what the point is of connect within you that can lead you to resolving the issue that is at hand. And maybe you find that you, say, keep running into people who have trouble with anger and this is very troubling to you because you find it so unsettling. You aren’t an angry person, no, but there is an issue that is not completely resolved and the universe is serving as a perfect mirror for you. Time to dig deep on this one! For example, I had someone not long ago who was having trouble being in public because he was feeling everyone’s energy. In truth, he was sensing certain kinds of energy, and this was all itself a mirror of where he was. I explained to him how an experience I had helped me break the cycle of feeling as though I was wide open to others thoughts and feelings.
Up to that point I would walk down the street and be overcome with incredible pain coming from people I would pass in public. At first I thought this was because I was more sensitive, that I was picking up on everything. true, yes, but there was something more that bears pointing out, since it is a finer point in all of this and can help a good deal when dealing with these things at least initially, which is that I was not picking up on everyone’s thoughts. I was in truth picking up on those thoughts that held a vibration that had something in common with me. A specific example and break-through for me was when I was attending a party with family where there were at least a dozen people in attendance. I began to feel very anxious during a certain part of the party and as I felt this wave of anxiety wash over me, I found myself stopping for a moment and questioning why it was I was feeling this all of a sudden. There was no good reason why I should be feeling this sudden wave of anxiety. So I asked myself was this mine? The answer was a quick “no.” So I then asked myself “where is this coming from?” The energy pointed me immediately in the direction of a man sitting quietly talking to my Mother who was over to the side, kind of out-of-the-way of things. I looked at him and asked him point-blank, “Do you have problems with anxiety?” He kind of sunk into his chair for a moment. the look on his face was the same look that a kid gets when they realize they have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. But looking at me for a moment, he seemed to realize I was not asking this in a mean way, and that I did not mean anything by it. I was just being direct. He then softened, and explained that he had actually had a lifelong problem with anxiety and had gone to numerous therapists for it and took medications over the years because of it. I listened as he spoke and as he did, I felt the feeling of anxiety melt away.
After that experience, I no longer felt others’ energy like I had before in that same sort of way. I was not seized with a pain in my heart chakra after passing some man on the street, or feel a sense of tightness in the shoulders when I was talking to the receptionist over the phone. I suspect, or feel, that the very act of identifying these things in the way that I did had the effect of helping me to identify between my own feelings and those of others in a more clarified way so that I was no longer processing things that were not entirely mine. What it did do also was to point out why I would feel something from another person, which was that there was some aspect of it that was also in me. I also think, though, that this mirroring still continues in our lives, just in a different way. Maybe you see them in the customers you deal with, or the clients that come through to your workplace, or the kind of people you work with. The interesting thing is that often, when I do this work, I see a change in the other person. I have seen some big changes taking place in my family, for example, that has led to some very healing results and some marvelous results for these people in my life.
I have seen that as I clear things up in me the type of people I encounter on a day-to-day basis has also changed. The power of the Law of Attraction, which is that like energy attracts like energy, is at play. It is just how the universe is. this is not some kind of game, it is just how things work. By being aware of this I can look at the world and the people around me to get a good view of what I might want to heal in the next go-round of work on my roster. Layer by layer, new material is revealed, I become more aware or sensitive to layers I had not felt before, and the work continues. It is what I call spiritual archeology. This is a digging down, revealing and healing old baggage that has been buried down there for ages. The force of kundalini, which is itself a creative force, has a magnificent ability to heal these knots of cords that we have built up within us.
So try it on for a bit and see how it works for you if you are so bold. And also try Ho’oponopono.
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